We are sharing this without permission, but we are not doing it for profit. Therefore, we cite the source and annotate it: The Calgary Sun, November 2, 2023, written by Todd Saelhof. Here we go …
“For those who truly believe, ‘if you’re not cheating, you’re not trying,’ take it someplace else. Like perhaps to hell. And grow up. Here’s hoping the Big Ten and the NCAA get it right and serve up proper punishment if all the ducks line up in a row to confirm foul play is at hand. The cheating has got to stop. Let sportsmanship reign large already.”
It’s ironic and sad that it takes a Canadian journalist to state this the best way possible: remember when Ben Johnson was stripped of a gold medal for cheating? Americans stayed silent, while hiding test results that Carl Lewis had been cheating as well. Lewis took the moral high ground publicly, living the lie he has rarely admitted to in all these years since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. That’s America.
“If the CFP committee has got any guts — again if this sign-stealing, imposter stuff is indeed the makings of Michigan and coach Jim Harbaugh — it will drop Michigan right out of the top four no matter its record.”
Nope. The CFP is a joke; we’ve always known this. But not only did the committee keep Michigan in its Final Four, it also dropped an undefeated, Power 5 conference champion out of the Final Four in favor of a one-loss SEC team—all because of money and perceived/projected TV ad revenue. That renders this final edition of the 4-team CFP a complete fraud—which is pretty much par for the course these days, anyway.
“… [the] Michigan Wolverines, who — with every passing day and accusation that comes with it — sure is looking like a villain these days. We’re talkin’ can’t-come-back-from-it-like-the-Houston-Astros villainy. Yeah … that bad.”
Everyone knows it; no one will forget it. Just as the Trashstros are reviled everywhere around MLB—except in Houston, of course, where desperate and immoral fans defiantly protest too much like Lady Macbeth—the Michigan Wolverines will never live this down. The campus and the community can act like it doesn’t care with the lame childish lament “Haters gonna hate!”, but the symbolic scarlet letter is there forever.
As noted earlier today, we won’t watch a minute of college football this winter. We hope fans around the country with moral fortitude and ethical integrity will join us to #BoycottTheCFP—because it’s shit, as are Michigan Head Coach Jim Harbaugh, the University of Michigan administration, and all the loser fans still sticking with their pathetic heroes. There’s no room in America for such trash, unless you’re a MAGAt.
Sad that it takes a Canadian journalist to call it like it is: that’s how far the U.S. has fallen, geopolitically.
