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Well, well, well. Look who joined the money grab.
The long-awaited penalties for Michigan’s illegal advanced scouting scheme were announced Friday, Aug. 15, and the NCAA made clear what’s important.
Get yours.
Everyone else is cashing in on college football’s new world, why shouldn’t the NCAA?
Look at the bright side: the NCAA can use Michigan’s unprecedented fine for cheating – it could reach upwards of $35 million – to help pay the $2.8 billion in House case back pay owed to athletes for, you know, cheating them.
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Hey, 1.25 percent of $2.8 billion is a start.
If this is all confusing, it shouldn’t be. There was zero chance the NCAA – which once famously sanctioned Boise State for allowing a recruit to sleep on a couch in the dorms – was laying down the law on one of its prized television properties.
Even one that just last year was sanctioned for an entirely separate case of infractions within the football program, thus making Michigan a repeat offender. The worst kind of offender.
A you’ve got to be kidding me, you can’t be that stupid to try and break rules again offender.
But instead of a postseason ban and/or scholarship/roster spot losses (see: real meat on the enforcement bone), the NCAA chose to reach into Michigan’s deep and expansive cash war chest and grab a handful. And why not?
If players are making billions from revenue sharing and private NIL deals, if coaches are making the same with fat, guaranteed contracts (some fired and paid to not coach), why can’t the NCAA get in on the action? It’s all fungible, anyway.
Billions in money is…
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