UM Fan from Sydney

May 15th, 2019 at 7:10 PM ^

I am at the point that I don’t give a shit about integrity (for ??). Most big time programs that win a lot do the dirty stuff. Clearly the NCAA chooses which schools it wants to pick on. Alabama, OSU, likely Clemson, USC, they all have done it and are still doing it.

Esterhaus

May 15th, 2019 at 7:27 PM ^

When I was a Michigan student we sought clean couches, never to be found, and not clean coaches, which were presumed. Now college coaches are mostly about the money dirty or otherwise instead of university community and yet my couches still smell like some strange snack chip/bean dip/pizza/mystery fart and wife shag hybrid molecule emanation.

At some juncture we as beneficiaries of higher learning ended up turning left when we should have taken a right or vice versa. Enjoy the couching searches I say, it all smells of arse and I tend to tune out. It isn't fun anymore. We need to get back to scholarship and creative society. Whatever.

Bando Calrissian

May 15th, 2019 at 7:41 PM ^

I expect Michigan to play by the rules, and I'm completely fine with diminished results to comply with the rules, even if everyone else is cheating. "Leaders and Best," after all.

Sorry not sorry.

outsidethebox

May 15th, 2019 at 9:01 PM ^

I'll use Calipari for my exhibit A: Calipari clean. The man is a helluva basketball coach. No big-time program is following all the rules...BS on any claims to the contrary...sure, there are degrees of violations. And since the NCAA is, pretty much, not enforcing anything of consequence that effectively means there are not any rules...and this has been proven over and over by the randomness of NCAA "enforcement"...or lack thereof.  "We're talkin' 'bout clean?!?!?!" Here, the "rules" clearly do not pose a character issue for the NCAA.

I give you Pitino and Louisville...they were incredibly "over-the-top"...and there was really only a mild/fake slap on the wrist. The blatant use of prostitutes for recruiting...and, basically, all they do is lose their coach!!!!! I mean...a very serious WOW!!! 

So just quit the charades. Fix the mess or quit grandstanding. 

I do not know what the solution is...but the horse left the barn a long, long time ago.

Ghost of North Hall

May 15th, 2019 at 9:50 PM ^

I wonder how the results of this survey would have looked pre-Beilein era. I feel like that without the last 12 years of winning clean a lot of fans would have a different opinion of how the program should be run. I'd imagine more people would be willing to bend the rules to have more success in football right now than basketball due to what Beilein showed was possible