The ignorance that follows winning sports programs

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The culture of denial among Michigan faithful regarding their own blatant cheating is getting absurd. We know they paid connor stallions to put people in opposing teams stadiums and record their signal calls. we know this guy was on Michigan sidelines helping in key games to relay his findings to michigan staffers.

and yet michigan fans have channelled their inner FSU fandom (when Jameis was out committing sexual assualts and the FSU fans decided to stand behind their guy). Michigan fans are in denial, living in a dream world; making endless excuses and deflecting blame to Ohio State for hiring an investigator now.

This made me ask a larger question, is it impossible to accept obvious misgivings about your team when that team is in the midst of winning?

Urban Meyer had this same issue multiple times where his dirty programs were as corrupt as possible and winning was all that really mattered.

[brainbomb]

A reasonable stance as a michigan fan would be to say “we probably did break the rules”, and that sucks, because we didnt need too.

thats all I really would think a reasonable michigan fan would say.

instead the entire internet on every fan blog is
harbaugh didnt know
ohio state paid a guy to investigate this so its bogus
there is no evidence
the media is out to get michigan

basically fuck all that lol

[Jamiet99uk]

This story has not made the news in the UK. How interesting.

[JustAGuyNamedWill]

This story has not made the news in the UK. How interesting.

Because the news broadcasters are too busy watching Harry Kane choke away another easy soccer victory

[sweetandcool]

Human nature. Imagine your favourite teacher/coach/etc. being accused of something unsavory. Your gut reaction would be disbelief and denial, particularly if the accusation came from a rival.

Not that it excuses their behaviour, but if this same scandal were playing out at the High School level, it wouldn't be making the news but it would probably be exactly the same. Give it time and any level-headed Michigan fan will accept that their team was cheating.