Michigan Football's Cheating Ways Continue to be Ignored

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00:00Joe Ranieri, I need a break right now in the early line.

00:02I need a break from reality because sometimes I lose my mind.

00:05I get upset.

00:06You know, you tease before the break.

00:07And half the time, I forget what I even teased about.

00:09But this one, I sort of kept straight and narrow at this point.

00:12And sometimes I say, like, the gods send us down a lightning bolt that says,

00:15hey, you know what?

00:16Here's a good talking point to put on on a talking show in the morning.

00:19We're going to continue to talk NBA.

00:21But, Joe, I know you watch the early line.

00:23You participate on the early line.

00:24Sometimes I get passionate about a few things that seem to happen.

00:27And the takes sometimes get kind of wild.

00:30But I've told people over the past couple years, in any sport that you have,

00:33in any realm of your life, I would tell my young daughter who's 13 years old right now,

00:38just cheat your whole life.

00:40It never catches up to you.

00:42Cheaters always win.

00:43You know, I'd grow up like, cheaters never win, like the tagline, like G.I. Joe,

00:47whatever it might be.

00:47No, no, no, no, no.

00:48We're going to rewrite that.

00:49Cheaters always win here.

00:50He said, what's Donnie talking about?

00:52Let's go back to Michigan, who I've talked about ad nauseum on this show

00:55for the past couple years under Jim Harbaugh, where it's like, you know what?

00:58We are going to cheat at every turn.

01:01I need to win at all costs.

01:02And they did.

01:03You know what happened to Jim Harbaugh?

01:04He went pro for an even more lucrative contract, a Michigan man that's beloved by Michigan

01:09because he did whatever it took to win.

01:12Under him was Sharon Moore, who also participated in the cheating scandal with Connor Stallions.

01:17So you know what happens to him?

01:18He doesn't lose his job.

01:19He doesn't get a 10-year show cause.

01:21He gets to keep his job, and they go, we're just going to suspend you for two games next season

01:25as part of you cheating here, and let's continue to move on.

01:29Joe, help me out on this.

01:31Am I right, or am I crazy?

01:33Do cheaters always win?

01:35It seems like they do.

01:37Well, again, it's kind of a double-edged sword, Donnie, right?

01:42The cheaters, in this case, won a national championship because of their cheating.

01:46Had they not, had they not, we probably wouldn't even be having this conversation right now.

01:53So the problem is that on this level, this level of cheating, it worked for them.

02:02Even though they never admitted, denied, denied, denied, eventually, what is this now, three

02:07years later, two years later?

02:09Now, all of a sudden, they're coming out with everything that we knew to be pretty much

02:14true when it was happening.

02:15Yeah, they were cheating.

02:17It was like Belichick and the videotapes, right?

02:19Yeah, Belichick was cheating, too.

02:22Deflategate.

02:22I mean, you just go through it, Donnie, but you got to win in order for it to make it sense.

02:28Exactly.

02:28You always do.

02:29And again, like, we all can always go down the Patriots thing where, yes, Bill Belichick

02:32was the biggest cheater, and somehow in Foxborough, in two-minute drills, the opposing teams,

02:36you know, systems will go out where they can't make play calls or taping plays at the

02:40Super Bowl or Tom Brady deflating footballs because, like, the grip better on it and then breaking

02:44cell phones here and telling you nothing to watch over here.

02:46Like, we understand that, which then just keeps piling up and piling up and piling up

02:50and saying, when is enough of this one?

02:52Well, apparently not enough.

02:53And also, here's the caveat.

02:55When you usually release, Joe, like, I'm going to suspend you for two games next year.

02:59What's the common thought process?

03:01You are out game one and two.

03:02You have suspended two games.

03:03Game one and two, you're out.

03:04You will resume in game number three.

03:06But now we see a Dan Wetzel tweet that compounds this by going, more is expected to miss weeks

03:11three and four, which are Central Michigan and Nebraska, because this would allow him

03:15to coach week two at Oklahoma, which is his alma mater and where he played offensive line.

03:20So that tells you how much of a joke of it is behind the scenes from Michigan.

03:22Like, hey, man, even though we're supposed to be looking at this as a complete embarrassment

03:27to the university and we should fire you because cheating is not acceptable, we're going to

03:31allow you to coach at Oklahoma because of how much it means to you, and we'll extend

03:34the suspension to other places.

03:36Is this the same thing in life?

03:37Like, you can show up to Michigan and you can write a thesis paper that's completely, you

03:41know, pulled from a website, handed in, and they catch you like, you know what?

03:45You're going to graduate.

03:46You just can't walk at your ceremony here.

03:48No big deal.

03:48Like, we don't cheat.

03:49And so, and my thought process, again, is if you are Michigan, bring Connor Stallions back,

03:53put a mask on him, put a fake mustache, a fake beard, have him cheat again, because

03:59apparently, if it's only two games for you and you win a national championship, why don't

04:03we all do this?

04:04Just cheat in college football.

04:06It will never cut.

04:07Reggie Bush cheated.

04:08Ruined USC.

04:09You know what he has back now?

04:10His Heisman Trophy.

04:12Just cheat.

04:13Push all in, people.

04:14Push all in.

04:15It works out in your favor.

04:16Trust me in the end.

04:17You will win more than you lose.

04:19And it's all about the optics of it, right?

04:22It's a slap on the wrist.

04:24And don't forget, wasn't he already suspended, I think, the opening game last year or a couple

04:30of years ago as well for the self-imposed penalties on another issue that they were having there

04:35with the NCAA.

04:37It just seems like everything is all about the optics.

04:41Okay, we're going to suspend them two games, level two infraction.

04:44But we're also going to allow you to be a part of the team for the game at your former

04:50alma mater, because we know that's important to you.

04:52Like, where is the gross misconduct penalty here?

04:57And what are we supposed to think when you handpick the games that he is not going to

05:02be a part of?

05:02I don't get it.

05:03Always a good time.

05:04Always a good time here.

05:05Like, even the guys that cheated all the way up and down and got thrown out of the university

05:08is now winning law scoots against the NCAA saying, like, well, I wasn't allowed to do

05:11it at the time, but now they're allowed to do it.

05:13Give me my millions of dollars.

05:14And it goes back.

05:15But again, Michigan, I want to say this, too, because it might sound like I'm a Michigan

05:18hater.

05:18I'm not.

05:19And I got games on the network all the time, and I joke back and forth with him.

05:23If you ask any fan of any institution that said, look, we're struggling right now, if

05:27I gave you a head coach that was going to do everything in his power, including bending

05:30and breaking every single rule, but you will get a championship, every fan base would take

05:35that.

05:35Same thing with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017, we won the Super Bowl.

05:38If it came out that the entire team was roided up and cheating and stealing plays left

05:42and right, I'd go, Doug Peterson, you are a man on a mission, and thank you for your

05:47service for winning that championship.

05:49I don't care about the ramifications.

05:50Do you think Michigan fans are sitting back right now going, man, we're Michigan, man.

05:55We're so embarrassed at this point.

05:56I'll give back the championship.

05:58Not one single Michigan fan will ever say that and completely supports it, and rightfully

06:03so.

06:04You broke the rules.

06:05You won.

06:05I don't care.

06:06As long as we won Joe Ranieri.

06:09From what I'm hearing, apparently Patriot fans are saying they have no idea what you're

06:13talking about.

06:14Just throwing that out there.

06:16Just saying, they have no idea what you're talking about.

06:19Nobody videotaped anything, and no, the balls weren't deflated, Donnie.

06:23I'm just throwing that out there right now.

06:25By the way, do you remember with the Patriots when they had that whole, like, deflate gate

06:28scandal slash we're taping things, and the NFL was like, you know, this is back in the

06:31day, 20 years.

06:32He was like, we're going to fine you, Bill Belichick, a half of a million dollars for

06:35this scandal.

06:36And you know what Robert Kraft did?

06:37We're going to re-new.

06:38We just re-up Bill Belichick, and it's mysterious.

06:40He was making a half million dollars a year more than before the fine because he paid it

06:44for him.

06:44Again, the owner was giving the coach a pat on the back saying, you know what?

06:48Winning is the most important thing.

06:49I'll cover you at every single turn at this point.

06:51Look at Harbaugh in the NFL laughing up, like, hey, Jim, if you ever come back to college

06:55football, 10-year show call.

06:57He's like, brother, I'm never coming back to college football.

06:59See you when I see you.

07:01New phone who dis at this point right now.

07:03So Michigan won.

07:04Congratulations.

07:05Thank you for that topic.

07:06We'll go back to other hot topics, which includes the NDA and some changing of the guards

07:10with some teams and also some other interesting numbers here.

07:14Michigan, you won.

07:15Don't hate on them.

07:16They cheated.

07:17They won.

07:17That's life.

07:18You need to do it, kid.

07:19You need to do it.

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