The story that never seems to end in college football is the Michigan cheating scandal, which broke last October. Wolverines staffer Connor Stalions started his own sign-stealing scandal, which resulted in him sending out people to illegally record opposing teams’ sidelines and steal their signs, which they use to signal in their play calls.
The cheating scandal started in the 2021 season and didn’t stop until the middle of last football season when the news was made to the public. The team suspended Stalions, and then he stepped down from his role last November. The Big Ten suspended head coach Jim Harbaugh for the last three regular-season games.
Michigan was not bothered by the sign-stealing situation because they went on to win the national championship, but all that could be taken away.
Kentucky Got Hit With A Major Penalty On Friday
Kentucky football was hit with a big penalty, which resulted in players from the team getting paid for working at jobs they never did in the 2021-2022 season.
The violations come from 11 players being paid for work they never did at the University of Kentucky Hospital between Spring 2021 and March 2022, and eight of the players went on to compete and receive actual and necessary expenses while ineligible, according to On3.com.
If the Wildcats have to vacate wins for a scandal that had nothing to do with actual results on the field, what do you think will happen to Michigan, whose cheating impacted game outcomes?
Michigan Could Get The Death Penalty
There is a chance that Michigan gets hit with the death penalty, and they will have to vacate wins, maybe even their title, lose scholarships and playoff appearances in the next few years, and get put on probation.
What Kentucky did was wrong, and they paid in a great way because of it, but what Michigan did is even worse since it resulted in outcomes of games, and if the Wolverines didn’t cheat, games could’ve turned out differently.
We may soon find out what the Wolverines’ penalty will be, but after what we saw happen to Kentucky on Friday, Michigan fans should start to panic a little.
