00:00 Congratulations to Michigan, who have turned cheating
00:02 into being a victim.
00:04 I'm Robin Ludberg here with Dakota London.
00:05 And Dakota, can Michigan really use all this
00:08 as a rallying cry?
00:09 - I think so.
00:11 Look, I think in the midst of a season,
00:13 I have the obvious motivations
00:15 of you wanna win a championship.
00:16 But as that season goes along,
00:17 if you can grab other stuff
00:19 that makes you wanna play that much harder,
00:20 that extra 1%, and I feel like this is where they are.
00:24 You got the coach crying,
00:25 the offensive corner crying on the sideline.
00:27 They clearly use this as a rallying cry.
00:29 They say, "Hey, listen, you think that we can't win
00:31 "these games fair and square, so we're gonna prove you.
00:33 "Now we're just gonna come out with that extra uh,
00:36 "to say we're the best team."
00:38 And it could work.
00:39 Look, if it works, great.
00:41 - Well, let's see them beat a team
00:43 that has learned how to utilize the forward pass first,
00:46 because Penn State can't throw the ball at all.
00:49 All of this is embarrassing in my mind,
00:51 for Michigan, for anybody associated with the program.
00:54 I'm not saying they aren't a good team.
00:56 That's not the claim.
00:57 They cheated.
00:58 They were caught cheating.
01:00 Stealing signs is not illegal, but advanced scouting is.
01:03 They broke that rule flagrantly.
01:05 They were filming other teams on the sidelines, allegedly.
01:09 That's essentially Spygate 2.0.
01:11 So you get caught cheating,
01:13 and all of a sudden, everybody's against you?
01:15 No, no one is against you.
01:17 What is against you is what you did.
01:19 You got Conor Stallion's, you know,
01:21 going incognito, perhaps, on sidelines
01:24 and everything like that,
01:25 standing next to Jim Harbaugh on the sidelines.
01:28 There's video of him throwing up signs
01:30 that other people were interpreting.
01:32 All the other schools were like,
01:33 "Yo, something shady is going on here."
01:36 So no, it's not a complex of everybody is out to get them.
01:40 It's a complex of you cheated and you got caught,
01:43 and they did that to themselves.
01:45 - Yeah, but again, perception is reality.
01:47 So if they internalize it as,
01:49 "Now it's everybody against us."
01:51 You look at the '07 Patriots.
01:52 I know they didn't get the job done,
01:53 but that was after Spygate,
01:54 and they used that as a rallying cry to say,
01:56 "We're gonna prove just how great of a team we are."
01:58 You look at the Astros, after their cheating scandals,
02:01 they ended up winning the World Series two years ago.
02:02 So it was like, teams use that as motivation.
02:05 And for the organization, that's all that really matters.
02:07 No matter what the truth is,
02:09 if the team internalizes it
02:10 and they are actually successful in doing so,
02:14 that's, you win, who cares?
02:16 - Yeah, and all these teams, you know,
02:18 one thing they have in common is they're very good.
02:20 If the Big Ten is saying it's a competitive advantage,
02:23 even a slight competitive advantage
02:25 could be the difference in competing
02:27 for a championship or not,
02:28 which is why I don't believe Michigan belongs
02:30 in the college football playoff.
02:32 (explosion)
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