Michigan To Self-Sanction, Wolverine Community Reacts

Ever pull the “I’ll go away and never come back!” routine as a kid as a preemptive strike to get yourself out of trouble? Michigan has announced its intentions to basically do just that in the interest of saving itself some major-infraction flagellation from the NCAA:

[Athletic Director Dave] Brandon did not disclose what the punishment will be. U-M will announce that next week — likely on Tuesday, one day after U-M’s deadline to file its response to the NCAA’s notice of allegations. The NCAA sent U-M that notice in February after a five-month investigation — an unprecedented development for a storied football program that never has been found guilty of a major infraction.It’s a strategy that really does work with the Association, from time to time. But SBN’s Maize n Brew crew worries that the results of the Michigan investigation isn’t the only news the school has to get out in front of, and that their fate might be accidentally twined with that of USC:

Michigan’s in the position of being singled out for a countable hour issue that totaled less than a dozen total hours of practice that nearly every coach in the country admits their program would be in violation of too. Alabama self-reported, self-investigated, and self-sanctioned and still got hit for a universal text-book exchange program.
After years of being called incompetent for their protracted investigation of Reggie Bush, the Committee is finally ready to hand out sanctions. Let’s just hope they get all that frustration out of their system before they start dishing out “justice” on us.
Wolverine faithful have little to do at this point but sit on their hands, which will be good practice for football season, but they might be sitting a while: If there’s one thing the NCAA’s better at than dispensing uneven-handed justice, it’s dragging its bureaucratic loafers. If you’re planning to wait this one out, I hope you brought a book.