Thoughts about a game I hardly care about anymore

I used to love watching football, but over the years, I've grown rather cold for a variety of reasons.   You've got Dr. Bennett Omalu's discovery of CTE in the brains of deceased football players, various concepts in the "Cialis" commercials, and then you've got the general Macchiavellian nature of the sport at the college and pro levels, seeming to concentrate on how freakish the players can be, how grotesque their tattoos, how abundant their sexual conquests, and the like.

And the target of my ire today is going to be (naturally) the University of Michigan, which is now embroiled in a cheating scandal where a supporter funded an employee's trips to buy plush 50 yard seats and steal the opposing teams' signals.

Now part of me says "you know, if football players had a little bit of intelligence, one could swap out the signals and totally throw the Michigan defense off", but we are, alas, still living in a world where D1 college football programs are allowed to create "general studies" programs to keep mentally deficient players on the roster while giving them little in terms of marketable skills.  It's not like you can change things up and confuse the opposition easily in the way that the Ivy League representative often confuses the #1 and #2 seeds they meet in the NCAA baskeball tournament, as Princeton did to Georgetown in 1989.

And hence it is a big deal that Michigan is stealing signs, and the question is, then, what ought to be done about it.  What we know is that information regarding the practice appeared on several coaches' computer files, which suggests it was coordinated from the top.  Only one coach, the linebackers coach, has been fired so far.

That much is appropriate; defensive plays are sent in to the interior linebackers, so the person most guilty would be the linebackers coach.  That noted, who else ought to have noticed?  My take is that every coach watching tape each Sunday and Monday ought to have noticed that the Michigan defense is in a nearly perfect position a lot more often than their opponents, and not all of that can be attributed to brilliant defensive schemes.  In the same way, I'd expect all of the skill players (basically everybody but the linemen, and probably even them) to figure out the same thing.  Even those who do not clue in that something was "off" would probably have heard "did you hear what we just did to Ohio State with their signals...?" and the like.

I don't know exactly what the solution ought to be, but what I'd suggest is simple; Michigan gives up all of its wins since Connor Stalions started making his trips to the stadia of opponents, and Jim Harbaugh becomes the second Big Ten/14/16/whatever coach in the state of Michigan to lose his job this year.

Addendum: given that I had hopes that Harbaugh would follow up on his experience at Stanford by reining in abuses like "General Studies" at Michigan, I am obviously very disappointed at the clear resurrection of his mercenary spirit.