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Sign-stealing itself is not illegal. The perp is long gone and Michigan didn't have a coach for three of its biggest games. We clearly didn't have access to any signs for most of the season. Justice was served.

I think there has been a huge overreaction to this. This got more ink than the guy at Alabama who handed a gun to a murderer or the member of the Georgia staff who went out drinking and street racing with players after last year's championship game. People died. Media barely peeped.

And the players, who had absolutely nothing to do with any of it, got snubbed for every major award this season, much to the glee of several Washington Husky fans I know who are gloating over that fact.

Moreover, the Michigan players stuck together and came back for a final season together, a marked contrast to people who are cruising around the transfer portal. Then they dealt with all this noise over a minor issue. I am proud of them. They are an enormously likeable group.