I do.
Michigan could have won all the post-Stalions games by 100 and it wouldn’t matter.
Let’s say we play 10 hands of poker. I cheat on the first 6, and beat you.
I feel bad, so I play the last 4 hands straight.
Is there anything that can happen on these 4 hands that legitimizes the 6 hands prior?
If I win all 4, does that mean I didn’t cheat on the first 6?
No one cares that you stopped cheating after you got caught. Even if we ignore that half the 2023 roster was retained using funds raised off the momentum of fully-tainted 2021-2022 seasons, it still wouldn’t matter.
The 2023 Michigan team needed 12 wins to go to Indy. They only won 5 without Stalions. There shouldn’t have even been games against Alabama or Washington; you didn’t win enough games legitimately to get that far.
You can’t retroactively cleanse completed events. If you didn’t need to cheat to win those 7 games, that’s not anyone else’s problem.
The integrity of a competition is not preserved because someone “didn’t need to cheat”. You cheated, the games are tainted garbage, and you can’t fix it.
If Michigan needed to steal signs to cheat, how did it win at No. 9 Penn State, beat No. 2 Ohio State, beat No. 4 Alabama, beat No. 2 Washington, and No. 18 Iowa, with only one of those games at home without any advantage?
No one has an answer for that question.