NCAA's punishment of Michigan proves you only need two ingredients to win a Natty

The NCAA claims that the lack of punishment towards the current team is that it unfairly penalizes the fans and organization that no longer have the cheaters present. Jim Harbaugh and the leading players in the cheating scandal that brought Michigan a national championship are all gone. However, that only teaches other colleges that all you need to win a national championship is the ability to pay fines and scapegoats you can run out of town after the cheating is discovered.

The majority of the penalties towards Michigan were towards individuals

Many fans and reporters were making the joke about, "What school wouldn't pay $20 million for a national championship?" And that's true, if the penalty towards Michigan as an institution is simply just a price tag, what's a national championship worth? A whole lot more than $20 million, that's for sure.

None of the wins will be vacated, the championship won't be deemed relinquished, and Michigan gets to keep all that. And as for current penalties? Sherrone Moore has a three-game suspension, and those games will be against nonsense opponents. In fact, the game after the suspension will be against Wisconsin.

The majority of the penalties are towards Jim Harbaugh, Connor Stallions, and Denard Robinson. All of them are essentially banned from coaching in the NCAA to a certain degree. Which means the second ingredient to win a national championship, if you want to learn from Michigan's win, is that you need scapegoats.

Get yourself a Pete Carroll or a Jim Harbaugh who can swoop in, find a way to cheat to get an advantage, win a national championship, hoist the trophy, and then pay the fine a few years later. That's the recipe for winning a national championship if you take these laughable punishments against Michigan as a cookbook. The NCAA is basically telling other programs to cheat with some scapegoats, pay the fine, and walk away. Laughable.