Well it would be categorically unfair if multiple teams employed sign stealing practices but got to giggle because Michigan was the team that got caught, and the NCAA preferred to make Michigan the example rather than extend the investigation into what could be a larger embarrassment. That stuff happens, too.
On a less egregious scale, when Tom Brady got caught in Deflategate, off-the-record and retired quarterbacks admitted ordering up footballs to their preferred inflation all the time and without consequence. Was the fact that it was a Tom Brady/Bill Belichick team getting caught make a difference? Is it possible that if Matt Shaub liked his balls slightly deflated on rainy days we would never have learned about the rule itself?
