Nick Saban was right about Ohio State fans and their unhealthy obsession with Michigan

I'll admit, I am starting to feel sorry for Ohio State fans. Their obsession with Michigan football is unhealthy, and as Nick Saban said after the Wolverines' fourth consecutive victory over the Buckeyes last November, they need "therapy."

Even after winning the national championship, on a truly great run -- there is no denying that -- Ohio State fans still can't get past the four straight losses to Michigan.

They can puff out their chests and say they think the 2024 team was the greatest in college football history, which is objectively nowhere close to the truth because it lost two games, including one to its 6-5 rival as a 20-something point favorite.

The great Nebraska, LSU, Miami, Alabama, Georgia, and yes, Michigan 2023 team didn't do that. Ohio State didn't even win its conference. It had a great playoff run, sure. That's not debatable, but believing 2024 Ohio State was the best team ever is more delusional than calling Monday's news about Michigan football punishments "significant."

Of course, every Ohio State fan with a social media handle, website, or YouTube page, is telling Buckeye brethen that the "hammer" is coming and this "punishment" is the start of the "end game."

On Monday, it came to light that Jesse Minter and Steve Clinkscale agreed to punishments from the NCAA related to the "Burger Gate" investigation. Minter contacted a recruit before June 15th. Clink helped a recruit get verified on Instagram.

These are minor violations. However, the NCAA doled out a jail sentence for a speeding ticket to win the PR war that it's been obsessed with since the beginning.

Minter and Clink could have fought to have the punishments reduced, but why? This is akin to a high school principal suspending a student that's already graduated.

When you can't give a person detention for a single day, why not say you suspended them for a year? it sounds better, even if it doesn't mean much.

This won't be the last punishment. That's one thing rival fans have correct. But will there be any meaningful punishments?

If you consider a worthless show-cause for Jim Harbaugh, and other former Michigan football coaches, then no. The NCAA can give Jim a 20-year show cause, because it won't mean a damn thing, so there is no point in wasting time or money to fight it.

Harbaugh is done with school and he isn't going back.

The NCAA also isn't taking away wins or banning Michigan football from the postseason. The NCAA President literally said Michigan football won the national title "fair and square."

Outside of Buckeye fan blogs, a postseason ban hasn't been discussed as a real possibility by anybody -- not in the national or the Michigan media sphere.

The only punishment Michigan fans truly need to be conerned about is a suspension or show-cause for Sherrone Moore.

The NCAA will probably try to get him with the repeat offender claim, since he served a suspension already for "Burger Gate."

First, there would need to be evidence that Moore actually did something in the alleged sign-stealing investigation. Outside of text messages he deleted, but were still backed up and turned over, there isn't evidence he did anything wrong.

Ohio State fans can celebrate meaningless punishments and act like Monday's news was some sort of revelation, even though nothing new came to light, yet none of it will change the fact that the Wolverines are 4-0 against the Buckeyes since 2021.

That's what they are upset about. They can't deal with the fact that Michigan beat Ohio State four times in a row, won three Big Ten titles, and a national title.

Michigan beating Ohio State has to be the result of some massive cheating scandal, even though Stallions wasn't on staff in 2021, 2023, or 2024. That's easier to explain in their minds than the Wolverines just being better.

It's comical. It's also sad and makes you realize just how right Nick Saban was.