Michigan Hockey Scandal

#2      
It’s all about Culture... what kind of cultural and behavioral framework do you set down and create for your program. Or any group or organization.

A good culture is going to spread out over an entire organization. And a bad or toxic one will do the same. Why? Because the vision and ethical framework is all emanating from the same (central) source and place that controls the organization. And whatever kind of culture you create is going to expand upon itself and become reinforced and multiplied.

When a scandal of any kind arises from any organization it is most likely not the only shady thing going on there. It just might be the one thing that happens to get out into the public awareness. And in the case of some organizations (as we have already seen)... multiple events do sometimes become publically known and the culture that exists there becomes common knowledge.

You can’t fake Culture. You live it. And if you have the power to set down the entire tone of an organization... you have a great responsibility to all those who exist within that organization and all those outside of it that you effect.

You can win with class or without it. You can lose with class or without it. You can run your program ethically or not.

And you can sometimes 'win' games when time magically appears out of nowhere to allow you to ‘win’ when you never should have.
 
#3      
It’s pretty clear that being a “Michigan man” means you care nothing about winning on the field. Nothing else matters, and your behavior in other areas of life doesn’t matter as long as you win on the field.
 
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