I've seen the before and after Connor Stallions stats for McCarthy. There is a marked decrease in his productivity after Stallions resigned. But it looks like they only let up on the gas on the impermissible scheme. They had the cheating apparatus in place, they knew they were caught and would face the consequences eventually, so they didn't give up on cheating altogether.
I played a hunch that if they had the ability to know the plays their opponents were running, and thus could easily counter them, they wouldn't want to get behind or stay behind. So, i looked through the games for the past few years, found the amount of time per game that teams were behind their opponents and compared Michigan to other programs at the top of the polls. Apologies for not having more data points, but this was a very manual process looking through the scoring charts from the past seasons for each game to determine the amount of time teams were behind their opponents.
I chose not to look at seasons before 2021 because it was obvious TCUN would have played behind a lot, because teams that lose a lot of games tend to be behind a lot.
The data below always show the average time (in seconds) that the team played while behind per game for a given season. No playoff or bowl game data was used, just regular season and conference championships.
For 2021, Michigan played behind an average of 185 seconds (~3 minutes) per game. About a minute less per game than the eventual champion Georgia. The striking thing though is Georgia was behind about the same amount of time in the second half as the first, and Michigan averaged less than a minute behind their opponents in the second half.
Team Year Game Half 1 Half 2
Michigan 2021 185.1 129.3 55.8
Georgia 2021 263.6 125.2 138.5
TCUN normalized a bit in 2022, but still played behind about as often as the eventual champs. This should not have been possible for a team that played so poorly when forced to play the one team, TCU, who knew that they were cheating. Again, i didn't include playoffs in the data, or it would have been skewed by TCU countering TCUN's cheating.
Team Year Game Half 1 Half 2
Georgia 2022 322.1 192.3 129.8
Michigan 2022 353.4 223.4 130.0
Now comes the big one. It appears they went all in on the scheme in 2023. They spent exactly zero seconds behind their opponents in the second half ... the entire F'ing season in 2023 they were never behind in the second half. That includes their two hardest opponents (OSU and PSU) both of whom they played after Stallions resigned, and thus after the media assumes they must have stopped cheating.
Team Year Game Half 1 Half 2
Michigan 2023 108.7 108.7 0.0 (Da Fuq?)
Texas 2023 280.2 162.9 117.2
Washington 2023 410.6 199.0 211.6
OSU 2023 447.5 233.8 213.7
Georgia 2023 712.0 479.8 232.2
Alabama 2023 837.2 522.3 314.8
We already knew that they cheated the past 3 years. We didn't need to see more data. I am hoping to convince some of our own posters that we didn't legitimately lose to TCUN this year ... because they never stopped cheating. TCUN will forfeit the last 3 seasons when this is all said and done.