Saban is a premier college football coach, but the principle seems universal to a competitive sports business where coaches are on the sidelines and players on the field make the points or runs that win or lose games.

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If you have good reason to believe that everyone else is gaining a competitive advantage through surreptitious transgressions, then you may conclude that to do otherwise, on principle, would fatally undermine your case.

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