Right.
Or, on my second thought, if they wanted to put the dagger to SCar, they could have used the question to lay out
the entire picture of the allegation with many specifics and laid it out in such a way that a person who had never heard a word about the story could easily understand it. This could have been prepared in advance and available in notes before them.
I mean: the now known fact that Michigan had scouted us and several other teams. The report that a source has alleged that SCar obtained illegally acquired the stolen signals of two opponents (TN and Clemson), the allegation that the wrist band that SCar first used in our game was apparently a way to transmit the stolen signal to players on the field, the in-game documentation from the sideline reporter of the wristbands being used by SCar for the first time all year, the fact that Beamer has been busted before for cheating in a similar manner (stolen play book), the fact that the Big 10 coaches are using the before-and-after stolen signals results at Michigan as evidence of cheating and the fact that the same pattern fits SCar (who was bad, then suddenly surprising good (in the exact two cases where it is alleged they had stolen signals) then immediately bad again afterward, the reports that a coach forewarned TCU about Michigan haven stolen their signals and TCU thought the allegation credible enought that they spent the month they had to prepare for their game against Michigan changing all their signals, and that Michigan lost.
Now that is too long a question set up in normal situation, but it would have put the entire matter into the video. And then HH could have said exactly what he said anyway. But the result would have been a bombshell. And no one at SCar would be able to use the interview as fake "proof" that they did not cheat by using stolen signal. And even the national media might be under some pressure to take cognizance of the issue if such a detailed and extended question caused the interview to "blow up."
I mean, when HH said he wasn't aware, that would have been a great time to explain every step of it to the viewers.