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On Michigan, Rose and mid-major scheduling

By Jay Bilas

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The tearful news conference and the endless throat-clearing of reports on the length and frequency of Michigan football practices is a case study in part of what I believe to be wrong in college athletics. NCAA rules are, in too many cases, arbitrary and not easily understood. Yet they are believed by too many to be sacred scrolls that provide for those accused of violations to be stoned to death, with innocence revealed only when the suspected witch does not float but drowns. The NCAA pro ...

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