… at one of this country’s highest-profile universities:
…[Discontents] consider his inability to formulate coherent thoughts a sign of a lack of intelligence and competence. Interpreting [University of Michigan football coach Brady] Hoke’s intentions … circles back to a Chauncey Gardner–esque mystery that has always surrounded him. Stupidity, which used to be the main charge against Hoke, now turns out to be his best defense…
This is how you measure what big time sports has done to the American university. Once-proud University of Michigan, of all places, is ruled by an idiot.