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Monday, September 03, 2007

Yeah, yeah, Michigan
lost in this big upset,
I know... I know...




...and I had absolutely nothing to say about it until Thorstein Veblen at Left of Centre sent me a link to the Michigan coach's postgame interview, and a link to commentary about it on a blog at the New York Times. Here's the NYT blogger:


'The juiciest quote Carr gave ... is about how the off-field problems at Michigan could have contributed to the loss. Michigan had four players dealing with legal issues this summer.

“Any off-the-field issues are a distraction to the team,” Carr said. “And you’re trying to deal with that. They’re certainly a distraction to your team. How much they had to do with it, I don’t know.”

One of the players was wide receiver LaTerryal Savoy, who was accused of indecent exposure for allegedly exposing himself to a female acquaintance in Michigan Stadium. That led to this quote by his lawyer to John Heuser in the Ann Arbor News: “In order for this to be a crime, this has to be done knowingly. I get the impression he just forgot to zip up his fly.”'



UD has some questions.

Was the stadium full when Savoy did his thing? If so how can we say that he exposed himself only to a 'female acquaintance'? If he exposed himself to her, didn't he also expose himself to a lot of other people in an act of, er, collateral exposure?