Scales fall from another hedgie’s eyes.
For the first time in my life, I’m having to question whether Michigan truly is different from all those other large, state universities that let their hugely profitable football programs pretty much do what they want.
David Westin, principal, Witherbee Holdings, LLC, burst with pride when his university was run by the team of corporate board slummer Mary Sue Coleman and her hugely expensive/shady businessman/ coach-crush, Rich Rodriguez. This was fine, fine, quite in keeping with the ethos of the greatest of academic institutions… Michigan under Rich – UM had to lose him as fast as they got him, what with all the bad publicity, and losing him cost them millions and millions too – was light years away from, say, Alabama and, you know, all those other sleaze schools …
But now! Westin is shocked – shocked – to find concussing going on in here.
October 5th, 2014 at 8:33AM
There probably was a “Michigan Difference” at one time as applied to athletics, just as there probably was a “Carolina Way”.
Both have been sacrificed on the altar of “Big Time”.
October 5th, 2014 at 8:48AM
John: Yes: The phrase “Big Time” gets at the whole thing, I think.