Originally Posted by
Don K
As a 30+-year resident of the Detroit area who moved here from the East Coast, I've always found the fixation of people [[especially people who've never been to Ann Arbor or East Lansing) here on college football to be truly bizarre. Maybe the football team makes enough profit [[despite the millions paid to the coach) to support other, less-popular, intercollegiate sports, but what in the world does that have to do with educating students? And what in the world makes Brady Hoke agreeing to receive said millions to come to Ann Arbor a front-page story compared to anything else going on in the Detroit area? Even if the competitive advantage of the Freep and News is in local news [[which I believe is true), isn't there anything going on with the new governor or new legislature or somewhere in Detroit that would outweigh a coach who hasn't coached a game for the Wolverines yet? Save the front-page coverage of sports news for an actual championship, please.