The Detroit Free Press didn’t make up story about U of M.
I had a few final thoughts I wanted to add after my recent posts around the allegations against the University of Michigan football team, mainly that Michael Rosenberg was just doing his job, same as if I picked up my phone and called a reporter with a story idea or my wife inserted a pic line (I hope I'm spelling that correctly) into her patient.
But then the Detroit Free Press addressed them and, well, there's really nothing left to add.
If Michigan lost to Western Michigan last Saturday, I suspect this issue would have grown to epic proportions in Ann Arbor and beyond, but winning tends to sooth the savage beast. I guess we'll have to wait until after next weekend's game against Notre Dame to pick up the story where we left off. (Kidding.)
Anyway, here's the Free Press' explanation of how this story came to be. Worth a read, no matter which camp you are ensconced in.
