Regarding the media angle

by BPH, San Diego, Friday, February 05, 2010, 13:54 (5970 days ago) @ Mike

You have to view the fans' reaction through the prism of their past experiences. The Ann Arbor News was declared "out to get Michigan" when they ran the painstakingly well-researched expose on the school's shoddy academics for football players, the one in which Harbaugh famously slammed his own school, which has left the fan base in the awkward position of simultaneously holding a grudge against him and coveting him. Rather than admit that, gee, maybe our prestigious academic institution is doing football players a disservice, UM fans chose instead to conclude that the local paper was simply orchestrating a major smear job.

Then came the Detroit Free Press' story on the NCAA violations on workout hours. Again, it wasn't that Rodriguez did anything wrong. It was that the writer, Michael Rosenberg, had an axe to grind (against the school he graduated from, incidentally).

So it surprises me not one iota that Michigan fans view any article that dares to challenge Michigan on the Dorsey situation as more picking on poor old Big Blue.