UM: Football

Columnist Chuck Landon of The Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, W. Va.) slams Michigan for approving (and partially paying for) football coach Rich Rodriguez’s $4 million buyout. “That means we now know what the going rate for integrity is in the land of Maize & Blue,” he writes. “Remember, this is the same University of Michigan that pompously proclaims that it’s an institution that holds itself to a ‘higher standard.’ Well, from where I’m sitting, UM just dropped the bar so low in this limbo contest about the only thing that still can pass under it is Rodriguez’ ethics.”  [Source]