A pox on both their houses!
, celebrations of Beilein’s distaste for player compensation became their own subgenre of sports writing—one led by Sports Illustrated’s Michael Rosenberg, a Michigan alum.) Judgmental insinuations about other schools’ “bag men” are a message-board motif whenever a sought-after prospect turns the Wolverines down. In a, Bacon—a Michigan professor and alum—noted with pride that star Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson and his heir apparent, Devin Gardner, drove ancient, barely functioning cars.
Indeed they did. This is college sports, where “clean” programs prove their cleanliness by keeping their players away from the big piles of money that TV networks are paying to broadcast their games. Despite his access to superior vehicles, Pryor may not have been well-served by his role as a cog in Ohio State’s winning machine. But Robinson and Gardner also didn’t get what they deserved.
For those acts of heroism, the pair have been repaid in lasting fan esteem. But you can’t use campus-legend points to pay the rent or reimburse the doctor who treats your chronic pain. Robinson played a few seasons in the NFL as a running back but had continuing problems with his elbow, then got into coaching. This season, he was on staff at Jacksonville University, but the school just announced that it is eliminating its team.
These are standard college-sports injustices, and they exist at every high-level program. What makes Michigan such a galling case is that it couldsomething about this. The school has a credibility with college-sports traditionalists that, let’s say, Florida State and Baylor do not. It has a coach with a national platform and a reputation as a true believer in the ideals of college athletics, and a school president who comes from the Ivy League.
Instead, the current Michigan regime appears committed to working within a bad system and wagging its finger at those who choose not to be constrained by that system’s dumb rules. This fall, California passed a law legalizing the compensation of NCAA players for the use of their name and likenesses . When reporters asked Harbaugh about this, heHarbaugh might not be a hypocrite on this issue like some of his peers are, but he’s also not thinking outside his own experience.
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