The Michigan football team is returning from a week in Rome where they took in the sights, the sounds, the Pope, and also found some time to get a few practices in along the way. It was a controversial trip in that it hasn’t really been done on this scale before — at least not in football. As with most things in college football, however, it was mostly controversial because other coaches hadn’t thought of it before — or they have no desire to have to do it now in order to keep up. For instance, can you imagine Nick Saban trying to wrangle his players at The Louvre? He’d be fidgeting so much he’d knock over the Venus de Milo. Or Notre Dame at the Great Pyramids in Egypt. If you cup your ear, you can hear Brian Kelly yelling “Get up you lazy mummy!” as clear as a…
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