For Your Consideration: 1. John Beilein leaves WVU for the Michigan job. His reported salary at Michigan is $1.3 million per year. The buyout for his West Virginia contract is reported at $2.5 million. Michigan is not taking care of the WVU buyout, so unless Beilein negotiates a settlement or somehow has the buy-out clause nullified, he will ahve to work for 2 years at Michigan just to pay for the buy-out of his old contract. I expect that Beilein probably has legal counsel working on this one.
2. The University of Illinois Barely Fighting Illini have a Spring Football game scheduled in Chicago this Saturday. The game is to be played at St. Rita High School. Local Illini alums initially thought that the Illini were playing St. Rita High School and were concerned about another football loss in the Ron Zook era.
3. Speaking of the Big Ten, with Ohio State's loss in the NCAA championship game, that makes 3 defeats in the Championship game by the Big Ten since 2002. I'm just saying!