[osugrad21]

Originally Posted by HailToMichigan

Yes, exactly. Look at it like this: If the shorter practices were related to RR leaving, then one of two things must be true. Either RR used the extra time to his benefit to do something about the Michigan job, or he did not.

I can not think of what he could have done related to the Michigan job outside of extra phone time with Bill Martin, which, again, we'd have known about since they published the phone records.

So if he did not, that would be a lazy, half-assed thing to do - use his impending departure as an excuse to slough off for the day. (Which also assumes that he pretty much already knew he was leaving - before he flew to Toledo on the 14th.) Did a coach who in five years worked his way up from Division II to the head-coaching job at a D-IA BCS school suddenly turn that lazy? Really?

I can absolutely see that as a possibility...but I can also see exactly where NF took his conclusion.