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JBaney45

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Going back and skimming through it, the actual Rodriguez response might have been unintentionally funnier then my rendition, especially when you make inferences about what wasn't said

Page 39 (of the PDF) they are giving break downs of testimony by various Michigan players (each assigned a number)..

Student Athlete 3 also said that skill development does not look like football practice. He said it looks like a bunch of guys doing funny movements
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..Student Athlete 3 also noted that football practice doesn't look very much like football practice, the terms "train wreck" and "circus show" were used.

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Discussing the "taped towel"..

The quarterbacks used taped towels during drop back and handoff drills. The primary purpose of the drills was to work on footwork and body movement. According to student-athlete 5, one of Michigan's quarterbacks, the towel did not simulate a football; it was just something for him to hold while he did the drill. In other words, it required him to hold something while he ran the drill so his hands and arms would be in the same position as when he does the same movement on the field. A taped towel is not a football and cannot be thrown, caught or kicked like a football.
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The "taped towel" is also referred to as "Tate's Blankie". I heard Nick Sheridan prefers to use a Teddy Bear

Seriously though..an item used in place of a football used to keep ones hands to in the same place as if he were holding a football does not count as "simulating a football"? What the hell WAS it supposed to be simulating?

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The list of props get better..

Mini basketballs and tennis balls sometimes were used by the quarterback during drop back or handoff drills. According to student-athlete 5, he sometimes threw the balls to a receiver. Chris Allen did not recall that the mini basketballs were ever thrown to a receiver, but he did use them with various positions in drills to improve hand-eye coordination. Allen said he was the one throwing the balls, not the student-athletes. Rodriguez notes that in the spring of 2010, after the Notice of Allegations was issued to Michigan, Judy Van Horn, Michigan's chief compliance officer, told the football program that mini basketballs could be used in off-season conditioning programs. Mini basketballs and tennis balls are not "clearly related to the sport" and, therefore, do not appear to be impermissible
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It should be a relief for scUM fans that Rodriguez knows what sport their (trying) to play..or at least his lawyers do.

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And here I thought West Virginian's only used sticks to serve food on..

Occasionally a foam football on a stick was used as a visual key to simulate the snap on a takeoff drill. For example, rather than a strength coach saying, "Go!", the student-athletes would start the drill when the strength coach lifted the ball off the ground with a stick. The football on a stick was not tossed, thrown, caught or kicked. A hat on a stick would have served the same purpose.
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"That's Fielding Yost's hat on that stick"
 
This gets my vote.

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I'm going to be honest, my first two google image searches were "gun to head" and "razor blade wrist." Since this is a more classy site than that, I will edit this post with something more appropriate when I can think of it.
 
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