Being an Illinois football fan I haven’t had many Fall camps to be excited about but I’m excited for this one, in fact I’m excited for this season to begin.  3 more weeks and campuses will be full of hope for another season and Heisman discussion will start again with teams dreams of National Titles won’t yet be dashed.  It’s a great time around the nation.

I couldn’t help but notice this week that Kellen Lewis, Indianas starting quarterback, was reinstated to the program after a 4 month suspension.  Coach Bill Lynch may be on to something here.  He has a great college quarterback who was second team all Big Ten last season causing some team problems or violating team rules.  He suspends him after the season ends and then reinstates him right before the season starts.  Genius.  Kellen Lewis really is Bill Lynch’s job security but Bill couldn’t let certain behaviors slide so he suspends him knowing full well he could reinstate him in time for the season to start.  Hopefully other teams catch on to this.  I’m serious.  Most teams wait until it is too late but Lynch took care of the issue in the offseason when it wouldn’t hurt him or his team and really help the player.  I promise we’ll see issues during the season that players/coaches could trace back to last year and it could’ve been fixed but wasn’t.  I hope Kellen Lewis has a great season this year but still loses to Illinois.

Michigan has decided to help pay Coach Dick Rod’s buyout at West Virginia.  I imagine that was a fun conversation.  I sat in an office last week and listened as an employee asked for a 10k cash advance because he didn’t like credit card debt.  I can’t imagine Dick Rod walking into the office asking for 2.5 million to be paid on his behalf to his old school.  Had to be a little uncomfortable or maybe it wasn’t.  I’m sure they had talked about it before but maybe he’s the type of guy that had a sense of entitlement with the money.  He had better be worth it and I personally think he will.  He was a very good hire for Michigan.

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