Editorial: A lament for when the Big Ten was true to its name
“We want the Big Ten championship and we’re gonna win it as a team,” said University of Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, just prior to the start of the 1983 football season. “They can throw out all those great backs, and great quarterbacks, and great defensive players, throughout the country and in this conference, but there’s gonna be one team that’s gonna play solely as a team.”
Schembechler’s mantra was, “The team. The team. The team,” and his famous motivational
