“I think you sit there and just feel really bad for the players on both sides, because this is really our last chance to teach young people how to go out there and compete and overcome adversity and go through ups and down and highs and lows,” Matt Rhule said. “And you just hope when you do this that no side ever has an advantage over the other that’s not gained and earned appropriately.”
Rhule added that, “I can’t comment on the specifics of this [Michigan case], because I don’t know.”
Still, he made it clear that he sees it as a big problem if Michigan did what it has been accused of doing.
“As we tell parents, ‘We’re going to teach them how to be young men.’ I think the first thing we teach them is integrity and honesty. But if I ever feel like my guys have been shorted, obviously I’m here to fight for them,” Rhule said. “That would certainly be heartbreaking and disappointing to me, as someone who loves college football. It’s one thing when it’s recruiting, but when we mess with the 60 minutes of the game, that’s really, really, really impacted.”
