Day Three of the Michigan series, much like day two, is totally devoid of anything we didn't already know. Today's installment: Almost every single Michigan player majors in general studies, despite the fact that only one to two percent of the general student body majors in said program. Wow. Real groundbreaking stuff. Didn't know that a thirty second google search counted as research for a four part series these days.

The only interesting snippet from the whole piece was the following section, which illustrates the University's utter lack of concern for their student athletes…

"Although general studies accounted for 1.6 percent of all undergraduate degrees conferred at Michigan during the last academic year, Acho [the football team's senior academic counselor and co-director of Michigan's Academic Success Program] said she would be 'very comfortable' if every football player followed such a degree path.

Asked if there was any concern over the percentage of athletes in general studies, Acho said, 'Why would there be? It's one of the degree programs.'"

Come on… this "degree" teaches students how to convert degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celcius, and you're not even the least bit concerned? I suppose you can't expect this person to admit any wrongdoing, but the flippancy of her response is just disgusting. These players are just meat to an administration that knows full-well what it's doing to them.

I also found the following paragraph to be pretty funny, even though the topic has already been discussed on this blog…

"There is no foreign language or natural science requirement in general studies, and students do not have a stated major. Instead, the degree requires half of a student's credits to be in upper-level courses, spread out over three or more subject areas."

Half of your four years as a general studies major must be in junior or senior classes?! You're a junior or senior for half of your four years! I absolutely love this defense of the GS major. Every major in every college in the world requires you to take junior and senior level courses when you're a junior and senior! That's what makes you a junior or senior!!!!! As Luke stated previously, that's like saying half of every day is required to be PM!

Here's hoping part four is a lot juicier.

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