The Munchausen Wolverines: Michigan's Battle to Beat an Invented Illness

Toledo 13 Michigan 10 In many corners of Michigan fandom, the radical decision to jettison four decades of a winning leadership formula and hire Rich Rodriguez was hailed as essential medicine. The current struggles are still being defended as necessary to purge the football body of malignancies and bring about a glorious future. There’s even a cheeky and very popular blog dedicated to the “revolution” called the Wolverine Liberation Army . True believers in the wisdom of the move, the WLA even doubled down on their bet that a clean break with the past was essential, regardless of how ugly it got, saying after the Notre Dame disaster that the program had been “hanging on to the past too long” and was in need of “re-building and cutting ties with an underachieving past.” According to the psychiatrists (or at least those who pretend to be psychiatrists on Wikipedia), Munchausen Syndrome occurs when a subject “exaggerates or creates symptoms of ... (link)