Mike Milano

Michigan Men? Mike Milano

Michigan Men? takes you inside the locker room during the last year of legendary Coach Lloyd Carr and the first year of Rich Rodriguez- as he literally stripped the Michigan tradition from the walls of Schembechler Hall. But this book is more than that. It tells of what happened when Michigan Football, Michigan Hockey, the Michigan Athletic Department, the Michigan Daily, the campus police, the county prosecutors, and ESPN clashed and combined to turn an incident the Judge described as  "one kid put another kid on his ass" into a national story.  Most important, it is an uplifting story about how a young man walked through the conflagration and came out with a clear understanding of what it means to be a Michigan Man.  Across the country there are about sixty elite high school wrestlers that are recruited to compete at top ten NCAA Division 1 wrestling programs per year. It is a far smaller number of those athletes who pursue a second sport. There is only one who has also earned a scholarship to play football at The University of Michigan - as a 5'6" running back. Mike Milano had reached this impossible dream. First carry, in front of 111,000 Michigan fans - six yards. Twelve months later he sat helplessly as his name rolled across the ESPN ticker: "Michigan running back, Mike Milano, Charged with a Felony - Indefinitely suspended from the Michigan Football Team." He faced up to ten years in prison. The dream world he was living in had disappeared.  In the brutally honest and gripping MICHIGAN MEN?, Mike Milano, with a clarity that is startling, writes about two years of turmoil and the effect that time had on his life.