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Detroit — The mind never stops whirring, the fingers never stop tapping. John Beilein is in the backseat of a car, being driven through the countryside on a recruiting trip. He is talking on the phone, and he is watching game tapes on his computer.
“I don’t have a lot of time,” he says, politely. “Every minute is a minute I don’t get to prep for this game.”
Beilein is forever driven, even while being driven. When he arrived at Michigan in 2007, there was no real foundation, no real expectation and certainly no competitive Michigan-Michigan State basketball rivalry.