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Mitch Albom: Michigan's John Beilein not afraid to follow his dream

Travel through time through the John Beilein era for Michigan basketball. Wochit, Wochit

A dream is a wish your heart makes. That’s how the old Disney song goes. So let’s take the high road and say the dream of coaching an NBA team was just too strong a wish for John Beilein’s heart to turn down.

Better to think that. Better to think Beilein, at age 66, felt this was his last shot at something he truly wanted to try, than to think the alternatives, like this was poorly timed, like it was a slap in the face to the school he loved and the players he recruited, that it undermined everything we had identified with Beilein: integrity, commitment, loyalty and kids.