Ann Arbor — Michigan coach John Beilein handed his players blank sheets of paper the other day and asked them to grade themselves.
The teachers do enough of their own grading already, what with the practices serving as daily pop quizzes and the tests coming once or twice a week as the sixth-ranked Wolverines grind their way through the Big Ten schedule.
But with his team fuming after an ugly loss at Penn State on Tuesday night, Beilein and his staff figured the time was right for the students to do a little introspection, focusing less on X’s and O’s and more on their film-study work or their eating and sleeping habits
“We’re asking 'em to look inside themselves a little bit,” the coach explained.