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Bob Wojnowski, Matt Charboneau and Angelique Chengelis the MSU-Wisconsin, UM-Illinois games on The Detroit News' College Football Show. The Detroit News

Ann Arbor — Football coaches tend to be creatures of habit. And old habits like old coaches sometimes are hard to break.

That may explain why Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown still spends hours each week drawing up his own scout-team play cards to use in practice. He draws them by hand about 250 in all, he says, color-coded and the artwork that starts Sunday typically doesn’t end until late Monday night.