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Is this the new standard? You can read the entire article at the above link.
U-M players searched before OSU game
BY JOHN ELIGON, FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr certainly was upset over his team's 37-21 loss at Ohio State on Saturday. But it wasn't the reason he expressed a hint of anger at Monday's news conference.
The 10th-year head coach was stern and deliberate in his words when he voiced his displeasure over an extensive security check his players and assistant coaches received upon entering Ohio Stadium.
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After the Wolverines had arrived and exited the bus, Carr said security officers with dogs approached them and told them to place their bags on the ground so they could be sniffed. The search, which Carr said never had been done in his 27 years as a college football coach, delayed the team about 10 minutes.
"I found it extremely disrespectful," he said. "It was a violation of our individual rights."
Carr said the situation was especially humiliating because it was done in the open, with many Buckeyes fans watching.
"I'm extremely proud of our players and our coaches that we didn't have what could potentially have been a very serious confrontation," Carr said. "Because there's nobody, I promise you, that wants to stand there with a police officer and a dog and telling you, all of you, to put your bags down so that they can check them."
Carr said a police officer escorting him to the field told him the search order didn't come from security supervisors, but rather from the Ohio State athletic department.
Carr said before the game, Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel told him he wasn't aware the Wolverines would be subjected to a search. Carr added that officials from Wisconsin, Penn State and Indiana indicated to Michigan that they weren't searched when they played at Ohio State.
Ohio State director of athletics Andy Geiger could not be reached for comment Monday.
But the Buckeyes' associate athletic director for communications, Steve Snapp, told the Free Press that it simply wasn't true that other schools did not undergo the same search.
"The security check for Michigan was absolutely no different than any other school this year," Snapp said.
Snapp said the order for the check was not handed down by the athletic department, but rather by university police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He also said Ohio State players and coaches were subjected to the same inspection -- something the school has been doing for two years.
But Carr doesn't buy the fact that all visiting teams this season were searched.
Is this the new standard? You can read the entire article at the above link.
U-M players searched before OSU game
BY JOHN ELIGON, FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER
Michigan coach Lloyd Carr certainly was upset over his team's 37-21 loss at Ohio State on Saturday. But it wasn't the reason he expressed a hint of anger at Monday's news conference.
The 10th-year head coach was stern and deliberate in his words when he voiced his displeasure over an extensive security check his players and assistant coaches received upon entering Ohio Stadium.
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After the Wolverines had arrived and exited the bus, Carr said security officers with dogs approached them and told them to place their bags on the ground so they could be sniffed. The search, which Carr said never had been done in his 27 years as a college football coach, delayed the team about 10 minutes.
"I found it extremely disrespectful," he said. "It was a violation of our individual rights."
Carr said the situation was especially humiliating because it was done in the open, with many Buckeyes fans watching.
"I'm extremely proud of our players and our coaches that we didn't have what could potentially have been a very serious confrontation," Carr said. "Because there's nobody, I promise you, that wants to stand there with a police officer and a dog and telling you, all of you, to put your bags down so that they can check them."
Carr said a police officer escorting him to the field told him the search order didn't come from security supervisors, but rather from the Ohio State athletic department.
Carr said before the game, Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel told him he wasn't aware the Wolverines would be subjected to a search. Carr added that officials from Wisconsin, Penn State and Indiana indicated to Michigan that they weren't searched when they played at Ohio State.
Ohio State director of athletics Andy Geiger could not be reached for comment Monday.
But the Buckeyes' associate athletic director for communications, Steve Snapp, told the Free Press that it simply wasn't true that other schools did not undergo the same search.
"The security check for Michigan was absolutely no different than any other school this year," Snapp said.
Snapp said the order for the check was not handed down by the athletic department, but rather by university police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He also said Ohio State players and coaches were subjected to the same inspection -- something the school has been doing for two years.
But Carr doesn't buy the fact that all visiting teams this season were searched.
