This Would Have Never Happened to Jim Boeheim

I called my buddy Jaf the instant I saw that his Michigan Wolverines had schedule Appalachian State for their home opener. Having gone to school a few miles down the road from App, I was vaguely familiar with their recent football success, which included two straight Division I-AA Championships. My question to Jaf was, "what the hell was Michigan thinking?"
My rant was simple: Playing App was a lose-lose for Michigan. If they won big, they did what they were supposed to. If they won a nail-biter, it'd be looked at like a loss. And if App State managed to pull the stunner, the Wolverines' season was over before it began.
To add to the point, Michigan almost certainly wouldn't take App State seriously, no matter how much hemming and hawing Lloyd Carr would do about how the Moutaineers were a good team. It's impossible to motivate guys who have already circled the Ohio State on their calendar for a game against a team from Boone, NC. For App, on the other hand, playing in Ann Arbor was their Super Bowl. A win in The Big House would mean more to App than any amount of Division I-AA Championships. There's a reason so many #1/#16 games in the NCAA Tournament are way too close at halftime. The underdog is playing for their lives, while the favorite is simply going through the motions until the next game. That's what happened today in Ann Arbor.
I didn't see the game (thank you, Big Ten Network), but I imagine that before Michigan realized they were in a dogfight, it was too late. No matter what the result was today, scheduling Appalachian State was a terrible decision for Michigan. If you're going to schedule a I-AA team, why schedule the best one? Put a middling one on the schedule and call it a day. Michigan brought this embarrassment upon themselves. For their trouble, App State gets the celebration fo a lifetime... And won't be able to get a pick-up game on a sandlot from any Division I-A team ever again.