As recruiting goes, this one was a shoe-in.
John Robinson, the former USC football coach, once paid a visit to a top high-school prospect — only to find Bo Schembechler, his Michigan counterpart, already ensconced in the kid’s living room. “When Robinson finally got inside,” wrote Bill McGraw of the Detroit Free Press, “Schembechler put his arm around him and told the parents that Robinson is a fine man, but he added, ‘You can’t trust a man who wears shoes like that.’
“And all during the visit, Robinson said, the parents and their son kept looking at his shoes.
“The recruit went to Michigan.”