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“This program, it isn’t back to where it was in the 1990s,” Douglass admits. “They had results. They went to the national championship game and had a lot of success.
“But I think these are the right building blocks that needed to be laid down to establish the framework of everything Coach Beilein is going for. Hopefully people look at these four years and say this was the right way to build a program. It’s still not where we want it to be, but they did everything they could and it’s headed in the right direction. And this year … well … we’ll see.” ![]()
[Originally published in January, 2012.]