<p>A quick reply about recruited athletes and Michigan in particular. They basically go to school year round. A neighbor’s daughter who was captain of the UMich field hockey team last year, “got off” 4 weeks in the summer last year. Many of the football players are already up there for the summer. Once you visit UMich, you’ll see that they have a rather strange calendar, i.e., their winter break is in February. The winter term is over in April and there are both spring and summer sessions. I’ve often wondered whether that schedule was designed, in part, to accomodat the athletes.</p>