Mike Milano to release a book

Submitted by Horace Prettyman on

It appears that Mike Milano is about to release a book about his time as a walk on player for Lloyd Carr. For those who don't remember, Milano was kicked off the team for body slamming Steve Kampfer outside of Rick's in 2008.

http://sbpra.com/mikemilano/

 

Across the country there are about sixty elite high school wrestlers that are recruited to compete at top ten NCAA Division 1 wrestling programs per year. It is a far smaller number of those athletes who pursue a second sport. There is only one who has also earned a scholarship to play football at The University of Michigan – as a 5’6” running back. Mike Milano had reached this impossible dream. First carry, in front of 111,000 Michigan fans – six yards.

Twelve months later he sat helplessly as his name rolled across the ESPN ticker: “Michigan running back, Mike Milano, Charged with a Felony – Indefinitely suspended from the Michigan Football Team.” He faced up to ten years in prison. The dream world he was living in had disappeared. At the same time Michigan Football was also going through a transition, one that was equally disastrous. Mike tells us about that transition from behind the closed doors of Schembechler Hall, and the impact it had on his life.

Leaders And Best

July 1st, 2011 at 5:48 PM ^

I feel for him because from what I have heard he got a pretty bad deal in the whole Kampfer fight and was not a chief instigator.  Either way, it still doesn't justify what he did.  But that incident and his story is more a Sunday frontpage feature than a book.  I just don't see what his book has to offer seeing he only spent about 1 1/2 years on the football team.  This seems more like a way for him to air his side of the story on the Kampfer fight than any real insight into Michigan football.

The John Bacon book will probably be the bible on the Rodriguez era.

skunk bear

July 1st, 2011 at 5:48 PM ^

Do we hear from Steve Kampfer also?

Look Kampfer might be a jerk, but if the description of events that I have read on these boards is any where close to being correct, Milano has no one to blame but himself.

skunk bear

July 1st, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^

I've been trying to find what the testimony was at trial with no luck.

There certainly seems to be a disconnect between what was talked about before trial and what happened afterward.

It makes it very hard to know what happened here. I'm surprised it wasn't gone into by AA.com or somebody else.

Marley Nowell

July 1st, 2011 at 7:12 PM ^

"He faced up to ten years in prison. The dream world he was living in had disappeared. At the same time Michigan Football was also going through a transition, one that was equally disastrous."

Hyperbole much?

tricks574

July 1st, 2011 at 7:49 PM ^

Not sure how they would get it, but its probably closer to 100, maybe higher. Mike Milano also wasn't an elite prospect. He was a good wrestler from Ohio, but I doubt he would have been a top 60 ranked recruit.