ESPN Oral History of App State

Pretty interesting oral history recap of the App State game on ESPN now.  Its interesting to see how that changed things for both schools.  But for me, the standout part of the story was Greg Mathews dropping this nugget:

U-M's Greg Mathews: I would say we lost that game probably the week before. I'll speak for myself, and I know there were obviously some of my teammates doing the same thing as well. It was welcome week, where all the students had come back to school and class hasn't started yet and we just got out of camp. Throughout that week, there were a bunch of parties. Every night of the week, it was like a crazy, insane party. I just didn't manage that very well. Guys were missing practice, coming to practice hungover, having to sit out because they were hungover. We lost that game that week.

I'd heard the "everyone was high" rumor before (and still find that completely bogus), but nothing like this from an actual member of the team.  That's pretty crazy that people had to be held out of practice because they were too hungover.