This week in history (46 years ago)
After less than a 15-minute interview, as the story goes, on Dec. 27, 1968, then-U-M Athletic Director Don Canham hired Bo Schembechler to be head football coach, on a handshake. “Bo,” he said, “I’m offering you the job.” Bo replied, “Good.” Recalled longtime ABC-TV broadcaster Keith Jackson: “When Bo got the job at Michigan, he came home and told (his wife) Millie about it. She asked, ‘What’s it going to pay?’ He said, ‘I forgot to ask.’”
— From the Stories of the Staff website
