Michigan C Graham Glasgow’s grandmother moved in with him
Michigan center Graham Glasgow was suspended from the team after he violated his probation in March.
His probation stemmed from a DUI arrest in 2014. The probation violation came when he was caught drinking around St. Patrick’s Day. Former Michigan coach Brady Hoke was in charge when he was arrested, and the violation came shortly into current coach Jim Harbaugh’s tenure.
Harbaugh had an outside-the-box idea to help Glasgow. From the Detroit News:
Harbaugh phoned Glasgow’s father, Steve, and they discussed options. The first plan was to have Glasgow move back into the dorms, but a fifth-year senior moving into South Quad with freshmen didn’t seem like the right solution.
Enter a 5-foot-1 1/2 grandmother, called “the little Italian” in some circles.
Glasgow’s grandparents had been a part of his home life for as long as he can remember. They helped manage the household for their son and daughter-in-law, both orthopedic surgeons. So having Glasgow move out of the State Street house he shared with several football players to an apartment with his grandmother didn’t seem like a complete stretch.
“It’s good for her and good for me to have someone cook for me and wash my stuff and watch after me in some ways,” Glasgow said. “She gets to cruise the streets, walk around and do whatever she wants. But she’s the nosiest person I’ve ever known. She has to know everything. She’ll say, ‘You’re back a little later, why is that? Were you being smart, Graham?’ Oh, Grandma.”
The relationship has been mutually beneficial too. Glasgow serves as Carmella’s personal trainer and the two go to the gym together. She’s also gotten him interested in Dancing with the Stars, even if Glasgow originally didn’t want to have anything to do with the show.
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While Michigan’s defense has gotten a lot of love through the Wolverines’ first five games of the season, the offensive line deserves some credit too. Michigan is averaging over 200 yards per game and has 12 rushing touchdowns in 2015. It’s a near-40 yards per game increase from 2014 and the team scored 17 rushing touchdowns throughout the entirety of the season. The Wolverines play undefeated Northwestern on Saturday.
And Glasgow told the news that he used the five months from the probation violation to the start of the season as a time to focus on his senior year. And he has two younger brothers on the team as well, so Carmella gets to see all three of her grandsons on a regular basis now.
“I’m an 81-year-old co-ed,” Carmella told the News. “I’m the only old lady on the elevator in the building. But this is a win-win for everybody. You know what I’m getting out of this? I see a lot of kids trying to find their way. They don’t know how they fit in yet. These are kids and, really, do we all know how we fit in yet?
“I’ve said to Graham, ‘You know, this is probably a blessing in disguise what happened,’ and he said, ‘You know, Grandma, I think you’re right.’ ”
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