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After year as starter, Michigan QB Wilton Speight embraces new reality

Entering his fourth season at Michigan and now on his third quarterbacks coach, Wilton Speight is well-schooled in the college football reality.

Even if he arrived as an idealistic freshman, eager to bond with his coaches, he’s more grizzled now.

“You get to this point in college and my goal is to get to the next level,” Speight said last weekend at Michigan’s A4 QB camp. “I know a lot of my teammates, that’s their same goal. When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, it’s a business relationship. There’s no, ‘Does he like me, does he not like me?