ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- It was time to look at the big picture, and what was going to be best for Michigan men's basketball guard Austin Hatch. He wasn't able to participate enough in practices and games to justify the time commitment required of team members because his high academic goals weren’t being met.
Hatch spent two months in a coma after surviving his second plane crash in 2011. He suffered brain trauma, fractured ribs and a broken collarbone. And while he recovered enough to take up Wolverine coach John Beilein on his standing offer of an athletic scholarship -- one that he committed to nine days before the second plane crash -- the skills he showed as a dynamic player at Fort Wayne (Indiana) Canterbury High are gone.