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Not cracy about Brian's response, but it may have nuance I'm not catching Clearly though, only one of the parties had truly succumbed to a siege mentality. And it was the one whose potential to harm the program was greatest.
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not to get involved in serious discussions with people who are not serious. It's good advice, which I don't follow as often as I should.
And my father would have advised Brian not to engage in a serious discussion with Brandon. Why? Because Brandon, at least in Brian's view and in many of ours, was not a serious interlocutor at the best of times (I got one of his bizarro e-mails that was clearly not written by a serious person in command of his senses) and certainly wouldn't have been if he were just talking to Brian to gain something (which is the only reason he would talk to Brian in the first place).
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The terrorists won?
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Hard to say what it was about without any more context, but, in general, I'd agree with you.
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OK. What's it mean? Why is it so much more important and sacred than a "(fill in school) Man"? Enlighten me instead of using cheap platitudes.
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The difference is that in case of Harbaugh, he was the best possible hire regardless of his relation to Michigan. He wasn't the best Michigan man to hire. He was the best man to hire, period. The fact that he comes from a background in Michigan is just a bonus.
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If the "Michigan Man" mentality was not prevelant, the Hoke hire never happens (and the one before it almost surely goes smoother).
And Harbaugh is a Michigan alum. His alma mater has a lot of money to make coming back worth his while in addition to offering him the power he wants and deserves. The dimwitted overuse of that term has nothing to do with him being back here. Jim Hackett would agree with me.
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"If the "Michigan Man" mentality was not prevelant, the Hoke hire never happens"
What makes you think that? Other schools don't make dumb hires? According to Brandon's Lasting Lessons, hiring Hoke was all DB. There were plenty of other "Michigan men" who wanted to go in another direction.
The term got a bad rap because some ex-players used it in a moronic manner, but I'm more for reclaiming the term than giving up on it altogether.
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One thing I hope we've learned through all of this is that it's the "Man" that's more important than the "Michigan". The mistake that some people made, in my view, was to assume that having attended or worked at Michigan was enough to make someone a Michigan man. But part of having an ideal is recognizing that not everyone can live up to it.
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Something I remember reading a long time ago about the Irish "troubles", but it seems appropriate:
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
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