2022-2023: Michigan wins record, 13 Big 10 Championships.

FIRE EVERYONE!!!

I guess we'll ignore that he 1) hired Mel Pearson, 2) turned a deaf ear to all the concerns of abuse and 3) continued to stand by Pearson for months after the report came out, until his superiors forced the issue.

How many championships did we have to win to make that OK in your eyes?  

I miss Dave Dombrowski.

What's Love got to do with it?

Something, something riding someone's something to a championship, not this year. 

Warde did resist the torch and pitchfork crowd’s calls for Harbaugh to be fired after 2020.  Seems like a good move on Warde’s part to stick with Harbaugh. 
What exactly was Warde to do about HD leaving? Warde, presumably, stepped in and encouraged Shemy to resign, keeping a one-day story a one-day story. Regarding Love, Warde doesn’t overrule the Academic Departments on matters of academics. I applaud that hierarchy.

Manut Bol reach 

That’s just an asinine take. So an AD only gets credit for the people he directly hired? He’s been AD for 7 years, safe to say he’s had a bigger impact on where each of the programs in the Athletic Department are at today that whoever hired the coaches originally. Those coaches have directly reported to him and those programs have received all of their funding from the department Warde runs for nearly a decade.
 

Are we retroactively giving Dave Brandon credit for coaches winning B1G Championships a decade after he hired them? We going back to Bill Martin too? We’ve won 25 B1G titles the last two years. Why wasn’t that happening under Brandon or Martin?
 

Clearly something Warde has done with the direction of the department has allowed this culture of winning to spread. If these programs were faltering, the blame would go to the coaches and the AD, so why doesn’t he deserve credit while the department is making money hand over fist and winning a record number of championships?

You don’t have to like all of the decisions he’s made or everything that has happened during his tenure. I know I certainly don’t. But credit where credits is due, he’s at the head of the athletic department winning more conference championships than it’s ever won. Making the department money and making sure the programs under his watch are in a position to succeed is a pretty major part of his job

That stuff is small change.  The problem with Warde is that he wanted to keep on an abusive hockey coach, and was deaf to the concerns until the Regents forced the issue.  He should have been gone then along with Mel.  

The idea that this is OK because we won championships is really fucked up thinking.  Very Alabamaesque.

This is the 'Warde Dilemma' - he does (or doesn't do) so much that we don't like and provides a good reason to sack him.  But as a straight up administrator of a large, complex athletic dept, he's pretty good - the dept is humming along financially and winning championships at an unprecedented rate in school history.  

This is why he wasn't gone when Santa had to do his job and re-sign Harbaugh.  Choose you're battles - one tactical backup doesn't erase years long departmental success.

Go, Blue!