Bacon said something interesting on 105.1
He said his souces wouldnt go on record so it is not in Endzone, but a caller brought up that Bandon made personel recommendations when he came in to watch film on Sundays with the staff (so not cool) and said he was thinking of firing Hoke midway through last season and bringing in Greg Schiano. Did anyone else hear about this or have any more information?
As mentioned Bacon said he couldnt go into it but the way his voice sounded it wasnt difficult to tell there had to be some truth behind it.
August 26th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
Hoke isn't. And sometimes saying "do the right thing" isn't always as simple or straightforward as it sounds.
August 26th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
If Hoke loved Michigan as much as he said he did, than he should have done what he could to win, not to make Dave Brandon happy. A winning coach has a lot of power (see Gordon with Tressel). It's on Hoke as much as anyone.
August 25th, 2015 at 11:27 PM ^
This board was filled with people who believed Morris gave us the best chance to win--peaking with that particular week. Afterwards, not so much.
August 26th, 2015 at 7:16 AM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
Bingo. Hard to move the puppet around to take the arrows when you don't have a puppet. He needed a fall guy - CEO 101.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:50 PM ^
endorses this statement
August 25th, 2015 at 11:45 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 6:09 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 5:48 PM ^
His assistants. They'd be under the bus in a heartbeat
August 25th, 2015 at 6:49 PM ^
This assumes Brandon would ever consider that something he does could go tits up. I doubt he had a clue anything was wrong with how he was running the athletic department right until at least Concussiongate.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:04 PM ^
Lol. It's sad that I find that totally believable.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:04 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
every year (and that seems to be the case), it's pretty hard to imagine anything he would not do. This sounds like just about what I'd expect from that knob.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 5:08 PM ^
Yet more reasons for me to despise this scumbag.
Go sell some My Little Pony you jerkoff.
That's how My Little Pony flips the bird.
August 25th, 2015 at 6:30 PM ^
There are times each day I wonder if people just randomly drive by Dave Brandon and just, well....
August 25th, 2015 at 5:09 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 5:14 PM ^
Does Schiano even have a job? Who wants to hire him after that kneel-down-busch-league thing he pulled while the Bucs' coach?
August 25th, 2015 at 5:09 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 5:14 PM ^
I'm surprised Brandon didn't sign Hoke to a contract extension at this point
August 25th, 2015 at 5:18 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 5:26 PM ^
Aren't Brandon and Hoke friends? Even if he was crap, Brandon was liked by most of the athletic department and student athletes. I'm sure Hoke will still stand up for him if asked.
From the way Hoke sounds in interviews recently, I wouldn't be surprised if Hoke thought that everything was going fine and that he just needed one more year to field a winning team. He did say that you need 5-6 years to properly implement a system. Even without Brandon's meddling, I don't think Hoke could have succeeded at Michigan. He didn't seem to have that killer instinct you need to drive a fire under your players and beat top-10 programs.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:33 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 7:39 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 5:37 PM ^
Agreed. Hoke sounds like he thinks everything was very close and if not for a few key turnovers last year and a few young players he had to play, it would have been 10 win year and this year would have been special blah blah. Delusional for a team who couldn't put 11 guys on the field for ST, and whose arch rival won the NC with a ton of young guys...
Hoke has 14 million reasons to love Brandon. He set up 3-4 generations of his family.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
To your point, Hoke mentioned how great of a job Brandon did during his radio show a few days ago:
August 25th, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 9:05 PM ^
I don't think Hoke will publicly criticize his ex-boss. That just doesn't seem in his character.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:16 PM ^
Contemporary college athletics have changed so dramatically over the years. It used to be that the university would hire a former standout coach.
UM was very fortunate to have Don Canham for 20 years as he had a tremendous athletic background and was an astute businessman. We haven't had that for a while and thought that DB would fill the bill, but the guy never got the "sports should be fun" aspect and put forward a program that was all about business.
His screwups from the standpoint of both makes one wonder how this guy became CEO of Domino's.
He are all very fortunate that he is gone.
Go Blue!
August 25th, 2015 at 5:45 PM ^
From everything I have seen, Michigan's astudent-athletes would disagree with you that Brandon "never got the 'sports should be fun' aspect."
Brandon's big problems were (1) an ego that let small problems become big problems, and (2) a failure to properly evaluate the long-term consequences of short-term optimizations. These often overlapped; case in point: student seating. The solution to the problem of students showing up late worked for one season pretty much the way he wanted, but in the long term just made students stop buying tickets. He allowed his ego to dictate a solution that essentially punished the laggards, without considering that the alternative was to not have the laggards come at all.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:46 PM ^
Better now but they ran our pizza sucked ads. Yes, Dave Brandon's greatest acomplishment was to say the pizza sucked at a company he had been CEO at for the previous 10 years. He returned 500% on Bain's investment though. Bad product lots of money made sound familiar?
August 25th, 2015 at 5:19 PM ^
Hard to imagine he didn't offer his opinions. Just a sad state of affairs if he was going to bring Schiano in midway through the season. Now, both Hoke and Brandon look like they were in over their heads. So happy to be where we are today!
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August 25th, 2015 at 10:09 PM ^
So I had no idea about the Mary Sue halftime speech until recently, and finally Googled it. Holy hell, she was bombed out of her mind. Kind of mind-boggling that nobody had the sense to keep that from happening, but then again, this is Michigan athletics we're talking about here.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:32 PM ^
Mary Sue gets a lot of blame. She hired DB solely on politics, and not because it was best for the university, students, alumni, and fans.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 5:52 PM ^
Who's to say he would've agreed to the job? Brandon must have been in touch with his agent.
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