Brian is Like a Terrorist, According to David A. Brandon

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LSAClassOf2000

August 21st, 2015 at 9:32 PM ^

I actually saw this thread while I was still at a restaurant and began to laugh very inappropriately, or at least according to my wife who had no clue what I was laughing about. The fact that Brandon saw it that way is honestly hilarious to me. I would agree with others though - it is pretty clear who was doing the terroizing, if you will, in this instance and it wasn't anyone here.

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Esterhaus

August 21st, 2015 at 9:53 PM ^

 
Or to be technically correct, and to leverage the transposition because I think I'm that funny, "Deez Brian's." Jeebus the stars have aligned for us following a decade in the football gulag. I sincerely nominate Brian Cook for President of the United States because, apart from that farm kid in Iowa who has garnered 9% of the state vote polling at present on the Deez Nuts party (anyone want to party wid Deez Nuts?) ticket, Brain actually has the character to unfuck some of the fucked up aspects in the country. It's like we can haz principles, man. Love that cat.

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Rodriguesqe

August 21st, 2015 at 10:12 PM ^

Well done Brian.

Reading the posts about Brandon. How does he has tens (hundreds?) of millions and I have no millions? The guy just always comes off as a putz.

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bronxblue

August 21st, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^

It takes a certain level of delusion to believe talking to a prominent member of your fanbase would be equated to speaking with a terrorist, but there you go.

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Wolverine Devotee

August 21st, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^

DB screwed himself. That was merely a snowflake on the snowball rolling downhill.

The credit for that email discovery goes to Brian and Ace, as they went above and beyond in finding more of them other than the one I posted. 

If they didn't keep digging for me and that FOIA denied was the last thing to come of it, I wouldn't be posting on this site any longer. 

I haven't talked about that in months. If I wanted to, I could've gave it back to the people giving it to me, saying I faked the emails and made them in photoshop. But I don't have to.

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brad

August 22nd, 2015 at 12:04 AM ^

What's happened to us?
Mgoblog in itself is more relevant to us than its subject is. This meaningless thread right now has one hundred thirty seven comments debating the morals of Brian vs Brandon.
HARBAUGH save us all.



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alanmfrench

August 22nd, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^

Brandon would have just been hitting his against a wall anyway. I've no doubt that a one on one between those two would have ended up heavily in Brian's favor since we know which one actually cares about the program, the University, the students and the fans and we know which one cares only about himself. Oh to be a fly on the wall for that.

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kalamazoo

August 22nd, 2015 at 3:19 AM ^

Seems to me Brandon knew he (himself) was the terrorist and therefore obviously Brian would not want to negotiate with him.

Brandon can be a conniving one, trying to avoid rejection and saving face til the end.

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JamieH

August 22nd, 2015 at 11:44 AM ^

It was ALWAYS us vs them. Us was everyone in the athletic department, including the athletes. Them was everyone else. And he HATED "them". Unless you were a super-rich donor, you were just a giant nuisance in the world of Dave Brandon, and Brian became the biggest nuisance of all, because he wasn't afraid of calling Brandon out, unlike the "press", who he would bully and threaten with reduced/removed access to the program.

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BlueMk1690

August 22nd, 2015 at 6:06 PM ^

I can see what Brandon tried to express though his analogy was a bit off.

By meeting Brian, Brandon would give him a certain legitimacy that a blogger just wouldn't normally have in the mind of a corporate guy like Brandon. It would be an acknowledgement that Brian has power and that Brandon needs to interact with him accordingly. 

It's hardly surprising that Brandon would find that notion offensive. Not just because he is a vain man but because there is traditionally a big wall between insiders such as officials and outsiders. Many officials resent having to grant access to the credentialed media, never mind 'bloggers'.

Brian's response may have been clever but I don't know if it's truthful, because really it would have been a very good opportunity for Brian and it would have generated a lot of extra traffic for this site as well.

 

 

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