ijohnb

September 30th, 2014 at 4:21 PM ^

that, but if they ask 5 people what they are protesting they are going to get 5 different answers.  "Hoke did not take Morris out!!"  "No good coaches will come here while Brandon is here!"  "Brandon lied in his statement regarding Morris' injury."  And then you will have the honest guy-"I am just here because we got blown out by Minnesota."

I have a great idea.  Turn this into a "beat Rutgers" rally.  At least it would be of some benefit to the program, however remote.

CooperLily21

September 30th, 2014 at 5:17 PM ^

Agreed.  But this mother down with fire.  Doesn't matter what kind of fire as long as its hot and burns.  People in the area should show up even if they don't really care either way.  Just stand there and check email or something.  The numbers are going to matter.

LSAClassOf2000

September 30th, 2014 at 4:37 PM ^

For those interested, here's the MLive story - LINK

"In the midst of the controversy, members of the popular fan message board mgoblog.com have planned a "Fire Dave Brandon Rally" for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Diag on U-M's central campus"

It references the initial thread and some of the comments as well. 

The Central Student Government meeting is tonight too. Kind of interested to see if they have an official statement as well. 

RHammer - SNRE 98

September 30th, 2014 at 4:58 PM ^

it would likely be "illegal", in that DPS would be justified in removing one's pitchfork, and likely, the bearer of said pitchfork, from the Diag.

If you take a look at the University's Standard Practice Guide Policies sections on "Violence" and "Weapons", both include language that would:

(a) allow a pitchfork to be arguably classified as a weapon (See http://spg.umich.edu/policy/201.94), and/or

(b) allow one bearing a pitchfork to be characterized as engaging in threatening behavior (See http://spg.umich.edu/policy/601.18)

If you want to bring a pitchfork and be sure that you're not going to get arrested or have it confiscated, make one out of cardboard or papier-mache. 

This is not intended to be legal advice to any younger wolverines out there, and I'm not saying whether there is a good likelihood that you'd be charged or that any charges would be prosecuted successfully; in a sense, that doesn't even matter, because all they really want to do in that situation is remove you and/or the pitchfork from the Diag, and they'll be able to do it based on these policies... whether you are deemed to have violated the policies a few months later is somewhat immaterial.

Wolverine Devotee

September 30th, 2014 at 4:29 PM ^

Dude lettered exactly one year and thinks he was a vital piece of Bo's teams. When he was on that 1973 Michigan-Ohio State doc on BTN, he was acting like he wasn't a career pine rider.

I actually have a lot of those cards from back in the day. They were called the Lettermen series. 

MStopRed

September 30th, 2014 at 5:25 PM ^

Joey Galloway is an idiot, right?  I don't know much about him, but did I pick up on that correctly?

He really just doesn't get it.  It's not about Hoke needing to personally evaluate the health of the player.  But correct if I'm wrong, doesn't it fall on the coach to be aware of what is happening to his players on the field and to get them off the field if their health and well-being is in question/jeopardy?  It's just so fitting that accountability is such a popular term for Hoke to throw around.