Hunter Lochmann OUT

His most famous quote during that time:  "I want a Michigan man coaching Michigan."  Which, as Hackett pointed out, meant a specific thing at that time before morphing into...whatever.

You may commence groveling for forgiveness at Bo's statue.  It's easy to find, just turn left at the noodle.

Millen was a thousand times worse than Brandon

from a humane perspective, you are spot on.  I also think there are a lot of victims of the fact that our football team simply isn't winning.  However I worked in advertising/marketing/PR (at a very high level) and the gravest mistake you can make is to lose touch with the customer (or never understand their culture to begin with) and cause them public embarassment.  That is the opposite of (good) public relations.  Harsh consequences and public reactions to failure (including immediate termination)  are what marketing guys sign up for when get paid a quarter of a million dollars a year and more, as Mr. Lochman was, to improve the image of the University. If you are rebukinng our fan base for using one of Mr. Lochman's own mediums, social media, to criticize him, then you are way off base.   But yeah, it really sucks for him and his family that he failed and got fired form his job at U of M.  I think we all wish he and Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke had done a better job.     

I agree with Don and will take it a step further.  After the "infinity" comment, Lochmann should be fired for failure to speak English in a manner that represents a top-25 university.

I don't think the marketing department would be privy to that information. 

And if true, he is pretty much 100% responsible for his own firing.

Doesn't sound so crazy to me.

be in the inner circle of a confidential coaching hire, and have that information to leak?

The only reason to loop him in, is if you have a signed deal and he needs to spin the announcement ....  IT'S HAPPENING!!!!

I wondered that as well when the football SID was let go a few weeks ago.

About a week ago, I re-read the section of Three and Out having to do with the December 2007 coaching search.  I might even create a post about it, but it appears in hindsight that there were 3 major problems with the process in 2007:  (1) a lack of urgency at the beginning, followed quickly by unnecessary panic; (2) a "too many cooks" situation, with 3 different people speaking with candidates on behalf of the University and not keeping each other in the loop; (3) essentially instantaneous leaks to the media whenever anything happened, scaring away at least one viable candidate.

Hackett has clearly taken to heart the lessons learned from 2007, and I think has addressed (1) and (2), so there is no reason to think he isn't clamping down on leaks as well.  One even wonders if he is employing the old trick of saying different things to different people to track down the leaks.

Hopefully legecy jersey numbers, as well.  I hated those!

It's possible that DB was the author of those ideas. But either way, I think he was the wrong fit for Michigan, and frankly, it puzzled me why DB believed that a marketing guy was even remotely necessary at Michigan. 

Yeah, I don't understand why people can't seperate those sometimes (on both sides of the arguement).  I've never met Lochmann, but he very well could be a very great person.  But I didn't like his work, and I don't think it fit in with Michigan.  He can still be a great dude, and you can wish him well in the future, while still being thankful he is no longer working here.