genericmichiganfan

September 30th, 2014 at 7:45 PM ^

I'll come clean: I posted it with the intent that it would turn into something, but there was no organization or planning behind it. I simply posted it and waited to see what happened. Definitely didn't think it would go viral so quickly or there would be such a good turnout, but something needed to be done.

And the fact that it did "become a thing" shows just how united students, alumni and fans are against Dave Brandon right now.

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hazardc

September 30th, 2014 at 7:00 PM ^

I'm sure they would have stuck around had someone else mic'd up...   pics on Ace's twitter look good. 

 

 

It's getting dark out anyways.. better to get a point across and disperse than let it turn into something bad as night falls. 

 

 

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superstringer

September 30th, 2014 at 7:15 PM ^

If they can him now, they owe him the entire rest of his salary for years.  That's what the contract says.

If they fire him for cause, they can get out of all that.

So -- they are either (1) lawyering up a good excuse to fire for cause, and/or (2) negotiating with him to take some severance in exchange for a release of claims, and he'll resign.

I'm coming around. This smells of a poop-canning on the way.  It's the quiet before the storm.  If nothing was going to change, the POTUM would have said somthing.  But the gravity of this situation -- really unprecedenced since the Petrino thing -- is going to call for a huge reaction, and I feel that's what's in the works.

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Umich97

September 30th, 2014 at 7:41 PM ^

Please explain, because the best solution for player safety is a better system, not firing coaches and AD's. I'm not saying there aren't other reasons to make a change, but I honestly don't believe anyone was malicious or will be malicious if they continue in their role. The real issue is we aren't winning and it doesn't look like we are progressing.

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B-Nut-GoBlue

October 1st, 2014 at 5:05 AM ^

The real issue is we aren't winning and it doesn't look like we are progressing.

That's a lot of gravity and the overall shitty job the AD (Dave Brandon in particular, THEE AD) has been in charge of over the past few years has been a black hole.  This has been iterated on here already, but this situation with Shane Morris is the straw that broke the camel's back -I don't even know what that damn analogy even means- so I'll go with, it was the latest event to push this past the event horizon.

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Tyrone Biggums

September 30th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^

It was positive. To all the naysayers, if nothing else the student voice was heard. Success!

Brian needs a PR team if he's serious about Regents, who's gonna step up and help him?

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UofMGoBlue16

September 30th, 2014 at 7:25 PM ^

I only got to the front of the crowd when he was talking towards the end of his spiel, but from what I heard he told everyone that it would be much more effective to go to a meeting that I believe was the board of regents meeting to voice their concerns, told the students the time and date. Not sure exactly if it was the board of regents meeting specifically but it was something like that.

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enlightenedbum

September 30th, 2014 at 7:05 PM ^

Think that was about as good as you can hope for for basically something that was just a message board post on this here board at 2 AM last night that was spread via mlive and Brian.  If this mess continues, we'll see if something more organized develops.

I got to meet Brian and chat with him and Ace briefly, so that was neat.

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goblue81

September 30th, 2014 at 7:14 PM ^

One of the ESPN talking head shows this evening was talking about this and the role of the student paper had in doing this (basically saying this is what student papers were meant for).  They also insinuated that the Detriot Free Press should get involved and/or initiate a more formal "something".  They kind of were eluding to this just being the tip of the iceberg and that more formal national push could ensue.  I still think its great this happened and it might jsut be the catalyst for change that so many (myself included) want.

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enlightenedbum

September 30th, 2014 at 8:03 PM ^

It's about lots of things to lots of people.  I'd say the two major ones are:

1) Player safety, which could certainly be resolved to some degree by a system like the one you suggest

2) The contempt with which the athletic department treats its fans.  Which takes all kinds of forms, but it's mostly the blatant lying to us all the time.  This protest doesn't happen if the statement we got from Brandon looks more like the one Schlissel gave today, and happened on Sunday instead of 12 hours after a press conference where Hoke said completely the opposite.

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LSAClassOf2000

September 30th, 2014 at 7:14 PM ^

I would agree that this is not bad for an idea that, as far as anyone knows, is not yet 24 hours old. It would be nice to see this continue intermittently until some change finally comes into being. At least to me, what has transpired in the last few days is evidence enough that change is needed and soon - nice to see so many people on the same page. 

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UmichFord

September 30th, 2014 at 7:23 PM ^

I am so pleased with how this thing went that I decided to quit lurking on MGoBlog and actually post something. But I'm also devestated that this is the happiest I've been about anything related to Michigan football since the Notre Dame game last year. I also got to meet Brian, which was neat. 

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UofM626

September 30th, 2014 at 7:39 PM ^

You people need to get a life. I'm sick of this shit. Most of you are just on a witch hunt and using the Shane hit to get Hoke canned. If we were 4-0 and ranked 14th or something like that this would be a non issue. I'm ashamed of most of you.

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Leonhall

September 30th, 2014 at 7:45 PM ^

I agree. This is becoming SUCH an issue, overblown by every stupid protest. Way to represent the University of Michigan. Next will you protest when not one fucking coach in America wants the job? Will we wonder why? The last 2 coaches will have been run out of town, by the ever famous, MICHIGAN MEN!!! Sickening.


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