Michigan after Dave Brandon
First OP, so I apologize if something isn't right here. Tried to embed too.
Look what happened to Domino's Pizza after Dave Brandon was gone. Seems as though "Domino's" didn't listen to their customers, like "Michigan" isn't listening to it's fans, until DB got out of the way. Hadn't seen this anywhere, but I think it should give us hope.
Where's the love??? There comes a time when you know you've got to make a change.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:44 PM ^
+1 for embed
-100 for equating a pizza business to Michigan Athletics. Exactly what we are trying to get away from.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:47 PM ^
September 29th, 2014 at 11:05 PM ^
Cottage Inn is way better than Dominos and is high quality, i.e., not just in it to make a buck, I think the answer is clear.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^
September 29th, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
I think OP was saying no matter how bad Dave Brandon can wreck a business, with some good upper management and some much needed changes to modernize the business, its possible to come back and be better than before. Michigan needs a change and it needs a fresh start from head to toe. A change that embraces its customers (the fans, the students, the alumni) and promises a better product day in and day out.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
My point was that things were bad at Domino's while Brandon was ignoring the customers, and things are bad here while Brandon is ignoring the students, fans and alumni.
The easiest, most appropriate fix to our situation, is to get rid of DB and get someone who will listen to those who want "good" product and not just a profitable one that people get tired of paying for over time.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:50 PM ^
A great calm will descend across the land. Children will smile. Old men will gather to speak of the problems of the world over coffee, never once uttering the word Michigan. Tickets will sell. Seats will fill. And the band shall be heard, unmic'ed, with nary a beat or a tolling bell or a Vu playlist to interrupt them.
It shall be glorious.
September 29th, 2014 at 10:57 PM ^
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it Brandon who started that ad campaign?
September 30th, 2014 at 6:56 AM ^
September 29th, 2014 at 10:58 PM ^
I'll spend more time eating pizza than watching the game Saturday anyways..
September 29th, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^
September 29th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
September 29th, 2014 at 11:27 PM ^
Well, he was still CEO at Dominoes when the Youtube video the OP linked to was posted (Dec 21, 2009).
September 29th, 2014 at 11:07 PM ^
Just feel really depressed.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:08 PM ^
Nothing but rainbows and unicorns.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:22 PM ^
Those kittens are in Michigan cups.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^
It reads:
- He is widely known for commercials with Domino's insulting its own product, a ploy he engaged in at the University of Michigan as Athletic Director. By systematically destroying the product, he now has further fodder for creating additional revenue channels in: "This is the NEW Michigan".
September 29th, 2014 at 11:22 PM ^
I've fought this particular bit of misinfo a number of times.
Stating again: the taste test that really caught Domino's attention was in Aug 2009. Dave Brandon was part of/involved with/physically did things in the company's radical decision to overhaul their core product and commence an ad campaign saying they're doing so.
That campaign launched in December 2009. Brandon took the Michigan job in January 2010.
He deserves credit where due. That was a major shift for the company and was done exactly how we would want businesses to conduct themselves: listen to criticism, improve their product, market with honesty.
The state of the company Brandon took over is also relevant. We covered Monaghan a lot when I was on the Daily because he was quite the eccentric, and he ran Domino's with a lot of those eccentricities. Brandon reformed that company into a successful IPO, and it is a fair assumption that he had to remove a lot of old people and established traditions in the process. From a buisness standpoint, his leadership would be considered, by and large, a success, so long as your measurement is how much he increased its profitability. I have no doubt that Brandon's experience at Domino's shaped his goals and his methods at Michigan. The main disconnect isn't Brandon's ability as a CEO; it's Brandon's treating Michigan like a publically traded company instead of a publically owned institution.
Also: a big reason for their profitability since 2010 is their CFO foresaw the four years we've had recently of very low prices for wheat and played the market brilliantly at the time, and since.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:38 PM ^
Bravo. Reasoned thinking; measured delivery.
I'm being completely sincere.
There's been a lot of overheated and poorly resoned posts of late around here. It's good to see a post like this.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:35 PM ^
September 29th, 2014 at 11:37 PM ^
One of the better pizza places in town is the 40+ or more years in business, DJ's, now City's, on the East side. Not a chain. Recommended!
September 29th, 2014 at 11:46 PM ^
Not to belabor a dumb point...but Brandon was the one who started that campaign. It was announced months before he stepped down as CEO, and the planning (and overhaul of the pizza) was done during his tenure.
There are a like eleventy billion reasons to criticize Brandon. This isn't really one of them.
September 30th, 2014 at 12:04 AM ^
I'm a Sophomore student and over the past hour or so I've been spammed this link to a csg online petition to fire Brandon:
https://csg.umich.edu/upetition/p/fire-brandon
Almost at 400 signatures as of midnight. Glad to see that other students including those on csg have started this. It's about time. I don't have enough points to post this on the board so if someone wants to copy the link please do so. Word needs to get out about this.
You needs an @umich.edu address to actually sign it