OT: Thank you to Hackett & all future UM ADs
In celebration of the nearing OT cutoff date and DLL coming out next week, I'd like to kickoff an apreciation thread. This isnt a rant on all the bad shit we had to endure from DB, it is a heartfelt thank you for all of the things that our curent AD and all future ADs will spare us the frustration of enduring.
I'll kick off the festivites with this.
Thank you Mr Hackett that you wont have Kraft Mac&Chez sponsor the big house.
Any others?
August 25th, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
Thank you Mr. Hackett for giving us hope and excitement for Saturdays in Fall again.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
Thank you that this is NOT HAPPENING to us...
Before DB:
After DB:
August 26th, 2015 at 6:06 AM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 2:25 PM ^
How about giving a voice to the fans, plain and simple. No longer do we feel like it's us vs them - Hackett gets what it means to be a Michigan fan and caters to that.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:27 PM ^
Thank you Mr. Hackett. You should probably retire the day we win our first game (Utah I hope). Go out on top, you know. You are already a legend. Just don't hand the keys to a fu#%ing Brandon.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
Mr. Hackett saved me 15% on my car insurance.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
Quit stalking me.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
...that you wont make the student section look like this
August 25th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
Thank you Warde Manual for installing an upper deck on the south end of the Big House so that we can stop cramming people into the stadium like it was a Japanese subway train.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
If they put in what would amount to an extra 15k seats at the current seat/square ft ratio, they should really only add about 10k seats to the capacity and just spread everyone out a bit. It'd be great for the gameday experience.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
Thanks Mr. Hackett!
August 25th, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
Thank you, Mr. Hackett, for making it truly great to be a Michigan Wolverine.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:39 PM ^
scheduling Mr. AD, as I'm sure that's the next thing on your to-do list.
August 26th, 2015 at 7:12 AM ^
Thank you for adding Army to Michigan's non-conference schedule. I'm sure it will be an exciting game.
Thank you for not putting two Power Five teams on the non-conference schedule like your predecessor did for this season (Utah, Oregon State and independent BYU) and in 2020/1 (Washington and Virginia Tech).
August 25th, 2015 at 2:40 PM ^
Thank you for bringing back noon games.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
for realizing that fans are more than the sum of their checkbooks.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:51 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 2:54 PM ^
Weidenbach, Roberson, Goss, Martin, and now Brandon. My dad and I (both UM grads, '52, '75) were just talking at breakfast this morning how dismal the AD has been since Bo left, and really, even Bo was out of his element. He did take pretty quick and famous action though in the Frieder to ASU fiasco, did he not?
Makes you appreciate how cutting edge Canham was for his time.
Except for Martin maybe, the others are remembered for their ineptness or their seat-warming talents. Weidenbach and Roberson were seat-warmers, Goss was a clown show, Martin though out his element also as a non-athletics guy did some good things and some not so good things, and Brandon---well, he took clown show to a whole new level and made it a shit show.
Though he must be talented at something to accomplish what he has, I am hard pressed to name it.
Thank all the Gods, or the one God, whichever you prefer, that the universe brought us first Hackett and then Harbaugh, and I will put Schlissel in there also, to lead us. We may have another golden decade or more on the horizon. It won't be easy, and nothing is guaranteed, but I feel a lot better about the future.
Who were these Hoke and Borges guys that I read about occasionally?
August 26th, 2015 at 7:06 AM ^
If I recall correctly, Bill Martin was on the U.S. Olympic Committee (sailing) and was the temporary leader of the USOC when it was having its internal trouble. To say Martin wasn't an athletics guy isn't exactly correct.
While Canham would be considered cutting edge, I think some of the things he did would have fans howling right now, such as selling tickets to the Michigan-Ohio State game in Columbus or having planes fly over Tiger Stadium carrying signs promoting Michigan football (also in an effort to sell tickets).
Canham was also brought into the world of Title IX kicking and screaming, based on the accounts I've read. He did the bare minimum to support women's sports at Michigan in the 1970s and 1980s in large part because he knew what it would do to the bottom line. By the time Bo took over as AD, the department was running deficits and his successors were the ones who had to deal with it.
If anything, Bill Martin was the one who got the department's finances in order after Tom Goss was fired. It was during his tenure that things turned around on the bottom line and he was the one who initiated PSLs and the renovations to Michigan Stadium that brought luxury seating (and the money surrounding them).
August 25th, 2015 at 3:05 PM ^
Thank you for remembering MICHIGAN tradition, and not trying to create your own like Douche Bag Brandon. Im PUMPED for the season to start. It just feels right again
GO Blue.
August 26th, 2015 at 7:18 AM ^
Thank you for keeping The Victors, the winged helmet, the M GoBlue banner and all the other core traditions that your predecessor never changed.
Thank you, also, for bringing back the road uniforms the team wore for only two seasons nearly four decades ago. Except for the helmet, UM will have uniforms as generic as Penn State.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:08 PM ^
between the new AD and the old one is night and day. But then, I thought this on the day that President Schissel announced his appointment. His work from then till now has done nothing but add to my admiration of his selection.
And I think the only good news for Michigan fans would be his continued interest in holding this job as long as possible, with a significant raise -- even though I know he doesn't need the money.
Jim Hackett may not be perfect for this job but he comes closer to that ideal and the Canham model than anyone who has held the position during my lifetime. With him in charge, athletic management is in good hands.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:46 PM ^
the thanks need to go to Shlissel because if he hadn't recognized that Hackett was the right person for the job and convince Hackett to come out of retirement, none of this would have happened. He also had to give Hackett the trust to do his job, which would be unusual for a President to do when he did not know Hackett will before the search started.
I was nervous about some of Shlissel's comments initially. I thought the Atheletic Department was not going to be a high priority. Thankfully I was wrong.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^
Thank you Mr. Hackett for treating the tradition of this great university with the respect that it deserves. Thank you for not talking about it, but being about it. Thank you for stabilizing a football program that should have never been destabilized in the first place. Thank you for making it possible for one of Michigan football's favorite sons to come back home where he belongs. Go Blue!
August 25th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
Yes, thank you Mr. Hackett fromthe bottom of our maize and blue hearts. But let's not go thanking "future" AD's until we see what they do. Most people felt Brandon was a good hire at the time, and that didn't go too well.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^
I remember how apprehensive I was when Hackett was hired, for no other reason than what Brandon put us through. It didn't take long for him to sooth my fears and eventually prove to be the legend we now know him to be. Harbaugh, Nike, what will be next...I love this man and what he has done for UM during his short tenure. What a guy!!
August 25th, 2015 at 3:20 PM ^
and if you do, make damned sure we can back it up first.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
I would also like to thank Jim Hackett for giving us something that look a lot more like a functioning athletic department on a cultural level, one that looks a lot less like this:
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August 25th, 2015 at 4:29 PM ^
As I am also currently remodeling my kitchen.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:54 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 4:31 PM ^
I mean listen, we are talking about countertops, not a stove, not a microwave, not a refrigerator, but countertops.
August 25th, 2015 at 11:52 PM ^
The past 9 months have been worse than my wife's second pregnancy 17 years ago. And I thought that was painful.
Yes, thanks to Mr. Hackett and Dr. Schlissel--and everyone who contributed. I feel I can breathe again.
August 26th, 2015 at 7:09 AM ^
I want to thank Mr. Hackett for continuing the recent tradition of playing night football games at Michigan Stadium.
I also want to thank him for the work he's done to stage major non-football athletic events at Michigan Stadium during his tenure.