Proof that Brandon tried to move Michigan and OSU
February 18th, 2015 at 11:02 PM ^
how is the pizza DOING.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:15 PM ^
if it weren't for you meddling kids!
February 18th, 2015 at 11:17 PM ^
Zoinks!?
February 19th, 2015 at 7:23 AM ^
Jinkies!
February 19th, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
AND THAT DOG, TOO.... (insert WD's face over Scooby's)
February 19th, 2015 at 9:03 AM ^
Would you do it for a Scooby-snack?
Nuh-UH....
Would you do it for.....TWO Scooby-snacks?
Nuh-UH...
Would you do it for....THREEEE Scooby-snacks??
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!!!
February 19th, 2015 at 7:43 AM ^
Love that pizza gif!!
February 19th, 2015 at 9:05 AM ^
I do as well. But I have so many questiosn about it. #1: who is he waiving his pizza at in the end?
February 19th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
I think he was waving at Dan Dakich.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:13 PM ^
That's Dave running after out of the building after he suggested moving the game.
February 19th, 2015 at 8:19 AM ^
Can't...stop...giggling at this one. I love how the door opens for him.
February 19th, 2015 at 10:22 AM ^
reminds me of this scene from Ironman...
February 18th, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^
you turd!
February 18th, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
Does it really matter?
February 18th, 2015 at 11:12 PM ^
You're just talking about timing and schedule, right?
Or was he trying to make it a neutral site game?
February 18th, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
Tone Deaf.
February 19th, 2015 at 5:57 AM ^
maybe a porcupine?
February 18th, 2015 at 11:24 PM ^
So anybody else watching Duke UNC right now... game is crazy.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:29 PM ^
Great game
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February 18th, 2015 at 11:36 PM ^
Of course UNC would choke this game away ugh... Fuck Duke.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:46 PM ^
Yup. I knew it would happen. Went to OT and I said there is no chance in hell Duke loses.
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February 19th, 2015 at 1:21 AM ^
UK is going to win it all no matter where Duke finishes in the regular season. They have apparently stopped giving a shit whether or not the NCAA knows their boosters are buying up all of the one and dones.
If they make a big enough joke of the process, maybe the NCAA will actually do something about it.
February 19th, 2015 at 6:29 AM ^
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOLOL.....(catches breath) that was a good one!
February 19th, 2015 at 6:52 AM ^
We've all seen the NCAA Compliance folks in action...
February 19th, 2015 at 7:10 AM ^
It's possible that, at this point, Calipari isn't cheating that much. He's established a reputation as a guy who can get you to the NBA if you spend one season working with him and that might be enough to convince a kid to come (especially since he probably won't have to go to class after the first semester).
But of course, Calipari got this far in his career by cheating his ass off at his other stops.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:30 PM ^
Great game. It's been a blast to watch.
February 18th, 2015 at 11:38 PM ^
"Happy Easter"?
February 18th, 2015 at 11:49 PM ^
Is it Easter already? Pretty sure that Winter is in full swing.
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February 18th, 2015 at 11:45 PM ^
Nice click bait with that title.
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February 18th, 2015 at 11:58 PM ^
you had the proof.
February 19th, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^
Just like the public school (dot dot dot) thread which comes across as whoring for clicks.
February 19th, 2015 at 12:01 AM ^
to the end of the thread title. It's kind of misleading otherwise.
February 19th, 2015 at 12:32 AM ^
February 19th, 2015 at 12:42 AM ^
I remember a lot of consternation at the time over Brandon's lack of advocacy for keeping Michigan and Ohio in the same division and playing at the end of the year, MDog's post being a good example. Heck, I even emailed Brandon at the time to voice my concerns. And obviously Brandon was a horrible AD for many reasons. I'm just wondering how much of the "moving the game outrage" was based in fact and not emotion. Does anyone have any actual articles/audio/video of Brandon's transgressions on this topic?
February 19th, 2015 at 2:11 AM ^
It was based on what he said. We didn't make it up.
It was not just a "lack of advocacy" for keeping Michigan-Ohio State the last game of the year, it was him proactively telling us that we need to get used to the idea of it being moved and that was the price of progress. He wasn't just not acting for us, he was acting against us.
When I posted the above, it was in response him selling us out in public, not him being too quiet. If I had enough time, I could go find his statements somewhere. But I assure you, I and others did not react to just thin air.
Also, keep in mind that this was early on, and everybody still thought Brandon was God at the time. This was not part of some anti-Brandon crusade.
He sold us out, quite unexpectedly at the time, and we were stunned by it.
February 19th, 2015 at 1:57 AM ^
My understanding at the time wasn't so much that Brandon was actively pushing to have the OSU game played in the middle of the season. But, as was so often the case, he was more than ready to make the change if someone had flashed a few dollars, then he backed off when he saw the backlash and simultaneously realized there wasn't any money to be made. That was admittedly conjecture based on his public statements -- there's no smoking gun -- but it's entirely consistent with the man's overall approach to managing the football program.
February 19th, 2015 at 3:41 AM ^
Brandon did not complain enough about MSU and OSU being both home or away games in the same year making subsequent years schedule imbalanced.
How could he allow this to happen? He totally screwed our schedule forever!
Not only that but it also screwed MSU in having both OSU & UM both home or away in the same year. You would think MSU would have not wanted that either and would have also assisted in complaining to the Big Ten. However, MSU benefitted by those back to back home games. Maybe they viewed it only for the short term benefit of possibly getting a Big Ten Title.
The only other Big Ten rivalry game that was adversely affected was Purdue - Ind.. Ind. got two home games in a row.
February 19th, 2015 at 6:32 AM ^
100% right. Don Canham would never have let that idea get beyond the laughing, "you've got to be shitting me, right?" stage.
February 19th, 2015 at 8:28 AM ^
Schedule won't be imbalanced that long.... Sparty won't be good after another 2-3 years. I'd rather have MSU and Ohio State "imbalanced" as opposed to having to play Ohio State and Penn State on the road together every two years.
There are simply too many heavy hitters in the East for MSU, with or without Dantonio, to be playoff contenders. Urban, Harbaugh, and Franklin will be running the show the next ten years. I mean they'll be serviceable - 7-5, 8-4, but you can't recruit at a 30-50 level and expect to be elite for long - and no I don't think they're elite. They've taken advantage of the weakest Big Ten in recent memory.
Good for them. Adds a little depth. But the Big Ten will only become elite again when Michigan is elite again. We all know that.
February 19th, 2015 at 8:50 AM ^
for James Franklin around here is puzzling...how can he get more respect than Dantonio? As long as Dantonio is around, MSU isn't going anywhere and I think Franklin will be fired in 3-4 years.
February 19th, 2015 at 9:03 AM ^
The issue isn't that MSU might be good forever (they won't be), but that the MSU game is always a big draw regardless, as is OSU, and instead of having them on alternate years like we did for decades, we have both in one year and none the next. We're going to always have good home schedules in odd-numbered years and terrible ones in even-numbered years if this isn't fixed.
February 19th, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
Exactly.
I'm also not going to exclusively blame Swarbrick for the ND series going away. Brandon must have been a joy to work with on that one.
February 19th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
Maybe it's because I don't live in Michigan and deal with those people every day anymore, but a 4-4 MSU shouldn't be a bigger draw than a 6-2 or 7-1 Penn State at night - which I think is going to be happening very soon.
Also, it's not like the evens are going to be bad that long:
2016 - Hawaii, Colorado, UCF, Wisconsin, Penn State, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana
2018 - Arkansas, SMU, Nebraska, Maryland, Wisconsin, Penn State, Indiana
I might be in the minority here, but sign me up for a Colorado, Wisconsin, Penn State as opposed to a Colorado, Wisconsin, MSU in 2016 and an Arkansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Penn State as opposed to Arkansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and MSU in 2018.
"Michigan State ain't going no where as long as Dantonio is there." No one said they were, we just think they are a lot closer to the 11-1 team that lost 49-7 to Alabama and the 10-2 team that lost by 21 to Oregon. It's not anything to do with them, but as the Big Ten gets better, their flaws will show. They are not that good (2014 especially); the Big Ten has just sucked.
February 19th, 2015 at 9:21 AM ^
We've routinely been hosed by this conference when it comes to scheduling. In the 90s, it was OSU and PSU in back to back weeks. Or us playing PSU while they were coming off of a bye week. Before PSU joined the conference, it was kicking Northwestern and Purdue off the schedule many years due to competitive balance and keeping the weakest conference opponents off our schedule.
I'm more concerned about PSU going forward than MSU, so we were going to have to play two or MSU, PSU and OSU on the road each year. This to me will not be a big issue going forward.
As a comparison, Bama has to go to Georgia, A&M and Auburn in 2015. Last year they went to LSU and Tennessee in back to back weeks. Good teams win at home and on the road. When we're "back" none of the scheduling nonsense will matter.
February 19th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
Agree with your post but Minnesota had to come to Ann Arbor the past two years to play for the Little Brown Jug.
February 19th, 2015 at 7:13 AM ^
Downvoting for the misleading thread title. I thought there was going to be the actual proof in the OP. You could have at least had a question mark.
February 19th, 2015 at 7:19 AM ^
I understand if you don't want to spend time looking it up just because some dude on the internet asked. Maybe I can find it. Were direct sources posted on Mgoblog, or one of the Michigan newspapers (daily, det news, freep)?