Maizenblueball

November 22nd, 2014 at 4:37 AM ^

The article mentions that the meeting was interrupted, and the location was changed, due to protesters.  Hopefully they were shouting HIRE Harbaugh! (Clap clap clap-clap-clap)

Bando Calrissian

November 22nd, 2014 at 9:57 AM ^

I mean, I don't want to veer into politics, but I sort of fall on the same side of the equation as they do and even I can't stand them. Every year when I was in school, BAMN would sponsor a march on campus where they'd bring in busloads of high school kids on a school day, hand them signs, and march them around Ann Arbor for a few hours. They'd yell and scream and get in people's way, leave piles of discarded signs and trash wherever they went, and just be generally annoying. There was no rhyme or reason to it.

There's a way to protest and bring awareness to your cause. BAMN... Not so much.

Bando Calrissian

November 22nd, 2014 at 12:37 PM ^

And I think if you read the MLive article about this latest stunt, you'll see exactly why BAMN is so ineffective. The guy leading the protest yesterday is a Cal grad who moved to Detroit to mobilize high schoolers for BAMN. They use kids who have no idea what they're doing, who are hauled out of school on a regular basis to man BAMN events, and act like the organization is blameless when poorly trained and informed minors make a mockery of their message. You don't bring about change by standing indoors banging on doors and yelling into megaphones.

And holding up signs demanding the regents restore "on-site admissions" is just laughable. Michigan isn't Ferris State--they're not going to set up a table in the high school cafeteria and hand out admissions letters. Sure, Michigan may have done that until the 1970s (that's how my dad got into Michigan, actually), but in the current climate of college admissions, it's just not how an elite university like UM determines the student body.

Maizenblueball

November 22nd, 2014 at 4:47 AM ^

That's what I was wondering, but the article says Hackett will be the Interim AD.  It also says Hackett will be paid 600k.  Not bad pay for a temp.  I guess it beats working at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays.  I can save the university 600 grand, and tell them who they should hire as AD and Head Coach.

Maizenblueball

November 22nd, 2014 at 11:40 AM ^

The OP has since been edited to include "Interim".  At first, it just said Hackett had been approved as AD.  Obviously if those people click on the link and read the article they will see that he is just the interim AD.  Anyway, I think that's why that poster questioned whether he was interim or permanent AD, because the original post last night didn't include interim.