Regents Meeting Livestream

Submitted by skurnie on

Hey Gang,

Per The Twitter, WXYZ is doing a livestream of the Regents meeting here

Additionally, Angelique is at the meeting on will presumably be tweeting about it. @chengelis is her handle.

Edit: Starts at 3pm ET

Ben Freed from the A2 News is also there @BFreedA2 on Twitter

enlightenedbum

October 16th, 2014 at 2:52 PM ^

Do they expect any actual news?  I suspect it will be tremendously boring with a few of the more political members to maybe do some grandstanding if they're interesting in moving to higher office eventually.  With maybe a 6-2 "expressing concern about the direction of the athletic department" or something similarly phrased.

michgoblue

October 16th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^

is going to be really disappointing for many people, including me.  These types of meetings are far less exciting than people realize.  That said: popcorn.gif

Blue Mike

October 16th, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^

Like Brian has said before, they aren't going to do anything publicly about Dave Brandon.  If they are in fact going to urge the President to fire him, they will do so privately outside of this meeting.  This is likely to be a very boring meeting with lots of the same statements has have been made before.

ak47

October 16th, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^

You guys are going to be real dissapointed, nothing real ever gets discussed by regents at these things and they are horribly boring for the most part.  Maybe the regents will urge schlissel to fire brandon but they sure as hell won't say anything about it at this meeting.

S FL Wolverine

October 16th, 2014 at 3:16 PM ^

Reading between the lines Brandon is gone.  Schlissel has gone out of his way to talk about needing integrity and "building a stronger connection to the univeristy community."  It's obvious neither of those things happen with Brandon present.  He's probably got things in motion (i.e. interviews) and won't tip his hand *directly* now, but it seems pretty obvious.

ak47

October 16th, 2014 at 3:44 PM ^

Serious question but why do you have respect for him?  So far the only things I've heard about him have been about his handling of a sexual assualt movement on campus pretty poorly but I traveled in circles that tend to be pretty critical of administrators so I could have missed things.

MeanJoe07

October 16th, 2014 at 5:50 PM ^

Well...First of all....Obviously torches have done a tremendous job. They are hot and you can feel that out there a little bit. They have some ability to burn and that sort..uh.. they can get the job done.  Pitchforks do a nice job as well. No question.  I think there's some durability there in a lot of ways. Really both is what you want.  You know...the goal..what we wanna do...it really comes down to how you execute with both.  Obviously it's nice to have both, some of that is just executing with what you can find in the barn and some of that. No question.

skurnie

October 16th, 2014 at 3:18 PM ^

Also, just curious...why is this being held at the UM-Flint campus? Are they always there? Do they rotate? Forgive me if it's been discussed but I didn't know until a few minutes ago that this wouldn't be in Ann Arbor

SAMgO

October 16th, 2014 at 3:19 PM ^

They rotate meeting locations between AA, Flint, and Dearborn. All the big athletic decisions get voted on in Flint or Dearborn as to discourage outside attendance and attention. The luxury boxes, fireworks, etc. were all voted on outside of Ann Arbor.

Bando Calrissian

October 16th, 2014 at 3:21 PM ^

They schedule a certain number of meetings every year at the Flint and Dearborn campuses, and even held a meeting in New York last summer, IIRC. It's not always in Ann Arbor, but the schedule is known ahead of time. You can go to their website and see scheduled meetings for the next couple of years.

4EverBlueGirl

October 16th, 2014 at 3:19 PM ^

The scheduled private meeting at UM Flint began at 8 am. The public part started and 2 and the media were there for 3.  Yes, athletics were mentioned and yes it is an "issue", but did media truly need to camp out in Flint and hope for anything more at this time?