Schlissel attends football practice
According to the Detroit Free Press. I will spare you the Freep link and send you instead to 247.
Rick Fitzgerald told Free Press reporter David Jesse that Schlissel attended to "show support for our student athletes".
This apparently almost never happens.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:22 PM ^
What does it mean???!!!
October 10th, 2014 at 1:37 PM ^
Whoaaaaah. Double Rainbow
October 10th, 2014 at 2:39 PM ^
...he's not participating in the kickoff boycott???!
October 10th, 2014 at 3:52 PM ^
He's going to fire DB before the game so there will be no reason to boycott. The stands will be full of happy people cheering their hearts out for the players.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:59 PM ^
it means that db is a goner
he hasn't twitted in over 10 days so that means he was already fired
probably on a boat somewhere
October 10th, 2014 at 3:22 PM ^
He got to see the #1 practice team the country. I'd want to see us practice too! In fact, I'd pay more money to watch a practice than I would to see an actual game. The execution must be incredible.
October 10th, 2014 at 11:40 PM ^
Yes- and I am waiting for Hoke to sit in on some meetings to reorganize the math department and go over professor film- quid pro quo!
October 11th, 2014 at 2:21 AM ^
looking over his shoulder !
October 10th, 2014 at 1:22 PM ^
But did he watch film with Nuss and Mattison?
October 10th, 2014 at 1:24 PM ^
No, he dropped in on Brandon and watched film of Brandon's performances as AD.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:58 PM ^
Can we get a UFR of the negative and positive things that Brandon has done since being AD?
I'm as upset as the rest, wouldn't pay the PSD this year for my season ticket so I'll ignore it and buy tickets on the market afterward for the games I wanted. Usually try go to more away games anyway because they're closer to me. However he probably has done somethings for other sports and perhaps B1G network(not sure) and revenue? I'm sure we all know what way it'll grade out but if someone with more time and knowledge than I could do this much applauds and upvotes.
TIA.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:18 PM ^
Brandon has a meeting with the Bobs.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:23 PM ^
Bobs: "Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately."
DB: "I don't know if I've been 'missing' it."
October 10th, 2014 at 2:33 PM ^
I'm lookin' at you, Mr. Falk.
October 10th, 2014 at 4:06 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 1:23 PM ^
Very interesting to say the least.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:23 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 1:31 PM ^
Yes he will. He will also be blown away by the great competition and the toughness exhibited in the practice.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:36 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 1:36 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
Will he hear football while there?
October 10th, 2014 at 2:07 PM ^
Crap. I know how his dialogue is received is largely influenced by his team's performance, but man, this guy is really starting to sound a lot like the Lions' former Head Coach, Rod Marinelli and his "pad level" bull shit.
The funny thing is, both guys could very well be examples of the Peter Principle.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:15 PM ^
It's gotta be a letdown after the exhilaration of practice.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:23 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 1:41 PM ^
Yeah and they looked great in practice! Says Hoke.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:14 PM ^
And don't forget, Hoke said they are competing. He then clapped a lot, delivered some solid butt slaps, and gave out some attaboys.
October 10th, 2014 at 3:38 PM ^
What does Hoke mean by "looking great" in practice? Maybe he just means their hair is shiny, their teeth are white, and their uniforms are clean.
October 10th, 2014 at 4:10 PM ^
Aaron Wellman runs a great hygiene program.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:25 PM ^
So Schlissel shows up (likely) without Brandon.
Brandon hasn't tweeted anything since September 30th. His sole public appearances have been the goofy series of interviews. There's a bye week coming up.
If you ask me, the tea leaves are in place. If there's a time for this to go down, it's early this week. No football game to distract attention from, it's relatively early in the season for hockey, basketball season hasn't started...
Raback it: Brandon gone by this time next week.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:35 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
I think we are much more likely to hear about how the President supports the athletic director and football team than we are any impending terminations.
But I hope you're right.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:50 PM ^
It mentions the football team but not the athletic director.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:57 PM ^
with Mike DeBord (administrator for Olympic Sports). Brandon was not present.
October 10th, 2014 at 3:58 PM ^
So, you're saying DeBord will be the interim coach?
October 10th, 2014 at 8:57 PM ^
(I guess he was too busy pimping the brand to Chobani.)
But it may signal that Mike DeBord will be the interim AD. (I am assuming Hoke is head coach for the duration.)
October 10th, 2014 at 2:13 PM ^
Wouldn't Brandon otherwise be part of the "Us" in that equation, though?
I see it this way:
At best, as the Pres bridging the gap between himself and the head football coach (eliminating the middle man).
At worst, he's getting his own impression of how the football staff operates, essentially removing any of Brandon's interpretations or opinions. This might serve as some of his due diligence in making his decision on Brandon.
October 10th, 2014 at 3:06 PM ^
You were also certain that Hoke wasn't firing Borges based on your "reading" of his press conference comments which "clearly" showed that Hoke loved Borges and believed he was doing a good job.
October 10th, 2014 at 4:13 PM ^
made Hoke loook as if he was not even in the loop. In the corporate world, this type of facial is administered when hoping to encourage a contract executive to find other employment (and save legal termination fees).
I believe Hoke gave one of his concescending "we do not anticipate any changes in the coaching staff" answers to questions about Borges, then DB did his thing.
October 10th, 2014 at 9:28 PM ^
Hoke and Nussmeier share the same agent. So it is a virtual certainty that Hoke "found" Nussmeier. In reality, the most probable sequence is that Hoke's agent reached out to him to see if he was interested in retaining Nussmeier, before he shopped Nussmeier to anyone else.
I realize that doesn't fit your world view, but any other flow would require that Nussmeier's agent was completely asleep. Highly unlikely in the extreme.
October 13th, 2014 at 12:01 PM ^
You are an idiot.
October 10th, 2014 at 1:54 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 1:58 PM ^
I think Brandon fired his twitter-account-manager. Give him a couple days to find someone he can micro-manage better than the last and his account will be up and running.
October 10th, 2014 at 7:57 PM ^
If his twitter-manager was also handling dabran@umich, I can understand.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:06 PM ^
October 10th, 2014 at 2:37 PM ^
So does this mean Dave Brandon's sister is running the athletic department!
October 10th, 2014 at 2:16 PM ^
...when WTKA abandons its normal programming and starts playing the tell-tale somber classical music.
October 10th, 2014 at 2:45 PM ^
Why does Pravda and Radio Moscow come to mind?
