What Dave Brandon Changes Do You Want to Get Rid of After He Is Gone?
October 17th, 2014 at 11:51 AM ^
I hope they get rid of the lying.
October 17th, 2014 at 12:58 PM ^
Having cheerleaders fire t-shirts into the crowd makes Michigan games look like minor league hockey. Must. Stop. Immediately.
October 17th, 2014 at 3:05 PM ^
Sorry, had to neg, only b/c of this
Orwellian double speak . . . "probable concussions"
From everything we've read, this was not his terminology. This was medical jargon that he was told and is being repeated verbatim. Why are people so hung up on this?
But I'm in agreement with most other things you've mentioned. He's been treeting Mich football as a product line from a company and not an actual athletic team. I do have to wonder though, why have we mostly seen negatives impacts with the football team and not basketball? (minus the STUPID bball student ticket package policy)
October 17th, 2014 at 8:58 PM ^
Other physicians had indicated that they would never use the term "probable consussion". They would say concussion.
"Probable concussion" is weasel wording. It's a way to try to cast doubt without actually lying.
There will be a "probable sunrise" tomorrow. I didn't lie in the sense that pobable means more likely than not, but I made it sound like there could be some doubt where there is really no doubt. There will be a sunrise tomorrow.
I believe that Shane had a concussion and the Doctors said that. The "probable" was added by the AD as part of their spin to try to sow some seeds of doubt. They didn't actually lie, they just spun the truth a little. That's why it took until 1:00 AM to get the thing out the door.
I want the next AD to never do this kind of crap.
October 18th, 2014 at 11:04 PM ^
regardless of what "other" (unamed) physicians indicated (link please). You see the thing here is that the physicians who actually examined Shane had to render a diagnosis that they were prepared to stand behind, not speculate on what they might have done in another circumstance. GIven how nebulous some concussion diagnosis can be, perhaps these other physicians would have rendered a "no concussion" diagnosis. You can't know, nor can they.
You understand that every aspect of this event is under review and that everyone involved knew that would be the case. No medical professional is going to "spin the truth a little" when they know that kind of medical review is coming. I understand it fails to fit your narrative, but either they rendered the best and most correct diagnosis they could or they did not, and they will be judged by their peers and eventually the rest of us based on what the review reveals.
The timeline of how the people involved were unable to get out a press release until 1:00 am will be reviewed as well in complete and mind numbing detail. If anyone misrepresented that timeline we'll all know. Need I point out that the people who participated in that process knew at the time they would be under intense scrutiny? How likely is it that they would lie?
So the bottom line is it doesn't matter what you bellieve or I believe. The truth will come out and we'll all know exactly what happened in the 60 or so hours after Shane got hit.
October 17th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
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October 19th, 2014 at 6:03 PM ^
October 20th, 2014 at 2:17 PM ^
Chics don't like troughs in their bathrooms.
October 20th, 2014 at 12:00 PM ^
2 things to change:
1. Don't sell popped maize left over from the Nov 30 Ohio game at the Aug 30 App State game.
2. Stop the PA system music. We have a band for that and they are pretty damned good at what they do.
October 20th, 2014 at 2:16 PM ^
Would a female AD more likely to change culture of AD department?
October 20th, 2014 at 5:01 PM ^
You could ask Penn State. They just hired a female AD.