Just finished the book on Sunday. There were many jaw-dropping moments throughout the Brandon Era depicted in Endzone, and I have to confess that there were many mentioned in these comments that I forgot about. The M-Hacks event represents, to me, an AD prioritizing his department at the expense of essentially the rest of the university he claims to love.
But that didn't surprise me.
What sent me through the roof, that I had not known before, was the tour Brandon gave to Rich and Rita Rodriguez, Joe Parker, and Kurt Gulbrand, of Brandon's home just outside of Scottsdale, AZ.
I get that the home is nice. Brandon, if it wasn't obvious, is certanly used to a level of oppulence that might rub some Michigan faithful the wrong way (grammatical errors aside).
But then he made his guests guess what he had named the house.
"Camp David!"
Then we're told of towels, tumblers, coasters, doorknobs, etc., all monogrammed with "CD."
Of course, the home in and of itself is more or less harmless, even if the name is offputting. But am I alone here in thinking how obnoxious this whole episode was?
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Just finished the book on Sunday. There were many jaw-dropping moments throughout the Brandon Era depicted in Endzone, and I have to confess that there were many mentioned in these comments that I forgot about. The M-Hacks event represents, to me, an AD prioritizing his department at the expense of essentially the rest of the university he claims to love.
But that didn't surprise me.
What sent me through the roof, that I had not known before, was the tour Brandon gave to Rich and Rita Rodriguez, Joe Parker, and Kurt Gulbrand, of Brandon's home just outside of Scottsdale, AZ.
I get that the home is nice. Brandon, if it wasn't obvious, is certanly used to a level of oppulence that might rub some Michigan faithful the wrong way (grammatical errors aside).
But then he made his guests guess what he had named the house.
"Camp David!"
Then we're told of towels, tumblers, coasters, doorknobs, etc., all monogrammed with "CD."
Of course, the home in and of itself is more or less harmless, even if the name is offputting. But am I alone here in thinking how obnoxious this whole episode was?