Michigan releases response... Can't say that I'm surprised

Curiously the operative word "concussion" was missing.

"wtf? why is there a kraft noodle advertisement in front of the stadium?"

that's not a noodle.

"it's a noodle. it has kraft's new tagline on it."

...what noodle?

"forget it. i saw you giving tickets away with the purchase of $3 worth of coca cola. wtf?"

that's not what you saw.

"i did. i saw..."

no you didn't.

 

This just keeps getting worse and worse. He needs to leave.

I've had enough. I'VE HAD ENOUGH. 

I WILL miss my first Football game in 8 years on Saturday for Michigan's Hockey season opener. I was considering it but this fuckery leaves me with no choice. 

This has nothing to do with the play on the field and everything to do with the worthless administration. 

needs to be fired yesterday

As much as I despise Drew Sharp, I hope he absolutely skewers Hoke with questions during the Monday presser tomorrow. If any writer is gonna do it, it's him.

This statement just confirms that Hoke, Brandon and the Athletic dept are Tone-deaf, Arrogant, Clueless Assholes.

Folks...its time to boycott Michigan.  What would they do if 50,000 show up vs. Penn State?

I used some on my precious Mgopoints to neg Civproprof. Seriously, man? Aside from the fact that we've gotten buried by non-powerhouses Utah and Minnesota and have shown no signs of competing with either dread rival lying in wait, you can't kool-aid away the negligence of Hoke in looking after his player's safety. And that statement is appalling. No mention at all of the concussion? And Shane could barely walk BEFORE the concussion and they left him in. After the concussion they left him in for what, 2 plays? then SENT HIM BACK IN.

Hoke's presser tomorrow is going to be painful, maybe we'll get some real Q&A.

I hope this just sends the students over the edge.  We've seen after last year that they'll organize when their life is made difficult with regards to watching the football team.  Maybe this time they'll organize to protect the players since the university seems to be refusing to do so.

A couple thousand kids outside either the AD's or President's office sounds like a good thing.

They're probably saying that post-game screening showed Morris doesn't have a concussion. That missed the point by just a weebit.

has had 24 hours to deal with this.

 

This pile of garbage is his answer.  Fire this man NOW!

John Bacon is right about this: the athletic department always makes things worse with its public statements of "clarification."

 

reflects the truth. Before you all discount it consider the impossibility of stnoewalling this if it is not and ask yourselves if the responsible parties would issue this statement if they knew it to be false. 

For pities sake  no one here or in the media or anywhere outside the university has done a medical evaluation of Shane. NO ONE!

Can any of you show me the actual concussion protocol used by the university? Not some NCAA guideline but the actual protocol? We all know there is one have any of you read it? Do any of you know what the players are taught with regard to concussions? Are they taught nothing? Are they given guidelines about assessing themselves or other players?

My point is that every one of those questions is going to be answered in the next few days. Once those questions are answered and the incident, if it truly is an incident, surrounding Shane is evaluated in the context of those answers then and ONLY then will we know the truth of this.

If there was a breach in protecting a student athlete we'll know and none of this angst will be required because the university will do the right thing. If there was no breach then things will move on as they should. 

Yeah everyone is angry about the state of the program and looking for any excuse to bury those they want gone, but that is not the right way to proceed. If this proves unjust, and I have no idea how this will play out, and those of you looking for blood are successful in burning down this staff on a pretext, NO quality coach will come here. Then where is the program?

Assuming that all your accusations are valid it makes absolutely NO difference if Hoke is let go a week from now or tomorrow in terrms of the team. lack of a fair process makes every difference in the university's ability to hire a quality replacement. Should it turn out, that Hoke did not recklessly endanger Shane, then he shuold not and will not get fired and you can all look for another excuse. 

If your charges on student endangerment are valid then Hoke must go, but if not then he deserves a chance to save the season. 

Bull fucking shit. This makes me not want to go to another game. He was concussed.

Yeah, they've lost me. I stopped supporting Hoke after Utah but goddamn I was planning to watch every miserable game this season (hell, I made it through all the 2008 games, right?). But this is sickening. I watched the Morris sequence a few more times and it really makes me cringe. When these guys show they are so incompetent they can't protect their players, that's when I've got to shut it off. I refuse to watch a game (or be a fan) until either Hoke is gone or I get a damn good explanation of what happened and why.

Oh and for those paying attention, this probably means you can kiss any hope of an imminent dismissal goodbye. If the AD wanted to can him, they'd just throw Hoke under the bus and be done with it. They're going to dig in and fight this one out instead. On the positive side (not sure that's the right word) this also means Brandon is putting himself in the line of fire, so if (when?) this story goes nuclear, it's going to be on him now too.

This hurts me so, so bad. There's like family, then friends, then michigan football in that order of things that I love. Really hurting about this shit