Yeah, so he blames the medical staff, who he tried to muzzle.

At this point does it seem to anyone else like Brandon is trying to position himself to get the biggest buyout? By continuing to deny fault and attempting to dismiss the issue as unimportant, maybe he's digging in his heels since he knows the university is about to drop the hammer. Or maybe I'm just hoping this is the case.

Fuck being held hostage by DB and our dumbass coach. The games they pay are crystal clear. Shame on them and I hope the stadium is empty for the first time since the 70s or below 100k! Sickening!

Doing nothing, but fanning the flames at this point.

What a joke Michigan football has become in the past 7 years. Somebody needs to clean house. Now. 

How is it possible that this keeps getting worse?! Holy fuck.

 

 

I don't participate in the Brandon/Hoke hate parade, even though I can't wait until they're both replaced, but that is just a stupid comment. How can the head coach not be responsible for this? It's like they're pouring vinegar on their own wounds by speaking. Instead of accountability, they are pretending that not being aware somehow erases blame. He gets paid to be aware. Shane Morris' parents expect you to be aware. What's so hard to understand about that? This is a PR nightmare. 

pretty sure "deployment of players" in Hoke's contract would entail using his best judgment about their health before sending them in.

This is like a never-ending explosion. Every week. Just wait until they lose to Rutgers by double digits on Saturday. 

It's not like it won't happen. Hoke can't win on the road, he can't coach, he's not allowed to watch film with Brandon and his boss knows more about the status of his players than he does.

This Is Michigan (Football) Fergodsakes.

This just confirms that DB has to go in order for Hoke to go.  I honestly think DB just doesn't get it and will retain Hoke at the end of the year if it is up to him. 

Even if Brandon truly believes that Hoke shouldn't have been able to tell that his QB couldn't walk, (because he is too busy doing what?  Clapping?)  given the current climate why would you just throw your training staff under the bus like that?  Isn't the head coach ultimately responsible for everything in the program?  Where the hell does the buck stop?

At Michigan, the answer is apparently "nowhere".  

DB pullin a Marco Rubio in that video.  Can't wait for this guy to be out of here.  

everytime I turn around the hole gets fucking deeper.

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE THE GODAMMED SHOVEL OUT OF MICHIGANS HANDS?

 

 

What he's really saying is:

Don't any of you dare to question me and my coach about ANYTHING. I'm right. You're wrong. Get off my Diag. Shut the noise. The End.

Brandon deserves a swift foot to the ego dong--a real wide foot.

Haven't said much about this whole thing but FUCK THAT.

Now Brandon is supporting Hoke because he doesn't like hearing that he hung Hoke out to dry.

Brandon is just full of it.  He is not making a convincing argument. Frankly, it's embarassing.

As I've had time to chew this over, it feels more and more that the event crystalizes my anger at dysfunction in the program rather than any given individual. I do think Hoke should be let go, but primarily because we've steadily regressed as a football team since his first year. At most he shares a degree of blame in this, but he definitely shouldn't be the focus here. The program should, and that means considering this event alongside said regression, the Gibbons messaging incident, the corporatization and cheapening of Michigan football, the apparent failure to offer Harbaugh or Miles, etc.

The program is a mess. We need to clean house. New AD, new coach, new staff.

 

I suppose you could argue that the medical staff should have been more assertive about not letting Morris back on the field until they had done their evaluation.  But you can't blame them for any of the doubletalk since.  This is getting embarassing

on the medical people. Yes, they share responsibility for the collective clusterfuck, but to absolve the football coaches of blame and place it all on the medical people is striking.

It's been Hoke's explanation that he didn't see the hit on Morris and therefore wasn't aware of a concussion possibility, which I don't think is unreasonable, given his position on the field.

If this is possible for Hoke, is it impossible it was also the case for the medical people? Did they know Morris had gotten clobbered? If they were attending to players on benches, they might have not even been looking at the field.

I've suffered four serious concussions—two of them sustained playing football—which resulted in short-term memory loss. In each case, however, the effects of the concussion weren't apparent until at least ten or fifteen minutes had passed, and if I'd been asked by a coach or trainer immediately after the blow, I would have appeared to be OK.

There are a lot of people to blame for this situation, and I don't see why the medical staff are automatically exempt from at least examination of their decisions and actions, but to single them out is not going to do Brandon or Hoke any favors at all.

There's a simple thing here that people are not focusing on:

By Sunday, this issue is huge and all over the media. Between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning, Hoke doesn't ask a single soul, "How is Shane?"

We are supposed to believe that. But I think it's even more damning if we DO believe it. Because it shows a man who could give a rat's ass about his quarterback.

Between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning, Brandon doesn't say a word to Hoke abot Shane's condition. Allegedly. Not one word.

What does this tell you about these men? Hell, if this is the truth it's worse than the darn coverup.

Forget the PR thing, forget how poorly it was handled, forget throwing the medical staff under the bus.

What does this tell you about these guys? I'll tell you what it tells me. Either they're lying, or they're assholes. Or both.

 

Brandon is an asshole an Brady is merely his puppet. I would never root against Michigan, but I really want both of these scumbags to lose somehow, but the players still win.

Why wasn't they anyone in the pressbox with the abiilty to talk to anyone on the sideline?  Are you telling me that NO ONE IN THE PRESSBOX SAW the hit, or saw that Morris was struggling mightily in the aftermath of the hit?  So then why couldn't the pressbox communicate with the sidelines. 

 

"Hey, Morris looks really hurt.  Someone needs to get him out of the game".

 

There you go.  Problem entirely averted.  Hell, couldn't you have a grad assistant sitting in the pressbox or something?  Is everyone involved in the program just completely unaware of what is going on around them and has no ability to plan or prepare for obvious situations?

His statement "Frankly I've been doing things that are frankly more important" is absolutely infuriating.  What do you have to do that is more important than addressing the media about a player safety issue?

 

Oh, releasing a very poorly constructed statement at 1 AM.  A statement you could have presented vocally in front of the press.  Because Dave Brandon makes zero sense and is a douche bag.

The medical staff does deserve some of the blame.

But the coach doesn't deserve any?  Does he really believe we are all that stupid?

Oy vey

I put up a thread that why I wanted to DB to pick the next HC and then step down.  Wow, what mistake that would be.  The guy is a total jerk.

By the way, I saw him a few months ago at an alum meeting.  He has changed. Looks nervous, unsure and stumbling constantly.  He's gone.

I simply cannot understand how a major university with, what, a 10-figure-plus endowment, can bungle public relations in such a hamhanded way. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. A one-day story has turned into an epic disaster. And every time someone opens their mouth, it gets worse.

It's not out of the realm of possibility for me at this point that we're getting systematically trolled here. I mean, what the fuck.

...when you were CEO at Domino's, did you ever deserve blame for the quality of the pizza?  After all, the chefs design it and the minimum wagers cook it.

Jeez o' Pete's is this even real anymore?  

 

Years ago, the UM vs MSU game, I believe it was  2003...  Michigan was nearing the MSU goal when they called a play action pass.  An MSU player came through , hit Navarre, ball comes loose, and Sparty runs it back for a TD.

During the obligatory sideline report before the half, Lloyd Carr was asked "Who's call was it to go for a pass there?"

Lloyd paused, smiled and said "Mine."

Dave Brandon could have avoided all of this mess had he just released a statement shortly after the game and said that any mistakes were ultimately his responsibility, the blame is his, and steps will be taken to ensure that concussions are dealt with properly.

If he does that, all this blows over in a couple days and we're back to bitching about the offense.  Instead, it's almost the day before the next game and people are still up in arms.

Lies. That Brandon interview is just pure garbage. He is trying to construct a narrative that fits with the publics bits of information.

There is fundamentally no possible way that Brandon and Hoke didn't talk on Sunday. Hoke was appraised that Morris was only suffering from an ankle injury. And would be ready to practice otherwise. Yet on Sunday it was determined that he had a concussion.

The logical explanation to this is that Brandon told Hoke at some point before his Monday presser that the medical staff will release a report explaining there was no concussion and you are in the clear.

Where did Hoke get the item that a medical report would be coming out? That had to be from Brandon.
The whole interview is bullshit. Brandon trying to cover up the gross inadequacies of himself, his head coach and his administration.