John U Bacon on UM Football, Athletics

He thinks Jimmy Harbaugh is going to coach.  Thus....it must be so!

I have a medium disdain for Bacon because he seems to be willing to write a piece pouring fuel on the fire to advance his own name.  In my summary the 3 & out largely was an expose piece targeting the "players" in the Athletic Dept's decision making tree on a coaching change, Lloyd Carr being one...who refused to be interviewed for the book.  The 4 & long is a target piece aimed at Brandon initially sort of about money.  These are gripping revelations if you are a serious fan, I get it. However.,

My brother and one of my other best friends played, for JUB as a coach of junior high baseball in Ann Arbor at Clague in the late 80s.  They had choice words for the man, basically about how big of a dick he was to his players, day in and day out.  So there's also that, my own little expose piece.  The guy is willing to cut (with words written or verbal, meaning to obviously embarrass) people in front of their peers on all levels of life.

Moving on to Dave Brandon.  It keeps coming up he watches game film.  I don't get why this is an issue.  If I'm DB I would damn sure want to know why my team was seemingly descending the staircase into suck.  If I am a boss in any kind of organization, if there is a department which is performing poorly, I am not going to kick back in my windowed office and let someone else with a long list of excuses parlate on why.  There's a mental leap here that says by default DB is dictating action and coaches are hustling to it.  I don't buy that.  Generally a CEO type doesn't want anything to do with technical details because they don't understand them, and when they open their mouth about knowlege of such things they quickly look like a fool to a large group.  Their life and career is farthest from being built on details in any one area.  Instead there's talk of direction and generalities and measurables with a few buzzwords thrown in.  However they are investigators of sorts, trying to get their own handle on what's happening in their organization.

I wonder why we don't write hate pieces on Bill Martin.  After all he dumped the fanbase on his head a couple years back.  When the PSD was instituted, tickets which had been passed thru 3 generations of people to nice positions of field view, more or less like a prized heirloom were stripped from their possession and sold back to them at 3-5x the price, or to someone who could afford more, and they went from their nice seats way around to the end zone.  It sorted the fanbase by income rather than how much time and energy they had invested over a sum of years.  Argue what you want but I see it as dumping years of tradition in the name of pure money reasons.  Yes, some southern schools invented this and Michigan had to follow suit.  I guess those people who got their tickets yanked back to the endzone are just too old to get on the internet, har har har. 

I suppose my post will be labeled tl;dr supporting DB and I should expect internet rocks incoming.  I am a detail person with a bit of memory still left.  The media in general is really good at painting devils and angels, because its forever self-sustaining.  I think we are all a little closer to the center than its largely made out to be.

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