Brandon proposed that the Game not be held every year
More revelations from Endzone via Land-Grant Holy Land:
Dave Brandon proposed that the Ohio State/Michigan game be occasionally moved to October, or in some cases, not played at all. He also proposed that Ohio State and Michigan be in different Big Ten divisions.
Yikes. Read the whole thing here:
August 25th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
people won't want to be near me while I'm reading BLL. My language will be poor at best. I hope the book is bound with steel. It sounds like I may be throwing it occassionally, because every page will bring new revelations of what a complete idiot Dave Brandon is.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^
These threads are much more enjoyable knowing that he'll never have any decision making power at Michigan again.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:37 PM ^
It's as if he treated the program based solely on advice from an Econ 101 textbook.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:38 PM ^
Wow - Brandon is very lucky this book came out after he got his Toys-R-Us gig. I foresee no one with any shred of sense making this guy a CEO ever again.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:47 PM ^
Never underestimate the ability of arrogant clueless assholes to make stupid decisions . . . including the decision to hire other arrogant cluless assholes.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:55 PM ^
For a marketing genius, he sure did not know how to market the ONE GODDAMN THING he should have known how to market.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:24 PM ^
For a marketing genius, he sure did not know how to market the ONE GODDAMN THINGhe should have known how to markethe shouldn't have even needed to market.
FIFY.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:04 PM ^
And that's pretty much what I meant too.
But I'll expand my thought a bit further, especially after one of the threads about Bacon's book previously talk about how little effort he put in to get Harbuagh in 2011.
You don't need to market the fans/alumni on Michigan. It markets itself.
You DO, however, need to market Michigan to the next head coach, and I don't care if it's Bo Schembechler, Jim Harbaugh, or Tom Brady. The idea that a guy is just going to bend over backwards to coach at Michigan is just the height of arrogance. Even a guy as devoted to Michigan like Harbaugh needed that little bit of convincing (or "love" as he put it).
August 25th, 2015 at 2:00 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 3:00 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^
Setting aside the many good reasons we want it played every year, this is a dumb idea for even the most jaded branding/marketing wanker.
One of the main reasons that Ohio State and Michigan stay relevant when their performance is lacking is The Game. Even if Michigan blows, they will still register on the national stage toward the end of the season precisely because The Game is played every single year, without fail. The same will be true when OSU has a down year or period. You start skipping a few years here or there and people will care less (ala UM vs. ND).
Even a branding schmo should be able to see that it would hurt the brand.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:22 PM ^
That's precisely why Brown's claim is so suspicious.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
I don't care if Brandon is secretly a triple black belt...
If I say that piece of shit in the streets...I'd run up and punch him square in the fucking face. Beat my ass afterwards if you can, but this is fucking ridiculous.
I would get one shot so square, we'd revert back to that late hit call on Crable in 2006, win that game and change the next 9 years forever.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
you hit him hard enough that he can't get back up for a rather extended period of time.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 3:37 PM ^
But this fired me up more than most anything I've seen on this board. If true, this is inexcusable. This is unfathomable.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:23 PM ^
Well, that's the definition of an ultimate troll: it is so unbelievable that it is believed.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 2:18 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
Has Toys R Us gone under yet?
August 25th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
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August 25th, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^
I wonder if Brandon would still be the AD is not for WD and emailgate
August 25th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
I needed an excuse to buy a new monitor. Thanks to this article, I now have a broken monitor. Thanks mgoblog!
August 25th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
Toy Boy.
August 25th, 2015 at 3:19 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^
The worst of all was that after this idea died and the Game was reaffirmed as an annual end-of-season matchup, Brandon had the nerve to act like that was his true intention all along. I don't remember the exact quote but Brandon basically said that he deceived our fanbase to get us riled up so that we'd support what he "really wanted," to play them at the end of the year.
August 25th, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
Found this bit to be comical coming from an OSU point of view....it is as if Tattoogate never happened...
August 25th, 2015 at 5:16 PM ^
Yes. Apparantly, having a coach forced to resign in disgrace after covering for his players' drug use (that tattoo parlor was a drug den and tattoogate was a euphamism for cocainegate) and issued a "show cause" letter that essentially banned him from the sport for several years... this wasn't the "worst of the excesses," an over-eager pursuit of "brand value" was.
Right. Tell that one to the band direct... oh, he was fired in disgrace, too? Well, their president just has to... oh. Nevermind.
August 25th, 2015 at 5:22 PM ^
Wow! DB was exposed to way to many pizza oven fumes!
Yes, different divisions, but always play the last game of the year.
August 25th, 2015 at 6:51 PM ^
Can you imagine what "branding opportunity" he was going to replace it with?
August 25th, 2015 at 7:12 PM ^
It's hard for me to imagine that DB was THAT stupid to propose not playing The Game every year. That would be asinine...the equivalent of 9 asses put together.
August 25th, 2015 at 7:38 PM ^
"Oh, no, noo. nooo, noooo!"
August 25th, 2015 at 10:43 PM ^
August 25th, 2015 at 10:46 PM ^
For my out of line posts. I got a little wound up thinking about the previous OSU games, the last 7-8 yrs etc etc ...
August 25th, 2015 at 11:01 PM ^
I propose we invoke the the ancient tradition of damnatio memoriae, the Roman custom of removing the biggest douchebags from history. If the site could translate all "Dave Brandon"s (past and future) to Scrotum Face, that would be ideal.
Its weird how only until I realized what a DB (ytdb) he is that he sort of has a scrotum face.
August 25th, 2015 at 11:59 PM ^