Freep (sorry) Editorial Board equates UM and MSU

to that rag. Come on man!!

Can we stop with the "Freep...Sorry!!" nonsesne.. Also, Get off my lawn!!! :)

I followed Nick Baumgartner over when he left mLive last year.I'm sure he was inspired by MGoBlog to raise his game; and he always has. All the yohos responsible for practice-gate are long gone, as far as I can tell. I still only read the sports section. The only place I've learned anything about the endowment bs is from you fine folk, as the Freep has kept their sports section (of the website, at least), endowment-free.

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Interesting because msu invests it's endowment with Renaissance, an investment firm owned by a racist who provides money to hate groups, Mercer.

The Freep hatred here is insane. Most of the majorly cupable idiots who were there are long gone. One columnist is dead and another was either fired or chose to move on. Good riddance.

As for the column, for you Freep haters, it is hard to evaluate if you don't read it. You need to judge content based on the value of the content, not on the source. Granted, some sources are almost always bad. Chat sports and others are almost always a waste of time. Until they prove otherwise. You have the freedom to choose to read or not read the Freep. But to make gross generalizations (it is found in the Freep, ergo by definition, the content is bad, or wrong, or false, or deceitful, or poorly written) is just dumb.

Regarding the criticism made,

1. Quit being reflexively defensive. Criticize Michigan when deserved.
2. As far as I can see, the editorial doesn't equate UM & MSU. It makes an analogy.
3. The point of the analogy is simple, and is apt:  be transparent.
4. The analogy is comparing the current response of two public universities to things they each want to keep hidden.
5. Analogies are never going to be perfectly equal. To jump from "they are both being less than transparent" all the way to "they are equating sexual abuse with financial disclosure" is ludicrous and moronic.
6. There is nothing wrong with Michigan investing with firms run by alumni.
7. There is something unseemly about making different rules and passing laws in order to hide such investments and their returns. Maybe one of you can explain such laws, but I don't like them, at least as portrayed.
8. In a general sense, as Brian pointed out in a very long front page post, this is the ideal time for Michigan to examine itself and its practices. It is much easier to get your house in order when things aren't falling apart. MSU is in a world of hurt because it was entirely too insular and too dismissive of problems. Same thing with Penn State. The best outcome is for Michigan to deal with this NOW.
9. In a specific sense, Michigan needs to give a credible, believable, defendable and cogent argument for why investment returns can and should be hidden  from the public.
10. Also, as Brian has argued, it appears Michigan needs to do a much better job in compliance with FOIA requests.

And if anyone read a shitty newspaper's editorial board comment, I would care. There was always going to be false equivalances with this situation, and this is just another example of that.

Either didn’t read it, or should have aimed the canons at Brian the other day who made the exact same point on the front page. Where were you then?

Fake news! Stop the (Free) Press!

I didn't read the article but I assume the comment section is full of Sparties yelling about how the Nassar issue should not be conflated with anything else. Its a stand alone issue. Nothing to do with Izzo, Dantonio, or Michigan.

is ridiculous. If I name my rich uncle as my kid’s godfather to potentially get in his will, that is murky on the ethical scale. If I ask my brother to help me bury a dead body to cover a murder, that is legally/morally/ethically a standard deviation or two lower on the ethical scale. Sure, both can be harpooned as nepotism, but conflating them is lazy logic. I guess nothing less should be expected from the Freep editors.

Yeah, what a joke to tie Michigan to MSU based on donor funding.

I said earlier, the Freep would cook up a U-M scandal in an effort to get the heat off MSU. Too bad it didn't work ... That story ran days ago and this was the first I heard of it.