Email-gate: Impact on Schlissel and his timeline for dealing with Brandon?
I was going to post this in the comments section to the front page post, but there are already well over 300! (DetNews and Freep: take note, if you want to generate clicks, you can do so by putting out really good content).
I am curious as to whether people here think that email-gate is something that is likely to influence Schlissel's decision, and if so, whether it will impact his timeline. When I initially read the front page story, my first reaction was, "hell yeah, DB is gone asap." But, upon reflection, I started to wonder whether this is something that will gain traction in the mainstream media and be of interest to Brandon, or whether he will simply dismiss it as the rumblings of some fanatical sports blog (good tagline there: the rumblings of some fanatic sportsblog)?
My personal opinon is that Brandon is likely gone anyway. But, if Schlissel is close to reaching that conclusion on his own, something like this - especially if it becomes a story - could lead him to speed up his time frame to get in front of the story.
What say you, knowledgeable MGoBloggers?
October 28th, 2014 at 2:10 PM ^
While the e-mails may not be in Brandon's active mailbox, I'd be surprised if the e-mails were not caught up in a retention policy that captures deleted e-mail. I do work where we are required to collect e-mails from individuals within an organiation and it is often the case that deleted e-mails are held in a repository until such time that they can be caught in the normal backup procedure. If they were auto-archiving deleted items then these records likely exist on a backup system somehwere, be it a tape or other media. If so, Schlissel can instruct their IT folks to delve deeper into the archives. That may not have been a requirement when responding to a FOIA request.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:10 PM ^
If this story were to be picked up by a major news outlet, such as ESPN, Detroit News, or Deadspin, I'd imagine they would go ahead and pay the FOIA amount in order to do their own reporting.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:41 PM ^
By itself, this doesn't rise to the level of not winning football games and the concussion inciddent. It does, however, add one more item to the growing laundry list of problems with Brandon and contributes to the momentum toward his dismissal.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:14 PM ^
DB is already done. It's just a matter of getting a plan together for the next person.
Now if this can be proven and not just message board fodder, I could see the school using this as reason for termination. Maybe that would allow them to not have to pay as much $$$ to DB.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:17 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 2:21 PM ^
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October 28th, 2014 at 2:54 PM ^
DB has had these emails set as templates since his Dominos days. He just replaces the word pizza with team in his responses. /S
October 28th, 2014 at 2:25 PM ^
FWIW, Sam Webb this morning expressed the opinion that Ross's latest remarks would most likely accelerate the theoretical timeline for giving Brandon the boot. This is just a little extra gas on the fire.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^
... what successful people are willing to put in emails.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:37 PM ^
I work in Ohio for a school district. I wrote our recored retention policy and its approved by the Ohio Historical Society. Our policy on email retention is "until no longer of use".
I would say thirty days is plenty for a back and forth with a customer that requires no further action.
I don't care for DB, but Im not sure he has done any wrong with the timeline of his email retention. FOIA the University's retention policy and go from there.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:36 PM ^
I know nothing about being a university president or an AD, but really, what more does Schlissel need to see? The sooner you get rid of Brandon and let Hoke know he's gone at the end of the year (or sooner) the sooner you can go about planning a strategy to fix things.
October 28th, 2014 at 2:40 PM ^
It's obvious to me now that David Brandon must be fired. But not for the resons others might think. Our fan base is so toxic that certain elements out there will do anything and everything to undermine the current program and the AD. In this case Hoke and Brandon are on the chopping block and our house divided will not stop until Brandon and all others associated with him are no longer a part of Michigan football. The same thing happened with Rich Rod. Rather than support a coach, our coach, a significant number of people decided he did not fit neatly into the "Michigan Man" equation. And so he had to endure all sorts of cirticism (allot of wich was grossly unfair). Rather than fight the tide like Rich Rod did for 3 years only to be unfairly terminated at the end of a 3 or 4 year cycle, we may as well wipe the slate clean and do away with anybody who is a part of the current football program (Freddy J included). That means Brandon has to go. It's the only way to ensure that the next coach will have a fighting chance at Michigan...
P.S. In terms of an offensive system, Michigan had everything it every wanted in coach Rodiguez. And we mucked it up!
October 28th, 2014 at 2:43 PM ^
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October 28th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
for me
October 28th, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
"Google" is a website that you use to search for words or phrases. There are other websites like it that receive nearly 10% of the web traffic; people don't Google words or phrases on those websites.
Now get off my lawn!
October 28th, 2014 at 7:27 PM ^
While I certainly agree with you in principle, the oxford english dictionary now lists "google" as a verb, in a similar way as other brand/corporate names have become "words" (e.g., kleenex, xerox). Much better "google" than "adorbs"
October 28th, 2014 at 3:59 PM ^
But what about Watergate, that famous scandal about water?
October 28th, 2014 at 3:17 PM ^
Probably little impact. Insiders have been hinting at his removal for a few weeks now. It sounds like they are negotiating an exit for him from his contract.
October 28th, 2014 at 9:21 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 3:19 PM ^
I think that this drastically changes things. I would be surprised if a firing is not announced within the next few days.
October 28th, 2014 at 3:27 PM ^
http://www.csnchicago.com/big-ten/dave-brandon-really-told-upset-michig…
Starting to trickle out right now. Give it a few more hours and I think it'll be hard to miss. I'm betting this evening it's on the websites of the local papers, ESPN, SI, etc. - but no later than tomorrow.
October 28th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
October 28th, 2014 at 3:44 PM ^
or firing including the timing of any action that might be taken. All in all this is a mole hill made into a mountain here in the echo chamber of mgoblog. This may drive the University to actually conduct an exhaustive search for these emails which will validate their existance once and for all, but that remains to be seen.
On the other hand, I suspect that it may have a rather substantial impact on the procedure used to respond to FOIA requests. If indeed the procedure used until now has been merely a casual search of the emails currently in one or more accounts on an email server, then the University needs to take far more seriously how it deals with these requests.
At an absolute minimum they should also search all available backups that would contain copies of the appropriate periods and possibly all backup for the send mail servers for the period that the emails may have been in transmission and all logs from all involved servers during that period.
October 28th, 2014 at 5:24 PM ^
...to see if VoltronIsHandsome downvoted because this debacle was referred to as "email-gate."
He did. I'm satisfied.