Email-gate: Impact on Schlissel and his timeline for dealing with Brandon?

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

This only changed things if the violation of the sunshine law gets traction. Hiding things by deleting email is what will get political fingers wagging and no president wants that.

I've seen a lot of tweets and linking from national level sports reporters and media types. It has to be taken into consideration, if for nothing else just for the possible FOIA law violations.

DB has had these emails set as templates since his Dominos days. He just replaces the word pizza with team in his responses. /S

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.

... what successful people are willing to put in emails. 

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.

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! 

Meta: Can we PLEASE stop affixing the word "gate" to everything? Kthx.

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.

I think that this drastically changes things.  I would be surprised if a firing is not announced within the next few days. 

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.

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.