Hanging Onto Brandon Gives Michigan the Best Chance At Harbaugh For Next Season--Sam Webb
See link for exact language:
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=162&f=1088&t=13280630
The gist is that it would take too long to fire Brandon, bring in a new AD, and then hire a new football coach. So if we want a chance Harbaugh next season, we should want Brandon to remain AD at least through the football coach hiring process.
October 21st, 2014 at 11:12 PM ^
October 22nd, 2014 at 1:44 PM ^
Incorrect. He said won't come "from the current administration" not won't "come here under" the current administration. Do you understand the difference? If not, I can't help you.
You sir, are the source of misinformation. As I continue to point out.
Stop misquoting others to further your agenda! It does not display integrity that is expected of Michigan students/alumni.
October 22nd, 2014 at 3:35 PM ^
You are a dip shit. He clearly says "UNDER". And even if he did say what you are suggesting, it makes no sense! Maybe you should change your name to Troll.
October 21st, 2014 at 10:45 PM ^
It wouldn't matter who the athletic director is.
October 22nd, 2014 at 6:18 AM ^
I love the way you put that and would love to see it. As I think it would be needed.
October 21st, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
I know you didn't respond to me, but I am a little bit on his side here.
I've grown a little more skeptical of Bacon over the past few weeks. He obviously doesn't like Brandon, he wants to please Michigan people, and right after the Brandon protest he goes on the radio and basically says Brandon will be fired and a Harbaugh is going to be our coach next year.
Talk about saying something everybody wants to hear.
This post by Sam Webb seems to be more of him hedging his bet than anything. He probably knows more than anyone if the AD is pushing for Harbaugh, but it seems like if Brandon were going to be fired he would be by now, so he is just riding that train.
From everything we have heard about how Brandon and Jim Harbaugh feel about each other, this claim makes no sense.
October 21st, 2014 at 10:35 PM ^
Agree. Also telling is the fact that Bacon did not speak out during stretchgate. Yes, stretchgate seemed to many, including me, like a jihad. But this doesn't hide the fact that the football program received its first ever sanctions. The fact that Bacon kept quiet then, and is now leading the charge, to me is very telling, given that Bacon basically had an all access pass during RR's tenure, and no press pass under Brandon's.
October 22nd, 2014 at 12:00 AM ^
if he did, then he could have been writing a book about himself, right? Not that anyone's a journalist anymore, but perhaps he didn't want to "be the story" for the book.
Now he's in between books, so there's no harm for him in some regular media appearances...
October 22nd, 2014 at 7:31 AM ^
Are you saying that Bacon said nothing, to anyone, about Stretchgate (in which case you need some evidence), or that you don't know of anything Bacon said to anyone about Stretchgate (in which your statement is about what you know, and not about what Bacon may or may not have said)?
That you don't know of anything Bacon may have said isn't very telling at all, except in your own mind. It strikes me as selecting information to support an a priori position.
October 21st, 2014 at 11:01 PM ^
Alright, if we want to talk out about mischaracterizations... What Bacon said was more along the lines of "based on what I'm hearing, I expect Brandon will be fired." He also gave his best estimate at who would coach Michigan next year and guessed a Harbaugh. He never intimated certainty. The man just said what he'd been hearing and spoke from his gut about the implications of that information.
October 21st, 2014 at 11:31 PM ^
Bacon qualified his statement, saying it was just his opinion.
October 22nd, 2014 at 6:21 AM ^
He said that after giving a dozen disclaimers that this is strictly only his guess.
The last couple of years on Sunday mornings Jaime Morris would try to get Bacon to talk about why he was not allowed in the press box and he always declined.
October 22nd, 2014 at 9:55 AM ^
"...it seems like if Brandon were going to be fired he would be by now..."
...quote/viewpoint is Schlissel; the man has been in place as President since June (iirc), and he is obviously trying not to be perceived as a hasty decision-maker, which could affect the rest of his tenure as President. Say what you will about the effect of the deliberate process he's undertaken as it relates to the concept and timing of a coaching search, but I don't think Sam can rest his laurels on the idea that Brandon is staying based on the simple fact that Schlissel is being deliberative.
October 21st, 2014 at 10:20 PM ^
I agree that both are trying to sell something. But Bacon has the additional incentive of Brandon having revoked his press pass.
October 21st, 2014 at 10:23 PM ^
Jon Bacon is going to do whatever he can to shorten Brandon's duration as AD.
October 21st, 2014 at 10:29 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 11:40 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 10:58 PM ^
Eh is anyone really complaining about a shortened Brandon tenure? But yeah meh all this speculation is driving me crazy...
Kinda wish our FOOTBALL TEAM didn't have to blow the season 2 weeks in -__-
October 21st, 2014 at 10:54 PM ^
October 21st, 2014 at 10:59 PM ^
And that is why Drew Sharp no longer has a press pass--Brandon revoked it for not coming out in his corner. /s.