UM AD eliminates 21 staff, facing $100M shortfall
September 1st, 2020 at 4:26 PM ^
Well that’s basically accurate.
September 1st, 2020 at 4:42 PM ^
Isn’t he just a sports blogger?
September 1st, 2020 at 4:25 PM ^
Did my request to give Warren his pink slip make it in this RIF ?!
Also to the "we're loaded - we'll be fine, just fire up the U-M money cannon" folks... hmmmm... actions actually do have consequences !!
September 1st, 2020 at 4:49 PM ^
This whole situation is rough and I feel bad for those who lost their jobs but I assume that some of these job losses were going to occur regardless of if football was played or not because a decent chunk of the revenue being lost here is due to lost concessions, ticket sales, etc., all gameday issues that weren't likely to be mitigated much even if teams played football.
Regardless, I look forward to everyone posting about how they weren't demanding football in the fall because they want entertainment but were, in fact, only voicing their hope to save 21 jobs in an athletic department that somehow can't float said jobs for half a year despite running a surplus for a couple of years now.
September 1st, 2020 at 5:05 PM ^
It's like how I'm looking forward to all of the people pretending to be concerned about health and safety while really wanting to project how much holier than thou they are. Fun times.
September 1st, 2020 at 5:53 PM ^
I'm looking forward to all of the people pretending to be concerned about health and safety while really wanting to project how much holier than thou they are
Posted from the barcolounger after finishing the sixer of Meisterbrau?
Really fucking sick of entitled *student*-athletes at their parents, who keep their $100,000/year benefit regardless, and people outraged because they can't spend all day Saturday watching football, whining because some people prefer to not die and/or get sick over kids playing a game.
Those 21 people fired don't care about that either as of today. And the athletic departments wpuld save a shit-ton more money if they furloughed the coaches over $1MM/year and put athletes on half-scholarship. Instead of screwing people who live paycheck to paycheck.
My kid lost their entire grad assistantship- tuition benefit and stipend. We aren't out picketing offices or inventing hash tags over it, we're scrambling to adapt; to pay to keep the kid in school.
Good fucking grief.
September 1st, 2020 at 6:23 PM ^
Oh you got me. I'm really looking at the 180k+ dead people, untold more who are sick and have lingering health issues, the billions of dollars of lost income (include me in that group) and millions of unemployed, and thinking "oh man, I can't wait to virtue signal about this so that people online will think I really care when in fact I don't."
I watched a family member die in semi-isolation because of COVID-19. I saw another friend find out months later that her employer knew people at her place were positive for COVID-19 but didn't tell them, only to have her unknowingly bring the disease home and infect her children (luckily nobody had a particularly negative reaction). I lost 20% of my salary due to COVID-19 and I was one of the lucky ones who didn't lose his job completely. So save me with this misguided notion that me being a little reticent about playing football in the fall given the larger issues at play is a play for some hollow bromides.
September 2nd, 2020 at 6:25 AM ^
The CDC has updated their website stats this past week. We have @9800 people who have died from exclusively Covid. That’s it. The rest of the ‘Covid’ related deaths here in the US are related to other health issues.
You just can’t make this type of fear mongering up.
September 1st, 2020 at 5:24 PM ^
It will be alright.
Everything will open back up 10/10.
Trump just won Ohio.. .
September 1st, 2020 at 6:10 PM ^
man, woman, person, poop, cooler ?
September 1st, 2020 at 7:38 PM ^
Why doesn't the AD have a separate endowment? Maybe put a couple % of its massive revenue aside for a rainy day?
September 1st, 2020 at 9:20 PM ^
Because if you're stashing away $5M a year, then you don't have an argument on why that money can't go to the players.
September 1st, 2020 at 8:02 PM ^
Just made a decision. Signed up for this blog because I’m a UM grad and I enjoy reading about Michigan sports. Due to the pandemic and a vicious political year the blog has left sports for the world of anonymous rant/hate/smut. If and when we get back to sports I’ll be back, not that anyone cares, There are so many things more worthy to read than the never ending complaining presently making up this blog. Adios.
September 1st, 2020 at 8:08 PM ^
Please stay cutie.
September 1st, 2020 at 10:45 PM ^
Good for you!
Yes, the weather underground is dominating this blog now, same tired 20-30 posters shouting down everyone.
Covid, Covid Covid.... hoping that that football ends forever to prove how smugly right they are.
September 2nd, 2020 at 7:58 AM ^
You are who you choose to be and who you let affect you. Skip the posts that you don't want to read and gravitate to the information you want. There is a ton of non-whiny non-political non-hate data on this site.
Vaya con dios.
September 1st, 2020 at 8:39 PM ^
Ah MGoBlog. No Fall sports? Let's have a pissing contest!
September 1st, 2020 at 9:36 PM ^
Got to make cuts somewhere to pay all those valuable diversity officers
The University of Michigan is paying $10.6 million annually in salary and benefits to employ 82 diversity officers, including 76 on its Ann Arbor campus.
For that amount of money, more than 700 students could receive full in-state tuition at a time when the cost of college continues to rise, UM-Flint Professor of Finance and Business Economics Mark J. Perry has argued
September 1st, 2020 at 11:47 PM ^
Or they can eliminate the scholarships for all the non-revenue generating sports, cut the pay of the coaches, one of which makes almost 7M by himself! But you rather cut programs that could benefit the students at one of the top universities in the country as oppose to people employed in the athletic department? Any cuts are bad, but priorities..Remember Dave Brandon hired a ton of people when he was here and tripled his own salary. But yeah cut the counselors at a public university.
September 1st, 2020 at 9:40 PM ^
Not surprising, but it's still tough.
September 2nd, 2020 at 5:31 AM ^
The ONE firing people is the ONLY one who deserves to be fired..Manual is the most underwhelming AD in America
September 2nd, 2020 at 8:00 AM ^
Let's hire Automatic as AD!!
September 2nd, 2020 at 6:54 AM ^
As an administrator, laying off good people is hardest part of your job. The only upside to killing the fall schedule is that ADs have to find a way to fill the coffers with some kind of sports revenue. Even if a winter schedule is anti climatic for the rest of the country, Big Ten fans would participate to some degree.
September 2nd, 2020 at 9:40 AM ^
I mean, this really sucks. But at the same time, the amount of administrative cost that gone up in the AD is kind of crazy. They have all that money, are a 'non-profit', and don't have to properly compensate their main labor. So what do they do? Pay employees more even they might not need to and hire more people. And put in things like waterfalls in indoor stadiums. Hell, the same thing is happening on the academic side too. Administrative staff pay and shear size is ballooning compared to pay for the teachers, all when tuition and cost of education may be reaching unsustainable levels.