Michigan Students March To School President’s House In A Rally To Get The Athletic Director Fired
It’s not often that a group of students bans together to fire an athletic administrator. You have students who want a football or basketball coach canned all the time, but rarely does it get so bad that you target the athletic director. For Michigan Wolverines fans, it’s gotten that bad.
Students at Michigan took it upon themselves to make a difference. They held a rally on campus yesterday demanding that Dave Brandon, the school’s athletic director, be fired for not firing Brady Hoke. Hoke is the substitute teacher-looking football coach who played a concussed quarterback and has led the Wolverines to a 2-3 season so far.
On Saturday, Hoke left quarterback Shane Morris in for one play after Morris showed signs of concussion symptoms. This gave Michigan fans and students ample opportunity to bitch and moan about firing Hoke now instead of waiting until the end of the season. Let’s not pretend that if Nick Saban or Gus Malzahn made the same mistake, the entire student body wouldn’t follow them to the grave. However, when you coach a historically good football program into the ground, fans will look for any excuse to get your ass off the sideline, ASAP.
For Michigan students, the athletic director, Brandon, has not done his job by letting Hoke continue to coach. So, the students rallied together and marched on the university’s president’s home to demand justice for their shitty football team.
We’re at the President’s house. Chant is “Down with Dave.” pic.twitter.com/sP2bVFAwiZ
— Alejandro Zúñiga (@ByAZuniga) September 30, 2014
This will, of course, lead to nothing, but I’m sure everyone had a fun afternoon pretending the administration cares about what they have to say.
Sorry, Michigan. Looks like your football team is going to suck for at least the rest of 2014..
WHICH type of students marched on the house. Was it true fans, the ones who actually go to games?
11 years ago at 11:13 amOr was it Liberal student GDI activists not letting a controversy go to waste? For all we know these could be the Take Back the Night Sports Hating kids.
Actually the most vocal participants were fraternity members and the bullhorn used came from a fraternity house.
11 years ago at 11:29 amA senior in Phi Delt is the one who gave the speech from the president’s front porch.
11 years ago at 11:37 amOk. It’s legit then.
11 years ago at 12:14 pmI like to think that at one point the bullhorn was used to haze pledges.
11 years ago at 6:27 pmSo, when are you gonna fire this guy TFM? He blows more than the intern’s sister
11 years ago at 11:19 amI’m sorry HelmetStickers, get the story right before you write about it. We have wanted Brandon gone since before the 2013 football season. His handling of this whole fiasco and throwing our coach and medical staff under the bus by withholding information from them and the media was only the last straw. We all still support our team and will be at the games supporting our student athletes. Fire Brandon
11 years ago at 11:28 amYou’ll be at the games as long as the tickets are free with the purchase of two bottles of Coca-Cola.
11 years ago at 3:51 pmbut y’all actually don’t even go to games though
11 years ago at 6:12 pm
11 years ago at 12:03 pmMichigan with a strong IBOTD showing…
11 years ago at 2:56 pmShe’s a biopsychology major, i.e. smarter than you
11 years ago at 4:52 pm^says the Vandy pre-law who’s not smart enough to get upvotes on a website full of alcoholics and degenerates.
11 years ago at 5:53 pmFratFrove,
11 years ago at 5:47 pmPlease give us an old fashioned, respectable gif of coach Bo Schembechler.
The great Bo deserves more than a GIF
11 years ago at 10:21 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzbt_yQrQjk
He speaks…
11 years ago at 7:08 amOne time my coach put me back in after I got a concussion, but I forgot what his name was.
11 years ago at 12:12 pmThis article was shit terrible. We want him fired because he won’t fire Hoke? No, not even close. Brandon has micromanaged our football and basketball programs, he is the jerry jones of college and doesn’t realize on field decisions are best left up to the coach. He doesn’t like his authority being challenged and that is why he refused to give the football coach job to a big name like les miles because he was afraid that they would have more influence than him. He also has been ruining the Michigan name by giving away free tickets with coca cola, and letting Kraft put a giant macaroni noodle in our stadium. He has raised ticket prices on students to the point that they are the most expensive in the country even though the OSU, MSU, and Norte dame games are away. He is unretiring jerseys of heisman trophy winners that have been retired for decades and giving them to shitty quarterbacks like Devon Gardner. The list goes on and not firing Hoke is at the bottom.
11 years ago at 12:24 pmDude is so far up his own ass he can’t let anything hurt his ego.
11 years ago at 12:37 pmWell, Y’all could go with the nuclear option and chant “Brandon must Go!” at the next home game on live national television.
11 years ago at 12:52 pm“[Helmet Stickers] is the Mario Balotelli of the Grandex Content Squad.” Because you’re Italian?
11 years ago at 12:26 pmBecause he’s adopted.
11 years ago at 9:36 amI was there for about 20 minutes, pretty much all it was was a shit ton of people standing around and intermittent “Fire Brandon” chants. Shame i left before everyone migrated to the president’s house and shit got good.
11 years ago at 1:23 pmyou didn’t miss anything. bored douches wanting to feel important and embarrassing the U in the process.
11 years ago at 4:53 pmOkay I hate feeding the troll but, A) you don’t go there so you don’t know what he missed, B) The “U” is Miami not Michigan and C) Shut the fuck up.
11 years ago at 8:58 amAs I believe I can speak for most UM fans on this site, the sweet memories of Power House Michigan Football is becoming harder and harder to remember. Things need to change soon or UM football program could be to bad to fix.
11 years ago at 2:00 pmAs an exercise science/physical therapy major it is absolutely insane that an entire coaching staff and athletic training staff “did not see the injury happen.” Every single person on the athletic training staff should be fired including the head coach. Concussions are not a laughing matter we now have people who played in the NFL with Alzheimers at 50 and dying at 60.
11 years ago at 7:13 pm