Hey LisaM and 1gobluedem! Worthless Repuke to be Michigan AD!

[joeybee12]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/05/sports/AP-Michigan-AD-Brandon.html?_r=1

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- The University of Michigan is turning to former football player and Domino's Pizza CEO David Brandon to lead its athletics program.

If approved by the Board of Regents later this month, Brandon will take over as athletic director in March.

He replaces Bill Martin, who said last year he would retire. Martin will serve as a special adviser to university President Mary Sue Coleman until his retirement.

His grandfather and father, both farmers, were supervisors in Washtenaw County's Salem Township. In 2005, he weighed a run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Debbie Stabenow but decided instead to seek re-election to the Board of Regents. Brandon also headed Republican Dick DeVos' unsuccessful 2006 campaign to unseat Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm.

[1gobluedem]

1. Well, I'd rather have him there then running for Michigan governor

Which he *was* talking about.

But, I'm not all that happy about it. I used to work for Domino's Corporate but I was there when the lunatic, Tom Monaghan, was in charge. Brandon did things that needed to be done for that place but I'm not his biggest fan.

And I suspect this deal was already in the works when Martin announced his retirement.

[LisaM]

2. Ugh

I could stomach some of that stuff, but not the Amway connection. People should complain.

[StrawDog44]

5. LOL

LOL @ Amway.

[joeybee12]

3. Hey, I called both you out!

Isn't that cause for a locked thread or something????

:hi:

[LisaM]

4. I don't think it was personal!

We'll see how he'll do. I wasn't a fan of the last AD, not a huge fan anyway. The Michigan sports experience has changed under him (though the previous guy didn't know what he was doing). Luxury boxes, canned music at football games? Ycchh.

1goblue and I ARE sisters, so it's hard to say something to one of us without the other chiming in!

[joeybee12]

6. I didn't know you were sisters...

...Michigan females, yes, but I didn't know there was a closer bond...

[LisaM]

7. We are actual sisters!

Which is why we share the same precocious niece.....

[joeybee12]

9. Is she really, really really precocious? I mean, is she already

a red sox fan???????

[1gobluedem]

10. She's a Tigers fan, of course

Another sign of her brilliance. Even though her mother's family likes the Twins.

[joeybee12]

13. Brainwashed so young!

So sad!

[Captain Hilts]

12. I feel a Rosemary Clooney/Vera Ellen song coming on....

[joeybee12]

14. That was the best part of that movie...n/t

[Captain Hilts]

15. And Bing Crosby HATED doing it in drag with Kaye. nt

[joeybee12]

16. Bing really was a nasty man...n/t

[Captain Hilts]

17. Yes! A real shit. nt

[LisaM]

18. Actually, for that song

I read that Rosemary Clooney sang both parts.

[1gobluedem]

8. We're both Michigan alums too

Along with the rest of our family,

[Captain Hilts]

11. I thought they were married. What do I know? Is anyone else here related in a way we should know?

I'm the love child of Stinky the Clown and TZ.