Statement

Just in case you thought things might get better....they won't. Brandon released a message at 1am. The Twitter world is a blaze and Hoke is firmly planted under the bus. Go blue!!

http://beta.sportingnews.com/article/4613698-michigan-ad-dave-brandon-apologizes-shane-morris-injury-concussion-brady-hoke?modid=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FfuqHSXVbMQ

Anyone else having format issues with the forum this morning?

a little. It wants to go to a main "start a forum" page after responding.

I cleared my cache but it immediately did it again. Might try IE instead of Chrome

Yes. I am.

Mine seems to be working fine....for now! LOL

Go Blue!!

Unfortunately, I think in the long run the bigger problem with the program is Brandon, not Hoke, and I don't think he's going anywhere. While Hoke is a dead man walking, Brandon is doing his best to insulate himself from the fallout. On the one hand, his ploys have always been stupid and obvious (like releasing a statement at 1:00 am regarding something that happened more than 48 hours ago). On the other hand, he just got Stephen Ross (the billionaire owner of the Dolphins who donated $300 million the last few years) to come out in support of him. Unfortunately, I don't think he's going anywhere. He'll continue to gouge fans while worsening the product and use his rich cronies to insulate himself from any repercussions. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't have a good feeling about this.

I agree. DB knows that heads will roll and he is making sure it is Hoke's head that hits the pavement, not his. But, when you read what BH said yesterday, BH made sure he said something like "not to my knowledge" or "as far as I am aware". Then the article has DB saying "Unfortunately, there was inadequate communication between our physicians and medical staff and Coach Hoke was not provided the updated diagnosis before making a public statement on Monday," Brandon said. "This is another mistake that cannot occur again." That absolves BH of false statements. But, all of this shows how totally piss poor BH is running the program, and, to me, it still all falls on his head. Not to say that DB is clean, but as MgoBlue stated in an earlier post...Hoke is firmly planted under the bus!!

I guess the one saving grace is that all of this calamity has pretty much allowed everyone to not have to discuss getting our asses handed to us on Saturday!

Go Blue!!

man I just wrote a whole statement and it was erased. Oh well here we go again. I don't see how they can hold Hoke accountable on this sounds like several people dropped the ball, The trainer , the Physician . Hoke and others. Hell Hoke is having issues coaching how can he be expected to be a Dr too.

the artist formally known wrote:

man I just wrote a whole statement and it was erased. Oh well here we go again. I don't see how they can hold Hoke accountable on this sounds like several people dropped the ball, The trainer , the Physician . Hoke and others. Hell Hoke is having issues coaching how can he be expected to be a Dr too.

My only comment is "the sharks are smelling the blood".

Go Blue!!

wshoes wrote:

Anyone else having format issues with the forum this morning?

I've been having issues logging in. Or once I am logged in, remaining logged in.

Admin: Did you download a new operating system (iOS ? I did and my i-pad is also acting strange.

I started having problems after my post a little after 8:00, but I turned it off for maybe 15 minutes and it has worked fine since then.

Go Blue!!

It's Brandon trying to shut down the forum

dwoody wrote:

Admin: Did you download a new operating system (iOS ? I did and my i-pad is also acting strange.

No. I post during the day from work, which is a standard Windows operating system.

For a little while yesterday I chalked it up to my IT Department finally saying 'enough is enough' and blocked the site in some way.

I had issues first thing this morning but it has worked fine ever since.