U-M students call for AD Dave Brandon's job at rally

[amandabeech]

6. I'm a U-M alum, and I'm not happy with the situation at all.

The new president, who is very academically minded, really must get involved in this situation, because the sports culture can be extreme, and seems to be increasingly diverging from the academic culture.

Morris, the quarterback, clearly should have been taken out of the game no matter what he himself wanted. If the coach did not see what happened, surely someone, like the offensive coordinator should have told him. The worst thing is that no one in the athletic department seems to be taking responsibility.

It is all the more galling that the U-M medical sciences program has been a leader in developing protocols for dealing with head injuries in athletics, and it looks like the football team is giving only lip service to the standards set by the medical program.

The real failure is that the AD Brandon may stay only because Michigan's $300,000,000 benefactor Ross likes the guy.

It's sickening to this old grad.