UM: Athletics

On the Point of the Game blog, Patrick Dobel writes about UM’s decision to hire Domino’s Pizza CEO David Brandon as its new athletic director: “At most universities the academic hue (leaving aside Business and Engineering schools) leans liberal and open, as one would expect for institutions dedicated to experimentation and expanding the bounds of knowledge. Brandon’s hard right political views and putative political ambitions simply highlight this divide, after all this is the school where Bo Schlembechler coached and presided, but this cultural divide represents one more of the many divides across this shot gun wedding of academics and athletics. I must admit I’m flummoxed by having a supporter of teaching creationism as a senior administrator at a major academic bastion like Michigan.” [Source]