UM: Dave Brandon

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Writing in the Detroit News, columnist Daniel Howes discusses the implications of Dave Brandon, Domino’s Pizza CEO, taking the job as UM athletic director: “Because the big Blue machine’s gain is a huge loss for Michigan’s business community, bracingly underendowed as it is with leaders able to articulate clearly what’s ailing the state economy, to galvanize CEOs around the jobs-and-investment cause and then to help develop a comprehensive plan to address chronic problems. Brandon did all three, meaning he made as many new enemies as he won admirers who urged him, among other things, to seek the Republican nomination to succeed Gov. Jennifer Granholm. But Ann Arbor called, giving new meaning to the term ‘lateral move.’” [Source]