Wolverine Wednesday: What We Learned From the Michigan Investigation

Remember when I mentioned if you had a day to read it, you should check out the Michigan information dump yesterday on the investigation?  Well, Brian from mgoblog , the gold standard in Michigan Blogs, did.  His findings were amazing. 

To summarize them:

• Michigan's tracking process has been broken for a long time.  Even before Rich Rodriguez got hired.
• There were clearly two athletic department personnel responsible for the bottleneck.   They were both clearly asleep at the wheel.
• The Michigan compliance department was actually doing it's job, they just were using a feather instead of a hammer when requesting lost forms.
• Rich Rodriguez was not briefed on the process or lack of documents until very late in the process.
• The two staffers that were the bottle neck and clearly asleep at the wheel, when asked why they didn't alert RR about the forms, were basically afraid to because they thought RR would think negatively about them. 

Guess what!  Now the whole world things negatively about you!  I would imagine these two staffers would be long for the road under David Brandon.  Good luck delivering pizza's boys!

Take aways:

1. Problems were there before RR even started.
2. Clearly two guys not doing their job
3. The Michigan compliance office had predicted a problem before it surfaced and the only thing they did wrong was to not push the "panic" button or escalate earlier.
4.  This investigation and penalty should not fall on Rich Rodriguez's shoulders alone it was clearly a huge break in the process.    With that said, everything falls on the leader and RR is the leader of the Football Program.
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• Game Times for UConn and Umass have been annouced.  UConn is at 3:30 on ABC and UMass is BTN at 12:00. 

• Want to read a good article on how much the Freep report missed the mark?  Read this one .  BTW: add the guys that didn't research that story to the folks that should be fired!