Michigan AD David Brandon believes it’s wrong to point fingers at former Michigan football head coach Rich Rodriguez for the rift that was caused between the Michigan family. This is according to Angelique S. Chengelis of the Detroit News.
“To point the finger at Rich Rodriguez would just be wrong as it relates to that,” Brandon said. “You could do a book on all the factions that split off, the camps — the (Jim) Harbaugh camp, the (Les) Miles camp, the (Lloyd) Carr camp, the (Rich) Rodriguez camp, there was just all kinds of splintering. And then, hey, you start losing, and now everything gets jumpstarted in terms of peoples’ emotions and frustrations and then it boils, so it was a lot of different factors. It was no one individual or one incident. It was a combination.
“It was an unpleasant chapter and hopefully we’re writing a new chapter.”
Brandon however is pleased with the way current Michigan head coach Brady Hoke is reaching out to former players and mending those broken relationships.
“There’s no great way to measure (the mending), but there’s a lot of good ways to measure it,” Brandon said. “When we had the spring football game and to have 375 football players come back — that’s historic … and Brady invited them. He said we’re going to have a team meeting Friday night for a chance to get reconnected. Guys traveled in from all over the country. It was really remarkable. That was a very encouraging thing to see.”
