today's college sports links: Dave Brandon not setting quota for Rich Rodriguez; Wisconsin, Iowa to be in opposing Big Ten divisions and more

Posted on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 : 7:14 a.m.

Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon isn't setting a victory quota for football coach Rich Rodriguez to meet.

In an interview with radio analyst Jim Brandstatter at a special meeting of the Detroit Economic Club, as reported by the Detroit Free Press, Brandon touched on the subject.

"This crap about what's the record got to be?," said Brandon. "It reduces those decisions to something so simplistic, it's almost insulting."

He later explained, "You get a variety of inputs to measure the health of that program and the leadership that program is receiving and, based on a variety of inputs, you make decisions. That's what I do and anybody in my job does. But it isn't this, 'If you're 7-5 ... .' That's nonsense."

In this photo provided by the the Benton County Correctional Facility shows Tyler Patrick Thomas of Kalispell, Mont. Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. Thomas an Oregon State University offensive lineman has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger's home and had to use stun guns to take him into custody. (AP Photo/The Benton County Correctional Facility)

MORE COLLEGE FOOTBALL