The sights and sounds of construction crews and concrete being moved around Michigan's South Campus aren't likely to subside soon.
University of Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon has heard the criticism regarding his league's plan to include the bowls in its college football playoff model. But he's not backing down. In fact, he's taking it a step further. Brandon has cited cold weather as a principal reason he doesn't favor ...
It's been a rather intense offseason for John Beilein and the Michigan basketball program. Trey Burke almost left, three players opted to transfer and two more recruits have joined the ranks. Intense, no doubt. But strange? No, not really. "I think it's more like the way the business is right ...
"You may lose a game early in the season because you played a great football team, but I don't know that should be such a big penalty versus a team that schedules high schools in September to run up their record," Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said.
CHICAGO -- More alternate jerseys could be on the way for the Michigan football team. Athletic director Dave Brandon said he continues to support varying the team's look, and hopes to add more wrinkles in coming years. "For football last year, we probably did a little bit more than we’ll ...
The Big Ten is sure to encounter pushback from fans, media and other conferences over its preference to include the bowls in any football playoff. But there's at least one prominent group who favors it: The guys who will play the games.
The rematch is set. Web-savvy athletic directors Dave Brandon and Mark Hollis appear to have worked out the date for their second head-to-head golf match via Twitter.
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon has remained one of the most vocal opponents to a college football playoff, even as momentum built for such a system in the past year. He called the notion of a playoff "ridiculous" in a WolverineNation story earlier this year, saying "I don't care what ...
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon's more aggressive drug testing policy was profiled recently in an "ESPN The Magazine" feature focused on excessive marijuana use in college athletics. After taking over as athletic director in 2010, Brandon pushed for more frequent testing within the department, and stiffer penalties for those who ...
The Michigan football team still intends to play a previously contracted true road game at Connecticut in 2013. In front of a whopping 40,000 people. Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon told reporters Monday that the school has every intention of playing the Huskies at Rentschler Field, which has a capacity ...
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said Monday that the department's goal is to figure out a way to take the band to Texas for the football team's 2012 season opener against Alabama in the "Cowboys Classic."
Hundreds of fans, former Michigan athletes and onlookers sent out tweets in support of the marching band, and firmly against the athletic department's decision to leave them home when the Wolverines open their football season against Alabama in September.
At a time when studies suggest marijuana use is on the rise among NCAA athletes, the University of Michigan has hardened its stance against drug use since Dave Brandon was hired as its athletic director in 2010.
Update: Mark Hollis says he regrets tweet to Trey Burke Hours after Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis offered up some Twitter advice to Michigan basketball point guard Trey Burke, Dave Brandon weighed in. The Michigan athletic director described Hollis' action as inappropriate, but not totally harmful.
Michigan and Michigan State are at it again. This time in the athletic director's office. Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon and his Michigan State counterpart, Mark Hollis, were both nominated for the 2012 Sports Business Awards Athletic Director of the Year award on Monday.
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