Michigan Monday: For David Brandon Faliure is an Option

David Brandon's former company Domino's Pizza current tag line is "Failure is an option".   They are using that tag line to introduce their new chicken line and remind everyone they have had other failures in the past.    That really seems to sum up David's latest comments to a Sports and Business lunch at Ford Field: (freep link)

“We all think of every home Michigan football game like a miniature Super Bowl. We’ve got to have enough going on that people want to be there to listen to it. We know who our competitor is: your 60-inch, high-definition, soon-to-be-3-D television set that you will choose instead of my $65 ticket. And we work really hard at that.”

“When Fielding Yost designed Michigan Stadium, he just wasn’t thinking about the Internet and bandwidth,” Brandon said. “We know that what our customers want is the ability to be able to sit there and be able to surf the web and call up replays and do all of the things they can do in their armchair at home. But when you’ve got 112,000 people sitting shoulder to shoulder and they all want to go online at the same time and you’ve got a stadium that’s fundamentally underground and we don’t have any second decks or third decks where we can put in the wiring and the antennas to get the kind of bandwidth we need, it’s the biggest challenge we have.” (bold mine)

What?

David, I could be wrong but Michigan fans what a competitive football team on the field and match-ups that they can get excited about.  Not games in Dallas or anywhere else you are thinking about.   The Big House is not Dallas Stadium and you're not Jerry Jones.   Don't try to sell us chicken when your main product Pizza is bad.   Fix the product on the field and the people will come.  

I have never stepped in Michigan Stadium hoping my phone would show replays, I wanted to see Desmond catch TD passes, Woodson shut down a WR and Mike Hart run the ball.   It's fine the Big House is hosting hockey games and soccer matches, but the main product is broken and needs to be fixed. 

I can't remember ever having a home schedule that didn't have ND, MSU or OSU on it.  ND and OSU is not your fault but letting the Big Ten give MSU back to back home game is.   You have sold 2 home games to Dallas and now you have let the Big Ten take MSU away this year.   What are you doing to Michigan fans?

How can you be surprised that renewal of season tickets are down, staff and facility tickets are down and students aren't interested?   David your pizza is bad and we don't want your chicken!

• As expected Jon Horford took his talents to Florida.  He went from an Elite 8 team to a Final 4 team.  Still can't believe he left with all the playing time he was looking at.

• During an NBA game this weekend it was mentioned that Serge Ibaka's brother might be getting an offer from U of M.  His name Igor and he is 6'9 and 225 pounds and plays for a junior college.  I would assume that he would be a candidate for the 2015 class.  

• We should know Aubrey Dawkins decision this week.  Dayton was his last visit.

• 4 star TE Chris Clark who de-committed from UNC a couple weeks ago who since has visited Ann Arbor and C-Bus in the past couple weeks,  reportedly has Michigan as his leader right now.