Wolverine Weekend: Reactions from Seattle After the NCAA Meeting

Michigan has finished it's meeting with the NCAA in Seattle and we have some quotes and reactions from the 7 1/2 hour meeting that started at 8:30 and ended at 4:00 local time. 

In attendance from Michigan included: Coach Rodriguez, AD David Brandon, Michigan President Mary Sue Colman and a host of lawyers and other staff. 

David Brandon ordered Domino's Pizza for the media that was waiting outside the hotel ballroom where the meeting was taking place.  Why was the meeting in Seattle? Your guess is a good as mine. 

Here are the quotes from the meeting:

"Certainly glad this part of the process is over," Michigan's football coach said in his only comment Saturday afternoon after a 7 1/2-hour hearing before the NCAA committee on infractions.
"We had a very fair and thorough hearing and we feel good about the fact we were given that opportunity," Brandon said. "And the process will continue and under the rules based on the process as it's been laid out we're going to be very quiet. We're going to go back, we're going to prepare for a great season, we're going to get focused on football and let the NCAA do their work."

"When you have never done something before you never know what it's going to be like. We were very well prepared, our representatives, our internal counsel, our legal counsel we brought in, our specialists, everybody did a great job preparing us for what took place in there," Brandon said. "We went in there with a lot of confidence and a clear understanding of what our objectives were and as I said we got a very fair and open hearing."

"It's not an ambush thing at all, it's not really the nature of the process," Brandon said. "It was very collegial and professional and everybody was given a handful of opportunity to express their views, as it should be."

Official Statement from David Brandon:

"We feel that the committee gave us a full and fair hearing today.

"Our statements today were similar to those we provided the NCAA earlier this summer: We own the mistakes we have made, we fixed some process and communication problems that caused them, and we’re keeping a close eye on this so it doesn’t happen again.

"I’m proud of the extra effort everyone has been putting into compliance these past several months. Rich and his staff – in coordination with the compliance group – have been working together to keep us on the right track.

"We will await the committee’s decision and we will not speculate about the outcome – we must let the process play out. We won’t comment further on this matter until after we receive the committee’s decision.

"We’re going to get back to Michigan now for the start of what we expect will be a great football season."