WTKA Roundtable 5/25/2023: Get an MBA and Walk Around Looking Cool

Things Discussed:

• Shemy: They had two months to do a cursory vetting. Harbaugh was trying to do a thing for Bo.
• Problem in coach culture that they feel the need to find everybody a job.
• Problem in Michigan's athletic department that they don't have enough attention to detail.
• The lesson isn't just check what you say in public; check some of these ideas when they're on their way into your head.
• NOTE: I erased a short bit where the panel got the Schembechler boys mixed up; Matt is the one who made dubious claims re: Anderson.
• To be clear, it was hundreds of likes of racist ideas, not just one tweet (though the one tweet was very bad), and once they were public it would have been a major issue for Michigan, which is in the PR business.
• In the break Brian explains how Twitter works to Craig.
• The Big Ten's contract situation: How did Kevin Warren screw this up so badly? Guy sold the rights to a game he didn't own, and promised night games in November—what was his job other than to know these things?
• OSU is going to host a night game vs MSU on November 11 (Michigan had the IU game just as late in the year).
• MSU is going to move their last home game, vs Penn State, to Ford Field on Friday night—MSU season ticket holders must be pissed? Seth: MSU's last home game is usually empty and miserable anyways.
• November night game solution: USC and UCLA can play them at home.
• And they're paying a search firm to understand if they need to pay him a bonus for a contract he didn't complete when his contract didn't say he gets one, why, because Delany got one? Brian: Executive culture is messed up—these guys are all replacement level.
• What's the fallout? Sam/Brian think Michigan didn't have any concessions; Seth thinks MSU horse-traded their Senior Day at Ford Field and a night game at OSU in return for an easier schedule when Michigan is going to get USC. We figured that would happen anyways.