SIAP: Must read Dave Brandon email responses to scum fan

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:I almost don't believe that those are actually Brandon. I mean, those emails are grade A absolutely, completely stupid on every level. Even though he's incompetent, you just don't rise that high (from CEO of a major company) while being that dumb. Maybe it is him, I don't know. But man, those are some really dumb things to say and also put into writing.

I have been informed that Michigan erases Brandon's email regularly to prevent responsive requests by a person who worked in the athletic department for three years.

A FOIA request for an email sent or received by Dave Brandon would end up going to his secretary. If the date of the email is given, his secretary would not even need to look to see if the email exists. All of Dave Brandon's emails are manually deleted from his university email once they are about one month old. They have been since he started. Since it is done manually, sometimes it's actually a little later, sometimes it is a little sooner, especially if the email is something that may be FOIAed.

But it was explained to me that the whole point is to avoid responding to a FOIA request (like this one). I've been following this email/FOIA issue, and after I spoke with one of my friends in the athletic department, we agreed that we would be shocked if that email still existed in his email, even if it did exist at one time.

This is why a specific request filed by an MGoBlog member turned up nothing. I have two FOIAs in with the department currently, one for six days of mail to and from two email addresses, the other for DaveBrandonAD@umich.edu and dabran@umich.edu dating back to January 1st of 2013. The department wants to charge me $385 for the first request and $1215 for the second—if those are at all proportional than there's approximately three weeks of email sitting there.

LoneWolfSparty wrote:Did you all see Brandon's response to this?

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2014/10/dave_brandon_calls_purported_e.html

Here is the part I laughed about:

"I'm here to get an award tonight, so I appreciate you showing up, but that's not why I'm here," added Brandon

That's the same attitude that came across in the emails.

NigelUno wrote:

He should be a mod on a message board.

NigelUno wrote:

He should be a mod on a message board.