The resignation of Michigan football staffer Shemy Schembechler following a public outcry highlighted the problem with the athletic department's leadership.
It’s a reasonable question to ask about an athletic department that has been more reactive than assertive under Manuel’s watch. Many of the controversies and unsavory episodes during his seven-year tenure have been self-inflicted, in part, because Manuel hasn’t addressed emerging problems before they became too obvious to ignore.
The botched onboarding of Schembechler is just the latest example in a string of public relations blunders. In 2019, Manuel admitted fault when he announced the removal of Rhonda Faehn as a gymnastics consultant days after she was hired. He called it the “wrong decision” following a massive public outcry concerning how Faehn had responded to reports of sexual abuse by convicted predator Larry Nassar at a previous job.
“Our student-athletes are our highest priority and I want to do everything in my power to support them fully,” he said in a statement then.Last spring, he received a disturbing report from the WilmerHale law firm after the university commissioned it to investigate the hockey program.
In fact, it was Harbaugh’s dalliances with the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers that kicked off a messy offseason for Michigan this past winter. As Harbaugh’s future in Ann Arbor was thrown into question, the football program dealt with one negative headline after another. Co-offensive coordinator Matt Weiss was fired in January after university police launched an investigation into “computer access crimes” at team headquarters.
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