Comments on: Bill Martin Allegedly Assaults Two DPS Staffers

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:40:52 +0000

Martin’s thug like conduct is a symptom of a bigger problem. He appears to be arrogant and incompetent. He will finish his career next year and that is unfortunate, because it should have been over two years ago for how he mis-handled the Les Miles negotiation and then rushed the Rodriguez decision. It appears that he has acted like an arrogant thug for a while and his legacy is the program itself. That legacy speaks volumes. Where has Coleman been in all this? Is she so spineless as to let this behavior and incompetence go on? Unfortunately universities are political cultures not performance cultures. All the PC people will not let her fail.

There is a great article in the Detroit News today about the next AD and what it means to Coleman.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:07:59 +0000

Martin DID assault them. An assault can be expressed as any unwanted touching upon another. He did more than touch. he pushed. No matter how hard or lightly he DID push. Just another high paid chump that things he is better than everyone else.

By: EastCoastBlue

EastCoastBlue — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:24:07 +0000

I think the use of “assault” is a little much. Should he have made contact with either of them? No. Using the word assault conjures up images of Martin using a lead pipe to gain access to the room. Add it to the list of crap journalism.

By: Ace Anbender

Ace Anbender — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:56 +0000

How, exactly, does them being students change anything? Here’s the headline from the Michigan Daily: “AD Bill Martin allegedly assaulted two DPS staffers at Notre Dame and Delaware State games.”

I’m not trying to “hype-speak” anything. At worst, I used “officers” where I should’ve used “staffers”. My bad.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:13:05 +0000

the article says they were both students. one for EMU and one for umich so to say they were DPS officers and that they were assaulted is hype-speak.