Thanks to reader Biggie Munn for passing this along. I was in the Howell Arby’s a few months back and I noticed the Michigan-themed cups. It occurred to me (with a Spartan sitting next to me) that everyone might not appreciate that. I also noticed the last few cases of Coke Zero have had a Michigan football theme to them. A few Spartans aren’t happy. Via spartantailgate: When I buy a 12 pack of Coke Zero and open the box to get one of the pop cans, why do I see a certain college name and logo on it? Arby’s do you like losing business by being bias? Do those who are obsessed with this particular school in question call you and demand that you promote this school and their football program? Via Rivals: Is this a state wide campaign? I can’t imagine the National Headquarters in Florida promoting this. Would they be a part of promoting FSU or UF in northern Florida? I would think not. IMO this is NOT wise in the state of Michigan either. When discussing this with an Arby’s spokesperson she said the promotion was part of the agreement with U.M. for the Big Chill Hockey game in Ann Arbor. If this is true, I suggested that they consider adding the event and both Universities…
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"We got it done." Dave Brandon on WTKA (09-02 audio)
WTKA welcomed Dave Brandon with Handel’s ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ on air this morning. Brandon said he got a lot of nice emails last night and was clearly happy how things ended up. Here’s the audio, give it a sec to load: [display_podcast] A few notes: "I’ve run public companies for the last 22 years. I’ve gotten pretty good at managing expectations. A way to exceed expectations is to manage them [laughs]. We were in a situation where it was absolutely unclear what the ultimate decision was going to be and I wanted to make that known that it was unclear and the fan reaction was very helpful and very important." He joked that he had 2006 U-M graduates emailing him explaining the importance of the OSU-UM rivalry. "I knew that.." "I don’t know how you lay it out any better for Michigan." "We came out of this really, really well." On determining division rivals. Brandon said they "went back and forth" but in the end, decided that overall conference record wins division. Tie-breaker is head-to-head, division record, then BCS rankings. [Take: I don’t like using BCS rankings in tie-breakers. Why let that goofy-assed system determine what we do in our league?] On the Notre Dame rivalry. "We’re going to contract out several years, probably to 2014 or 2015.." There’s a "handshake…