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U-M President Mark Schlissel's firing in dinner-time email was years in the making

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A few weeks into Mark Schlissel's tenure as University of Michigan president, a crowd gathered in front of his on-campus house, chanting, waving signs and demanding the new president do something about the school athletic director.

Upset about a litany of issues from the handling of a quarterback's concussion to a marketing promotion offering football tickets for the purchase of Diet Coke, the crowd agitated for the firing of Dave Brandon.