Today is a day that Warde Manuel has imagined for a long time, and one that many folks inside the Michigan athletic department saw coming.
When Manuel, a Michigan graduate, was working in the athletic department in the early 2000s he and athletic director Bill Martin spoke often about his desire to be an athletic director and what he needed to do to get there. Manuel signed on for that job at Michigan earlier this week and was formally introduced Friday.
“We would talk about it a lot,” Martin said. “I think we all felt that Warde would eventually get there.