on Thursday dug in his heels and refused to do Will Barton Jersey the two things thousands of angry Michigan football fans are demanding.No, he will no resign as athletic director. No, he .With the Wolverines program battered and , Brandon made his case to the media.MORE: | | "That's very hurtful," Brandon told the Michigan Daily on Thursday. "Anybody who thinks that they want groups to gather with the topic being criticism and sometimes very personal attacks on the work and the job. It's hurtful. It's hurtful to me, it's hurtful to my family."In his first public comments since quarterback was injured last week, Brandon called his department's me Carmelo Anthony Jersey s "an unfortunate mistake in communication."Hoke, Brandon said, didn't know that Morris was concu sed until after his Monday news conference began. Neither coach nor AD discu sed the Morris injury from after the game until reporters made Hoke aware of the concu sion diagnosis about midday Monday.Neither was Brandon aware of Morris, the athletic Thomas Welsh Jersey director admitted."It was a very unfortunate mistake in communication that we've apologized for, and it's not going to happen again," Brandon said, via . "Disarray is your word. Our communication problem that I was most focused on was the one that dealt specifically with the health and welfare of our student-athlete."I understand everybody craves information, everybody wants information and everybody's entitled to information. But my focus Allen Iverson Jersey was on the health and well-being of our student-athlete. And if we had a breach in communication that could have potentially jeopardized the health and welfare of a student-athlete, that's Malik Beasley Jersey what I was focused on."As for Hoke's performance through five games, Brandon said he would not make a decision until after the season. Brandon hired Hoke in January 2011.Morris will not play this week's game at Rutgers. will be the Wolverines' starting quarterback.The Wolverines are 2-3, with lo ses at Notre Dame and at home to Utah and Minnesota.