The poop is about to the hit the fan at the “Michigan Sports Hall Of Fame”.
Most people don’t even know the Michigan Hall of Fame is still around!
What do they do? Who is in it? Where is it?
The Michigan Hall Of Fame reportedly has been run into the ground like an old car as taken to task by Frank Beckman on the radio today and other places too.
Finally someone speaks out!
There have been rumblings and tales for years about the management and the money?
It is always about the money!
After hosting golf tournaments (some allegedly not paid for), dinners, and other events, the Hall says they are “broke”.
Players not being paid the amounts that they were told they would receive for appearances and in some cases no payment at all.
There has been a lack of leadership for many years with the Hall, it was almost operated as a Cabal, in secret.
No votes for anything but for a few chosen people, and they were chosen carefully, anyone who wanted to help was given reason after reason not to get involved.
The Hall now wants to sell all of the plaques of the players inducted. What? Yup, they want to sell all of the plaques that salute and honor the inductees to raise money for the Hall?
Ya know, if they were going to sell the plaques and give the money to cancer or children’s issues I am all for it, but to sell the plaques and tell people they don’t have any place to store the plaques is really playing everyone for a dumb-dumb.
The Hall quite possibly may have been run worse than GM. This abuse has been going on for years, including not paying the hosting Country Clubs for charity golf tournaments, cash money being unaccounted, dinners not being paid and lots of other things and too many items to mention in this piece. All this is allegedly of course.
If the new Manager of the Michigan Sports Hall Of Fame really wants to get it going again as something solid and viable there are plenty of inductees and others who would assist if they were asked. It never had to get to this almost immediate disaster.
Oh yea, what about a GM bankruptcy, would that work for the Hall?
The Hall needs stimulus in the form of former inductees coming together and getting rid of the old and bringing in someone who can manage to get what the Hall has always needed, a permanent home.
With the current real estate market in Michigan there has to be someplace that someone could offer up to do the right thing.
The Michigan Hall Of Fame should be in a place of respect, not in a garage or somewhere in boxes that could disappear, conveniently?
