ANN ARBOR -- Michigan president Mark Schlissel will hold a 1:30 p.m. news conference Friday afternoon, and Dave Brandon will reportedly be the topic.

A Michigan spokesman told MLive that Schlissell will in fact hold a news conference Friday, but would not discuss the nature of the event itself.

ESPN's Brett McMurphy reports, though, that Brandon -- Michigan's athletic director -- will resign from his position at the school.

Brandon has been under fire for more than a month now after the athletic department's public relations meltdown in the aftermath of the Shane Morris injury situation, as well as public outcry over ticket prices, poor football performance and an overall "corporate" feel within the department.

Earlier this month at a Board of Regents meeting in Flint, Schlissel expressed public disappointment over the way Brandon and his department handled the Morris situation, and said there were a number of other issues he needed to look into before making any decision on where to go from here.

Michigan Regent Mark Bernstein called the Morris incident a "spark in a very, very dry forest," explaining that Brandon's department has lost goodwill with the public after several questionable incidents in recent months and years.

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