There's A Legacy To Restore! Win... or Die Trying! Hype Video
September 2nd, 2021 at 12:45 PM ^
Dude, if it ain't for you, keep scrolling! Some people just love to try to steal others joy, as if there is something dastardly about optimism and excitement.
September 2nd, 2021 at 12:51 PM ^
I don't think it is stealing the joy of others, but more that some of us approach the season now with, to use a popular phrase lately, "an abundance of caution".
September 2nd, 2021 at 12:58 PM ^
Then instead of some snarky meme, keep scrolling! Many of the jaded 'fans' on this site seemingly ignore that 2020 was the weirdest year of our lives - all the way around. Putting it context, there's no need for an abundance of caution because before 2020 this coach put up seasons of 10, 10, 8, 10, and 9 wins. The ultimate goal hasn't been achieved, yet, but one batshit crazy year shouldn't kill one's enthusiasm.
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:55 PM ^
Oh yes I forgot covid only affected our team and no one else in the big 10 let alone in college football.
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:29 PM ^
No just like life, Covid affected different teams in different ways. Michigan was bad, Penn St was bad, Wisconsin was bad, Minnesota was bad. All lost more games in a truncated 2020 Big Ten season than they did in a full 2019 season. Hell, LSU fresh off of National Title lost more games in a 10 season (5) than they had lost in any 12 or 13 game season in more than a decade.
2 College basketball factories (Duke, Kentucky) had their worst seasons in a decade! So, if your determination is that 2020 is indicative of some sort of a new trend in the sports world, then context is not your friend.
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:55 PM ^
No one is saying it only affected one team. You have become one of the most insufferable frequent posters on this blog. You are being purposely obtuse because you are pouting that Harbaugh wasn't fired.
I thinks it's safe to assume that not all teams treated COVID the same as far as following practice guidelines, meetings, football activities etc. So yes, it affected all teams, but it didn't affect all teams equally. And I would be willing to bet, based on the university president, that Michigan was pretty strict about it all, while others, probably not so much.
Throw in that Michigan was extremely inexperienced last year when practices already weren't what they normally would be, they had no spring practice, had a coach who was MIA, had a ton of friction in the coaching staff, oh and dealt with a giant amount of injuries and two very important op-outs.
What happened in the MSU game should have never happen and if Harbaugh got fired for it, I would have been perfectly fine with that because a large part of me was ready for the program to move on. But he didn't get fired and he signed an extension and revamped his coaching staff and given a second chance to rebuild again. So, unless the wheels completely fall off this year, chances are, he's back next year too, even if the record is mediocre.
Long story short, I really don't want to see you bitch in every single thread for the next two years. If Michigan football sucks that much for you, find a hobby, understand that there is more to life. Or, you could always get behind the team! You don't have to be optimistic or believe Harbaugh is the right man for the job, but you could try being supportive.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:36 PM ^
Sorry I hurt your feelings Sarah! Everything Michigan deals with, whether coaches are MIA, etc., starts and ends with JMFH, but don't worry, I will be at the home games cheering on these kids as they deserve our support in spite of having a mediocre coach. He needs to show his players and fanbase something, which IMHO he hasn't to date in terms of how to lead a championship winning program.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:10 PM ^
Only two more days to share this over and over again Uncle Facebook.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:00 PM ^
No, you misunderstand this, I think. It is not merely 2020, but years of being good but not great for the most part, coming up short when it mattered, the OSU rivalry becoming woefully lopsided, etc...A plethora of items are contributing to the lack of overt enthusiasm in some - I am one of them really.
That said, it doesn't mean that many such people aren't excited for the season to start, but it probably means, in many cases, that we're expecting - at best - another year of what we are, which is Lloyd Carr Redux in a lot of respects. Really, for a lot of people, this journey through the existential side of fandom began at the 2006 OSU game if not even earlier.
September 2nd, 2021 at 7:08 PM ^
This exactly. Just as enthusiastic does not mean naive, so too does skeptical not mean cynical. Just because some of us are not that pumped up by the hype video does not mean that we don't support the team and are not excited about the season. It just means that we want to see the team show us not tell us.
But hey, if it pumps up the fan base and more importantly improves the morale of the team than I am all for it.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:15 PM ^
I find it interesting that the UM football social media produced this video, and they included the Braylon Edwards clip.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:24 PM ^
This was produced by me, not the UM football social media team.
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:19 PM ^
Bird - You may have misread his intention. You could read that as “Enough with the talking - let’s kick some ass!”.
That’s how I choose to interpret it anyway!
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:31 PM ^
Well, if the guy who posted it says that was his intention, then I'll offer a mea culpa.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:19 PM ^
It wasn't
September 2nd, 2021 at 4:58 PM ^
Lighten up Francis.
September 2nd, 2021 at 5:53 PM ^
I too have trouble with the preseason pessimist posters. I totally get why someone could be pessimistic about Michigan football. What I don’t understand is why if you were pessimistic, you would spend so much time in the preseason thinking about them.
When I become pessimistic about Michigan football and basketball, I tune out all the pregame stuff and come here to bitch afterwards. Pre-emptive bitching seems to me to just prolong the agony. For me the primary joy of the preseason is that there is still room for hope. When that hope gets extinguished for me, the preseason no longer brings me joy and I just ignore it.
To each his own I guess, but I just don’t understand making the choice to devote discretionary time to something that both appears to bring many here so little joy and that they have so little ability to change.
September 2nd, 2021 at 12:47 PM ^
I’m definitely pumped! Hopeful and optimistic. Saturday starts the journey back to being a power not just an also ran. Can’t wait!
September 2nd, 2021 at 4:02 PM ^
Unfortunately we play in the 2nd best conference in the country and our historical rival has risen to be one of the top 3 programs in the nation and is in our division -so we cant even make a conference championship game.
Unlike Notre Dame (a top ten'ish program like us), we can't sneak into the playoff every 3-4 years based on a meh, hodge podge schedule with 1 or 2 significant wins in the year. Sure, they get exposed as a fraud every time they make the playoff, but at least they get the excitement and buzz as if they are elite for a few weeks before Bama or Clemson blows their doors off in the playoff.
If/when the playoff expands to 8 teams, I hope and expect to see us in there every 2-3 years and hope that raises our profile enough to sustain our national brand. That along with figuring out NIL as well or better than most programs in the country (I'm not sold on UM brass pulling this off), could save our program from becoming Nebraska.
September 2nd, 2021 at 12:48 PM ^
“JuSt BeAt OhIo StAte.” I can already see the comments now. Let us be excited for another college football season. Awesome hype video from Maizen Brew.
September 2nd, 2021 at 12:52 PM ^
If you're a nerd with a slight lisp, Hype Man is not your thing.
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:09 PM ^
This voice-over work definitely missed the mark.
September 2nd, 2021 at 6:15 PM ^
I'd agree but I did like him ending with "win or die trying". That was probably afannamedozzy though who wrote that in.
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:13 PM ^
The guy is a professional voice over actor with almost unanimous 5* reviews on Fiverr. I thought he did a pretty solid job, honestly. Better than a lot I've looked at.
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:05 PM ^
Huh? Sounds like Anthony Broome of Maize N Brew, who did the video. Maybe Anthony is a pro voice-over guy, and if that's true, I'm in the wrong racket.
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:12 PM ^
5 stars on Fiverr is like 2 stars irl. It's made to get the absolute cheapest work done possible.
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:20 PM ^
Well, to be frank, I'm not looking to spend hundreds of dollars on a voice over for this kind of video. Just doesn't really make sense to do that.
If you have links to people you think are better, I'd be very happy to check them out!
I went through quite a few voice actors on Fiverr and this guy was one of the better ones. Sorry you weren't a fan.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:51 PM ^
I like your work, Stephen. I liked the video, too, just not the VO guy.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:53 PM ^
I appreciate it. I'm very hit or miss with VO talent, in general. One of the harder things for me to judge, honestly.
September 2nd, 2021 at 6:13 PM ^
Good video, VO guy kind of sounds like a muppet.
September 2nd, 2021 at 11:57 PM ^
<raises hand> Count me as one guy that didn't know "VO" was short for voice over. I had no idea it was a thing.
September 2nd, 2021 at 6:17 PM ^
He doesn't have a bad voice, I just felt it didn't really work here too well. Had to yell a bit too forcefully I guess. How dare you not get a Hollywood star!
September 3rd, 2021 at 1:39 AM ^
I thought it was pretty good tbh. People are comparing this to the James Earl Jones voice over on the Big House hype video as their measuring stick which is not realistic at all..
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:26 PM ^
Wow, You guys can be relentless. Why so harsh? I thought he got his point across.
September 2nd, 2021 at 12:56 PM ^
LFG!
This is the time to get hyped up. If they fall flat Saturday this board will burn, but today Lets F**king Go!
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:03 PM ^
Damn right! Hope should spring eternal this time of year! We're entering a new season, some new players, some new coaches, a new energy. This shit isn't life or death, it's basically entertainment, and I don't prepare to be entertained by thinking the movie, the game, the concert, the play, etc... is going to be bad. That's part of the joy of entertainment... optimistic anticipation!
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:01 PM ^
"In the weight room, in the heat..."
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:07 PM ^
makes me chortle every time.
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^
Thank you. The maizenbrew one didn't do it for me, but this video speaks directly to my B1G soul.
September 2nd, 2021 at 3:19 PM ^
This goes on for 10 minutes?
September 2nd, 2021 at 5:06 PM ^
I know, right? What am I supposed to do with the rest of my day?
September 2nd, 2021 at 7:35 PM ^
I find it strangely mesmerizing.
September 2nd, 2021 at 8:54 PM ^
I watched it way too much (about 45 seconds). Annoyed the hell out of my wife with it too!
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:29 PM ^
Damn. Got goosebumps from that.
I know this season isn't going to be good, but I'm ready to hurt again.
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:06 PM ^
Uhh, that's the spirit... I guess. LOL
I don't know how much hurting you'll be doing this year. I re-watched virtually EVERY game from the 2019 season, basically just the offensive plays. I had been very anti-Gattis. However, once I re-watched, I saw that Gattis' playcalling, and play design weren't as bad as I had remembered. Those first few games were rough... rough! He was a first time playcaller and it showed! Shea, and the offenses turnover issues were problematic, but Gattis was bad, too.
Then, he began to hit his stride with some creative playcalls, and less predictability. He still got stuck in a rut, occasionally running the same play too many times, but after the Iowa game, he had Shea and the offense kind of rolling. If McNamara is better than Shea, better field vision, better pocket feel, then I think this offense can explode, despite the occasional brain fart by Gattis. I think we're going to score well this year, and the defense has enough talent to keep the leads.
September 2nd, 2021 at 1:51 PM ^
Promised I wouldn't fall for the hype as I've done for over 4 decades. But not gonna lie, I enjoyed the video. Thanks for posting!
September 2nd, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^
You're welcome! 4 decades?! You've got like 30 good seasons where the hype was justified!
Go Blue!