How to get our mojo back
I, too, thought playing App State again was a horrible idea, but now I understand. Dave Brandon is a genius. Not just a knows-how-to-make-a-billion-dollars genius, but a figured-out-the-secret-of-the-universe genius. The problem with Michigan Football is that, when The Horror occurred, we lost our mojo (That’s mojo, not MoJo, the dorm). We were transported into an alternate reality where things like Toledo and UMass and Akron and the BWWbowl happen. The universe is trying hard to right itself, as evidenced by things like the Capital One Bowl (Urbz/Tebow), UTL, the Sugar Bowl and last year’s ohio game, but it can’t. The only way to reset the universe is to go back to the beginning. We have to beat App State. Only then can we get our mojo back.
April 24th, 2014 at 10:41 AM ^
you can get one that rates high on the Couric scale. Still trying to break the world record.
April 24th, 2014 at 10:46 PM ^
because of being on a flight. Now I realize, all this time I have been living an episode of LOST. Consider: The Dharma Initiative did originate in Ann Arbor....
April 24th, 2014 at 10:31 AM ^
April 24th, 2014 at 10:33 AM ^
April 24th, 2014 at 10:57 AM ^
going after the borderline chubby and insecure ones, once you get a little swag its back to the dime pieces!
*Been married for 3 years...
April 24th, 2014 at 11:35 AM ^
April 24th, 2014 at 12:10 PM ^
So ummmmmm sorry I didn't save my virginity for her. Your college years must have been rough...
Yes, yes, your lack of pre-marital celibacy in general terms was what I was referring to. Not your claim to take advantage of chubby and insecure women in order to address your own insecurity. I'm just a member of the no-fun police jealous of how you were crushin' it with the ladies, brah.
Also: dime pieces? (Twice!) How fucking old are you? Are you an un-frozen caveman frat boy from 2001 or something?
April 25th, 2014 at 12:47 PM ^
you didn't get any pussy then.... got it
Haters gonna hate.
Haha, whoever downvoted didn't get pussy either? Man this sitte is filled with abunch of no pussy getting non athletes. Haters gonna Hate.
April 24th, 2014 at 11:21 AM ^
April 24th, 2014 at 11:24 AM ^
Win some damn football games. Stop being OSU's bitch every year. Those would be a start.
April 24th, 2014 at 11:25 AM ^
on the road with Novak and company. To get our Mojo back, we need to go to OSU and beat them. That is the only way.
April 24th, 2014 at 11:41 AM ^
I can't remember the last time we won in c bus....... I think it was when Henson led the boys to victory.
April 24th, 2014 at 12:01 PM ^
Backdoor Cat?
April 24th, 2014 at 12:03 PM ^
April 24th, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
I have a semi-serious question that is related to the thread topic so here goes. IF we should somehow find a way to lose the Ap State game again would that spell doom for literally everybody on the coaching staff PLUS Brandon? Brandon scheduled the damn thing and should we somehow lose (i know...i know....not terribly possible) would it mean he goes out too? Cause I cant even begin to imagine what this place, much less the wider Michigan football universe, would be like if we were made the laughing stock of the nation a second time.
April 24th, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
I dont think its as big of a deal for a major D1 program to lose to the likes of App State anymore. Thanks, in part, to us. But also thanks to VT and a few others. The problem I think you are getting at is that it will be seen as a trend for Michigan. Big programs will lose to middling teams every now and then. But I think we will be the first big program to do so twice (three times now?) in recent history. It will be an enormous huge blow for Michigan. This issue I see is that it will be so big that firing Brandon, Hoke, and the rest will likely not repair it. Yes, they would, and should, lose their jobs, but the sad thing is that the mental model will have been set in the national mind and therefore in the minds of recruits, and the program would not likely recover for many years.
April 24th, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
April 24th, 2014 at 12:48 PM ^
This won't happen.
April 24th, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
Did Vizzini tell you to go back to the beginning? Because if he did I buy it....otherwise Db is still the idiot I took him for. I need Vizzini to clear this up for me, until then...I WILL NOT BE MOVED!
I would start by going back to around 8:00 this morning and advising the poor OP not to even bother starting this thread because of how miserable this and every other Michigan fan board has become over the last 8 months (GBW, 247, MaizeNBrew, etc).
After that issue was solved, I'd travel back to the last time there was a really big lottery jackpot that didn't pay off, find out what the numbers were, go back in time to the day before that and play those numbers.
Once that happened and I became a filthy rich millionaire, I would immediately stop giving a shit about every awful doomsday scenario for Michigan football that people keep coming up with during the offseason. Instead I would buy a lifetime's supply of Cheetos just because i could. I would then stress over what to do with a lifetime's supply of Cheetos, and perhaps post the occasional OT rant on this site about my Cheetos problems.
Mmmmmm......Cheetos.
It started with the game of the century in 2006. If we win that we may be like an LSU in contemporary football.
Although I'd say it's got more to do with Bo's death than any single game. Seems like the air has been out of the program ever since then and everybody's been grasping for something and coming up short.
I think this guy is correct.
MICH must go back and beat App State to get to the beginning. Makes sense. Beat the heck out of them. Then we can move forward.
I also feel this O-Line should be fine. It is not that hard to coach O-Line. With the changes they will get it right this year and everyone is older. It's blocking people, not rocket science! This line will be L-R these heights: 6'6 6'5 6'6 6'5 6'6 That is large and they should be able to get IT DONE! Also, Lewan was the BIGGEST EXCUSE MAKER I have ever seen. And he DID NOT block Clowney whatever he says! Don't need him.
I like our chances with NUSS in there and the TEAM!
GO BLUE!
The last time I remember Michigan football having mojo was the morning of the Ohio State game in 2004, thinking we were going to kick their asses in Columbus. Got inexplicably killed, missed a great chance to rebound in the Rose Bowl vs Texas, and that was all she wrote. Hard to have swagger when your biggest rival is owning you.
Some will say we had mojo in 2006. I agree it felt that way at the time, but it was all a mirage. Brian started this blog in December 2004. Maybe it's his fault?
/s
that was the start of the downfall for me as well. Its been a long 10 years since.
Our program was in deep doo-doo when LC retired, but many MI fans weren't even aware of this. I saw so damn many quotes of the type, "All RR had to do was remodel the bathroom instead of the entire house," and metaphors of that type to realize the majority of the fan base had no idea how far we had sunk. Hell, they forgot one of the best performances LC ever put on was in his last game when he went with something that would never happen at Michigan, "a spread offense." Had it not been for uncharacteristic Mike Hart fumbles the slaughter of Meyer would have been even greater. Yet they still expected us to play better than say we did against Appy St., and were incensed with a loss to Toledo, even though our starting game qb was a walk on that could throw the ball about twenty yards and we had one returning starter on the entire unit. Couple that with the fact, we were shy an entire recruiting class and had one half of a defense, numbering roughly 22-23 players when the norm is 44-45, and one gains a clearer picture of how deep the hole was. Yet fans were bitching about his recruits when his main focus was on getting numbers up where they belonged and then hoping for enough time to teach them the damn game. Did he have to be fired? The answer is yes because of where he was. Most other places the answer would have been no. Place him in a place where he can relax a bit, say like where he is now and you have a coach that knocked off three top 25 teams last season, his third, one of them among the top ten. Put him in a place similar to where Hoke is now, with people starting threads about his life expectancy as head coach, etc., and pretty soon you get a coach coaching as tight as the players are playing. They are so damn intent on getting everything perfect, they forget that simply doesn't happen and you would be neither playing at UM or coaching there if you hadn't had a measure of success by proving you know what to do between the white lines. ND fans know the feeling as do their lengthy coach of ex head coaches. I didn't like the hire when it happened, but when it did, it was our duty as fans to stand behind the man until he either retired or was let go. Too many people forget the 50s and 60s when we put 60,000 fans in the seats and only that many because it was the only game in town. Yet we rode out that twenty year period of mediocrity by not behaving as what Yost called "street urchins" and waited, just like every other program in the nation, including Alabama's and LSU's-coincidentally by the same-until the savior arrived. Hell for those of you that believe FSU, Miama, Fl, etc., are traditional powers, the majority of the people I watch the games with still refer to them as "Johnnys come lately." Hell, it wasn't until the decade you were born before they made a name for themselves and history didn't start the day you were born. ^In essence, I think the mojo might return to the team once it returns to the fans.
Not reading that...