My final diary

Best of luck on and off the field! Your knowledge will be missed, no need to be so humble.

thanks for your many insightful posts over the years. i learned a lot more about football and will miss your contributions.

It seems far too often lately those without any true knowledge of the game get more attention than guys like you and steve sharik.

I for one am hoping you get time to post again soon enough.

I'll miss your musk. When this is all sorted out, I think we should get an apartment together.

You've got your priorities straight.

Even though I did incur your wrath at one point, I quickly found out that you are a person with valuable knowledge. I appreciated and will miss your posting. I can understand though. I have a couple kids of my own and wouldn't want to have the experience of being a fan ruined by a bunch of idiots. Take care.

i love you

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

I always love your writing gave me a better understanding of a game I love.

As someone who never saw the field after junior high school. I thought your infomation was awesome, and I began to watch the game in a better way.

Realize not all people want to become more knowlegeable, they would rather sit and watch in the dark and complain about things they don't understand rather than try to understand them.

Thanks Again

Thanks for all your contributions! Good luck to you and your team.

Much respect for you sir. As an aspiring future football coach, someone who is going into the teaching field to help supplement his crazy obsession with this game by trying to become ever more involved, I was glad to see someone who knew what they were talking about.

Sometimes life just takes on different priorities and you gotta do what you gotta do. Perhaps (most likely although hopefully not) in 5 years there'll be a whole new readership of MgoBloggers here. And they'll all go through all the same growing pains that we did as a fanbase.

:(

I'll miss your contributions. I don't read 95 percent of the posts here for the same reason I don't read sportswriters like Rosenberg, Rothstein, and Albom. It's just opinion based on results. When the team wins, the coaches are geniuses. When the team loses, the coaches don't know what they're doing.

The real question is will you be back sooner than Chitown came back?

HURP DURP

I'll see you in a few weeks anyway for the North Carolina State Championship Game!!

but sad for the mgoblog asylum.

Your input will be missed.

Oh geezus. Now nobody can question a coach? And you are leaving because of that?

Wow. And for a bunch of guys who think 19 year old kids ought to stand on he sidelines and get bitched at by their coach on national TV--and they should take it,

But YOU bow out because you can't take the "negativity"--what a self serving sap.

Good bye.

Right out of college, I was one of those crazy fans who would get up in arms over things about which I knew little beyond the final scoreboard. It took a woman to get me to chill and I, too, have priorities above and beyond Michigan football, be it posting on this site (as great as it is) and actually watching all the games live (I do tivo the ones I miss, but b-school and family obligations take precedence). If I need to turn off the game to play with my 2 girls, I will (sacrilege, I know).

All the best to you, gsimmons. I've enjoyed your posts in the past, particularly on the old site when you were a more regular commenter (or maybe you still were this year and I just didn't bother to wade through all the comments).

I always read and appreciated your analysis; good luck on college coaching or head coaching, or BOTH!

I think you will be back, you know, when you want some laughs.

many of your posts and videos on your site and have learned so much more than I can relate to others.

I think your insight and those with your knowledge and background are of great value. I truly appreciate all that you have contributed and you WILL be missed.

I hope you continue to keep your site going. I find it a great resource.

Also, I agree with your position on some of the reactionaries here. We are all fans, but very few experienced with the necessary sideline knowledge to truly call out coaching decisions or personnel choices.

Whatever path life leads down, may it be with health and happiness for you and yours.

Thank You.

hmmm...i question whether or not this is a good decision

You offer great insight into the community, and we really appreciate the time you spend teaching us football.

You have good reasons to spend time elsewhere, but I hope the fans that you talked about aren't the main reason you're leaving. There will always be fans that second guess and bother you, but I would say that many of the posters here have their heads on straight and don't get sucked into the "what if" arguments.

Either way, I wish you the best with your teams and family. Hope you don't stay away too long.

4. Gotta make some sick mods to the WS6.

Good luck in your future endeavors.

First McFarlin, now you...

Good luck with whatever you choose to do in coaching and I'm sure you will be great. Your insight was great to have around and you will be missed. Hope to see you stop by from time to time.

Sorry to be losing a voluminous football mind. Keep coaching!

If you have a good LB background, send your resume to Schem Hall and replace Hopson.

Thanks for all the knowledge you've thrown our way.

You made me realize how much I didn't know. Best of luck.

You are one of the few who obviously spoke with a deep understanding of the game. That's why I always looked for and appreciated your posts and I'm not as happy with the posters who seem to be replacing you...

big gulps eh...

Let us know if/when you make the jump, and how it goes for you.

It is the same everywhere. If people actually knew how to complain about how we are building our particle accelerator, they'd bitch about how we are doing it. But they don't. So I can say pretty much anything I want and they go all deer in the headlights.

But football. Everyone has played touch football in the back yard. Go long and don't stop. Look like you are going long then stop. 2 greatest plays in all of 9th grade touch football. Thus, they think they know something. Thus they think they can do it better.

Sorry to see you go.

You will be missed. It just got a lot less sane around here.

So long and thanks for the quality insight. Enjoy the kid-raising while they're still kids. We only get worse with age.

I always enjoyed your posts.

But good luck.

Thanks for the time you did put in here. Best of luck with your coaching and family.

Thanks GS for your insight and depth of knowledge. As just a regular fan, I really appreciated your understanding of the game and your patience explaining things. It was good to have a rational voice in the sea of last year's difficult season for M.

Best of luck with your coaching future and this year's team. We were fortunate to have your input. You'll be missed.

If you do have time, can't you just post elsewhere? I agree the last few days were filled with so many armchair quarterbacks it was irritating... but that is the right of the fan. How we react to them is what matters.

I personally enjoyed your posts and would read them if you posted your own weekly blog.

sorry wrong spot

The old man Gsimms is clearly frustrated that someone more knowledgeable than him in defense (Steve Sharik) has stepped up, and has been posting much more insightful comments.
He is also apparently not happy with the second guessing posted here by Brian Cook, the #2 poster on this site. Since this happens to be Cook's blog, Simms is going somewhere.
I say good riddance.
Your ego is way bigger than your knowledge; we're better off with Sharik than you.