Booing Cade Is Bad.

100% agree. 

Yes, it looks like JJ is the guy.  And I am excited about the possibilities. But Cade did something that QB's since 2004 haven't done, even great ones like Denard: He won a Big Ten Championship.  He has earned nothing but respect from us the fanbase.  Doubly so because he handles himself with class and possesses real leadership skills.  (He is also one injury away from being the starter again.)

Yet another thread stating what we already have said - booing was bad.  Cade did a great job last year.  Thank you. 

If we say enough will it change the drunk idiots from last night?

Booing one the captains of the team is ridiculous and deserves to be called out. Cade has been a great leader for the team, and he will continue to help the team regardless of his playing time moving forward. 

Uh, it's the internet.

I don't think it needs to be said that we shouldn't have to worry about kids bringing guns to school and murdering classmates and teachers...but after it happens, you'll find plenty of people saying that you shouldn't have to worry about it happening.

Sometimes I think it's okay to state the obvious. Unlike my over the top school example, in this case, I'm willing to bet there were some people who thought it WAS cool or funny or they hadn't thought it all the way through as they booed, cracked jokes, etc.

May have been a minority who booed, but I know these messages boards were FILLED with people creating this either or, JJ vs. Cade drama that every fed into.

It's that type of atmosphere that give that minority the comfort to be fucking idiots.

You're not going to go to a stadium and yell certain things, because you're probably going to get your ass kicked...that's because there is no tolerance for whatever that "thing" is. If you yell something blatantly racist at Michigan Stadium, people, at a minimum are going to tell you to STFU, sit down, and that's not cool. At the other end, someone is going to sock you in the face. 

Clearly Michigan fans created an atmosphere where plenty of people felt it was okay. Even people who didn't boo contributed to that atmosphere and that also should be called out. We let people feel comfortable and when it happened, people laughed it off.

Is it racism? No, another extreme example. But everything doesn't have to be extreme to be right from wrong. And CLEARLY that behavior was wrong.

It's good to point out the shameful idiots and good to show support here. The players read this site and certainly pay attention to other socials. So, the more we shout down the idiots the better. It can't be undone, but it can be curtailed going forward. And these types of threads show support for Cade.

I mean, any kind of negative talk about him is really odd to me. He was great in 2020 and even better in 2021. He will probably transfer at the end of the year and be great wherever he goes. The booing makes no sense. Are people that addicted to excitement that booing is their reaction to a great QB that isn't as exciting as they guy they want, even though that player was a great player for them?

Exactly this. It was minor and will happen at every venue where kids and morons can gather to watch sport. Add alcohol and it happens a bit more.

The way some are talking as if the entire stadium was doing it or throwing things at him is really disingenuous at best and actively trying to start a fight from nothing at worst.

Disagree. Call out bullshit when you see it and hope it doesn't repeat itself.

All you're doing is enabling.

By posting on a message board, no one is doing anything over the top or excessive, lol.

You act like there is a surveillance investigation into who booed.

That attitude is dangerous.

I don't see anything wrong with calling it out.  By not being silent, you send a message that the vast majority of fans do not support this and appreciate what Cade has done.

I hope that you're right.  He has not looked happy to me the past couple of weeks when the camera has found him. 

The person booing isn’t the knowledgeable fan on mgoblog.

Lol. Not all mgoblog fans are knowledgeable!

John Navarre really KNOWS what its like to be booed. He's the Monday afternoon QB on WTKA with Jamie Morris each week. I'll bet John will have a few comments about this on tomorrow's show.

People also have a pack mentality.  They will pile on when they see a bunch of others piling on.  They do it because they are more or less hidden by anonymity and have no fear of repercussions.  They forget about empathy for others and whether or not they SHOULD be booing.  Weak sauce.

It's also a sobering and sad reminder that most people don't know what they're doing.

Dude, now that is over the top. LOL. Boo your own kid? Damn. Hope you are doing that at home and not during the games. 

I call bullshit on this ‘kids these days’ nonsense. Michigan’s fanbase (and those from every other team/school/club) has ALWAYS included some assholes. If you think booing Cade is some massive indictment of today’s society, what about the people sending racist letters and threatening the Fab 5? If you actually take the time to consider the relative seriousness of both situations, you’d be absolutely kidding yourself if you think fans today are worse. 
 

Edit: none of this is to say that it was ok to boo Cade. It wasn’t, and the people who did are assholes who should feel bad about themselves.