Is Brian okay?

Are any of us really okay?

I don't think any of us are okay right now.  

Going through a divorce (evidently)and his one escape failed him today. Don’t agree with Brian on many levels, but wouldn’t wish a divorce and major life change like that on my worst enemy. Hopefully things break for the better for him. 

I'm sure pieces of shit comments on his podcast and other posts about how he's not happy enough and criticizing him for suggesting that this undefeated team might not be all that great (surprise, he was right!) didn't help. 

Well, I certainly hope Brian is okay since he's spent so many years putting his heart and soul into this site to provide Michigan sports content for us fans and putting up with all our grousing, griping, and worse over that time.

Brian can do whatever he wants as far as I’m concerned.  I’m beyond thankful for him giving us this space to converse, and/or consistently lament,

I disagree with Brian on about every facet of life, but I also have a huge soft spot for him and the tireless work he does for this site. It sounds like he is going through a pretty rough patch and I genuinely wish him the best. 
 

He puts so much into this and it’s truly appreciate. Over the years I damn near think of him as a friend (although I don’t know him personally) and, again, am rooting for him. 

Brian devoted his whole life/career to a soul sucking nightmare. He’s depressed and going through a divorce. No he’s not okay.

At least I don't have waste my Saturday Afternoons watching Harbaugh blow games.  2 or 3 more losses will occur!

He posted a few weeks back that he’s going through a divorce. So I doubt he’s really okay. Combine that with devoting a sizable portion of your professional life to covering a team that repeatedly rips your heart out and leaves it beating in front of you on the ground can’t be helping. 

As far as I’m concerned he doesn’t owe us anything. Not saying that you’re suggesting otherwise, but all of his content was/is free. He can post content, or not post, as he pleases. I hope he’s figuring out how to move forward with his life. 

That is infinitely more important than covering a football game. 

In before the delete

I’m not okay

We appreciate you, Brian!

It's kind of sad. It seem like yesterday when everyone was all excited about Harbaugh coming to Michigan. Remember all the It's happening posts! Now it just seems like we are a middling big east team. Almost Hoke like. Or Carr's last years.

I also love Brian. His site and vision. The content is still great. Hope he deals with his life and gets back to what HE wants to do. 
go blue

I don't think you could hand pick a worse two decade period of Michigan sports to dedicate your life to. Even the absolute best results (basketball, hockey) have all ended in heartbreak and football has only contributed generational moment (App State) after generational moment (Fumbled Punt Snap) after generational moment (the spot) of disaster.

There's *one!* Ohio State UFR in the history of this blog.

So to answer your question, no.

I’ve said it before but this time I think I really need to take a break. I’m too old to get upset at shit like this anymore. It’s every year and, frankly, it’s exhausting. I’ve always been a passionate fan of the teams I support, but this isn’t fun anymore. I’m treating Michigan football like I do the Lions, expect a loss every game, don’t even tune in. Take care!

Hopefully he's been busy working on making this site loadable on firefox mobile browser. Always the slowest loading site on the internet. As if harbaugh himself ran it.

I appreciate that Brian is going through a divorce. It sucks. Been there.

However, I can't relate with people who get so severely worked up about the results of a game. It's just sports.

The worst time in my marriage was when we had our second kid.   I all of a sudden felt like a distant third in my wife’s life.  I didn’t realize the only person more ignored was…herself.   That realization changed everything for me but we were very close to calling it quits.   That second kid probably changed their life more than they knew it would and on top of that they have another child in their marriage…this site.   Us idiotic fans who need him to tell us that everything is going to be ok or it’s all pointless.  He has to make sense for us of something NONE of us control and trying to keep his family together at the same time.   I would be genuinely depressed and question my sanity if I was him constantly.  

He’s going through a rough time and being beholden to us as fans and supporters of his business is secondary to the death of his marriage (if that is indeed what’s happening).    I am here if he needs me but I think if his silence is because he needs space then that is something we should all respect.   This game is an oblong ball tossed around by kids who ascribe to such notions as “toughness” and “grit” and “continuing to swing” and “not blinking” but really two evenly matched teams losing or winning is just variance.   It’s hard to make sense of that and pride is a powerful thing to ascribe to things you don’t control but I can’t imagine being my living or life.   Because if the game is an escape, when it doesn’t offer that, and your left with divorce papers staring at you - my needs as a fan are VERY secondary. 

FML. I want to die now. End me or at least get me out of el

I hope Brian's okay, I know I'm not. 

Finally got the courage today to find a psychiatrist.

I barely watched today's game because I just can't take it. I saw up until Corum dropped that swing pass and that was it for me. That said, not watching isn't helping anymore. I just put too much into this team and this sport and the lows are one notch above unbearable.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, I love this team more than anything and I feel like it's killing me (not being dramatic about that, which is even more sad). I wanted this one more than any game in a looong time, this is worst than '15.

I need to find something that I enjoy that doesn't get me to these levels of low. It's just so hard not to care.

The thing I love most about the basketball team is that I care, A LOT. But not to this unhealthy point where a loss impacts every facet of life.

Anyway, I'm just rambling online. I hate everything right now and probably won't post anything for a long time. I'm sick (in the "uh, I'm sick as a dog after watching that" sense) and need to find something in life outside of my wife and dogs to keep me going. Just doesn't feel like there's a point at the moment.

I wish there was a silver lining, I wish there was still hope for this season to be life changing. But it's gone. This was '97 for me. Today was supposed to be Judgement Day vs. PSU.

'97 lost its captain in game 1, so did this team. This was supposed to be the miracle year and just like that, Outback Bowl or Citrus Bowl level season. Which, great. Preseason that would've been fine, but then you beat Nebraska and you have no choice but to believe.

Fuck. I HATE MICHIGAN STATE!!!

I love Brian for starting this blog and his great writing and content, and the amazing folks that have been a part of the blog over the years.

I hope that he took his own advice to take a step back and not become so intertwined with Michigan's wins and losses on the field...

Hopefully all will be well later. Knowing many who have gone thru this mess called divorce, the clouds are always around kind of like the Michigan weather in October when it seemed wet half the time. BRIAN - hang in there, sunnier days are coming!

Hey - this web site was ahead of its time for big schools - most of the other web sites required payment to join.

I sat thru that ugly damp cold NW loss in 2008 when we were 3-7 and had to coax a friend and fellow UM alum to come along who complained the whole day about the time and watched perhaps the ugliest game in the ugliest weather ever (at least we won the 1995 Purdue game 5-0). BTW that friend of mine died of ALS/Lou Gehrigs in 2019 with a wife and 4 kids under 12. 

As much as ALL OF US hated losing that game to Moo U - seriously the season is NOT over. This team can certainly win the next 3. Not taking PSU for granted by any means but they don't have a Walker type RB that will be our achilles heal. 

I guess I'm OK with life and an occasional UM loss perhaps when I know my friend and fellow UM alum who was my guest for the great win vs. Washington in 2002 and also at me for the incredible win vs. OSU 27-17 as seniors in 1985 when we went onto the field after the amazing atmosphere of a home win. 

Peace!