Dejected kids in the U of M memes

Submitted by UESWolverine on

Anybody else feel for the U of M students that the TV cameras focused on after the game Saturday? They keep popping up in all the memes and T-shirts making fun of us. I especially feel bad for the kid in the glasses. I feel like that could have been me or any of my friends. Some of those kids seem to be getting an unfair amount of attention and I wish there was a good way to support them for taking the brunt of all the shots people are taking at us. Would starting a crowd funding campaign be a stupid idea? Just curious what some of you guys thought or if there was a better idea to support them. I would donate some cash to the kid with glasses. I feel bad that his image is everywhere and he's not even getting paid.  

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You Only Live Twice

October 24th, 2015 at 9:21 AM ^

Allintime is correct and upvoted,  Dantonio can't play the "disrespect" card after this year.  He's up against an NFL calibre strategist and knows it.  

In this week's print SI, Dantonio was fully expecting to lose this game.  After the officials blatantly affected the game, it had to have given him fresh hope.   He is QUOTED as saying he told his guys to go for O"Neill and not to worry about the flag:  "If you rough the guy, it doesn't matter."

Not knowing anything about the coaching world, seriously, WTF?  Is this how coaches lead their players, don't worry if you rough the guy?

He can't whine about being disrespected.   

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931 S State

October 24th, 2015 at 11:28 AM ^

Provided without comment:

There was a segment on College Gameday this morning about the final play.  Dantanio is quoted in the segment "We were gonna put all eleven up and go for it.  If we roughed him, hey, we roughed him".  

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allintime23

October 24th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^

He probably figured they wouldn't throw a flag in the last ten seconds and I guess he was right. I don't really care. He was out coached in that game and won by a miracle. If they go undefeated or if they lose two games, that play is a fluke miracle. Spartan fans were beaten, izzo left the game. They needed a miracle and ten bad calls to beat a team they had destroyed the last two years. They know what's coming. I can already hear them complaining after they choke away a game and we get ranked higher than them. It'll never change. Even when they win they find a way to lose.

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BlueTimesTwo

October 24th, 2015 at 8:01 AM ^

The more important image from that game is Dantonio looking like he was about to cry when it looked like they were going to lose. He was realizing that, despite having some of MSU's best teams in forever, they really haven't won much of anything when it comes to championships and national respect, and it became obvious that in short order his team will be relegated to second fiddle status in the state. I think his post-game antics were the result of the flood of relief that he felt in being granted a one year reprieve from getting their asses handed to them on a regular basis.

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Moonlight Graham

October 24th, 2015 at 8:35 AM ^

win most definitely qualify as "something" and they are getting as much if not more national respect than anyone. The sooner we come to this realization and frame our approach to this rivalry in that context, the sooner we stop acting like little brother's little brother.

Feel free to check my posting history to see if you need to pull the "Lifetime Michigan Fan Card" I currently believe I hold hold. 

You're all continuing to let them get to you, and their goal is to flip the script and get us acting like the little brother fan base. And they're succeeding. This whole thread is kind of pathetic. 

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CorkyCole

October 24th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^

They will again go somewhere just like we went somewhere. Doesn't mean it will happen next year; maybe after Dantonio retires, but regardless they will again find rough times. The real question is how fast they come back to relevant again. It's a lot easier for a Michigan program to rediscover relevance thanks to its reputation and history than a Sparty program that has never really been known as a powerhouse program. I'm not saying they don't have a shot at staying relevant, but a Harbaugh led Michigan program will make it more difficult for them to hold their status. And that's not playing the homerism card one bit.

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BlueTimesTwo

October 24th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^

Meh, if we had five or so years in which our team was the best that it had been in four decades and that is all we had to show for it, I would consider that disappointing. But that's just me. And I didn't say they would become Indiana, I just said they would be second fiddle in the state. They started the season ranked in the top five, got to number two, and were dropping in the polls despite winning. With a senior laden team and their best QB possibly ever, they needed a miracle to beat us in our rebuilding year with a very limited QB. How that can be anything but encouraging is beyond me. And part of the lack of respect thing stems from just having moved back to the state. Nobody outside of the state of Michigan gives a damn about MSU, at least in football.

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Michichick

October 24th, 2015 at 2:27 PM ^

Amen!  The MSU fanbase has always wanted to be the rival we pay most attention to. They were for decades the little brother seeking attention from the big brother, whose eyes were always turned toward Columbus or South Bend. Now they have succeeded in getting us to pay attention to them. But they have always and will always measure their success by Michigan's failure, especially in our head-to-head games. Dantonio's hate for Michigan is just an extension of the same.

Hate isn't the opposite of love; indifference is. I liked it better when we were indifferent to them. Let's get back to that.

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Lie-Cheat-Steal

October 24th, 2015 at 9:00 AM ^

The shift is inevitable, and Dantonio knows it. Let the rivals laugh and have their fun, but it's coming from a very insecure place.  Harbaugh is everywhere, and turned around a shit-show team from last year into a squad that can compete with almost any team in the country, despite being very handicapped at the qb position.  Add in a qb that could throw an accurate ball more than 10 yards down the field and this team is undefeated right now.

Harbaugh will not forget any of these slights.  This is just year 1 of the Harbaugh experience for these players.  Once his culture is fully embedded, his teams will be a force.

MSU is headed back to irrelevance and the B1G is headed back to thedays of the Big 2. Dantonio knows this, he knows his run is over.  You can beat Rodriguez and Hoke with 3 star talent, but this wont happen under Harbaugh. 

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Don

October 24th, 2015 at 9:40 AM ^

As long as Dantonio is at MSU, you're fooling yourself if you think the Spartans are going to descend to the level of Purdue.

Dantonio might be a smug, paranoid hypocrite, but he's a damn good coach and simply having Jim Harbaugh on our sidelines isn't going to magically turn him into Bobby Williams and John L. Smith. Harbaugh and his staff have already proven we're no longer going to be a sad pushover for Michigan State, but it's not like all of a sudden we're going to be playing Illinois, either.

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Lie-Cheat-Steal

October 24th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^

They will beat us once every 4 or 5 years with a senior led team like the good old days.  They benefitted from our fall and a weak B1G over the past 8 years.  Dantonio beat Meyer once and now Harbaugh.  Both coaches are at least at his level, and almost anybody in the football community would agree that both are actually a cut above Dantonio.  Add in the recruiting advantage for the Big 2 and I expect Sparty to be back where they were before the Rodriguez / Hoke era.

Competent coach, absolutely.  But he will always play 3rd fiddle to UM and OSU, and maybe even Penn State can jump them if they get their shit together.  

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Ecky Pting

October 24th, 2015 at 9:04 AM ^

Use of the video in whole or in part is not authorized without the expressed written consent of BTN. Spectators at sporting events have no claims to the use of their images by BTN or its licensees. If the kid wants to take to some dude in Columbus who's making $$ on t-shirts using an image grab from a BTN feed, then the kid should take it up with BTN.

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Don

October 24th, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^

You honestly feel as though these students are experiencing something deserving of sympathy?

That they deserve other people's money because they were photographed being sad after a Michigan football loss?

This is snark, right?

 

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beangoblue

October 24th, 2015 at 9:36 AM ^

They're fine. Did their names get put out there somewhere? I doubt they're specifically being targeted by anyone except maybe their friends poking fun. They'll be fine. And anyway, if we were going to give money to any dejected fan caught by a camera at a Michigan football game, it would have been face palm guy.

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Mattinboots

October 24th, 2015 at 9:57 AM ^

No because this happens to every kid and fan ever caught on camera after something shockingly bad. Comes with the territory these days. Sometimes comes out in good things too. Lloyd Brady anyone?



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ifis

October 24th, 2015 at 10:13 AM ^

After the last decade or so, this is what they're choosing to make T-shirts about?  

Looks like nervous fear over in those parts, or at least a bizarre form of respect.  If this was last year, they wouldn't be making T-shirts about winning the game on a fluke play, that's for sure.

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victors2000

October 24th, 2015 at 10:31 AM ^

two coaching regimes we still had it better than many schools out there who annually suffer through sub par seasons. Think about it this way. The sadness you saw last Saturday will probably be the saddest point we have in the Jim Harbaugh era. It's all downhill from here. Like the presentation we recently experienced at work it's time to go from 'Good to Great'.

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snarling wolverine

October 24th, 2015 at 12:20 PM ^

I agree that it's unfortunate that ordinary students reacting in pretty ordinary ways at a sporting event are now fair game to be mocked on the internet.  I think our own fanbase shouldn't feed into that.  

That said, a crowdfunding campaign for them is a bit much.

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jsquigg

October 24th, 2015 at 11:31 AM ^

The reason it's popular to point out Michigan fans' shock and disbelief is because it doesn't happen often.  Just wait until the last weekend in November and we'll see who's printing shirts after we kick OSU's ass.

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BlueMk1690

October 24th, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^

that they put the camera on some dejected looking students when their team is losing or just messed up spectacularly.

I'd say the combo of "shot of crowd showing a mixed selection of angry people" then "close-up of one or two young female fans looking heartbroken" is so standard that it must be in some college football broadcasting production guide.

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