It's a Michigan/USC battle for Andre Yruretagoyena

Most people are stupid. See 'mgoblue1' for a good example.

if you think our program is a laughing stock, then why don't you go sit on the outside and laugh? The University of Michigan doesn't need people like you. If you don't have pride in our program than shut up and leave. To quote Yost, "True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise --- the other, loyalty." — Fielding Yost

you would know that this really isn't the case, except with the most vitriolic of the OSU/MSU fanbases and they pretty much sound just like you. Ignorant, ill-informed and full of spite. Most reasonable fans of other programs have some recognition of what is being built at UM and they see a day coming, pretty soon, where we will once again be a game that they look forward to with a great amount of trepidation. At least the ones I know. I grew up an M fan in east lansing, my Mother is from Columbus and went to UM and her entire side of the family are rabid OSU fans. I know a LOT of OSU/MSU fans and nearly ALL of them have a more reasonable opinion of RR than you do. The sorry, pathetic fact is that your measly little sense of self-worth is too wrapped up in the success of the UM football program and therefore you are suffering a crisis of identity, causing you to spend most of your time worrying what the fans of other programs think of Michigan football. Grow some stones you little byatch and support your program when they need you the most, instead of puking and mewling and turning on the program when it has given you so much in the past (apparently some sense of self-worth that you now dearly miss). I'll bet you are the type of person that would boo a bunch of kids giving it their all, am I right? You are a disgrace as a fan. Did you ever stop to consider that you, and those of your ilk, are part of the problem? If you can't man up and grow a pair to stand behind 'your team', then at least spawn a few brain cells and start getting a little informed about things. Until then, you just sound like a screeching monkey, hurling your feces indiscriminately at a world outside his cage that frustrates him b/c because he doesn't possess the ability to comprehend the world around him. Simple things for you to understand: -highest team GPA in ? years aftere RR took over? How do explain that from a scumbag coach that recuits criminals? -Mealer family/Brock adoption, you can call it BS, but it just ain't so. If it were PR only, I should think he would milk it, which he/they don't. They would also be able to get PR by doing FAr less, instead, they keep their mouth shut and continue to go the extra mile with Brock. Fuck you for suggesting otherwise. You must lead a petty, bitter, small existance somewhere. Think about yourself much? -one of your precious 'sanctions' besmirching M is for over-monitoring class attendance in the summer...so, yeah, I'll take it and am pretty OK with that. Only a coach w/o character would be overly concerned with the academic status of his players. -Everyone who has actually met RR and had some experience with him echo the 'nice guy' sentiment, HS coaches, parents of recruits, non-jihadist journalists, etc. But, i guess you would know better because.... -Feagin: player does something very stupid and runs afoul of the law, same day this is discovered he is off the team. So where do you point a finger at RR for that? Carr kept people around for trangressions far worse than that...many times. I have met and love Lloyd Carr and everything he meant to M, but he, nor any other coach, is perfect or can control every aspect of the players' lives. -Cissoko: player at a position of dire need, perhaps not having a stellar year performance-wise, but still the best option on the field with future potential....gets into some trouble and is also gone. You see a pattern here that is not not evident at another program slighly north of Ann Arbor whose fans opinions matter so much to you? -Dorsey: it must be nice to have grown up like you and be perfect. Eat shit for suggesting that this kid doesn't deserve a chance. I had trouble with the law as a teenager, as did many of my friends. i went to UM, upstanding citizen now. I would echo previous comments regarding the player (Lazear) RR recruited at WVU who had some previous legal issues. RR turned him into an honor student in college....amazing that he can apparently impart character to his players, while having none of his own. -Pacman, Henry: again as pointed out in other comments, kept in check under RR, no issues at WVU, so now he is responsible for the actions of players after they leave WVU and go to the NFL? -FYI - the buyout clause wasn't paid at the direction of UM and their attorneys as they posited that terms of his contract were unmet by WVU....have you ever worked in business, with something like $2.5M at stake and lawyers on retainer, you always take a shot, that is just the way things work. You never know if during the discovery phase of the trial you will hit on something that would make the WVU attorneys question a verdict and look to settle. Duh.... If you can't find it in yourself to read your Freep critically, then, by all means, stick with your spoonfeeding method if it works for you and keeps things (and you) simple, but at least look at the company you keep and try to understand that you are aligning yourself with the low end of the IQ scale. -Drew Sharp, hack extraordinaire -Rosenberg, backwater sports journalist in an industry that is in steep decline, in no small part b/c of cowardly little faux exposes like the stuff he 'writes' -every mouth breathing MSU/OSU fan that wants to take some cheap shots and spout out pretty much the same thing you did: 'RR iz a scumbag with no character...Feagin, NCAA, Dorsey, pacman brah! scUM sux dude!' -every blue-haired, 'down-in-front' fan that shows up Saturday in maize and blue plaid pants and goes home all pissed because there isn't the normal amount of W in his football cup and wonders aloud 'why we ever started passing the damn ball anyway'? Then spends the rest of the week yelling 'get off my lawn!' and keeping the neighbor kid's baseballs. ...and understand that people that DO read critically, that understand the game of football and can see the foundation being put in place that will actually make the M a program that is competitive on a national level for the first time in 20 years, that also think people like you are dicks, will be aligned against you.....and don't go on their blogs and bait them.