It's time for a new Michigan

Amen

I'm young enough that I don't really have any strong connections to the past other than the last three or so years of the Carr era. I probably have an easier time with the program moving in a new direction than some people. I don't know what that means/how that works exactly, but I'm game for anything at this point. Most of my real Michigan Football memories involve subpar teams. I'd like that to change soon.

Let the next coach build the program from the damn near ashes it's in now in his image. I'm talking uniforms, style, mantra. Everything.

This isn't "Michigan" anymore.

I'd like to see our University own up to its many errors made prostituting itself at the altar of greed and marketing. The President of the University should step up and make a statement that what has happened recently will never happen again.

I'd like to see Dave Brandon not only be fired, but be too embarrassed to be seen on campus ever again because his lies, greed and bullshit have been outed.

I'd like to see the Clueless One, Brady Hoke, politely shown the door.

Finally, I'd like to see some integrity and class restored to the Athletic Department and to the University.

We need a complete change of culture in the athletic department. First it was covering up the Brendan Gibbons thing, and now this. Lie after lie. It's bullshit and we need to clean house. Also at this point I would really like someone hired to be the next head football coach with ZERO ties to Michigan.

http://youtu.be/y6SM5Uf8AsE

...are going to wake up tomorrow morning thinking they're having a nightmare.

I agree with most of your post, and I might be alone on this, but us nor Ohio state were that great in 2006. that season showed everyone what a fraud the Big Ten is. both teams were good, but not great.

We don't need a new Michigan, the old one was just fine but we need to realize what it truly was. The ideas of winning the right way not just in football but in life and exemplifying loyalty, honor, respect and just being an all around decent human being are still values that can hold true today. Michigan football is at its core a tough, team first, physical brand of football that does whatever it takes to win within the realm of the rule book. It's not about formations or run-to-pass ratio or big armed QB's or any of that stuff. We are the winningest program ever to play this game, and that's kind of atmosphere we need to get back to and to win you must adapt to the times, even my Pittsburgh Steelers are running elements of the spread and no huddle and the is no reason that we can't do the same. And it's not just schematics that we have to change, we have to switch the whole attitude of this program because today I see an expansion team type atmosphere, we are just another school and it seems like our players just do there four years and are done, there is no love for program anymore amongst the current program, not like before. You don't see it every other school in the country but when you mention Michigan to a former wolverine there is always a smile on his face,a sparkle in his eye and you can just feel an overwhelming sense of pride radiating out from them. That's one of the things I loved most about Michigan and why I became a fan in the first place. I don't see that anymore and really that's what losing does to you, why feel pride in a program that hasn't won as many games as Rutgers since 2007. That's what I want more than anything because I'm a child of post apocalyptic Michigan and I've heard all of the stories and seen all of these videos what it used to be like in the "before time" and it sounds wonderful. I'm 20 years old, I've lived in Ohio since 2001 and the only win against Ohio State I remember was 2011, the only B1G Championships I recall were of the basketball variety, everything before Carr's last game against Florida is a hazey fuzz (less so with the '07 season) and since that point we are 1-5 against MSU. 2007 and the App State debacle is the second best season I remember as a Michigan fan. I graduated high school in 2012, Hoke's first class, and the guys were are recruiting are remembering less and less of the before time and before long we'll be the Dallas Cowboys who I've only seen Quarterbacked by Tony Romo. Sure people talk about the team they used to be with Staubach and Landry, Jimmy Johnson and Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin but I never saw them and I don't remember being in a world where the Cowboys were good at football. All I know of them is Jerry Jones and Tony Romo, and if we don't hit a home run with the next coaching and AD hires, we will become the Dallas Cowboys of College Football. We need to remember how we got to a place where 9-4 was a fireable offense and go back to doing that.

TL;DR back to basics, evolve with the times, improve attitude, find our pride and passion again, don't be the Dallas Cowboys

I've been saying this for years now. We'll never forget the man but we have a legit cult of personality regarding him. I've only seen psu do it worse with Paterno and even if that gnarly shit didn't go down it's not healthy. You have to move on, adapt, evolve and change. I'd love one of the Harbaughs but not because of their "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon: Bo Edition" link to the program. Remember him but remember that he loved winning. Our only criteria regarding a HC should be if they are winners and clean (as much as one can be in modern CFB). That's it.

for transitions are never easy.  Not saying I like status quo but there are no certainties going forward.

Hail Hydra

Michigan needs to go modern.  Brian has talked about it at length.  There is no doubt that we need to move on and bring this team into the 21st century.  We cannot continue to chase the past.  Football is a game of continuous change.  Those who refuse to change are left in the wake of the teams that embrace it.  Very hopeful that the next football coach comes in and gives us a huge culture change.  GO BLUE

We need Harbaugh.  John,Jim, doesn't matter.   Pay Harbaugh whatever he wants, give him lifetime free Zingermans, lifetime free AATA bus passes, whatever it takes.

 

Change is hard for UM because of it's strong ties to the past successes.  While it seems some change is neccessary I highly doubt the program and the fans want to forget about all the great traditions and legends of the past.  But, it's one think to remember the past it's quite another to try and relive it, which is what Hoke seems to want to do...be Bo.  We all loved Bo, and while we will never forget him, we need our coaches to be their own unique individuals who aren't trying to be someone else.  I think UM went too far way from it's tradition with RR, then went too far the other way with Hoke to overcorrect.  The fact is we probably need some middle ground.  Someone that understands UM, while at the same time doesn't neccessarily have a previous history of coaching or playing there.  Unless we can get one of the obvious big name, proven coaches, but I don't see that happening.

We should not, and need not, forget Bo or his contributions to UM's traditions and legacy to move on.  

I am just one person, and just guessing, but my 57 years of UM fandom (I was 4 when I went to my first game), my UM degree, and my knowing in what esteem my grandfather and father before me held UM principles and tradition, all tell me that Bo would not have supported the chicanery and incompetence that passes for UM football leadership in 2014.  

And you do not have to invoke Bo's name, or pledge to move on from him whatever the case may be, to see the writing on this wall.

It is past time for real leadership at this University to release DB back to the world of corporations and profits where he seems to flourish, and to release BH and his minnions to the MAC, high school, or the Cartoon Network.  No disrespect intended, but these people have to start respecting themselves before they can earn it with anyone else.  

If Bo had a fault, and we all have them, it was loyalty to a fault. I agree it is way past time to leave Mo, Carr, their grad assts or line coaches (eg, Brady Hoke), their end-of-the-benchers (eg, Dave Brandon), to posterity, some good, some very bad.  

It is hard to imagine a worse state of affairs than what exists on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 with respect to the University of Michigan football team and athletic department.  In the name of all who have gone before them, and all who will follow them, thank DB and BH for their service and let them go, TODAY, if possible, but as soon as reasonably appropriate for the University, its football team, and the individuals involved.  

Start with a new AD, and a new coach.  Forget this "Michigan Man" BS.  It was coined by Bo to get past the shenanigans of his then appliance-salesman coach Bill Freider, who bolted to ASU on the even of the NCAA tourney and expected to stay on through it at UM. Nothing more, nothing less.  Michigan Men attempt to live up to certain principles in my humble opinion, not just pay lip service to them.  If DB and BH are the Michigan Men they claim to be, they would resign for the good of the University's football team and athletic department.  We shall see what they are made of, but it does not look good.  

The University is bigger than its football team or athletics.  It stands for much more than that.  However, its football team and athletices have for the most part been reflective of the standards of excellence of the University as a whole.  It is time to recognize how far we have gotten from that state of affairs with these people at the controls.  Lets rebuild the house on a firm foundation, and that can only start by clearing the site.

Well said.

Hey, I wrote an article about exactly this last Wednesday. What a coincidence! If I had waited 3 days it would have been filled with 10,000% more bile.