Mgoblog (Brian) Twitter rant

I hope that nothing too crazy happens here. This is a great site and has definitely made me a much more intelligent fan over the last four years. I really try to only comment if I feel like I have something to really offer. Too many people seem to comment just to hear themselves talk.

As an armchair psychologist, I sometimes wonder if Brian would be a good candidate for a sabbatical. I remember reading somewhere that all sportswriters end up hating sports. Turning your passion into your job can be a dicey thing sometimes. Maybe take a season to just watch the games and refresh yourself.

I have an idea: Don't tell idiots (pretty much everyone on the Internet) where you're going to be

I know Brian casually as the proprietor of this blog and from the nerd circuit we called quiz bowl in high school. When I told him I was going to the MSU game last year he told me where they were tailgating and to come no matter how late. I felt so awkward as I literally knew nobody but by the time I was done hanging out with the Cooks I felt like a part of his family. I'm pretty sure I even doubled dipped a chip in a dip Seth made and nobody gave me crap for it. We went towards the stadium together discussing everything about being a Michigan fan. Then he had to head towards the press box to do this that or the other and it dawned on me. He doesn't get to be a fan all the time. This is clinical, as much a job as anything else for him now. He wants to be one of us again. Just a fan - not having to moderate our over reactions or stem the tides of lunacy or deal with vitriolic attacks from idiots. So for once, today, he decided to be a disgruntled fan. He looked in his heart and he realized what a lot of us as fans have realized - we are not entertained by these performances of late. There is no joy in Mudville for everything we were seeing before today. So he went bowling and every second he was out there it was killing him. He is fan just like the rest of us but unlike the rest of us he puts his heart and soul into putting out an absolutely phenomenal product. He gives us a forum to be irrational and he doesn't judge us for it in anyway. So why do some knuckleheads feel it's their bully pulpit to do the same.

I visit Mgoblog 20 times a day.. Greatest site Ever

I visit Mgoblog 20 times a day.. Greatest site Ever

I just wish the trustees were half as pissed as Brian is.  When Ohio State needed a new coach, they went out and got the best.  Then, they made sure that nobody would undermine his position.  Everyone pulled together behind their new spread coach, and now they might actually make the national "championship" game if they get by Sparty.

Meanwhile, what do we get at Michigan?  

David Brandon is Lane Kiffin's "brother from another mother;" he has botched everything he has tried to do concerning the football team, and has done it in the most belligerent manner possible.  He talks a great game, and unlike Kiffin," he doesn't have a W-L record to be judged by.   

The trustees need to look at David Brandon's mandate that the Wolverines play 20th century football while everyone who is any good is playing 21st century football.  The outlier is Bama, but even they just lost to an inferior team with a very nice 21st century offense, and Michigan can't buy the kind of personnel Bama does.

If David Brandon is going to insist that Michigan run an outdated system, he needs to take the blame for it.  Ironically enough, his first catchphrase was "downhill running."   That is exactly what Ohio did out of Rich Rod's offense via Urban Meyer during their last drive today.  

Brian is right to be pissed at Michigan "giving back" what they gained in the series during the John Cooper era, and is right to be pissed at personal attacks by people who abuse his hospitality.  

Most of all, every Michigan fan should be pissed that Ohio State is about to win a National Championship, Sparty is playing them in the Big Ten Championship game, and we have just sat through yet another disappointing season.  

The game has changed.  Michigan stopped playing MANBALL for most of today and scored 41 against Ohio State.  This was much closer to the real Al Borges than we have seen during his tenure in Ann Arbor.  

There are two things that are going to work.  Either David Brandon has to let Al Borges do more of what he did today or replace Borges with a spread guy.  Playing 1990's football isn't going to win the Big Ten anymore, especially when there are no more co-champions.

As for Brian, I hope he writes some of the most stinging commentary about the state of the program that he has ever written.  He would be fully justified.

Yesssssss. Essentially took a year off from the blog because it was making me feel like shit to read all the BS. This isn't MLive and it shouldn't be. No reason for it to devolve into utter chaos every time someone doesn't like a call or we lose a game, and no reason for reasonable questions about the qualification of the coaches to turn into namecalling 100% of the time. Can't wait to see what's in store.

He was a fan today - part of the prism that goes from fatalistic over reaction to unrealistic adulation at the drop of a hat. If you believe that he truly wanted the score to be 39-0 then you have never read this blog or really understand being a fan. He was a fan and we know what that's like. Lets cut him some slack because we have all been there and sometimes this fandom can cause the best of us to have a psychotic break. But we can go back to our lives. Being a fan of Michigan sports IS his life and more importantly his career. he cant just turn the TV off. Lets remember that perspective for a change.

I'll admit I haven't been posting here as much as I used to since I've been photographing the Eagles' games but I did watch the game today and it was nice to see an exciting game from Michigan.  But you want to talk about disappointing seasons...:)

I don't blame Brian at all for being fed up with people who assail him with accusations of not knowing anything about football and/or not being a true fan in response to nearly everything he posts. The UFRs are just great reading for a fan, and every week somebody inevitably chimes in with "LOLgineer hasn't ever played footballs." 

This has been an incredibly disappointing and frustrating football season, cast against the backdrop of an incredibly disappointing and frustrating decade of Michigan football. It sucks for people who are passionate about U-M football. This is a sports blog. People bitch about their team on sports blogs when the team is disappointing and frustrating. People celebrate their team amidst the bitching when the team is good. 

There is a cadre of posters here who fancy themselves the attitude police, as if they have some sort of special protector role for the public image of the program. I encourage these people to spend more time at the offical U-M sports website blog (http://www.mgoblue.com/blog/), a thrilling virtual space with a broad range of ideas and humor, to wit. You're not a better fan for towing the company line. It's okay to be critical. It's okay to be dissatisfied. It okay to have your sports soul crushed and come write about it on MGoBlog.