Outside the Lines - UofM Football
Scathing Outside the Lines report.
16 min mark - "Michigan fans sit on a island seperate than the rest of college football, their core fan base is still stuck in the 1940s and they need to change"... "Too worried about the past"
"Brandon is too corporate,.... Brandon dosen't realize fans are not customers, this is religion to their fans"
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11622695/qb-devin-gardne…
October 1st, 2014 at 2:26 PM ^
Please. We are stuck in the 1980s, not the 1940s.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:36 PM ^
Got 'em.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^
In the 1990s its all the same.
October 1st, 2014 at 3:33 PM ^
It could have been written in 5 minutes with no research and just propoganda. They are just piling on.
October 1st, 2014 at 3:34 PM ^
I would say 2000's since we are going against what the game has evolved to in the last 8-10 years.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:26 PM ^
That's actually a really good argument for raising prices if it's core to their identity then they're willing to pony up more for it. See every:
- religious capital campaign
- indulgences scandal
- pastor with driving a high end car while congregation members struggle financially
- cult
- etc
Also, sitting in the 1940s would pre-date the 'corporate' mentality of modern sports. In fact, it would go against the expectation that our AD be a PR whiz. OTL is throwing haymakers here but not really connecting.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:45 PM ^
that religion is business.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^
I can't stand how Michigan is perceived nationally as a strictly old school fanbase. I want some class and love how most of our athletes are legitimate students, but damnit I want a modern football program.
I want spread punts, I want a qb who is at least threat to run, I want an adaptable system on both sides of the ball, I want a coach who wears a headset, I want a great gameday experience, and I want to be competitive.
October 1st, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
The crazy thing is that our tradition is as much about innovation on the field as it is the "three yards and a cloud of dust" stereotype.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Crisler#Michigan_.281938.E2.80.9319…
October 1st, 2014 at 3:48 PM ^
we flushed Rich Rod and the spread down the drain, field a dinosaur punt formation, etc. becuase "this is Michigan Football"
October 1st, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^
And Yost invented the linebacker position, fergodsakes!
October 1st, 2014 at 4:51 PM ^
Well, there was the Fab Five era when MBB were "the cool kids".
October 1st, 2014 at 2:29 PM ^
Has anybody else gone numb to these reports by now? It's like I'm having an out-of-body experience watching somebody repeatidly pummel the defenseless, empty shell of my Michigan fandom.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:51 PM ^
It's all just part of a big black cloud.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:30 PM ^
The first quote is from Drew Sharp
October 1st, 2014 at 2:50 PM ^
Thank you. I had opened the link in a new tab to watch the report, but decided to read these posts first. Once I saw your post that Drew Sharp is quoted, I closed the tab. There's no need to watch it.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:30 PM ^
or what
October 1st, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
You're on the right track.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:32 PM ^
That sounds like something MSU fans would say. We were one of the best teams in college football from 1969-2007. We're not just a program that won in the 1940s and 1920s.
October 1st, 2014 at 4:21 PM ^
I see what you're saying, but bringing up how we were so successful from '69-'07 is why so many people talk about how we're living in the past.
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October 1st, 2014 at 8:15 PM ^
past.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:51 PM ^
I can't click on the link and read yet another article piling on. For one, I'm sick of the media looking for clicks, but secondly, getting kicked in the balls by the media over and over is getting old. The sharks smell blood in the water, but now the sharks are also pouring chum into the water. (Little known fact- sharks have invisible opposable thumbs)
October 1st, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^
Sadly, to do my due diligence in these threads, I kind of need to read / watch these things to know what precisely is going on in certain threads, but it does get very old very quickly, almost to a point where you have to intellectualize the material to avoid the prospect of marching directly outside and setting random objects ablaze.
October 1st, 2014 at 4:12 PM ^
Yeah, I didn't even think about that aspect. You mods HAVE to read them to make sure they aren't inappropriate. I'm sorry, man.
October 1st, 2014 at 4:56 PM ^
Don't do it Rainbow Dash! Think of your sonic rainboom!
October 1st, 2014 at 3:40 PM ^
by these yahoos who don't buy tickets to Michigan games telling us what should be happening inside the stadium. Michigan Stadium is for Michigan fans to celebrate their team any way they want. If we're stuck in the '40s or any other decade, it's our own business.
When these clowns and 100,000 of their friends start buying tickets to Michigan games regularly, they can be the ones to decide what "fun" is. Until then, nobody cares what they think.
October 1st, 2014 at 2:54 PM ^
That criticizing Michigan fans for being stuck in the 40s AND criticizing Brandon for being too corporate is double-dipping on the UM-blasting.
October 1st, 2014 at 3:28 PM ^
Over? Did you say "over" ?
Nothing is over until we decide it is !
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ?
Hell no!
October 1st, 2014 at 3:31 PM ^
for years. I was just never specific of any decade. Details Details.
October 1st, 2014 at 4:01 PM ^
Pro style isn't really 1970s when so many teams run it. The play calls are though. I'd take a pro style coach because switching back to spread would be brutal.
October 1st, 2014 at 5:58 PM ^
Some Dood scathed us. I mean, really, who cares?
Every school with a big reputation to live up to has its traditions and its expectations, many of which are based on past generations of students and alumni.
There's nothing wrong with us liking our traditions, being demanding of our teams, and being M religious zealots.