Outside the Lines - UofM Football

Submitted by IvyLeague on

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…

Huntington Wolverine

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.

ChiCityWolverine

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.

mGrowOld

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.

APBlue

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.  

Maizenblueball

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)

LSAClassOf2000

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. 

TennBlue

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.

ThWard

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.

 

BlueHills

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.