Proposed bans

Sorry if I missed something, but what does your title have to do with what you typed?

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Good call. I agree with all three. I would add how people say that RR doesn't recruit defensive players. Witherspoon, Hill, Lalota, Turner, Emilein (spelling?), Dorsey, BooBoo. Those players weren't all his recruits the first year but he did get them to sign. Things would be drastically different on this defense if we had all of those players wearing the Maize and Blue.

they seem like valid points of discussion to me.  i don't participate in them, but i can't see any reason to completely shut them down.

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is the cupboard really bare on topics to discuss, especially given RR needs to win these upcoming games or else our players will not be as physically adept and will possibly transfer should their coach be forced out?

quit your whining

I still think that those whose stay will be champions. Call me naive, but when you come to Michigan, and you finish what you came to accomplish, you'll be a champion.

that the INTERNET is a good place to propose banning any ideas. You know, being the medium of free and open communication that it is.

I can't say I disagree, but there's no way to ban these things.

Well, I don't blame RR because the cupboard was really bare!  And, in the end, all he needs is 6 wins to get another year at the helm.  If everyone on the team buys in they will realize...

THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS!

Those who stay will be champions will always be said here.

1 and 2 are positions with which reasonable people may differ. This board may have a majority view, but debate and civil disagreement are healthy.

Regarding 3, the past, the '69 season, are actual living memories, and will always shade how many Michigan fans view the present team. That is a large part of the reason RR came here in the first place. Yankees are compared to Ruth and Mantle. That is what tradition means, how it shapes perception and expectations.

You want to ban "Those who stay will be Champions"?  Not only is this one of the greatest and most iconic mottos in college fb, but it is hanging on a huge sign that they players see on every game day.  Why don't we also ban discussion of Bo, Charles Woodson, the OSU Rivalry and football, generally. 

What is wrong with you? 

...Sisyphean effort. When U-M wins its 6th game to achieve bowl eligibility some will say RichRod's job is safe while others will disagree.  When U-M wins its 7th game almost everyone will say his job is safe while a fringe group will argue it's not enough. If/when U-M wins its 8th game, the fringe will be so ragged that they will be universally dismissed. 

But...

Then the conversation will turn to what RichRod needs to do in 2011 (division / conference / national championship) to keep his job.  The rabble, rabble crowd will shift its focus to loftier goals and if they're not achieved, they will rabble, rabble just like they did from 1998 - 2007.

Book it, Danno.

While it certainly might be beaten to death by this point, the bare cupboard is hardly irrelevant.  As other diarists have shown with far more eloquence and detail, despite poor choices and horrid luck, RRod had an atypical sparcity of existing potential and depth to work with when he took over the job.  You tell me what this situation looks like if we had a couple more experienced senior 3*/4* linebackers to keep Ezeh on his toes and challenge him for start time.  You can recruit all of the best Freshman talent in the world, but thats not a position played easily without 2 or 3 years of DI-level conditioning and the physical plant of a man who didn't just leave his senior prom.

 I personally don't see how it's irrelevant that we didn't have a ton of talent on the team when he took over.

 He inherited on recuriting class from Carr with about a month to do his own recuriting.  And other than that he either has True Sophomores, Redshirt Freshmen, and True Freshmen from his own recuriting classes.   I wouldn't disagree at all to say that this is the last year we can bring it up for reasons the team may still struggle at times.  But I still think it's, at a minimum, something that can be brought up.

I forbid you to discuss things which make me upset in the slightest!!!

I IS UNMERICA!!

is for you to start your own blog website.

If you don't like what people are saying on THIS blog - then negbang them or don't visit this site.

Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a DAMN what you think you're entitled to!

...would have stayed, then we might have been Big Ten Champions this year.  It's still possible if we run the table and MSU does what MSU does best.

So it still rings true that "Those who stay will be champions"

Why don't we ban free speech and select a committe on what can and cannot be discussed?  Can I be chair of the committee?

I think we should ban threads that express dismay about Mike Barwis's inability to make Michigan's players into superheroes. I would also like to ban the phrases "it's just pitch and catch" and "smashmouth football." I also hate the word "meme." There.