Pump the Brakes on positivity?
So you have some optimism about any future thing in sports? There will always be someone who comes along who thinks you have too much of it, as if they have some better window into the future.
Have some pause or concerns? I'm sure you'd fit in right along with even the most optimistic of any bunch.
In sports, the end result is you either win or lose...50/50 shot at either. Anything can and does happen. As a fan, you have a very limited effect on said result. It ultimately doesn't matter if you're too high or too low on the people in the arena.
Either you're for a team or you're against them. Some find any minuscule reason to have faith that their side will be victorious... Others do the exact opposite. (Side note question: How can your expectations be higher than your predictions?)
When you're the latter, and turn out to be right or wrong, how are you any different than the fans of the opposing team, when you spent the pregame parroting the same pessimism toward the team you claim to want to win?
Is enduring another's over excitement somehow more exhausting than another's pre-outcome pessimistic justification?
I'll never understand the I'm doubting you until you "Prove me wrong" crowd. I always figured that action was reserved for the opposing team and their fans.
"When you're a Michigan fan of any sport, you have to realize it's You vs. Every single other fan base. Difference is, you're on the stage and have the microphone at all times.
They know you have it better than them 364 days and 20+ hours, minus however long the sporting event is...and if our team wins it goes up to 365 days out of the year. It's all they have. Embrace it to the fullest and Go Blue"
- Stand Up and cheer.
- Do something as simple as wear a Maize colored shirt to a Maize Out.
- Congratulate all recognition, deserved or not.
- Control your own Brake Pedal on the optimism for things that haven't taken place yet.
August 3rd, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
tl;dr. Where TF is our fall roster?
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
You're expecting a fall roster?
Lol
Maybe ask Coach McElwain.
Who?
August 3rd, 2019 at 11:52 AM ^
Why do fans feel like what they do and how they act are so damn important? Why the hell do you care so much about something that you have no direct effect on? Why is YOUR way to be a fan the only why to be one? And why the fuck is this even post worthy? My God....
If your an asshole fan at a game you definitely effect the people around you, and there are plenty of those assholes
Because we can't shake the group mentality that is hard coded into us.
August 3rd, 2019 at 11:56 AM ^
Ok. Duly noted.
August 3rd, 2019 at 11:57 AM ^
Beat Middle Tennessee
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
Beat OSU, win the rest of the games.
Apparently there is only a 50/50 chance of that happening.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:05 PM ^
Just because an event has 2 outcomes doesn't mean that the likelihood of each outcome is 50/50. If I drop a wine glass of a 4 story balcony, it can either break or not break, but the likelihood that it does break is a little higher than 50/50.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:48 PM ^
And as a side note, the LD50 for jumping out of a building is the 5th floor.
Can confirm
Tossed a few out the window there, Vladdie?
True
Teaching an honors a lesson in probability, I queried "Next month is Ocober. What do you think are the odds that it will rain on October 23rd?" First hand and answer said 50%. "Okay," I responded. "Why do you think that?" Response, of course, was "Either it will or it won't."
It was impossible to respond without embarrassing the kid. It was, though, a meme for the rest of the year.
If October 23rd was a Saturday, and if Michigan had a game at Purdue, and if Michigan's chance of losing were made higher by sloppy, wet conditions ... then the chances of it raining would be greater than 50%. ;-)
I will never get over Michigan's 16-14 loss to Purdue in 1976.
Really? Poor damn you.
BBA 77
Really? Poor damn you.
BBA 77
Or MSU in ‘17
Right. Because the weather was at fault for that game.
August 3rd, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
I don't know whether to take the over or the under...I generally only do that when it's set at 100%.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:06 PM ^
I was just going to write the exact same thing!
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:07 PM ^
It is a tough schedule. I sure hope we are healthy by OSU game. I am positive we will have a good season. With a little bit of luck it can be great.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:20 PM ^
Thanks, dad.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
Our season comes down to development on defense and less stubbornness on offense. We have an offense that should be able to put up points at will, and with the defense as it is, we will need to in several games. Will Jim allow Gattis to take the gloves off as needed? That's how the season will go,
Oh, and 9-3, 9-4 after another frustrating loss in the bowl. Losses to OSU, PSU, and one of ND/MSU/Wisc/Iowa. Until we show we can win difficult games consistently on the road, this team isn't going anywhere.
Lucky for us we only have two difficult games on the road this year (Wisc and Penn St). That’s a 10-2 record with wins over Army, Iowa, ND, MSU and OSU. Probably gets us to the Big Ten title game. Sounds good to me!
Love the optimism on OSU, but I am just crushed by the recent history. I see our defense being out-schemed again (Day was OC last year after all) by superior athletes. So, for us to win, we'll have to score. And I don't see Jim "allowing" Gattis to try and win the OSU game 63-60.
So, 9-3. And for some reason, we don't care about bowl games anymore, so 9-4. The typical M record going forward. Nothing to sneeze at, but not elite either.
August 3rd, 2019 at 11:45 PM ^
Well...aren't you a ray of sunshine and positivity.
To mgoblue98....NO, and I frickin' hate it. I've been a Michigan since I was a young kid -- 40-odd years, and my fandom has been ground down over the years. The BPONE is strong with me, and I can't get past it until we start to consistently play better on the road / beat our rivals more consistently.
I mean, it's not like 9-3 in the regular season is terrible, especially with one of the hardest schedules in the country, but losing to teams we'd really like to beat year after year does a number on me. Ugh.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
Pump the brakes on pumping the brakes.
BPONE.
User name checks out.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
I was just thinking that I could really use a self-important blow hard to tell me how to think and act! Thank you!
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:39 PM ^
Man whomever was complaining about the OT posts the other day should read this shit.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:56 PM ^
A lot of people do, and yes shit is right.
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:54 PM ^
You can’t tell me what to do!!!
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^
Love this, Go Blue!
August 3rd, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^
Second hand embarrassment
Dafuq?
If anything betting against UM has to be pretty tempting for a sharp better. Our track record for our last 2 games the last twenty years and vs MSU is not good bob. Im ready to be pleasantly surprised but I expect a nail biter against MSU and I think OSU has more talent at all 22 positions (overall) than us. Last years OSU game didnt really surprise me much. I knew when they did the old “Wow we almost lost to Maryland” circle jerk we were effed. At wisconsin and at penn state is in itself daunting. Going undefeated vs MSU Osu and ND at home could be enough by itself as well. Put those 5 games together with a big ten championship vs a competent west team, and boy is that playoff looking like one helluva challenge.
I agree with nearly everything you said except the all-22 positions thing. I still think we lose to OSU by 20 points but whoever they have at QB can’t be that much better than Patterson. If you want to compare some facets of athleticism that’s one thing, but as for performance on the field, Patterson’s combination of talent and experience has to be better than OSU will put out. So ya know, there’s one position.
Sorry i meant all 22 combined not at each one.
Sorry i meant all 22 combined not at each one.
You're kind of an idiot if you think TUOS is more talented at 22 positions.
Other than that, quality post.
Unbelievable
Do you work for a religious order?
Dont pump brakes with ABS
BPONE - the new brake pedal of negative expectations.
I like it.
Like Murderwolf, it was always there.