Random Michigan Fan Questions

1) It's hard for me to watch other games after a Michigan loss that week.  When they are winning, I get more interested in the remaining games.

2) No and no.

3) I'm always more interested in spring football.

4) Bowl season.

5) Football - loaded roster in a weak B1G plus the fact that they have to be in the top 4 instead of the top 2 after this season to get a shot.

1. No. It just makes me overall less enthused with life. I should probably seek therapy.

2. When M is losing in basketball I just don't follow the sport at all. Basketball is in my opinion the worst of the major sports. Too much left to the whims of the officials. I do not miss it when I'm not watching it.

3. Spring football.

4. Football. Always football. See above.

5. Football. Basketball is too hard to predict due to the sheer number of one and done guys.

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1.   When Michigan is losing in football, does it decrease your interest in CFB? Visa Versa?  Not that much.  I can watch football basically till my eyeballs explode.

2.   When Michigan is losing in basketball, does it decrease your interest in CBB? Visa versa?  Big time.  When we're not in the Tourny I barely watch any of it.  When we're in I'm glued to the TV

3.   With Michigan out of the B1G Tournament, have you been more interested in Michigan's NCAA seeding or Michigan Spring Football?  NCAA seeding.  Spring Football is still waaaaay out in the future for me.

4.   Between the Ohio game (or B1G Championship game) and the New Year's Day (or better) Bowl game...are you typically more interested in Michigan Football/early Bowl Season or Michigan Basketball (non-conference)/CBB? Does it depend on the success of either team?  Football with the exception of 2008-2009

5.   Who has a better shot at winnning a National Championship the soonest - Football or Basketball?  Football by a mile IMO.  The schedule, if it remains as is, gives us a shot at a National Championship every other year. Conversely it sort of locks us in to a mediocre record every other year too.  Plus football is really only competing against 10-15 other teams with a real shot at winning.  Basketball is more like winning the lottery in its randomness year after year.

 

1.   When Michigan is losing in football, does it decrease your interest in CFB? Visa Versa?

It generally does for a few days.  Then I get over it.

2.   When Michigan is losing in basketball, does it decrease your interest in CBB? Visa versa?

If you're talking about losing a single game, no.  One loss in basketball is not crippling the way it is in football (unless it's in the NCAA tournament, obviously).  

But if you're talking about Michigan being bad at basketball, as we were for a decade, that didn't kill my fandom but it definitely made me less interested in watching non-Michigan games.  The tournament is not the same when your team isn't participating.

 

3.   With Michigan out of the B1G Tournament, have you been more interested in Michigan's NCAA seeding or Michigan Spring Football?

Definitely NCAA seeding.  Selection Sunday is one of my favorite days of the sports year.  The committee evaluates your performance over four months of work and then sets up a wild three-week tournament.

Spring football has never interested me that much as a fan.  It's practice - we can't see what's going on, and it's impossible to tell how much of the hype is legitimate.  With it being preceded by three months of nothing and followed by four months of nothing, it's hard for me to get into a football mindset this time of year.  

 

4.   Between the Ohio game (or B1G Championship game) and the New Year's Day (or better) Bowl game...are you typically more interested in Michigan Football/early Bowl Season or Michigan Basketball (non-conference)/CBB? Does it depend on the success of either team?

 

This is basically the same as question #3, just in reverse.  The OSU and bowl games are the height of the college football season, while the December basketball games are only mildly important for RPI purposes.  At that point I haven't fully gotten into a basketball mindset.  I'm always more interested in a team at the height of its season.  

 

5.   Who has a better shot at winnning a National Championship the soonest - Football or Basketball?

Basketball.  That's not to say it's likely, of course.  But you just have to get hot for three weeks in March to win it all in basketball.  In football, you've basically got to be perfect all year long, which is extremely difficult.  Also, there are structural inequalities in football that make it hard for non-Southern teams to win national titles.  

1. Yes

2. No

3. Seeding

4. Depends on what bowl Michigan is going to.

5.  Football.  Less teams have a realistic shot at winning it.  Win your conference and don't lose more than a game you are probably getting a spot in the playoff.

1) When Michigan is losing in FB?  I go to every game so I stay to the end. I almost left early for the UTL game and that would have been aweful.  I stay to the end.  On TV if we are losing (ala 'Bama) I might switch over to check another game, but I always watch.  I dont watch any NFL games anymore so CB is the only football I watch.

2) BB Losing? I watch to the end.

3) BBT or Spring Game?  Both.  I watched every BTT game thus far AND every BB game this weekend.  The spring game will get here soon enough.

4) Football INCLUDING the 2008 and 2009 seasons.  I would not care if they went 0-fer.  I enjoy watching all things Michigan especially football and softball.

5) SOFTBALL.  I have said it before.  The SB team has the best chance of a NC of all varsity sports.  Volleyball had one hellava run recently.  I will sign the yellow and blue in the Diag and  post it on YouTube if another team other than softball wins a NC.

But to answer your question directly: football.  I think BB is a one-and-done sport.  Teams like Gonzaga have a good chance because they do not have star players that leave for NBA.

 

1) If Michigan loses in football, I can't watch any sport for about a week. This is mainly because one loss can ruin the whole season, so every loss hurts. And I'm still a sucker who watches sportscenter for sports news, and the football news cycle is about a week. 2) If Michigan loses in basketball, I don't really care that much. I get cynical about our prospects for success in the current season and seasons after, but since we can lose many games and still get into the tourney and win it all. I love March Madness even though it's a horribly unfair way to crown a champion. Sacrificing morality for the sake of entertainment is what sports are all about. 3) Seeding. This is the first season since 2008 (first time we made it back to the dance) that I've invested 100% of my fandom into the bball team. I can't think about the Red Wings, Tigers, Pistons, or even the football team. 4) Football. Always football. While I played bball and never gave football a try, I'm still a bigger fan of football. I just think it's a better sport. 5) I guess basketball? There's zero margin for error in football, and I think we're trending towards perfection but it's hard to run the gauntlet. In bball, it looks like Beilein will give us a perennial tourney team. All it takes is a hot streak at the right time.

1. This cuts both ways honestly.  Sometimes I get so pissed off after a loss that I can't watch any more football and turn it off for the rest of the Saturday.  Sometimes though I need more football to take my mind off of the loss, so I turn to things like schadenfreude and other rooting interests to occupy me.  And to a certain degree it just doesn't matter to me what happens with Michigan as college football is by far my favorite sport.
2. I definitely lose interest in basketball when we lose and vice versa.
3. Spring football by a wide margin
4. Football by a wide margin
5. Basketball, because it only takes a few freshman to do it, and a hot streak in March.  Football takes a lot longer to build back up.

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. More interested in hoops seeding

4. Football.  I enjoy the early bowl games and the practice hype over one of our 3rd/4th team guys (ie. Felman Malveaux in the late 80s, early 90s)

5. Football.  The B1G is still not very good, so you only have a couple equally talented teams to get through in conference.  And it's easier to win one bowl game as opposed to six basketball games in a row.  Finally I have a hard time finding the equivalent of the 5-12 upset in football every year.

1. No. I'll watch junk like Utah vs Weber State until 1 am regardless of UM's record. 2. No. My interest is only diminished by OSU or Duke going deep into the NCAA. 3. Spring ball. Heck, even recruiting during spring ball is a fix for my addiction. 4. Football. 5. Football.

1. A Michigan loss will ruin my desire to watch football in the immediate aftermath, but given an hour of so I will watch other games. College football is 1A when it comes to my favorite sports, so I will watch it no matter what.

2. I pay more attention and will watch more college as a whole now that Michigan is good. During the dark days of my time there under Amaker I would watch Michigan and hope for the best, but not pay to much attention to the outside world of college basketball. But now that they are good I actually care about who else is good and how they match up with other teams.

3. Spring football, but mostly because the seeding stuff can be a bit hard to follow. Everyone says something different and I have no idea who is more accurate. Michigan is in the tournament and will probably be a 3 seed, maybe a four, from there I've moved onto spring practice.

4. Michigan non-conference basketball, at least now that they are competitive. To many meaningless bowl games for me to get to excited about it. I probably watch parts of most of them, but look forward to Michigan basketball games far more.

5. Basketball, because they will win it this year before Hoke leads the football team to the National Championship next January. 

 

1.   Sometimes. If I'm frustrated I may skip the next round of games (say Michigan loses at a noon game, I may not watch the 3:30 games), but generally not much.

2.   Again, not too much. I still like watching college basketball, but generally my interest outside of B1G basketball is fairly little until tourney time. I'll watch a game here or there, but not enough to have a Michigan loss affect it much.

3.   Always football. I feel like the seeding thing is a foregone conclusion anyway. What will happen will happen, not much can be learned or whatever from it.

4.  Again, always football. I'll watch any Michigan basketball game I can, but football is always going to be number 1 with me. Plus, non-conference college basketball means so little in the grand scheme of things. Yes, it means something (it's why Michigan is still probably a 4 seed), but with so few important games and the importance of those games heavily marginalized, football is where my interest lies more.

5.   This is an oddly worded question. Who has a shot at winning the NC soonest is probably basketball. The talent is there this year to potentially win it. The talent hypothetically could be there next year to win it. I don't think they'll win it either of those years, but who has the better shot at winning it soonest? Probably basketball. Who is more likely to win a NC first? Probably football.

1. No, I always watch as much college football as I can, no matter what. Even though I'll be mad, I'll still watch the next slate of games.

2. No, basketball isn't as upsetting when they lose, I'll still watch as much college basketball as I can.

3. NCAA seeding, I'm living in the moment, seeing how much that Wisconsin loss is going to cripple us.

4. College football/early bowl season, because usually non-conference basketball is a bunch of uneven matchups, when the bowl season is the second best  college sports post season (NCAA tournament first.)

5. Basketball, because Michigan could win it this year, if not, maybe next year depending if Hardaway JR, and Robinson III return.

No. I still prefer college sports to pro, so I will always watch regardless of how my Wolverines are doing.

i have great respect for beiien and hoke. they both have improved their teams records and our perception of their programs.

hoke seems more driven and beilien is maybe too nice with officials and his players.

that being said, 68 teams are eligible to win  a few games in a row and be national champs in basketball. football requires a team to be judged one of 2(4 in the future) best teams at the end of the season to compete for the championship.

#1 YES, it makes me sick to watch other teams execute plays and make tackles. I sometimes want to cry when other teams DB's are in the same area code with the WR they are guarding.

#2 YES, see above

#3 1) Michigan Hockey 2) Hand visiting 3) Spring Football 4) Michigan Basketball

#4 non-conference basketball. The team plays D and rebounds some during that time. It's fun to watch.

#5 Football. Defense, defense, defense.

1. When Michigan is losing in football, does it decrease your interest in CFB? Vise Versa? For the rest of the day after a loss it lowers my interest. I'll watch some, but not as excited for the big night game. A bad loss and it might be movie time. 2. When Michigan is losing in basketball, does it decrease your interest in CBB? Vise versa? Yeah, I watch less of other games. If it's not about standings and potential Tourney foes, I don't care about the other games. I wouldn't be watching Indiana-Minnesota if it wasn't about how it will affect us. But not the Tourney. When I get eliminated in my pool kills more interest in the games. 3. With Michigan out of the B1G Tournament, have you been more interested in Michigan's NCAA seeding or Michigan Spring Football? Spring Game > Selection Show > Spring Practice > endless prattle on potential seeding. We're not a one seed, we'll see how it goes. But the show and bracket analysis is fun. 4. Between the Ohio game (or B1G Championship game) and the New Year's Day (or better) Bowl game...are you typically more interested in Michigan Football/early Bowl Season or Michigan Basketball (non-conference)/CBB? Does it depend on the success of either team? Michigan Football > Good bowl games > good (rare) baketball games > bad bowl games > bad b-ball games. There are some bad bowl games, but college basketball in December is generally awful. Rare is the Michigan-Duke game. 5. Who has a better shot at winnning a National Championship the soonest - Football or Basketball? Football. The "all you have to do is win 6 games" is harder than it sounds. We're recruiting at more of that level in football, and just need to get to the game. Notre Dame just got there, and actually got unlucky to have to play Alabama. After Bama lost they were much more in line to play a Kansas State, and then who knows? We could be talking Irish National Champs. You need less luck to dodge a powerhouse in football. In basketball it's practically impossible. MSU had a easy run a few years ago, then hit talent and got blasted. That may change with a 4 team playoff.