REMINDER: Last Week Of OT Season Is This Coming Week

Unfortunately, tribalism in American politics is now advanced to a point where there is disagreement on what is in fact political in nature, which goes beyond, say, policy discussion being generally out of bounds. Because sports intersects with so many other points in society and culture, it's difficult to avoid at least giving that particular area a love tap, as it were, from time to time. As always, I guess everyone should remain vigilant and post in the stick or find a mod on social media as we're there as well. 

Long story short, there are a lot of threads I don't read, and I am sure other mods could say the same thing, so if we don't see it, surely someone has and can speak up. Then again, that goes for a lot of things too, right down to people in the past who seemed to be hyperventilating through the Internet whenever we lost to a rival. 

In the event that this was facetious, then forget everything I said. Everyone else will anyway. 

"I truly want to know how our vaunted programs have veered off back some 20 years ago so UM FB can right the ship?"

I actually think you should enshrine this one in a thread. Seriously. This would be an interesting fan / alum interplay and I have thoughts on it myself. I think you would find a lot of complaints about the program having become increasingly resistant to even the mere suggestion of change whereas other teams were integrating all the latest trends in football because they, well, worked....really well, I might add.

You would also find that, in the early 2000s, the schism between the old guard "Leaders And Best Blah Blah" people and more progressive elements at the University, as well as among donors and more influential people, had begun to reach critical mass. That's my take in brief anyway. 

Well, to be absolutely clear, I meant before the first Michigan game, which is September 2nd. The week prior to the game itself is usually a rush of roster or other team news, including the inevitable depth chart (which is a talking point, not the depth chart per se - standard qualifier here, of course). 

My only quibble would be that shitposting is probably good for overall morale when it arises from something unintentional or otherwise benign. For example, we have actually had people over the course of years get upset with things that, in fact, didn't happen - usually specific things in a game, like a play or a foul call. 

The people who shitpost because they want to simply let someone or something that will never read this blog (e.g., a player, coach, staffer, etc...) have it, or because they want to share their feelings in some toxic way.....those people can get stuffed generally.