Shitty Michigan Fans

Well, you probably just made his day by giving him 5000x the traffic he normally gets.

I think you can safely assume he's the internet version of an uncensored Mike Valenti. It's one thing to read a dissenting opinion, its another thing to willingly read trash.

That is all. Don't let it bother you.

Holding onto the rope...

Bunch of assholes up in here.

The angst meter is at its highest level since Shawn Conway committed. Does a loss by the seventh place team in the Big 10 to the conference champs change anything?

Naturally, people are going to complain when things suck.... doesn't mean they're not a fan. I bitched the whole drive back to AA while listening to the awful Spartan Radio Network so I could catch the game.

It was a looooooooooong drive...

Haha you should watch mythbusters more often. You can totally polish a turd.

xkcd.com

In a nutshell....what I see from that type of fan:

I have followed M sports for a while and, more or less, they have always been a winning program and I have enjoyed that a lot over the years. the programs I have followed have always provided me with a bucket of WIN that was lacking in my own life and my identity is is unhealthily attached to the success of the program. Now, the moment that program starts to go through a rebuilding process and modernize, they are not giving me enough win and I am having an identity crisis. Naturally, my reation to this is not to back the program that has provided for me, rather I can only see what is directly in front of me and and I am going to puke and mewl about not getting enough W to satisfy. I am going to cower at the thought of opposing fans saying mean things to me. I am going to whine, questions every recruit and every decision made by the coaches until they start winning and crucify them for every misstep. the program doesn't matter, it is me that matters. I will be a 'rea' fan again once they start giving me my W's.

Analogy: exactly like a corpulent, petulant, spoiled little child who has always been allowed to eat whatever they want who suddenly needs to go on a diet and, like Augustus Gloop who can't wait for his calories, sticks his face in the chocolate river and gets his just desserts. I only wish the fair-weather fans would suffer the same fate and end

The sad part is that the moment the program starts to take care of business again and then surpasses the previous 8-9-10 win seasons and starts seriously challenging for MNCs on a regular basis (we didn't before, face it), those people will all jump right back on the badnwagon and act like they were aboard the whole time, even though they boo'ed a bunch of young players giving it their all in the first year under a new coach. Shameful to call themselves fans.

Don't let it get to you. Just keep cheering for our teams and showing support.

Some people need to blame someone (usually the coach) every time a team loses. I feel sorry for them.

This is the same as football season. People watch a game and freak out for 24 hours. I mean really. Did you think this team was going to win. You basically know what both the football and basketball teams are. We have read and determined what the flaws of the teams are. Everyone knows the football and basketball programs need older/more experienced/better players.

So I dont know what watching 1 game and freaking out accomplishes. Look, these teams will get better over time. If they dont the coaches will be let go after it is obvious the program is not moving consistently in the right direction. END of story. Dont freak out after every game bec this is UNACCEPTABLE and the coach needs to be fired.

its ok to be upset. Hell, I would even say that it is good to be upset. It means you care. Just because you handle upsetting moments differently than someone else does not make them a shitty fan. Everyone here for the most part wants this team to succeed. I agree that it is annoying to read 2340958 posts on John Beilein's coaching abilities, but replying that everyone that questions anything Michigan or writes a dissenting opinion is blasphemous is not going to help. Everyone handles grief differently, that doesn't make everyone bad fans.

im def not shitty

and being a whiny little btch.

We've never faced difficult times like these at Michigan in most of our lifetimes (I suspect there is some 90 year old MGoBlog reader out there who could comment on the Bump era) but there are choices on how to play it out. We can deal with it, speak respectfully if firmly about our dissatisfactions in football/basketball, support one another and act in the tradition of true Michigan men and women. Or we can lose our wits and complain like children, post a million and one speculative "what if" type topics, type ALL CAPS about how THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE and bitch like hell about the perceived flaws of exceptional 18 year old student athletes...three star mafia style. How Spartan.

It's a pretty easy choice.

So what you're saying is: it's not right to question our University?

I support Michigan Athletics, and I love the University more than anything, but NOT questioning it is also wrong.

The backbone of a college education teaches you to not simply go with the norm, but to see diverse viewpoints and form your own opinion. At least, that is how I see it.

Of course, I do agree though: there's a difference between a well-reasoned critique and pure noise. I'll back up my assertions before I complain haphazardly.

I didn't click on that link but I visited the 'blog. Believe it or not, the guy appears to be a RichRod supporter:

http://umtailgate.com/2010/02/21/rich-rodriguez-michigan-man#comment-116689

I was prepared for worse. :)

These are hard times, but both programs are headed in the right direction, and the coaches deserve a chance to prove it. The football and basketball teams spend their seasons as middleweights trying to fight in the heavyweight division. The football team was small because they were so young, and the basketball team was small because nobody over a 6-9 with two healthy legs and legit "big man" skills seems to want to come to Michigan right now.

RR's personnel are in place now, and this should be a "quantum leap" year for the football team. JB needs to find at least one legit big guy now, or the best we can hope for in the next few years is to be like the Butler team of a few years ago that had four seniors who could fill it up.

At any rate, all the last few years proves is that even UM isn't immune to occasional down years. It doesn't erase the football team's all-time victories record, nor does it mean that the basketball team is doomed to MAC-type performance for the remainder of time. And it doesn't mean either coach should be fired.

We all have opinions on this, and are all entitled to voice them as we see fit, but it would be nice to see the UM fan community support both of their coaches and their respective programs. Recruits read the internet, too, and I would imagine that most would like to see a fanbase that is loyal to whatever team they are considering.

It would be sad to lose a good recruit to OSU or MSU and then hear him say it was because of the negativity of UM fans. Hopefully, that will never happen here.

and over everyday on the internet and on TV and Radio /Newspaper etc. Its frustrating for all us, but the thing you have to ask yourself is are you a real Michigan fan or someone who just jumped on the bandwagon during the FAB 5 days or because Michigan has a cool color scheme?

Losing sucks we have never gone through something like this and if you don't like Coach Rod or Coach B so be it. But remember these are 18 to 22 year old kids busting their butts at Michigan to make it better. So before some of these people blow up and take shots remember you are hurting Michigan more with the words then helping it.

Go Blue!

This is an unprecedented time for Michigan athletics. The last time so many of our marquee teams were struggling, TV was broadcast in black and white and didn't show Michigan games each and every weekend, computers could barely fit inside a room, nevermind on top of your desk, and the internet wasn't even a glimmer in Al Gore's mind. Point being that Michigan fans have had to suffer through lean times before, but those lean times never had it thrown in our face each and every day.

I'd always assumed a time like this would come and we as a fanbase would acquit ourselves well because we're not Sparty or the Buckeyes. I always assumed we as fans were made of sterner stuff. It's disappointing that we as a fanbase haven't shown more grit in this trying time.