Snowflakes: The Fans

I saw a lot today.  I saw special teams make plays.  I saw defense try to stand their ground despite 3 and outs by the offense.  I saw lots of poor playcalling, in my humble opinion.

That’s not what this is about.

I saw a stadium of fans boo their team in front of 4 commits and 15 prospects. (it was probably meant for the play call, but how would they know?)

I had to listen to an idiot next to me talk about how he thinks Devin Gardner is the worst QB in the world and that he wanted him to get injured so that Morris would play.

After I got home, I saw a thread polling fans about cutting their support for the program.

For a school that prides itself in being one of the best, to me at least this seems like a low point for the fandom.

Brady Hoke is doing an excellent job of recruiting, and he has an aspect of aggressiveness (fakes, going on 4^th down) that we have not seen in the past, and I think we like it.

Greg Mattison’s defense created the Heininger Certainty Principle, and who can forget the drastic improvement in guys like Jake Ryan and JT Floyd?

I’m not happy with Borges, but I do think that we will improve in a couple years, given the opportunity.  Borges seems unable to adapt to an RPS situation where Rock is more like clay and is really weak but scissors is made of titanium as he doesn’t want to keep throwing out the same thing (would this make paper the bubble screen?).  Once we have the talent and experience to execute reasonably on run and pass they will put up points (I hope).

If you want to fire Brady Hoke, you are asking for a decade of mediocrity.  Who would want this job where 2 coaches have been fired in 6 years (one of them being the “Michigan Man” that everyone wanted after Rich Rod)?  Even if you hate Borges, I'd prefer to keep it to the message boards and support the team on the field.

There is a reason why the team touches the banner at the start of the game. 

None of this would be possible without the support of the fans.  250 consecutive games over 100,000 was a mark reached today.  That is another record for Michigan, but in the midst of that, I guarantee that the one thing that will end this program is if the fanbase gives up on their team.

I’m not asking you to not get upset when things don’t go well; that’s what makes sports what it is.  The highs would not be highs unless there were corresponding lows.

I don’t know I was feeling really bummed after the game and thought I’d start a thread for the first time.  Hopefully there’s not too much hate because that would make me a bit sadder.  I was gonna add some crap about work and how I've seen people get frazzled when they don't perform and get fired eventually, and others rebound with proper support, but now I am tired and I just want the day to end.

I’ll end off with the words of someone wiser than myself.

"We want the Big Ten championship and we're gonna win it as a Team. They can throw out all those great backs, and great quarterbacks, and great defensive players, throughout the country and in this conference, but there's gonna be one Team that's gonna play solely as a Team.

No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team? Because you can go into professional football, you can go anywhere you want to play after you leave here.

You will never play for a Team again. You'll play for a contract. You'll play for this. You'll play for that. You'll play for everything except the team, and think what a great thing it is to be a part of something that is, The Team. We're gonna win it. We're gonna win the championship again because we're gonna play as team, better than anybody else in this conference, we're gonna play together as a team.

We're gonna believe in each other, we're not gonna criticize each other, we're not gonna talk about each other, we're gonna encourage each other. And when we play as a team, when the old season is over, you and I know, it's gonna be Michigan again, Michigan."