Why does Michigan not get a pass?
I am sick, SICK and tired of hearing about Michigan's unbelievable downfall last year, or even how, eventually, they'll climb back out of it, etc. It's everywhere you look! You've even got State fans thinking maybe this is the time they can "take over the state", like... in perpetuity! What I wanna know is, why doesn't Michigan get a pass?
If any, and I do mean ANY other team in the country went through a similar experience (ND just DID, and it hardly phased their national perception), the fans, commentators, everybody, would talk about their down year, but that would be it. Why, for the love of God, do they all wonder if Michigan can "recover"?
What's to recover?!? Did the school burn down? Did we hire Gillespie as our football coach? Why the hell dont they just say, "Michigan is working hard and hoping to improve from last year's down year."? Why does it have to be, "Coach Rodriguez is desperate to wipe the memory of last year's catastrophy from fan's minds and rescue his job and the university and prove Michigan won't suck forever more!"
The worst thing is, it'll continue for at least another year! SHUT UP AND TALK ABOUT FOOTBALL, MEDIA AND OTHER TEAMS' FANS!
August 28th, 2009 at 5:40 AM ^
Opinion of Michigan fans still bitter over '97. Nebraska may have had guys doing steroids, but Message Board Guy has no proof.
What they did have was their own version of Mike Barwis in Boyd Epley, and real home-grown walk on program that provided most of their offensive line throughout the Devanney-Osborne years, and a genius for a coach who believed that you don't have the game won until you can't see the other team in the rear-view mirror anymore.
Nebraska should not have fired Solich, that we all know. But their coach search was even worse than Michigan's--and Callahan ended up there only because he was fired from Oakland--and pretty late in the process. The Nebraska job was one that NO ONE wanted to touch after Osborne and then the rape of Solich. If Callahan had not been dumped by Al Davis, I might have been their next head coach.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:47 PM ^
I think its because everyone is used to us being up there and when we did have a bad year nobody could believe it. This is actually a good thing tho because it fires up the team to do good
August 27th, 2009 at 5:02 PM ^
The media likes to kick U M while they are down. I think everyone here believes that U M will be back to winning games and competing for both the Big Ten and National Titles. U M doesn't get a pass, because Michigan is well...Michigan, and is expected to win. The media will be spin this back the other way if U M gets off to a good start with wins against Western and ND. If that happens, they'll talk about how Rich Rod has turned around every program he has ran in it's second year.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:08 PM ^
Wait, you're saying nobody gave Notre Dame any shit when they went 3-9? Tell me how I move to your world.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:09 PM ^
we have too many rich alumni that would never let our program go down the shitter.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:45 PM ^
More Brett Favre instead!
August 27th, 2009 at 8:11 PM ^
M was so good for so long that we should not be surprised at the "OMG, the sky is falling".
There are still some on this site that are predicting 6 wins or less this year. Only 3 times before has M gone back to back without a winning season (34/35/36/37, 58/59, 62/63).
Unless we win at least 7 games this year (regular season) expect the volume to get even higher.