Lack of chatter.
A recent (yesterday or the day before?) post noted the deafening lack of offseason football chatter. It even seemed to the poster that the Board has avoided talking about football and has kept to posting on other more light-hearted—or flatly benign—subjects.
The reason is probably superstition. No one wants to say/ask what many MGoBoarders are thinking. And although not superstitious myself, I am a little stitious, to quote Michael Scott, so I won’t say/ask it either. But...We have all been watching, and what we’ve seen has led simultaneously to Notre Dame-like levels of expectation and Kansas-like levels of silence:
1. Drevno and his lawyer-speak convolution of blocking schemes hit the bricks, and the O-line Whisperer was brought in.
2. Any QB that could be described as a lumbering gulumpus is gone, and more athletic QBs, including a highly-touted SEC gunslinger, moved in.
3. The “strength” coach who got ahold of, and apparently took seriously, a copy of the fake schedule that included opponents like C.E. Williams Middle School, Little Sisters of the Blind Convent, Maizen’s Fortnite crew, and Rutgers, was fired. Some guy from Game of Thrones replaced him.
4. Don Brown is still down to clown. And the D is reloaded.
5. And Jimmy. The coach who, at first, seemed just happy to be home, climbing trees, playing frisbee, sleeping over, starring in commercials, trolling D-bag coaches deep in D-bag territory, playing around on Twitter, has been different. He does not any longer seem happy just be home. He is quieter, he is calmer... He even put the meritocracy to the test by dismissing a close friend who has been at his side for quite some time. He seems determined and poised to accomplish what most of us expected in Jabrill’s 3rd year.
Yes, there is radio silence, because no one wants to jinx anything. So I’ll just quote Grant Newsome’s tweet from New Year’s day:
“Everyone take your shots at us now. We deserve it. But I promise this time next year you won’t be doing the same. Believe that.”
Less than 5 weeks...Hail.
You do realize that June and the first ~3 weeks of July are the slowest time of the year for college football news, right?
Everybody has gone to counterstrike since mgoblog 3.0 was rolled out.
I think the reason is more simple. There's not that much to talk about.
Shea is the presumed starter. We won't know more about how he looks until fall camp.
Pretty much everybody is back on defense, no real questions there. It'll be amazing again.
Same skill positions on offense, more or less the same OL guys. We won't know how that's looking til fall camp
What's there really to say? We think we'll be good, few questions, only question is how the pass pro and QB play will look like. That'll be the difference between a 8 win season and a 12 win season
Topic: chickens are nervous birds
Ha! And for god's sake, whatever you do, don't eat them or you'll assume their nervous demeanor!!!
Or it's because 3.0 makes people want to get their football news elsewhere
Any QB that could be described as a lumbering gulumpus is gone, and more athletic QBs, including a highly-touted SEC gunslinger, moved in.
I might borrow "lumbering gulumpus" for a meeting coming up....
I honest to God don't know what sucks worse - the new Mgoblog 3.0 or these fucking shit posts people keep making.
It’s still the offseason. Camp isn’t going until Friday. It’s still the slow time of the year. That will change by next week, likely.
I'm speaking just for myself. I used to come to this site multiple times a day, but now maybe a couple of times per week. The new design has nothing to do with it.
I am sick and tired of seeing my beloved team lose to OSU. To see us come so close and lose, has been bad for my health. To now realize that they are killing us in recruiting as well, is sickening to me.
I used to live in Columbus, and I have taken a lot of abuse with multiple Michigan stickers on my car. I just can't stand those moron buckeyes gleefully celebrating our failure.
Given that we have the best coach in the country who simply could not get the job done when we had stellar recruiting classes, I don't know where to go from here. I have developed a kind of apathy - not because I don't care about Michigan, but because i feel hopeless.
I don't think I can watch another game live - I will record it, and watch only the games that we win. And I will celebrate. And if we win the OSU game, I will be back, with a vengeance!
BTW, I don't give a shit about MSU.
Harbaugh wrong
Less is More,
especially this political site.
I'll be disappointed if we do not see lots of unverified rumors from Fall camp soon!
I want to believe.
Dantonio sucks.
I don't recall this July being any slower than July's in year's past.
Zach Harrison has delayed his decision. Has to be good for us.
https://www.cleveland.com/osu/2018/07/5-star_defensive_end_zach_harr_1.html
Run silent. Run deep.
Awesome! I loved it, theWritist!
Limited chatter is because they are busy filling the submarine with provisions - lots of whole milk and steak, none of that candy-ass 2% stuff or nervous chicken. Get ready for twisted blue steel on Sept 1. Go Blue !!!