Funchess: "Wins and Losses just a 'Statistic'"

"We're miserable, so let's stay miserable, because the last time we tried to become un-miserable that didn't go so well."

This is so stupid. This is the only fanbase in the world that thinks the fans have any input to the product on the field at all. We've explained away a decade of being a terrible football program by saying "oh, everyone's not on board." Did that hurt ND? Nope. Instead, they went to an NC, and now are right back in the thick of it again this year. 

not to somebody that doesn't care if the game is a win or a loss.  It just is, so why get emotional about it?

I agree. If the shit I said when I was 20 years old was broadcast for all the world to hear, I'd probably be in jail, no women would speak to me, and my parents would disown me.

Now granted, you can argue it's on him to choose his words wisely, and if one person asks you something, then yes, you have to be disciplined. But with the amount of questions these players are probably asked over and over and over, exhuasted from the game, dehydrated, injured, so many other things to focus on, not to mention we're "reading" his words, so there's absolutely no tone or inflection, which means we literally "make one up" based on our own imagination, means we really can't know what he means.

Not to mention, the humna ego most certainly inflates when you play every week in front of 100,000+ (if it's even true anymore!) and lots of people know your name and people talk about the NFL, Sundays, etc. etc It's natural to start to think "hey, I've got my own opinions too", and damn right he should (because that's what growing up and becoming a man is), in light of that, it's then ridiculous for us to try to plaster him for the inevitable slip-up and mistake. I mean, you don't go to high-school, middle-school, or elementary students and berate them for the inevitable wrong answers they got on their exams (because no one always scores perfectly...and if they did, then they are a TOTAL NERD and SURELY SUCK AT OTHER THINGS), and for these players it's no different. They are all learning. Growing up. Becoming adults.

It's all part of the process.

But also, don't get me wrong. #firebrandon #firehoke #slapfunk

Actually I meant when I said that other players don't seem to have this problem that indeed, she has googled them. Every U-M player seems to do it, yet everyone we tried on Minnesota, for example, doesn't seem to have a twitter. That's the game that sticks out to me, also a bit of Notre Dame. Of course, many schools do have this problem, but many schools also try to limit the amount of fluff their players put in public. Personally, I think that's a good idea, and it doesn't seem to be practiced here at all.

Anyway, of course this is an extremely minor issue. But when things are going like this, everything is amplified. And I do think we are probably among the leaders in the nation for % of players tweeting.