STUDENTS: BRANDON IS NOT MICHIGAN, WE ARE. BOYCOTT PENN STATE KICKOFF.
MICHIGAN STUDENTS:
BOYCOTT PENN STATE KICKOFF.
DO NOT GO TO YOUR SEATS UNTIL AFTER KICKOFF.
WAIT OUTSIDE SECTION GATES, AND TOGETHER WE CAN:
DESTROY BRANDON'S UTL BABY WHILE STILL SUPPORTING THE TEAM.
DEMONSTRATE OUR 'OUTSTANDING' RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AD
DISPATCH BRANDON BEFORE HE DESTROYS THE PRIDE OF OUR UNIVERSITY
IMAGINE:
AN EMPTY STUDENT SECTION FROM THE BLIMP CAM ON NATIONAL TV
AN EMBARASSED BRANDON ON THE SIDELINE
A SCHOOL UNITED IN ITS RESOLVE
SUPPORT THE TEAM &
END BRANDON SATURDAY
HE IS NOT MICHIGAN. WE ARE.
#kickOUTbrandon (instead of kickoff. heh. get it?)
GET THE WORD OUT.
details / logistical discussion below.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:45 PM ^
The football team sucks, there's not really any reason to pin an empty stadium on the athletic director directly. Anybody looking at the stadium would just conclude that we've been watching the games this year.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^
We're Michigan, we're smart enough to have a team organize and distribute colored cards so when everyone holds it up, it spells "FIRE BRANDON"
October 5th, 2014 at 3:44 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 2:47 PM ^
Here are a couple of chants for Penn State:
1.) Fire Brandon
2.) Save us Regents
3.) Save us Schlissel
4.) We want free Coke
5.) This ain't dominoes
6.) This ain't wall street
7.) We want refunds
These are all I can think of for now and you can be sure that I will be chanting them in section 25 row 4 at the Penn State game.
October 5th, 2014 at 3:13 PM ^
Other suggestions:
This is Michigan
Stand United
Might also consider a scripted chant with a sequence - then distribute it to the press so you can not only hear it over broadcast, but understand it by mention from the booth.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:48 PM ^
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October 5th, 2014 at 2:50 PM ^
I hate to inform you of this sir, but we lost to Rutgers last night. Pretty sure that's all the embarassment we need to shoo recruits away.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:56 PM ^
I want a change too, and have voiced my concerns. Just because something doesn't change according to my schedule doesn't mean it won't happen. I guess when people are making fun of me, I'm not the kind of guy to create fuel for the fire.
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October 5th, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 3:18 PM ^
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October 5th, 2014 at 5:03 PM ^
and reasonable comparison
October 5th, 2014 at 4:24 PM ^
on twitter: "FWIW, a few parents of recruits told me the losing and development is more of a concern for them with Michigan than concussiongate."
So lets see: recruits are worried about winning (which despite it being just a statistic, we aren't doing) and player development (which isn't happening in any sort of consistent manner) over all the noise around the concussion issue.
Gee, a player chooses a college based on how much that experience promotes them and prepares them for the next level.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:49 PM ^
I would suggest congregating OUTSIDE of the gates until y'all march in at the same time. If you enter and chill in the concourse, knowing our excellent leader he will have already directed all of the ushers to herd the cattle to their seats by threatening them all with eviction while highlighting the "no re-entry" policy.
If you wait outside, they won't deny entry to all of you if you wait until after kickoff.
October 5th, 2014 at 5:45 PM ^
Re-entry is for leaving the stadium proper, has nothing to do with milling around the concourse. If you wait outside Gate !0 and try to enter enmasse you will create two clusterf&@ks-- one trying to scan your tickets and then another at the portals . This will probably piss off many athletic dept. minions but not neccesarily sway public opinion much. Bottlenecks at portals 25 thru 32 ought to be sufficient.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:52 PM ^
Also I tailgate in the Crisler parking lot right along Stadium, so I'm thinking about putting up a sign that can be seen from the street saying ''Honk if you think Dave Brandon should be fired''
October 5th, 2014 at 2:53 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
Is that even possible at this point?
October 5th, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
See: last night's game.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^
yep it is about $$$$$$$. It is time to boycott everything from the athletic department. Don't buy anything and stop donating money. Hit it them at the bottom line.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^
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October 5th, 2014 at 3:02 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
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October 5th, 2014 at 2:58 PM ^
When you get accepted to Michigan, you can do whatever the hell you want.
October 5th, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^
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October 5th, 2014 at 5:07 PM ^
you did not read the "have we reached bottom?" thread.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:55 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 3:00 PM ^
They are putting Hoke's pressers on espn and the circus is getting national coverage. Anything like the student not showing up till whenever will make the highlight reel.
I don't think the nation is going to be watching the game on ESPN2 or whatever but the highlights will be seen by everyone and it was be made a story.
Also if the game gets out of hand and the chants start up, that will be talked about till the end of the game since that will be more interesting than the game itself.
October 5th, 2014 at 3:17 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 3:22 PM ^
Some aren't as confident as you in regards to whether Brandon is done.
October 5th, 2014 at 3:44 PM ^
If you are going to change AD then it needs to be now to allow the new AD time to get their feet planted and make a move at the end of the season wrt CC.
That is the urgency that needs to be expressed however it is done. I have reservations that DB will not move on. The next guy needs to do the hiring ... not DB.
October 5th, 2014 at 5:13 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 2:56 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^
We're already on national TV with an empty student section.
October 5th, 2014 at 2:59 PM ^
Honestly I think it will be less embarassing, because it will take attention away from the tire fire on the field.
October 5th, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
Lord. We have been the fucking national punchline for just about everything for the past week and you think this will make things worse. How?
October 5th, 2014 at 3:20 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 4:42 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 3:00 PM ^
I think some of you forget that the internet is a thing. If the stadium is empty at kickoff but people eventually march in chanting Fire Brandon everyone will get what is actually going on.
October 5th, 2014 at 3:01 PM ^
If John U. Bacon is to be believed, Brandon is gone regardless, so this may not be necessary.
I don't really see the point in "boycotting the kickoff" and then coming in right after, either. This would just mean that the student section will be full most of the game and most viewers won't have any idea your "boycott" happened.
October 5th, 2014 at 3:03 PM ^
maybe have someone in the opposite side take a picture of the empty section right before kickoff and upload it to the Internet?
October 5th, 2014 at 3:16 PM ^
How would that differ from the many other times we've had half-empty student sections at kickoff?
The main point of a boycott is to engage in behavior contrary to what you'd normally do. Our students have a reputation for showing up late as it is so this would just be following their normal M.O.
If you really want to hit Brandon hard, come to game early and chant anti-Brandon stuff for hours. (But again - it probably doesn't actually matter at this point.)
October 5th, 2014 at 3:04 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 3:04 PM ^
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October 5th, 2014 at 3:17 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 3:21 PM ^
October 5th, 2014 at 5:45 PM ^
And I'm really sure the players like losing. Yeah right. They don't care at all. They don't commit five years of their lives. 24/7/365... dedicated to football and conditioning..busting their asses...and they want to lose.
SO YEAH. LETS SHOW UP LATE GUYS. THAT'll SHOW EM!
Let's take it out on the kids because "they don't care".
/S
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October 5th, 2014 at 3:23 PM ^
I AGREE!
Show up early. But four ice cold hot dogs, not one. Drink plenty of bottles of $3.00 water. Enjoy 7 Nation Army (all 47 times it's played). Learn the words to Sweet Caroline. Buy all the extra tickets you see from scalpers in front of Crisler (scalpers gotta eat you know). Sit where we tell you to sit regardless of what year in school you are. Don't bring cowbells and don't bring marshmellows (terrorists could be lurking you know)
True fans allow the athletic department to do whatever they want without protest. True fans follow and show their support to their athletic overlords no matter how much they disagree with the direction of the program. True fans will pay whatever is charged no matter how shitty the product on the field cause they're "true fans".