Group Think Support
So, I hope something productive comes out of this but if I get negged to oblivion, so be it. My reasoning is as follows: We have the coach we all wanted and the team is young. They are obviously more prone to swings of emotion and discouragement, exponentially more than we the disappointed fans. I was thinking we mgoblog "members" could come up with a way, whether via social media or otherwise, to bombard the players and coaches with support to try to positively influence the team by taking a bit of pressure off of them. Our fanbase can be brutal when things aren't tip top (and to be honest even when they are). This may seem like a pie in the sky line of thought, but I'd rather be a part of something positive at this point than dwell on and emphasize deficits.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:14 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:20 PM ^
Don't boo a bunch of 17-22 year olds. And don't try to boo and hide behind the theory that you're "booing the coaches, not the players." Kids hear the boos and don't separate themselves from the coaching staff when they hear it. They take it personally and it doesn't motivate them to play better for your benefit. It turns them and recruits off.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:19 PM ^
I mean, only if they're already on the team. If they're recruit, go for it.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:29 PM ^
Yeah, it's a bad idea if it's negativity or stalking, but a brief positive message from fans might lift the spirits. I'm probably a bad proponent since mgoblog is pretty much my social media.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:18 PM ^
Go make a huge paper banner that says "Thank you Michigan football, we support you no matter what" and hang it on the brick wall along the Schembechler parking lot.
It'll be taken down in a couple hours, but maybe the players will see it first.
October 26th, 2017 at 10:29 PM ^
Put up a giant tifo-style "THANKS TEAM!" banner in the stadium that the players will see when they come out of the tunnel. Sort of like the "THANKS STEVE" banner that was put up in the stadium for Stephen Ross when he dropped all that money on the AD a few years ago.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:21 PM ^
Trying to kill time while waiting for the offense UFR? I'm starting to think this may have been the game to finally kill Brian. I picture him curled up in a ball in the corner of his mom's basement with his eyeballs plucked out by forks and him bleeding to death from his empty eyeball sockets. Gruesome imagery, I know, but Halloween is next week.
P.S. As a kid, we used to joke that Meijer had everything you need and you could actually live there. Well, now that dream has become a reality:
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/10/26/mei…
October 26th, 2017 at 5:19 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:29 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^
October 27th, 2017 at 9:43 AM ^
The dreaded office sympathy card, always tough to think of something to write on those. Especially if the standard phrases ("sorry for your loss", "get well soon", etc.) are already taken and you have to come up with somethign creative so you don't write the exact same thing as someone else.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:36 PM ^
This one isn't that bad. He is coming from a good place and I appreciate the sentiment.
October 26th, 2017 at 7:10 PM ^
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October 27th, 2017 at 5:23 AM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:34 PM ^
We can all blow the team kisses at kickoff?
October 26th, 2017 at 5:37 PM ^
Maybe we can all blow the team; kisses at kickoff?
October 26th, 2017 at 5:46 PM ^
I already signed the "Hang in There" card that mgobleu passed around, so I'm going to pass on this.
October 26th, 2017 at 6:04 PM ^
Maybe the best thing I've seen on this board this week. But we need to be careful that we don't go full Pitino.
Never go full Pitino.
October 26th, 2017 at 6:49 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:36 PM ^
I have almost no means of helping, but telling the players we support them is a good thing as long as it's not done in a weird, online stalker sort of way.
October 26th, 2017 at 5:36 PM ^
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October 26th, 2017 at 5:49 PM ^
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October 26th, 2017 at 5:43 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:48 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 8:13 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 5:49 PM ^
Good lord...
October 26th, 2017 at 6:00 PM ^
Why don't we not send something on social media and try not to look like some creepy middle-aged concern troll to the team?
Just let them concentrate on the things they have to do during the week and then go out and yell your head off in support on Saturday when they're playing.
October 26th, 2017 at 6:00 PM ^
Not a freak out. Everyone is anxious about everything, but if our crowd was kick ass and we were as relentlessly supportive as we are cynical and suicidal, we might make 0.01% more difference. But seriously, let's care 120% more positively, because delusion solves everything!
October 26th, 2017 at 6:03 PM ^
If the players needs nice tweets to feel better about themselves and play better then we have a bad team.
October 26th, 2017 at 6:05 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 6:06 PM ^
I hate you
October 26th, 2017 at 6:34 PM ^
You still don't get it and you're still upset about it, talking now about it here.
It was a truly horrible thread because it's been there's been numerous on here through the last few weeks, just like it. Someone who's been lurking for years as you say you have would have realized that but instead, you posted, got negged and doubled down.
October 26th, 2017 at 6:44 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 6:58 PM ^
You're taking this way too seriously. People get destroyed all the time for bad threads. Consider it a rite of passage and next time don't make a crappy thread.
October 26th, 2017 at 7:04 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 7:05 PM ^
October 26th, 2017 at 7:09 PM ^
Like MeanJoe, I too agree wholeheartedly. There's some real wisdom in your last sentence.
October 26th, 2017 at 7:22 PM ^