Wouldn't it be great if our fanbase let these kids know that we supported them no matter what?
November 28th, 2017 at 1:00 AM ^
Chat some emojis onto their instagram
November 28th, 2017 at 3:01 AM ^
Yeah, like poop emojis, followed by heart eyes, and cake. Really mess with them!
Or maybe what would be great is if they tuned out all the noise, listened to their coaches, stuck together as teammates, and thrived off of any doubting or criticism that happened to get through.
The world is full of jerks. It doesn't excuse them to say that the maturation process includes learning how to handle them.
November 28th, 2017 at 9:22 AM ^
I'm going to now send a bunch of nasty tweets to our players because it'll teach them how to deal with assholes.
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Maybe the O-line could use some fire, but that defense is anything but soft. Softness isn't why they lost the last couple years. Mediocre QB play and questionable coaching caused their losses.
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November 28th, 2017 at 8:40 AM ^
You must be pining for Bolivia, land of the hot takes.
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November 28th, 2017 at 10:20 AM ^
score, man. They dial up good plays and score. Just because it looks almost impossible for us to move the ball sometimes, that is not so with other teams. You cite the OSU game last year after the spot. That defense had been on the field for the entire fourth quarter man. I don't think Michigan had a first down in the fourth quarter. That is not on the defense. They are guys, not robots, they physically tire.
Right now, Michigan critics are throwing out all kinds of stats to show that the defense is bad, inflated rushing numbers due to late game drives, and using phrases like "multiple score losses" to create a narrative that there this team is a long way away. In reality, in these two late season losses that defense was Beast Mode for large stretches of the game and giving the offense field position that actually allowed them to score.
This defense was not only charged with keeping the other team out of the endzone, but with doing so in such a suffocating way that the offense got the ball in a position to score without moving it very much. With a lot of defenses, holding the other team to a field goal on any given drive is a "win." It was a loss for this defense because it meant they had not flipped the field and given the offense a head start. At the beginning of the second half against Wisconsin, the Michigan D obliterated Wisconsin and the offense got the ball around mid-fleid for 3-4 consecutive drives. They came away with 3 fricking points. The defense was asked to do too much, and yeah, I think in the last meaningful drives against OSU and Wisconsin they started asking "what is the point." I think that any defense in the same situation would have.
Give this defense a competent offense, not even a great offense, but an offense that can sustain 2-3 long drives per game without the defense needing to hold their hand along the way and it would truly be the best defense in the country, and you would not see these late game lapses because they could preserve some of their physical and emotional energy for late game scenarios. Nothing about this defense is soft. They held OSU to negative yardage in the first quarter and manhandled them, and set the offense up with two short fields or we would have never scored to begin with.
Word to the wise. Stay off of sports talk radio. They are pushing a false narrative and trying to create doubt in this fanbase. We just outplayed a team that just beat MSU 48-3 and did so with a non-functional QB. The QBs are coming. Neither this team nor this program are soft, and other teams are going to find that out the hard way in short order.
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are confusing "making excuses" with discussing "reasons why we lost." For me to say that we lost the game because we had an incompetent 3rd string QB is true, it is not an excuse. The retort to that can be "well you need to develop QBs betters" and that is true. The response to that is QB was a black hole when Harbaugh arrived here and he is trying to develop them ASAP. People want Harbaugh to be able to go into the Urban Meyer cupboard and pull out Dwayne Haskins. Harbaugh has not had time to develop that kind of pipeline yet. This is seen as an "excuse." It is not an excuse, it is a reason.
Here is the reason we lost to OSU and MSU. OSU and MSU were better than us on those days and got it done. This says nothing about previous days or future days. It has nothing to do with this team being soft or not "wanting it." They were better than us when we played them this year for certain reasons, and it is possible to discuss those reasons without using those reasons as an excuse.
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Cumong mang. Every true Michigan fan knows that a good Chardonnay pairs with brie.
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And if you are brave enough to be on social media, you are guaranteed to deal with them.
The players are being supported very well. People are still buying up jerseys (even in Ohio I hear) and spending $70+ a ticket at face value. Tens of thousands still give up their weekends to cheer them on.
Also, Harbaugh is making about $9MM more than me every year. He better not need our help to make the team a success, outside of showing up the Big House and screaming like crazy.
November 28th, 2017 at 3:08 AM ^
Sounds like Harbaugh has changed the tide on the rivalry.
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November 28th, 2017 at 9:47 AM ^
So he humped the sideline comment?
November 28th, 2017 at 9:52 AM ^
Pretty sure he meant as a coach.
November 28th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^
"Kind of like an incompetent president that clearly meant well (who tf is that?lol)."
Gerald Ford?
November 28th, 2017 at 1:37 AM ^
I support ALL Michigan Wolverines 24/7/365.
November 28th, 2017 at 7:38 AM ^
Is your avatar Lorch Hall? I spent a good amount of time there in undergrad and I still get anxiety when I see faded green carpet.
November 28th, 2017 at 1:42 AM ^
You couldn't have posted this in the O'korn thread earlier? Not trying to be a dick but why. Go tweet or instagram some positive things at the players if thats your thing. I wont ever be that guy that post at them . I respect all the players for sure but they (most) are getting a free ride to play football at U of M. We know good things are coming its just frustrating at times for all of us that donate and spend money to watch the product every year. Hoping for a healthy/good Newsome and Oline next year
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Support of a player is not support of a person. Reversed, JOK was not the greatest QB ever, but all off the field reports say John is a great guy. O'korns relationship with Larry prout is also amazing.
He can then make a terrible read.
November 28th, 2017 at 3:04 AM ^
Over 100,000 people show up every home game. Is that not enough of a show of support?
Trolling on Twitter or MGoBlog is stupid. I think criticizing the person is never called for, but criticizing the performance is just regular dialogue. O'Korn seems like a great guy but he still played terribly. There are a lot of good people in this world and perhaps O'Korn is among the very best, but he's the only one who played QB against OSU on Saturday and turned in a downright horrendous performance. The trolling is sad but there were also thousands of comments on Twitter/elsewhere showering O'Korn with good feelings. So unless you want us to throw a ticker tape parade for a team that went 8-4 and yet another senior class that went 0-4 against OSU I don't really know what you're suggesting.
If we're going to start somewhere maybe we can start with the fact that Michigan fans travel much worse than OSU.