Your unpopular Michigan opinions?
This can be any sport.
-I think we should keep the all-Maize as a permanent alternate in Football and wear them for big non-rivalry games (PSU, UW etc.)
-The endzones being green is stupid. Make it Blue and step into the 21st century. Almost everyone has colored endzones and they look great.
-The renovations have made The Big House feel smaller and boxed in. Not a fan. They look great don't get me wrong, but I miss the stadium I first walked into as a 9 year old kid.
-The holier-than-thou degree waver fans are obnoxious, thinking because they went to the school they're higher than non-grad fans on the totem pole.
Mgoblog unpopular opinions -
The Mgoblog staff hate on Barstool and act as though they are better than the Barstool guys but rip off jokes heard days before on Pardon My Take. Not a huge Barstool guy but PMT is legit and with what they've built with their podcast and following is very impressive.
This site isn't as good at covering Basketball as it thinks it is.
Harbaugh uses too many RB's to the point where none can get in a rhythm. Would like to see a main back and then a few specialists in specific situations but stick with the hot guy. Use only 3 RBs per game, 4 max.
Lloyd Carr damaged Michigan football for years because of his own selfishness
**Edit**
I hesitate to even post this but... Bo Schembechler was overrated.
I was on the whole Lloyd screwed RR train until RR got fired at Arizona.
No I feel Lloyd didn't like RR because he knew he was a piece the shit that he has now been universally deemed as.
Maybe he did, but Lloyd still acted in his own best interests and not in the best interests of Michigan. Rich Rod is part of it but there are a number of other things that he did(or didn't do, like recruit in his last few years) that lead me to my conclusion.
I tried hard to like RR but always smelled a rat. The way he left WVU. His general aw shucks way along with a severely over inflated ego. His success was always more about time & place than man & machine and history has verified this.
Lloyd was the one who pushed RR into the face of the AD and said "hire him!" Lloyd did this in order to spite Les Miles with whom he had a personal grudge. Then Lloyd basically told all the talented upper class players they'd be better off if they left and gave them all an unconditional transfer out...leaving RR with the likes of Nick Sheridan and Steven Threet *shudder*
people who hate on lloyd are idiots - especially because he gave us our only national championship in 50+ years.
Don't forget that Carr recruited the linemen for RR's first recruiting class.
Yeah and he took 1 oline recruit in a recruiting class competely fucking over whoever was going to be in charge of that team 4 years later. Recruiting is a lagging indicator. The 2015 offensive line Harbaugh got wasn't bad either but the recruiting at the end of the Hoke years put us behind the 8 ball.
Another unpopular opinion. Most of the problems with the oline are Harbuagh and his staff at this point.
inherited a worse OL than hoke or harbaugh.
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When it became evident that this was not going to be an acceptable path I think he took that personally as a indication that he had no developed a qualified successor. He took that personally and his behavior was a reaction to that.
Food for thought, if we had done the same thing to Bo when he retired, passing right over his guys and looking to hire the hottest name we could, does anyone here think that would have been perfectly fine with Bo? I think he would have pissed a hissy fit and made Carr look measured.
Keep in mind Carr had big bowl wins & a NC on his resume and got less perceived respect than Bo got upon hanging up the whistle.
He SHOULD take it personally, because his failure to hire and develop decent assistants was the reason his assistants weren't a viable option to take over.
Carr oversaw a long, slow, complacent decline of the program that set up the disaster we had from '08 to '14 and maybe still haven't fully recovered from.
That's as much his legacy as the 1997 championship. That championship trophy is nearly old enough to buy a legal beer. Maybe if Carr hadn't thought it was still 1997 in 2007, that trophy would have some company in the case.
DeBord did not do well at CMU and was followed by more successful people at CMU so we can cross DeBord off the Michigan HC candidate list. He hasn't shown anything since to suggest otherwise.
English was relatively new to the coaching tree (maybe.) Two years as DC. He did well with depth his first year and not so well with younger players the next. I dearly wish RR kept English on staff but probably couldn't pay him in the allowed budget. I would have been fine with English as head coach but it would have been a strong move. The collapse at EMU doesn't help his legacy.
I think Miles from LSU looked pretty good at the time.
In a nutshell - Carr really didn't have someone in place that looked like a typical heir apparent at a top flight program.
....the fan thing.
I don't give a rats ass that Michigan has the most wins, B1G champtionships or national championships. I only care about the wins and loses that I have witnessed since I have been a fan.
And I don't care about the overall records vs. OSU or MSU.
1. The Michigan Marching Band has become really boring.
2. I don't understand why anyone thinks that the road white pants look better that the maize pants.
3. "Maize Rage" is a horrible name. I don't have anything better, however.
4. MGoBloggers focus entirely too much on niche players like Norfleet and Hammering Panda.
at least not enough for it to be a bad call. The officiating was otherwise horrible.
White shirts. Road uniforms. Tradition.
Good call. Never liked the white pants.
We have an incredible stable of TE's that seem to be much better suited to WR......why not use them as such? Gentry should be a beast but almost none of our QB's last year targeted him when doing so would have resulted in big positive outcomes.
Along those same lines, why couldn't our QB's hit the relief valve AT ALL last year? Many times you'd have a guy WIDE OPEN in the flat and they would try to force the ball down the field or just eat a sack. If our HC is a QB guru, why can't we fix that problem?
And what the hell happened to recruiting OL? Why have we had such a problem there going on 10 years?
Naming the hockey student section "the Children of Yost" was dumb.
Totally agree. No need to even name it! It should just be called THE student section, because it's the greatest one in all of college sports ever.
We'd hoped Harbaugh was a top 5 coach. He may be more like a top 15-20 coach in college, at worst. Good, but not good enough to make this program national champs
We can't forget this program was a hot mess when he got here. He immediately made it very good again.
Endzones at Michigan Stadium should NOT be painted blue.
Keep it a bowl game tradition please!
Ace and Brian ... need to cool it on twitter .
It was a BS call, but when it happened I was not happy. I did not think it gave us an advantage at all. Rumeal was not a good free throw shooter. I'm still amazed he made both of them.
Saved us from being 0-7 in National Championship Games.
I think it's pretty well known that Brian is quite no-holds-barred on Twitter but I've read stuff from Ace that has really changed my opinion of him, specifically him taunting and inflamming Penn State fans when they won the NIT this past season. I get that we don't like Penn State because of their idolatry of Paterno but it was not a good look, especially when paired with the pinned tweet of him asking people for money toward his GoFundMe.