A Reminder That Should Not Be Needed - DO NOT Attack Recruits

Quite frankly, are you really going to let a handful of morons, most likely with zero affiliation to the school, affect your decision on whether or not to attend a world-class university?

Classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The comments made about him have been pretty despicable. Not that it's any excuse but if he would have announced for Michigan, the OSU comments by fans would have been far worse.

Enough Mike Weber already.   He Gone.

With social media there will be people from all sides being mean. Sometimes they aren't even real fans of that team but made up to make a fanbase look bad. For every negative Michigan fan towards him there are 100 positive ones, but the negative one will stand out.

That being said, what did you expect from Meyer, Weber?

Social media gives a public platform to people who should not have one nor deserve one in some cases. It's been around long enough though that recruits should know its the nature of the beast. If you don't want it, make your account private.

If they rule out a school because of what moronic lunatic fringe part of that school's fanbase tweeted them, then they were looking for an excuse to exclude that school anways.

I can completely understand why she would want to defend Mike and how it would hurt. However, it's absolutely silly to think the issue exists with just particular fanbases. I've heard people like McGary say there partially won over by UM's passionate fans who encouraged him to come, so I guess I'm not surprised the opposite type of attention can actually affect him

The problem is that the idiots who do this stuff don't see a problem with it; they figure once he leave he's the "enemy" and at that point you can say whatever you want.  It's why I always feel a bit embarrassed when talking to non-sports fans about my passion for Michigan sports because it sometimes does come across as a bit of insanity.  

Social media also doesn't help, but I remember in college (early 00's) people spamming John Navarre's email account after a loss and calling him every name in the book.  When there is a near-0% chance that the guy you are attacking isn't going to walk into your room and call you out for being an ass, there are lots of muscle-flexing online.

So sick of this fiasco.

Tweeting recruits are idiots. But Webers mom is so far off base here, does she not read Bucknuts? Go read some of the threads there since this whole thing started... Weber has been hammered, called soft, accused of deceiving Urbs, referred to as a baby needing his "momma a tit", and the only concern is keeping K. Walker in the fold. These guys lied to her son or at best deceived him and they think winning the National championship somehow makes it alright. Delusional. This feels orchestrated.

This was definitely not thread worthy.

I understand her point, but I'm honestly more than a little embarrassed for her.

I just wanted to take a second and remind everyone it's NOT ok to slash the tires of a recruit's car that doesn't choose Michigan nor is it permissible to set fire to their home. Also, please remember that it's definitely not cool to call in bomb threats to planes they are on, kidnap their relatives nor is ok to try and poison them.

Don't tweet at recruits, unless you know them personally. 

Fwiw I've seen this same topic brought up about 1000 times since twitter became a thing.

 

 

We can do what we want. That's today's world. Social media... If they don't want to read it then they shouldn't use it.

Weber is a great kid.

He should know that in the age of Social Media that you never believe anything you read/hear and only half of what you see.

It is not possible to stop a troll moron from writing crap and pretending to be a fan when they are not and this is for all colleges, not just rival schools.

 

How about we start closer to home and not attack the kids who actually wear a Michigan uniform? I know it's generally the minority but look at any game thread and see exactly how ugly some fans can be.

i do not see any reason to attack the kids or family. they are not at fault. the school is doing this to them. how would you like to have someone talk to you son or daughter like some of you are talking about the kids. not just weber but all the kids all over. they are guided by school. give them a break. BACK OFF

Some morons that simply can't help themselves.

Why the negbangs?

I just said something about this yesterday to the tune of 60-something negs... Now, take it from his mom. Weber ain't coming here because of a small pocket of brash assholes who are louder than the rational majority, and that, to him and his family, is probably worse than playing for the team whose coaches mislead him.

While there are asshole M fans, it is so easy for rival fans to pose as Michigan fans at go at these kids. 

Mike Webers mom thinks U of M fans are bad. Does she have any idea that the coach her kid is gonna play for is a total scumbag?

What about d-bag OSU fans pretending to be Michigan fans?  Yes, it happens.

There are bad mouths and bad people in every fan base. You’re dealing with humans who have all different types of personalities and character traits. The thing that really bothers me, is that his mother appears to be too caught up with the social media comments. She’s acting like she really believes those idiots speak for the majority of the Michigan fan base. They’re just a bunch of upset individual numskulls, spitting some venom. If the situation was reversed, her son would be getting the same treatment from the bad apples in OSU’s fan base or any other fan base. Sometimes people even get online and pretend to be a part of a fan base and make negative comments to make that fan base look bad. If you’re going to be online reading comments from morons directed to you, then you’re just setting yourself up to be angry because that‘s what they're trying to do. Some of our morons were even making very nasty negative remarks about Cass Tech just because Mike Weber didn’t come to Michigan. Since no Cass Tech player has become a college star yet, some people wanted to talk shit about the whole school. Though we may ruin our chances of getting the ones who do become big college stars, by talking negative about Cass Tech and hurting their feelings.

Never should anyone tweet at a recruit. But there is something called a private account.

I appreciate the logic and the sentiment. I don't really use social media, but the nature of social media and the anonymous nature of it means that this kind of thing is going to happen. When you're an athlete, I'm sure you hear it when you go to opposing stadiums, social media makes it easier to get direct access to the target. It's a problem, but a little practicality is also called for on the part of the recruit/athlete and their family. It's unfortunate, but no matter what if you're on social media and people care about you, someone (maybe many someones) are going to attack you too. If you don't like it, that's unfortunate, but your only options are to avoid social media or ignore the haters. But for the record I don't condone tweeting or contacting recruits or really anyone you have no business contacting on social media.

I have a feeling it's not as bad with guys that are hardcore readers of the blog like everybody here because they are smart guys who get the point.  Most of these "attacks" are the cynical asshats who live in the ESPN comments section and feel like the world revolves around Michigan athletics