Speight receiving death threats?

Submitted by NashvilleBLUE on

In the below article, Mo Hursts talks about how much of a struggle it must be for Wilton "receiving death threats and people telling QBs to 'kill yourself'. You're supposed to be our fans and shouldn't be saying that type of stuff"

As a football fan, I'm obsessed with Michigan to a point where I periodically have to check my priorities because I put a lot of stock in a game; however, Mo's statements really puts the "dark side of sports" into perspective. Here is illustration of where obsession can lead to "Misery" levels.

I am as dissapointed with the up and down QB play as anybody, but when it crosses the entertainment realm and enters the realm of personal attacks (nevermind the student-athlete part), then it gets psychotic.

Hopefully this is just a few twitter trolls (e.g. the Isiah Thomas jersey burning) and not a legitimate thought by some of these fans, because that would be dispicable.

 

http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Having-heard-the-backlash-teammates-…

 

EDIT: As someone pointed out below, The 247 article I linked left out a pretty critical follow-up on Mo's statement with the section below, which can be found in the article here 

https://www.landof10.com/michigan/michigan-coach-jim-harbaugh-wiltons-s…

---Wait. Did Speight get death threats?

“I assume so,” Hurst answered. “I remember that punt thing [against Michigan State in 2015], yeah.”

It’s college football. Not life versus death.---

 

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fksljj

September 11th, 2017 at 9:52 PM ^

More like it's idiotic to gamble period. Las Vegas was built on loser money. And to this day, people still keep coming here, along with the locals, and just give their money away for free. I work too damn hard to give my money to the casinos. Fuck that. I was walking through a casino one day to get to a restaurant and I saw a lady who must have been in her 90's, hooked up to an oxygen tank, still pulling the lever on a slot machine. Come on, lady. THAT is how you want to spend your final days?

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MGoCombs

September 11th, 2017 at 10:03 PM ^

I disagree, in that gambling can be a fun pastime like any other thing that costs money if you do it responsibly, within your means, and without pretense that you'll come out better in the long run.

For instance, let's say I put $50 or some reasonable disposable amount money on a few games every Saturday or go to a casino once a week and drop it in a slot machine. If I get several hours of entertainment out of it and can afford $50/week, then I'd say it's fine, even if I lose that amount every week. It's no different than going golfing, to a bar, etc.

I personally don't gamble very often, but I don't think it's idiotic if it's someone's way of getting some entertainment. Just don't get carried away or do it with delusions that you'll make money. Granted, to your point, far too many people don't look at it that way and just burn money and end up regretting it, which is idiotic.

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Bando Calrissian

September 11th, 2017 at 9:46 PM ^

Yet another reason why social media is the worst. The need to interact with players, nay, the idea that you have an inherent right to friend them/follow them/tell them your innermost thoughts and feelings about their performance... Not to mention the weirdos who contact and try to become friends with recruits, only to turn on them when they don't pick the school of the fan's choice...

If I were a coach, I'd be telling the kids to ditch the twitter, make some close friends in real life, hang out with their teammates, hit the books, and ignore the noise. This crap isn't worth having a Twitter account.

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BoCanHam15

September 11th, 2017 at 10:04 PM ^

But how can one tell who or what did it? Everything is all messed up because of social media! That is a horrible story and Wilton not only doesn't deserve this(probably a double negative) but who cares. He's our best quarterback at this time and a Wolverine. I will be praying for us all. Nothing is that serious when it comes to collegiate athletics. Fab 5 received some heart-warming mail back in the day, before social media took off. I guess evil can rear its ugly head through any vehicle. Just horrible, if true!

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Catchafire

September 11th, 2017 at 9:52 PM ^

If we lose, its not a big deal, not the end of the world, and no one's life should be threatened.  Fans are assholes.

I can only imagine what JT B. is going through right now.

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wolvemarine

September 11th, 2017 at 11:33 PM ^

I'm going to put it right on the line. There's been a lot of complaints already. Fooling around on the board, bad language, smoking grass, poor commenting. If you guys want to get fired. If you want to be replaced by Russian spambots, just keep it up.

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Mannix

September 12th, 2017 at 12:03 AM ^

Listened to his podcast on ABCA Calls from the Clubhouse and he tells recruits upfront there will be no social media engagement, accounts, or anything hinting of that.

He said being an athlete in college is hard enough without having to worry about outside noise.

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Franz Schubert

September 12th, 2017 at 6:44 AM ^

If someone threatened Speights life. But I'm not comfortable with "assume" in a case like this. Hopefully this gets cleared up one way or the other.

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jblaze

September 12th, 2017 at 8:33 AM ^

This is a sensational headline and I'm surprise wasn't negged more. Key part from OP's post:

Wait. Did Speight get death threats?

“I assume so,” Hurst answered. “I remember that punt thing [against Michigan State in 2015], yeah.”

So, we're assuming that Speight got death threats because Hurst assumes he did, because our punter 2 years ago got death threats via twitter? I don't see the connection.

Maybe we are all too used to reading Buzzfeed.

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M-Dog

September 12th, 2017 at 11:14 AM ^

Wait, we're having a flamewar, over death threats made on social media, that may not have actually happened?

That's the most 2017-internet thing ever.

We're in a rage about the possibility of being in a rage because of the rage we were in two years ago.

Perma-rage.  Never goes away, it just hops from topic to topic.

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm . . . not sure why."

 

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