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.
and beat the piss out of both Sparty and the Brutus on national TV!
Mea Copa
and beat the piss out of both Sparty and the Brutus on national TV!
Mea Copa!
and beat the piss out of both Sparty and the Brutus on national TV!
Mea Copa!
and beat the piss out of both Sparty and the Brutus on national TV!
Mea Copa!
and beat the piss out of both Sparty and the Brutus on national TV!
Mea Maxima Copa!
What have I done to deserve this fate?
are obsolete.Just brings one more defender into the box.
Fullbacks under Harbaugh have been pretty frickin sweet. Hammer Panda is like an auto-2 yards. Maybe use a fullback less, but I love that we're using a fullback against what are becoming smaller defenses (to combat the spread)
Football is about brute force. Go watch bastketball or hockey if you want to see a bunch of guys speeding around.
kids want stuff that is exciting to watch. bunch of pansies.
You want an unpopular opinion? I loved the offense under Bo, Mo and Lloyd. Keep doing two runs until you get a third down and then play action for a bomb to AC/Desmond/Derrick Alexander/Braylon and you get a TD. When you're feeling really frisky pass on first down.
Certainly not an expert on scheme, but I believe the main point isn't brute force, it's creating more gaps. More gaps means more for the defense to worry about and easier to screw with keys and what not.
1. I agree. I hope that any new arena keeps that Yost feel though. I'd rather not have a minor league hockey rink. I hope we keep it a little cramped and very loud
2. I feel the same. It feels like if Harbaugh and Michigan can't truly break through (like a national title appearance) with some of the good teams we've had around here - 2016, 2018 - then I'll just start to believe 11-1 is our ceiling instead of national title being the ceiling
Oh don't worry, they're on their way. Some new stuff is already coming out and I'm just waiting for a little bit more to make a thread on it.
I think they should try a maize jersey with blue pants at home. I think it would be a great look.
Don't think Nike has been all that great. Think the BB uniforms are horrible and most of the stuff fans can buy is over priced and ugly. Also don't care for jumpman on football uniforms. Put it on basketball, but that is all.
I like the uni threads.
It seems that most of the fanbase gets their talking points from the media and rival fanbases.
Sometimes, when our biggest rivals play in big games against out-of-conference schools, a part of me wants to see them win.
It only stems from wanting our SOS/resume to be as difficult as possible (and ultimately for our benefit). I'm not proud of it, but a lot of times it's how I feel when watching the games.
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I'd be disappointed if they did. Means he's not eating enough red meat and whole milk.
The new luxury boxes are too plain. It should say something across the top like University of Michigan, Michigan Stadium, The Big House, etc. in maize letters. Also, the block M in the middle of the field is way too small. A lot of other stadiums have logos twice that size in the middle of the field. I also would like some sort of structure above the last row of seats on each end zone to help keep the sound in and the stadium louder. They could put all american's, B1G title years, or something on there too.
but I still feel any criticisms of the defense could easily just be redirected to the offense. A decent offensive attack sees the defense giving us comfortable double digit wins all over the place. The defense is just desperately trying to care the vast majority of the work load in most games
Especially since most of his examples start with an offense derp.
Still, there have been several times lately when it felt like the D needed one more stop at a critical juncture, and failed to get it. Yeah, the offense needs to score more, and the defense can't always pitch a shutout, but damn there have been some big games that we win if the defense had protected the lead we had.
but didn't go to OSU in spite of rumors to the contrary
The marching band deserves more money, goddammit.
...I was not a fan of people disliking RR for yelling, using the word "ain't," and/or considering nacho dip a delicacy. He was hired to coach football (which he admittedly failed at), not teach Emily Post's rules of etiquette.
Harbaugh could win 10-11 games annually never beating OSU, winning a B1G championship, or making the (4-team) playoff and I'd still want him as our coach for however long he wants.
You say this, but a couple decades straight of not beating OSU would change your mind.
Really? I eventually wouldn't want him if he could never beat OSU. John Cooper was fired for basically the same thing. He won 10-11 games a year, won a few Big Ten titles, went to the Rose Bowl, but his teams couldn't beat Michigan if their collective lives depended on it.
Eventually the fanbase got tired of losing the biggest game on the schedule every year and made a change.
And THIS is what's wrong with a large portion of this fanbase.
M Football is not as big of a deal as we think it is.
I am sorry but even in the context of this topic I cannot comprehend what it is that you are trying to communicate.
This applies to every blue blood, rabid fan base. It isn't exclusive to us
My first opinion may be extremely unpopular, and I know I'm going to get downvoted. But meh, you asked the question:
-Football: this is not an elite program right now. Hasn't been for a long time. It certainly has the potential to be a top-10 program every year, and I think a few good years can get Michigan back to that status. But this team has to stop being its own worst enemy. 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017. All years where Michigan could have (should have) beaten OSU. But they didn't because they either fell apart down the stretch and couldn't score points, gave up a turnover at the worst possible time, or got outcoached in the pinnacle moment of the game.
Simply put, the program as a whole does not know how to win big games. Not right now anyway. We are OSU's bitch on the gridiron until proven otherwise.
-Too many of the decision-makers with this program (excluding the staff) are still too much a part of the "old guard." They want to bury their heads in the sand, wake up and pretend its 1973 when Bo was still in charge, when football was never played past noon kickoff, and are willing to bend over backwards to get ND back on the schedule at the expense of playing other big-time programs we almost never play.
-I hate OSU, but I am beyond envious of their success. Everything always works out for the best for them, and even injuries to their own players somehow improve their team. They lose one of their all-time great coaches to a minor scandal and one of the greatest coaches to ever coach the college game just happens to be taking a one-year sabbatical, is from Ohio, and just falls in their fucking lap. They lose their B1G POTY QB to a season-ending injury and still win a fucking national title. They are the only program in America that has never experienced a true down period in the last 50-60 years. Maybe Oklahoma too. Those bastards have no idea how good they have it.
Yes that call was garbage. But we shouldn't have thrown two interceptions and fumbled the ball. We pissed that game away entirely on our own and put ourselves into the position of being at the mercy of OSU refs....and when has that EVER gone our way?
Honestly don't think this is that unpopular.
I think most of the new generation post 2006 Michigan fans agree with you.
Oklahoma was lousy for most of the 90s. They were still running variants of the wishbone until Bob Stoops showed up.