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.
Behind the worst line Michigan had had in like 50 years. We're complaining about the line last year, but they were still a lot better than some of those years. At least last year's line could run block.
Harbaugh is the 4th or 5th best coach in the Big Ten
I struggle to believe anyone other than Urban Meyer and I'm not even sure of that could make it in the NFL. He won an NFC title for crying out loud.
I personally couldn't care less what Harbaught did in the NFL. None of it helps Michigan football win games. Same to be said for what he did at Stanford, well 1 season at Stanford anyways.
The only thing that matters is what has he been able to do at Michigan. SO FAR it's 1-5 against rivals, 1-2 in bowl games, 0 conference championships, 0 top 25 road wins.
That is NOT anything to boast about.
Until Harbaugh proves otherwise, I don't see how anyone with their head on straight would rank him higher than Urban, Dantonio, or Franklin. All three have far greater accomplishments under their belts than he does. This isn't opinion, or hating, it's just objective fact in raw numbers.
I might replace the word "offensive" with "coaching". I mean let's face it, the defense is Don Brown's creation.
I grew up as a Michigan fan in the 80s. I liked Bo and I appreciate how he brought U-M back from some dark days in the 60s. But his overall record wasn't elite and he did benefit a bit from the B1G's lack of depth in the 70s and a portion of the 80s.
At the end of his tenure, U-M’s recruiting was such that they could march into Ohio and take their very best players. That is not nothing. No matter what Harbaugh does, it is difficult to imagine that ever recurring.
hadn't fallen into our laps, we'd be going into year 4 of Harbaugh with yet again big questions at quarterback. I only say this because I figured by now QB would be the least of our concerns.
This is what people don't seem to understand. It should NOT be okay that we're headed into Harbaugh's 4th season as HC and have to rely on a talented transfer at QB because no one one on the roster has been developed enough to handle the position.
If Shea ends up winning the starting job, it will NOT be a good reflection on the offensive staff and Harbaugh's ability to develop QBs.
Yeah, read some of the stuff in John U Bacon's book that detailed Carr's retirement and the hiring of RR. It's some scathing stuff that Lloyd did to the program and how the university was undermining RR from day 1 basically.
His defenses (or complete lack there of) will always be his achilles heel but man he got screwed by UM. I legit feel sorry for the guy.
Just his record went up year to year and sure the defense was awful but the offense was fun to watch.
Michigan fans complain about officiating way too much.
Ooh, I really like this one. Whenever someone insinuates some kind of conspiracy against Michigan regarding officials, I immediately think that person is a moron.
You had a perfectly fair group of unpopular opinions at first, but than you added your addendum and blew the whole deal.
Bo wasn't as successful as other coaches because he didn't subcribe to "the culture of success (on the field) above all". Alums bring up academics because success with a UofM degree is greater than success on the field. (Or that's what I always thought their motivation was.)
I won't disagree that bad things have most likely happened at Michigan too, especilly to young women but it's obvious one of the reasons they don't get some recruits is because they don't allow the "culture" to exist and it is not a "success above all" athletic department.
It seems like like Michigan nips that sort of stuff in the bud. LTT, C'onte York, etc. get shown the door. Grant Perry was disciplined. Frank Clark was kicked off the team.
Only bad case that really comes to mind was the Brandon Gibbons/ Taylor Lewan debacle, but GIbbons was kicked off the team too.
It's lame to be proud of your team beause they [rape] less (rather than wins), but I'm proud our team [rapes] less.
WD is the kind of Michigan fan that makes people hate Michigan fans.
WD is the kind of Michigan fan that makes me hate Michigan fans.
You come off as extremely pretentious.
Sorry, you asked for it.
Unpopular opinion: People who spend a lot of effort griping about guys like WD and Maizen are far more annoyng than those posters themselves.
If you consider my post a lot of effort, I worry about your ability to survive in this world.
..I think he was talking about the many hours you obviously spent reading posts on a blog from someone that makes you hate, just so you could be absolutely sure how you felt about him when the time was right.
And than this thread came along.....BAM!
Do you think he's following you as well? Or is this just an 'in the head' thing?
Feelings of persecution? Uneasiness about your wardrobe choices?
Hmmmm....veeeery interesting.
sucktitude?
Especially since many of us alums never could've cut it at Michigan PLUS doing football. I totally get guys going to less difficult schools. Plus if you take advantage of it, I feel the networking offerred by any P5 football program far outweighs the modest benefit a Michigan degree offers over others
If we're not gonna have a mascot, let's stop pretending we're wolverines. There's only one semi-popular official Wolverine logo (with the sailor hat). When someone says, "Michigan," nobody pictures a wolverine. Wolverines barely feature in Michigan's branding or campus (there's a statue on north campus, iirc).
Sure, we could incorporate wolverines more in our branding. That's one solution.
Or we could just be Michigan.
It's great to be Michigan.
That's what we already are
People here hate MSU more than OSU
MSU is a much bigger rival than OSU