2023 Michigan Season Thread

[Mdot21]

no wonder why ESPN hates Michigan and the B1G....they're losing all of their tv viewership to Fox, CBS, and NBC...


https://twitter.com/sbell021/status/1724444826882478227?s=20


https://twitter.com/thejaphyryder/status/1724463320516751706?s=20

[MikeDeTiger]

I can't believe our closer with A&M got scheduled at the same time as Michigan/Ohio State.  All this drama I've been looking forward to, and now I'm gonna miss it. 

11:00 a.m. games in Tiger Stadium should not be a thing.  Ever.  

[Honestbuckeye]

I can't believe our closer with A&M got scheduled at the same time as Michigan/Ohio State.  All this drama I've been looking forward to, and now I'm gonna miss it. 

11:00 a.m. games in Tiger Stadium should not be a thing.  Ever. 

There is no drama with Ohio State. But I get what you’re saying.  😊

[Honestbuckeye]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/donyaeger/2023/11/14/michigan-wolverines-put-on-your-big-boy-pants-and-play-by-the-rules/?sh=742b9db33605

Nailed it.  

[medinabuckeye1]

https://www.on3.com/college/michigan-wolverines/news/paul-finebaum-calls-michigan-the-most-obnoxious-fanbase-in-america/

In other news, water is wet.

[utee94]

I can't believe our closer with A&M got scheduled at the same time as Michigan/Ohio State.  All this drama I've been looking forward to, and now I'm gonna miss it. 

11:00 a.m. games in Tiger Stadium should not be a thing.  Ever. 

Should be a night game.  Every game in BR should be a night game.

Oh, first time Texas and LSU match up in BR, we're going, right?

[SuperMario]

https://www.on3.com/college/michigan-wolverines/news/paul-finebaum-calls-michigan-the-most-obnoxious-fanbase-in-america/

In other news, water is wet.

You don’t want to play that game the last 15 years.

https://www.chatsports.com/ncaa/a/5-most-annoying-fan-bases-college-football-21653

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/905155-college-football-2011-ranking-the-25-rudest-fanbases-in-the-nation.amp.html

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/10/the-five-most-insufferable-fanbases-in-college-football

[Benthere2]

Does that matter to a school with the $$$$$ of Michigan boosters in the era of NIL?

I frankly feel the next shoe to drop in the NIL world is going to be teams stockpiling talented "walk ons" to get around scholarship limits.

I have said this form day 1 of NIL
there is absolutely no reason to give scholarships out any more 

[847badgerfan]

Everyone has a list of insufferable fan bases.

Most start with fND.

[betarhoalphadelta]

The problem with any "most annoying fanbase" article is that the most annoying fanbase is usually a team that's winning and has a TON of bandwagon fans. 

When USC was in their heyday, you had TONS of Trojan fans out and about here in SoCal. Did any of them attend the school? Of course not. It's a small private institution that none of them could afford, much less get into. Then when they started falling off? Yeah, you'd still see some, but it disappeared--especially now that we have NFL teams and one of them won a Super Bowl. 

It's surprising here in SoCal how much OSU gear I saw when OSU was dominating, Alabama gear when Alabama was dominating, etc. Do I think these were OSU/Bama alumni? Or even people who had historic fandom of the program? Of course not. Michigan is certainly one of them but less so because while they've gotten to the CFP of late, they haven't actually done anything so Michigan bandwagon fans aren't coming out of the woodwork--that's Georgia (who is the new thing I see constantly here in SoCal 2000+ miles away from Athens).

There is only one fanbase that deserves to ALWAYS be atop every most annoying list. And that's Notre Dame. Any Joe Schmo who didn't go to college and is either Catholic or Irish suddenly thinks they're Notre Dame fans, despite the fact that they've never been to South Bend and couldn't find it on a map. Most probably don't even know what state it's in. And even worse are the folks in Indiana who are the reversible jacket type--Notre Dame football fan and Indiana basketball fan despite having attended neither. Blech. And Notre Dame fans are the most insufferable because they haven't done anything since the 80s. They don't even have recent accomplishments to hang their hat on, unless you count being overrated and getting destroyed every time they face REAL competition in the postseason. 

But even then? While I detest most Notre Dame fans, I don't have any problem with anyone who is an alumni or actually has a family connection to the school. Hell, I even know a guy who in his blogging days was known as the Irish Trojan because he attended USC for undergrad and Notre Dame for law school (or vice versa). No reason to hate--he came by that moniker honestly. 

[medinabuckeye1]

You don’t want to play that game the last 15 years.

https://www.chatsports.com/ncaa/a/5-most-annoying-fan-bases-college-football-21653

https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/905155-college-football-2011-ranking-the-25-rudest-fanbases-in-the-nation.amp.html

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/10/the-five-most-insufferable-fanbases-in-college-football

Here is the thing:

The problem with any "most annoying fanbase" article is that the most annoying fanbase is usually a team that's winning and has a TON of bandwagon fans.

Ohio State has been extremely consistently extremely good since basically 1993 so they are going to land on a lot of these lists.  Your first and third are only lists of five so I assume they are basically "five fanbases I happen to hate" lists.  

The Bleacher-Report article is from 2011.  Note that this is during a time when Michigan sucked.  In the three seasons prior to that article the Wolverines finished 7-6, 5-7, and 3-9.  Despite sucking, the Wolverines still checked in at #14.  

Here are the comments about Michigan from an article linked by a Michigan guy:
"Michigan fans rank up this high not because they throw things or are rude at games, but just because they out do us all when it comes to arrogance.
As a college football fan, the "high and mighty" attitude gets to me more than anything.
Michigan fans come in first here for many reasons. They seem to forget losses very easily and instead use that brain space to hold onto wins much too long. Pride in a team that has been weak in the Big Ten over the past few years is beyond belief.
Claiming to be better than a team that just beat you badly is crossing the line in my opinion and arguing with them is impossible. They literally will ignore you, no matter how strong your facts are.  "

Obnoxious.  

[Mdot21]

https://www.on3.com/college/michigan-wolverines/news/paul-finebaum-calls-michigan-the-most-obnoxious-fanbase-in-america/

In other news, water is wet.

yeah, not even close. and that dickweeb knows that....he covers BAMA for christ sake and is Nick Saban's personal ball washer...

[Mdot21]

The problem with any "most annoying fanbase" article is that the most annoying fanbase is usually a team that's winning and has a TON of bandwagon fans.

When USC was in their heyday, you had TONS of Trojan fans out and about here in SoCal. Did any of them attend the school? Of course not. It's a small private institution that none of them could afford, much less get into. Then when they started falling off? Yeah, you'd still see some, but it disappeared--especially now that we have NFL teams and one of them won a Super Bowl.

It's surprising here in SoCal how much OSU gear I saw when OSU was dominating, Alabama gear when Alabama was dominating, etc. Do I think these were OSU/Bama alumni? Or even people who had historic fandom of the program? Of course not. Michigan is certainly one of them but less so because while they've gotten to the CFP of late, they haven't actually done anything so Michigan bandwagon fans aren't coming out of the woodwork--that's Georgia (who is the new thing I see constantly here in SoCal 2000+ miles away from Athens).

There is only one fanbase that deserves to ALWAYS be atop every most annoying list. And that's Notre Dame. Any Joe Schmo who didn't go to college and is either Catholic or Irish suddenly thinks they're Notre Dame fans, despite the fact that they've never been to South Bend and couldn't find it on a map. Most probably don't even know what state it's in. And even worse are the folks in Indiana who are the reversible jacket type--Notre Dame football fan and Indiana basketball fan despite having attended neither. Blech. And Notre Dame fans are the most insufferable because they haven't done anything since the 80s. They don't even have recent accomplishments to hang their hat on, unless you count being overrated and getting destroyed every time they face REAL competition in the postseason.

But even then? While I detest most Notre Dame fans, I don't have any problem with anyone who is an alumni or actually has a family connection to the school. Hell, I even know a guy who in his blogging days was known as the Irish Trojan because he attended USC for undergrad and Notre Dame for law school (or vice versa). No reason to hate--he came by that moniker honestly.

this....all of this lol. BAMA fans are way up there as well. Those gumps are freaking insane....

[SuperMario]

The problem with any "most annoying fanbase" article is that the most annoying fanbase is usually a team that's winning and has a TON of bandwagon fans.

Exactly this!!