There are no moral victories...
Say whatever you want but there are no moral victories when your 'savior coach' still can't win a meaningful game against a decent team in his 5th year. Harbaugh is making $8 million a year and we are happy because we showed some improvement against Penn State?
People, it's time to wake up. Harbaugh cannot win against better opponents and often struggles to beat equal and lesser teams. He is always focusing on the officials and what have you. It is never his fault. Michigan always got 'screwed'.
Look, we are 5-2. If Army runs the ball twice from the 5yd line, we are 4-3 with ND, MSU, and OSU still to go.
This could so easily be a 6-6 season in Harbaughs 5th year. Easily!
If that is ok with you, then fine. However, don't try and sell this shit to everyone else.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
October 20th, 2019 at 4:11 PM ^
"True loyalty is that quality of service that grows under adversity and expands in defeat. Any street urchin can shout applause in victory, but it takes character to stand fast in defeat. One is noise - the other, loyalty."
-Fielding H. Yost
October 20th, 2019 at 5:35 PM ^
Hear, hear.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:05 PM ^
Need some mods. These posts are ridiculous.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:31 PM ^
The words you are looking for are painfully accurate...
October 20th, 2019 at 3:19 PM ^
Sure thing Maizen! ?
October 20th, 2019 at 2:36 PM ^
The words you are looking for are painfully accurate...
October 20th, 2019 at 2:45 PM ^
Akctualllly...the people in pain are clearly the people who can't help their miserable selves and keep creating this shit content (threads and posts).
Oh that's....you
October 20th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
Thanks for double posting. Gives me the chances to double neg you
October 20th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
Do you believe in Pyrrhic victories? If on the last drive we Successfully QB sneaked to win in overtime and every offensive member snaps their femur. You feel good about that win? It’s a season of games, not one game.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:07 PM ^
What? DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT UNLESS A UNIQUE POST IS CREATED THEN IT'S POSSIBLE THE OPs VERY SPECIAL AND UNIQUE THOUGHTS MIGHT NOT GET NOTICED!!!!!!!
Snowflake threads are for the other guys. Not posters with thoughts as special, wonderful and different as this thread.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:05 PM ^
I'm not interested in selling anything to anyone. But I'm also not interested in being miserable about a sport.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:47 PM ^
I'm genuienly curious (no sarcasm with this at all), is it that you don't get caught up with wins and losses anymore or you've just accepted what we are, as a program, for the time being? I'm finding at almost 40, I've gotten better about accepting losses but I'm still incredibly unhappy with where we are in year 5.
Having a hard time finding some balance and sanity over here.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:03 PM ^
I’m in the same boat. Maybe it’s because I’m older, have a family and am more mature or maybe it’s that I have come to terms with the football program no longer being elite. Probably a combination of both. Too many mediocre seasons over the last 15 years. Think about it - we’ve lost to our main rival 14 out of 15. And it’s always the last game so it always leaves a bad taste for the off-season. Hard to keep investing in the team when you’ve seen the same script for so long.
Losses used to ruin my whole weekend. Now I generally get over them in about an hour.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:05 PM ^
Same here. Mrs. Hatter will not put up with me being in a shit mood because of a game over which I had no control over the outcome.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Yea, this could be part of it too. My partner and I are both HUGE college football fans (he's a Georgia Tech grad) and we have no kids, so I'm probably given a lot more leeway to be pissed lol It's getting easier as I get older but last night's is still stinging for sure.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
Second this. Wifey won’t put up with my shit either. Just a little bit ago, she saw (somewhere) that Michigan lost last night and she said something along the lines that she couldn’t even tell by my mood. That means I’m winning lol.
Definitely can say the lows of losing and even the highs of winning are much much more short lived than in the past.
Its all about expectations, just like many things in life. Do your best to go into it with no expectations and it will be just fine. How? I dunno. But it can be done.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:34 PM ^
and she said something along the lines that she couldn’t even tell by my mood. That means I’m winning lol.
Yep.
For the first time in my 40 years, I could give two shits about this program. I'm more disenfranchised by what I see on the field than I was during Hoke and RR. At least with Threet/Sheridan, we all knew the team would suck. This regime does less with more.
Took the Mrs. out on date night last night. We had a great time -- getting fall Saturdays back has been refreshing.
October 20th, 2019 at 4:10 PM ^
And yet here you are posting via your various aliases on every thread on the board acting like a little bitch. Interesting.
October 20th, 2019 at 4:21 PM ^
Go fuck yourself asshole. I have one account and one account only. Bitch indeed.
October 20th, 2019 at 4:36 PM ^
Oh yes, I'm sure you do.
Based on your posts you just seem like a joy of a person. All my best to you champ! ?
October 20th, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
You're fucking 40 and pick fights with WD for no reason?
Oh boy.
October 20th, 2019 at 6:59 PM ^
He's a man! He's 40!
October 20th, 2019 at 4:26 PM ^
Yep, it’s also just not worth it. At some point I think I realized how stupid it was to have my day ruined or made by a game I have no control over. I actually enjoyed the shit out of the game last night. I was def disappointed, but seeing the offense actually work and the D playing pretty well was fun. Losing my mind and posting here about Don Brown putting a safety on KJ does nothing. Especially after 287 people have already posted the exact same thing. It does suck that this site allows people to post this bullshit over and over now though. I would have prob accepted and joined the nonsense years ago, but now I really miss the old days of good posts and reasonable discussion.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:15 PM ^
Agreed. I now watch the games on DVR about an hour after they start. For PSU, I had the feeling we would start slowly, so I checked the score to see if it was worth it. I watch PSU go up 21-0 and switched it off. I went on with my life.
I have the dubious honor of interacting with an OSU fan every day while walking my dog. I used to enjoy getting into it with him, but now I just shrug while he tries to rile me up. We are a decent team, but we aren't elite. I am coming to grips with that, though I'm not happy about it. I have never thought Harbaugh was a savior but he's an above average coach. Is he worth 8M? Beats me. Who cares.
October 20th, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
It's a work in progress, but I try to focus on the positives (the team at least fought back last night, for example) and, to some extent, I accept where Michigan is as a program now. I understand people being frustrated with that acceptance, but it is simply a fact that my attitude on that front is irrelevant. I don't want Jim Harbaugh to settle for the way things are (and I'm confident he won't), but me being unhappy about it is pointless. It doesn't affect the team at all.
October 20th, 2019 at 8:22 PM ^
Well said. These games used to get me so worked up, especially after the National Championship, that winning was a relief and losing was devastating. I was a little high strung. Before I hit 40 I had to have open heart surgery and could no longer afford the stress. I had to quit watching, but at least it was during Hoke’s decline. Now, I’m thankful that I get to watch the games and I don’t get worked up like I used to. Of course I still overreact at times and I’m a little disappointed that the results haven’t been what I expected, but looking back the expectations were a little absurd. I thought with Harbaugh it would be Big Ten titles and playoffs nearly every year, but we’re not Alabama or Clemson. We’re not even OSU, but the results no longer change my mood or cause stress. One of these years we will beat MSU and OSU in the same season and it will be amazing. Until then, I won’t let it get me down.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:08 PM ^
Snow flakey flakey flakey..
October 20th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
The snowflakes are people like you who can't hear the painful truth without wanting to hide.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
Youre melting..
October 21st, 2019 at 1:04 AM ^
Jesus Christ man get a fucking life.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
The snowflakes are people like you who can't hear the painful truth without wanting to hide.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:05 PM ^
Mr. Blue Balls is grumpy.
Get off your couch and try to get laid. You need to release some tension.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:56 PM ^
Better yet, they should release their own tension so they dont reproduce, and further poison the gene pool. :)
October 20th, 2019 at 2:08 PM ^
Results not excuses.
#tigerblood
#winning
October 20th, 2019 at 2:10 PM ^
In what world are we 6-6? No chance we finish below 8-4. This is not good but no need to sensationalize.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:12 PM ^
No chance that Wisky loses to Illinois, but they did.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:03 PM ^
I think I made it pretty clear. Have ND, MSU, and OSU facing us. Losing those games would equal five loses. Again, if ARMY, freakin' ARMY, runs the ball twice from the five on us, we lose that game. A six loss season was very conceivable. A five loss season still is.
If you think paying a coach $8 million per year to struggle in the Big10 east and with ARMY is ok, good for you. I personally think we are getting screwed.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:45 PM ^
Ifs and butts could go both ways. You can't pick and choose which ones are legitimate. Maybe the army game would have ended differently, maybe not. What if the refs didn't blow the whistle early in that game and our defense scored a touchdown?
What if we would have got an OPI call on penn states tight end instead of a touchdown. There is the potential We could have been tied going for the winning field goal and not have Bell drop the tying touchdown.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
And if your grandmother had a dick shed be your grandfather.
Who cares about army?
You could play that game and say if 2 plays go different in the psu game, its a 1 loss team still in it for everything that will define your life.
Its a 2 loss team that may win out, or may lose out. Enjoy the journey.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:12 PM ^
“ND, MSU, and OSU...”
One of these is not like the others.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:14 PM ^
Indiana gave a much better Michigan team a fright last year. There really is a reason for playing the games.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:19 PM ^
No rape scandal at ND yet?
October 20th, 2019 at 2:22 PM ^
No but their coach killed a kid.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
Throw in PSU (Sandusky) and we have about the most scandalous collection of rival schools possible.
Well, I guess we could be rivals with Baylor.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:54 PM ^
Michigan stretches too long...
#freep
October 20th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
You know that Dantinio is going to play great D against us and turn it into a one possession/fg game where anything can happen.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
I bet we stomp his fucking guts out.
October 20th, 2019 at 8:13 PM ^
Lol!
I read through these threads and my blood boils. And then you find a nugget of a smile like that!
One of these is not like the other. Thank you!