How not to behave on Twitter
After yesterday's game, this man of genius - who apparently is employed by the university - thought it was cool to tweet at Dug McDaniel, telling him "please transfer."
Do not be this guy.
Disappointed about the game? Guess what, the players are 100 times more disappointed than you are.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:20 AM ^
Game threads are unreadable. I stay away. Young kids and weak minded adults displaying their emotional rollercoaster.
January 20th, 2023 at 7:18 PM ^
I have found the older fans to be equally bad if not moreso. The Demand Excellence crowd that thinks it's their job has a hell of a lot of boomers. Young people at least often play basketball, watch other teams and the NBA and know the game
January 20th, 2023 at 9:36 AM ^
Game threads are cringe. Weird concept to me to come to the blog and post some emotional rant that nobody will read. I suppose it makes people feel better?
January 20th, 2023 at 9:58 AM ^
game threads are absolutely toxic...as bad as twitter (sans the DM aspect)
not worth reading anymore unless you like dog piling on kids and Howard.
January 20th, 2023 at 7:57 AM ^
How not to be... on Twitter
FIFY
January 20th, 2023 at 8:01 AM ^
Looks like he locked up his account...
But I did see something from Dug early pushing back at people who were knocking him on twitter. Sad...losers are going to be losers (and if this loser is employed by the University he should be terminated)...I wish the young man nothing but the best, but Twitter/social media is a very unhealthy and unsavoury place to find validation for anything.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:08 AM ^
Social media is the worst. Most people recognize this. If you are going to be on it, which almost everyone under a certain age is, you will have to deal with negativity. Particularly if you are a public figure, like a basketball player for a major university. It is not unique to Michigan. It is just a reality of giving everyone with a smart phone a public platform.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:24 AM ^
... and too much Jim Beam. Whoever this is, their pasty unathletic ass surely ain't doing what Dug can do. Go eat your hater tots in your mom's basement, jackass.
January 20th, 2023 at 12:24 PM ^
Wonder what Tony Dungy thinks this morning after his now deleted tweet about litter boxes in public school bathrooms. 🤦♂️
January 20th, 2023 at 2:35 PM ^
I'm sure his twitter feed is littered with cat videos.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:09 AM ^
I don't really get people who feel the need to post on social media period. I just use it for sports and pop culture news. Save your hot takes for your group chats and around the water cooler.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:12 AM ^
While I disagree with this guy acting like a jerkoff towards Dug, we're also moving into the NIL era where the players are seen as mini "professionals" and people will see that as an invitation to be more critical.
Hunter spouting off on his podcast, making around $1 million in NIL while his team is bound for the NIT makes him susceptible to receive major criticism.
Dug and these young guys will learn that Twitter is a cesspool where people love to tear you down more than they want to build you up. Hopefully they can embrace it and let it serve as motivation going forward.
January 20th, 2023 at 10:20 AM ^
The kind of people that are posting egregious crap like this don’t need an “invitation”. And it’s equally dumb to do it to professional athletes. Of all the excuses to think athletes shouldn’t get fairly compensated for their labor - this is a bad one.
January 20th, 2023 at 3:48 PM ^
This is true but a distinction has been raised here and elsewhere in the past that was was fair for say Aaron Rodgers in the way of criticism, would not be for Cade McNamara, for instance.
January 20th, 2023 at 10:32 AM ^
The people who do this don't look for 'invitations'...that is a copout. If you are wired this way you will always find a 'reason' to be this way. Players getting paid is only one of a long list of 'reasons'...
January 20th, 2023 at 8:15 AM ^
Stupid. I was at the game. Dug played super hard and has a good handle. Being a 5’7” freshman PG is going to bring some limitations.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:17 AM ^
It looks like Dug answered this guy and all his other critics.
If you have a Twitter account, please go give Dug some love from his real fans.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:25 AM ^
Obviously shouldn't have happened, but it is troubling how a few idiots are taken as representative of the fan base.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:29 AM ^
That's the problem. Every fan base has total assholes in it. Social media gives a larger platform to assholes that shade the entire group in a bad light.
Not just sports but any group suffers from this bullshit.
Rules to live by: Never text, tweet, post, send emails when you are angry or emotional. Rarely a good outcome.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:22 AM ^
Twitter, and Social media at large, is a cancer to society and when the book on mankind is written, I’m fairly certain that social media will be discussed as a big contributing factor in its downfall.
Social media allows people to hide behind a keyboard and a computer/phone screen and become the absolute worst versions of themselves. It gives people who are otherwise complete fucking cowards to vent their own frustrations onto other people.
And unfortunately, as politics and other world events have shown us, those of us who who are oftentimes the loudest or have the worst, most inflammatory ignorant opinions are the ones who are the most visibile and get the most coverage.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:36 AM ^
"Why can't I get an matches on Tinder"...
January 20th, 2023 at 12:23 PM ^
I would suggest the first reason is because brah buttons the top button a short sleeve polo.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:11 AM ^
he looks like a guy who would shit on a college freshman who had a bad game, all the while barely having enough athletic talent himself to get out of bed
January 20th, 2023 at 12:28 PM ^
That's usually how it works.
When I coached ODP soccer by way of comparison, how toxic a parent was going to be was directly proportional to their lack of athletic prowess.
Parent that either lettered in HS or a couple that played in college -- no problems, quiet, very supportive.
Booger eating lard ass parent/karen -- abusive loudmouth.
Not to mention that I've had to call the cops on some of them for assaulting refs and other players and one that took a swing at me one time.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:22 AM ^
Any guess on what his user name is here?
January 20th, 2023 at 9:53 AM ^
There are definitely candidates to be found in last night's game thread.
January 20th, 2023 at 10:52 AM ^
Man, if this picture doesn't scream, "I wish I could've been an athlete, but I ended up not being one so now I'm critical AF of actual athletes" I don't know what does.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:32 AM ^
Lol what an entitled idiot telling a college basketball player to 'please transfer'. Dug needs to realize every fan base has the exact same percentage of idiots. U of M is not unique.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:36 AM ^
Every fan base, or any large group of people, is bound to contain idiots. However, I disagree that the percentage is exactly the same.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:34 AM ^
Former photo/video for @umichmedicine.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:46 AM ^
If we didn’t have Hunter this year, where would this team be?
Camren probably did not start for his sixth grade church basketball team. I hope the university places him on leave so it can investigate why his first name isn’t Richard.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:50 AM ^
Maybe this guy just meant that he wants Dug to transfer to UM-Dearborn.
January 20th, 2023 at 12:30 PM ^
Never ceases to amaze me how people fall up.
1, that guy made it to a heavy duty leadership role;
2, ironically, in social media.
January 20th, 2023 at 2:32 PM ^
Nice area!
January 20th, 2023 at 3:32 PM ^
So, hypothetically, you're the Director of Social Media and Digital Strategy for one of the University of Michigan's other campus Men's Basketball teams. You are very likely nearly irreplaceable to the department.
You ask yourself: "How can I generate more clicks and bring positive attention to our team, and perhaps one-day get myself called up to the "bigs" in Ann Arbor?"
Your selected digital strategy, your area of professional expertise no less, is to use a public platform, with Michigan-branded logos affixed to your account, to personally attack a young student athlete and ask him to leave UM after a tough night on the court. This would of course be the precise type of student athlete whose particular skills match those of the athletes for which you also personally derive compensation from the UM Athletic Department.
It's a bold strategy. I'm no social media expert per se, but I might have gone a different direction.
Probably want to turn off the old phone during any emotional or impaired periods of the day in that line of work, or take a shot at the new "It was Weiss" defense.
January 20th, 2023 at 8:59 AM ^
Fans need to be better but players also need to learn that Twitter fans are the worst and need to just essentially stay out of the space. There’s not a single athlete of relevance who doesn’t get shit on by random idiots. Dug needs to to ignore the noise. There’s a reason some athletes go dark on social media during the season. Also a risky look calling out your own fans
January 20th, 2023 at 9:00 AM ^
Here's how to behave on Twitter. Avoid this toxic waste dump at all costs, then only you know you're an idiot. Post something on Twitter, let the world know and remove all doubt! Think 2x before typing and posting.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:02 AM ^
Tweet at player - lock your account. Balls of steel this one has - not.
I hope that his account gets blown up again when he tries to slink back on.
He should be made to practice with the team for a week.
January 20th, 2023 at 12:31 PM ^
Tweet at player - lock your account
I like it.
I also wonder what the lingering WD-pologists on the board would do considering Mike's behavior on Twitter.
Be careful what one wishes for.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:05 AM ^
You shouldn't tweet at players but this place has some people who just hide behind avatars and shit-talk players to no end as well. It's ultimately a sport and while criticizing performance and effort is reasonable to a degree too often we take to too far and forget these are just kids playing a sport.
January 20th, 2023 at 10:04 AM ^
Incredibly accurate.
Probably some person in this thread: Wow this is awful, you shouldn't do that.
Same person in game thread last night: Wow Dug sucks and can't do anything right, why can't we recruit a point guard?
January 20th, 2023 at 12:32 PM ^
Nailed it.
All my points to you if I could.
This fanbase is something else -- to include a portion of this board.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:14 AM ^
Mean people suck.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:23 AM ^
People who tweet/ message/ DM disparaging remarks to kids are losers.
January 20th, 2023 at 9:31 AM ^
Social media… and much of the internet.. hmmm… Black Hole of time and intelligent discourse…
January 20th, 2023 at 9:38 AM ^
Never Tweet ™️