Speight receiving death threats?
In the below article, Mo Hursts talks about how much of a struggle it must be for Wilton "receiving death threats and people telling QBs to 'kill yourself'. You're supposed to be our fans and shouldn't be saying that type of stuff"
As a football fan, I'm obsessed with Michigan to a point where I periodically have to check my priorities because I put a lot of stock in a game; however, Mo's statements really puts the "dark side of sports" into perspective. Here is illustration of where obsession can lead to "Misery" levels.
I am as dissapointed with the up and down QB play as anybody, but when it crosses the entertainment realm and enters the realm of personal attacks (nevermind the student-athlete part), then it gets psychotic.
Hopefully this is just a few twitter trolls (e.g. the Isiah Thomas jersey burning) and not a legitimate thought by some of these fans, because that would be dispicable.
http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Having-heard-the-backlash-teammates-…
EDIT: As someone pointed out below, The 247 article I linked left out a pretty critical follow-up on Mo's statement with the section below, which can be found in the article here
https://www.landof10.com/michigan/michigan-coach-jim-harbaugh-wiltons-s…
---Wait. Did Speight get death threats?
“I assume so,” Hurst answered. “I remember that punt thing [against Michigan State in 2015], yeah.”
It’s college football. Not life versus death.---
September 11th, 2017 at 8:07 PM ^
You realize that there are players on our team that voted for him, right?
September 11th, 2017 at 8:30 PM ^
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September 11th, 2017 at 9:09 PM ^
In terms of their final evolutions, Charizard is way better than Blastoise.
September 12th, 2017 at 5:30 AM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 9:29 PM ^
I'm no fan of Agent Orange, but this is not the place. Stop it.
September 11th, 2017 at 10:18 PM ^
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September 11th, 2017 at 6:38 PM ^
To read OSU fan comments about JT Barrett and Urban Meyer, you'd think they were both accomplices in the Lincoln assignation.
I would hope that big time college athletes understand the world that we live in these days and take the few yahoos for what they are: total idiots.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:12 PM ^
someone assigned Lincoln!?
September 12th, 2017 at 9:19 PM ^
....I thought he got voted into the Presidency???
September 11th, 2017 at 6:33 PM ^
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September 11th, 2017 at 7:13 PM ^
Agreed.
These things need to be taken seriously these days. Look at what happened to a Congressman practicing for a charity baseball game.
The world has gone nuts.
September 11th, 2017 at 8:24 PM ^
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September 11th, 2017 at 6:34 PM ^
It's great that football is back
September 11th, 2017 at 6:37 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 8:02 AM ^
Emotional intelligence is in short supply these days.
September 11th, 2017 at 6:44 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 6:45 PM ^
Well, this certainly isn't cool.
September 11th, 2017 at 6:46 PM ^
If you are in the public eye, you are eventually going to receive a "death threat" by some loser on the internet in his mom's basement.
Goes with the territory.
You're nobody until you get one.
September 11th, 2017 at 7:15 PM ^
Hey M-Dog,
You're a shitty poster, why don't you go kill yourself!
There, now you're not a nobody anymore.
September 11th, 2017 at 7:30 PM ^
Yesssss!
September 11th, 2017 at 7:37 PM ^
M-Dog has arrived can I have your paw print?
September 11th, 2017 at 8:20 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 8:51 PM ^
...feel oddly mixed about upvoting this.
September 12th, 2017 at 11:16 AM ^
It's cool.
He did exactly what I wanted him to do.
MGoBlog members are smart people.
September 11th, 2017 at 9:18 PM ^
Your joke is tasteless and offensive. I'm outraged!
I thank you for that.
September 11th, 2017 at 6:46 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 6:49 PM ^
There are braindead idiots in every fanbase, unfortunately. Can't rule out this coming from one of our own.
September 11th, 2017 at 10:05 PM ^
Why do you assume our fanbase doesn't contain people who are nuts or identify too strongly with the team?
September 11th, 2017 at 6:47 PM ^
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September 11th, 2017 at 6:48 PM ^
people get their identities way too involved in things they have no control over.
step back and realize these are 18 to 22 year old kids playing a game.
you'd think after the wasted years of RichRod and Hoke people would have a little perspective.
September 11th, 2017 at 6:50 PM ^
Breaking News: Michigan has asshole fans just like every other fanbase.
September 11th, 2017 at 7:09 PM ^
I hear what you're saying, but asshole fans bitch, boo, want to fire the coach after every loss and so on. You're a really twisted SOB to threaten a college kid with death because you didn't like the way he played in a game. That is a whole different realm of assholity.
September 11th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
It is a different realm, and I am saying every fan base has them. I doubt you want to look at JT Barrett's and Tyler O'Connor's mentions. People are fucked up.
September 11th, 2017 at 6:51 PM ^
Probably the same people vociferously defending their right to boo college kids on this here blog. So many fucking pathetic losers in this fanbase its incredible.
September 11th, 2017 at 6:54 PM ^
Some of them even have U-M degrees and are defending those who boo.
September 11th, 2017 at 7:13 PM ^
September 11th, 2017 at 7:22 PM ^
lol that's not where I go. Same conference, though.
I wish I was that close to Ann Arbor.
Don't worry though, the athletic department still accepts my annual donations.