Beilein’s Response to Crowd chant at OSU game

It’s not needed. Be above that crappy school. Cheer and have fun but no need to chant that at a game. There are families and young kids there 

(Yawn)

Coach said, Clean it up.

so, Clean it up.

There's no absolute free speech right inside Crisler.

The nauseating part is the hypocrisy. OSU fans spew vile garbage routinely. 

I'm not saying that to justify UM fans returning the favor (and personally prefer that UM fans be above spewing utter garbage), but it's ridiculous for OSU players/parents/fans to act like UM is a bad guy and OSU is somehow above such behavior.

That was Ms. Wesson's implied claim.

What?

Look people, Ohio State basketball is 3-6 in the BIG10 and 13-7 overall.

They have 11 more games to play in the regular season and I for one hope they lose every single one of them by double-digits.

F%#& Ohio.

This is youthful rebellion. 

Beilein is right to call out the student section. But telling Ohio to fuck itself is a part of the Michigan student experience, and defensible by the ethics of youth. College is when (if it wasn't clear by then) you don't have to do what the grown ups tell you. 

I heard the chant on TV, and thought they were saying 'Buck Ohio'.   If not, I agree with Beilein that this need to change.  Students need to be more classy than that.  

As I've gotten older, swearing has lost it's appeal as taboo, and I generally think it's dumb to yell "Fuck you" at people who are playing a game for your entertainment because they attend a different school.  But at the same time, if the internet has taught me anything is that there are assholes who love to yell shit all the time, and trying to stop that is a fool's errand.  

Michigan is no better than any other fanbase when it comes to chanting, and they shouldn't act like they are.  But the pearl clutching also feels like theatre and I'm not going to lose much sleep over it.

Kinda think we got lower to sparty and bucknut level on this one but not in their league. Mom needs to check herself and witness personal attacks of violence in her heaven. Move on mom ...

I am enamored with John Beilein.  He is an awesome coach and a wonderful (and religious) person that so many young men can look up to.  

I'm 38 (too old to be considered a millennial, too young to be considered Gen X, but I digress), and I agree. F-bomb chants are not a good look and unbecoming of an institution that sees its itself as the leaders and best. 

The fact of the matter is, this was a one time thing. Obviously it was fueled a bit by the disappointment of the football game and getting a chance to pound them in any sport was cathartic enough that it got the chant going. It's not the best look, it's not the classiest behavior, but if you've never had a toothless Ohio man or a drunkass OSU Coed look you directly in the eyes and say right to your face "fuck Michigan" like so many of us have had happen hundreds of time, then you probably don't understand why chanting "fuck Ohio" for one game only is a perfectly acceptable practice.

You won't hear this against Nebraska or Maryland or even MSU and everyone will forget about it until the next time we play OSU. And the next time we do, it's gonna be fuck Ohio all over again.

Why the hell are the parents in the students section anyway?

Does she think Ohio State students are all rainbows and unicorns?

Read the Eleven Warriors readers comments about the game. We're even on the F words.

Because “copulate OSU in the auditory canal” doesn’t make for a great cheer?

I live in a city, where adults and kids are frequently exposed to F-bombs and far more unsavory stuff. It's what you get in a city, IMO worth it for the positives city life provides (obviously, since I choose to live here).

So, I personally don't feel a bunch of kids chanting "F-Ohio" is worth much fuss, nor do I think it endangers little kids in the crowd.

My dad would have explained to me that just because some people use such language does not mean it's appropriate, and I should not use that word. Done and done.

That said, I don't like it either. IMO it's kind of obnoxious, not classy, and unsporting. Would prefer they use less coarse language. Oh well. 

I agree with the sentiment, but it absolutely comes off as classless. I would prefer a more creative chant.

Us against the World.  Go Blue. 

Michigan's simple Fuck this and Fuck that chants go way back, at least to the 90's when I was there, and I believe much further back than that.  It's stupid and pointless and silly, but it's also exactly what we're trying to say without getting caught up in propriety.

So, fuck the Irish, fuck the Spartans, and most of all, fuck the buckeyes.  clap clap clapclapclap

Well, fuck.

“Not a good look” lmao they support abusers, I can deal with a bad fucking word. 

and..... the are so nice to us....i went to columbus.... first time -got my tires slashed... second time- someone pooped on my hood... they are so coooooool...... whatever.....

GoBluePhil,   

I agree with you, it's not what UM should be about on a chant in my opinion.  It made us look cheap.   I'm in my 60s and was raised at a different time, so I'm probably pretty old to most on Mgoblog.   I love Michigan and we are better than that.  

Michigan students can do better. Profanity is lazy and uncreative. 

Current Michigan students are not millennials. 

NOBODY at OSU would bat a eye if the roles were reversed or give one shit about a Michigan's parent complaint.  In fact, they would all welcome the anger. 

I'm an old guy so my prospective is colored by my age. My parents taught me that "gutter talk should be kept in the gutter". I took that to mean there is a proper way to speak in public. 

Since MGOBLOG is a public forum I do not speak the same way I would speak amongst close friends. Shouting these words at a sporting event is a total lack of class and not what I want to hear when I am with my mother, wife, or children.