Does the Michigan Daily need to be added to the banned list?

The article is fine, even if you don't agree with. Calm the fuck down. Newspapers aren't supposed to tow the company line, unless they're Murdoch papers.

Lol. Sure, let’s cancel them because they don’t agree with our narrative!

Lighten up Francis.

And then what, would we unban them in January?  The football writers at the Daily are seniors in their last term at the paper.

It's a college student's column.  Let it pass.

Who cares? The real outrage is that evidently I missed an 80-post Donald Trump thread :(

I'll bet it was awesome. I always miss the fun stuff. Stupid job. 

Nicely written. Sounds like he frequents this board. 

Imagine being so fragile and insecure that you want to ban a college newspaper for a single article, which just differs in opinion from your own

I don't really agree with the angle the writer took, but it's not a terrible piece. It's also not inaccurate on the facts, nor is the author a full-time troll. So in short, no big deal and no ban is called for. 

You want to censor The Michigan Daily on a Michigan blog because they published a column that argues an unpopular viewpoint? Grow up. It’s a student newspaper, not a propaganda outlet 

Daily is consistently the best coverage of Michigan athletics outside of this site (and for sports outside the big three, better).  Also the best coverage of the university at large.

Sometimes they have dumb opinion columns (I'm not sure this is even dumb, just silly like the whole cheeseburger saga) but that's fine because they're 21.

People like this are why we UM fans have the reputation that we do among other fanbases.

Connor is the next drew sharp.

Two or three paragraphs was enough for me.

My brain will not dwell on this anymore. Not worth my time.

I’m at the point in my life that I want my football entertainment to be entertainment, and not be life lessons from some kid angle-shooting his way to a job at weekday ESPN.

Having said that, censorship sucks, of course we're not going to ban the Daily.  I don't expect them to be right 100% of the time as I am.

Is there an opening at the Freep for which young Mr. Earegood is auditioning? If so, I say, "Well done, sir!"

Banning it would be stupid even though the article is stupid.  The players said free Harbaugh generically. It could be a statement against the school's decision AND the NCAAs incompetence.  They're not even saying he's a martyr.  Simply . . .  free him from all this nonsense. Fuck them for wanting to be coached by their coach? Is that his opinion? The article author should get a life and a better opinion.

For those that weren't around for the Free Press "banning" ~15 years ago, the hack job that Rosenberg published essentially hamstrung the program and cast a cloud of suspicion on everything and anything Rich Rodriguez did for his entire tenure. 

It was a vindictive and poorly constructed attempt to villify a coach and his entire ethos while simultaneously siccing the NCAA on him. That is why we grabbed the torches and pitchforks, not because they simply published something mean about a coach.

This article won't have nearly the same kind of effect. Gnash your teeth at it, but it's really just an opinion. 

The pearl clutching from the author as he intentionally takes “the other side” of the argument is understandable I guess from a student paper that prides itself on being edgy. Ignoring the arbitrary rule enforcement by the NCAA and the fact that the worst violators show them the middle finger and say do something about it is simply missing the bigger picture. 

It's about time we separate our love of the football team from our love for the students at the school.

It's a contrarian-for-the-sake-of-being-contrarian article but that's not remotely worth a banning.  It's a student newspaper and this college kid has an opinion about Jim Harbaugh.  The fact I don't agree and find statements like 

Essentially, Crawford was so sick and tired of seeing the Harbaugh saga spun into a cheeseburger fable that he included it in the NCAA’s uncharacteristic and rule-breaking statement on an active investigation.

laughable because the "rule-breaking" part by NCAA pretty clearly invalidates whatever "they're trying to frame the story in the press" hand-wringing going on about Harbaugh.  Fucking Bill Self walks around with gold dollar-sign chains and promotes a Snoop Dogg concert days after being charged with significant NCAA infractions and nothing much comes of it.  Harbaugh is entitled to embellish his position with "yeah, it's about cheeseburgers" just as much as the NCAA is allowed to make some pearl-clutching "it was about COVID violations" claims when the issue was someone watched a video of a guy working out and the "impermissible contact" which is at the core of this entire blowout is something programs self-report basically every year.  Herm Edwards brought dozens of recruits onto campus during the height of the pandemic, lied about it, then broke a bunch of other rules and then he really only got fired because he lost to EMU.

So yeah, it's a bad article but it's also a student one and trying to frame them in the same way we view really awful "news" sources is unfair.

it’s an extremely silly and hot-takey piece.

...but if we banned everyone that ever wrote something silly and hot-takey it’d be awfully quiet around here.

Probably we should just thrash everyone who doesn't agree with us. Honestly. . . 

I think banning the Daily is a dumb idea, but the editorial by this twerp Earegood is a deeply stupid, pompous, and holier-than-thou screed that treats the infractions that Michigan committed as serious rule-breaking when they’re the equivalent of jaywalking and parking meter violations. His implied contention that Michigan gained significant recruiting advantage from a fucking zoom session and Brown Jug hamburgers bought for two Michigan commits is laughable.

It’s particularly asinine when you compare it to the University of Texas spending over a quarter million dollars on a single recruiting weekend, which included putting up recruit’s families in a four star hotel with all the trimmings. That  kind of expenditure is fine with the NCAA, which makes what Michigan did look like cookie time at Sunday School.

Prediction: Earegood will be working for the Freep within three years.

this comment section is an excellent look into how a room full of people can read the exact same thing and in the end, have have divergent takeaways. 

Mistakes are the teachers of the present and future.  Connor thought he was writing an opinion piece, but what came out of that was trash. Learn from it and press on. Seth interacted with him on Twitter and I'm sure he'll point out a few flaws and help him with future opinion pieces he writes.

Are we entirely sure they weren’t saying “Free Harbaugh” as in like, an advertisement?

Like when you put a couch on the side of the road with a “Free couch” sign? 

Lighten up, Franzis.

If this article is the worst thing the author ever does (and it is pretty dumb) he's doing better than most of us.