Outpouring of support for Blake O'Neill
While the negative stuff with the idiots was highlighted, I think it's impotant to highlight the support he's been getting.
From past Michigan kickers to ESPN personalities.
Stay @blakewoneill failure can lead to your greatest accomplishment It eliminates fear of failure & allows u to reach your true potential
— Jay Feely (@jayfeely) October 18, 2015
Our darkest moments, can lead us to see bright moments more clearly. Keep doMinating @blakewoneill #UMSpecialists https://t.co/ualEnUICxJ
— Phil Brabbs (@Brabbs) October 18, 2015
Garrett Rivas 140+ character tweet-
as a former @umichfootball specialist, with games falling on my shoulders, it is a situation words cannot explain, most cannot even fathom what the feeling is like... since you don't know, keep your thoughts to yourself... he knows he messed up, he will learn from it, life will go on, the blue is and will be fine, on to the next one... we are all feeling for ya brother @blakewoneill
If you are harassing the Michigan punter, be aware it says a lot more about you than it does him. He gave his best, while you are a lowlife.
— Mike Greenberg (@Espngreeny) October 18, 2015
Keep fighting and ignore the noise of people who don't matter my good brother! @blakewoneill #GoBlue #LearnMoveOn pic.twitter.com/dJt2rB2XCj
— Devin Gardner (@devingardnerXCI) October 18, 2015
There's a Facebook page dedicated to supporting Blake O'Neill. It has close to 1900 likes so far. pic.twitter.com/87xayU4SVJ
— Josh Henschke (@HenschkeScout) October 18, 2015October 18th, 2015 at 8:00 PM ^
Joe Tessitore expresses his disdain for the social media backlash directed at Michigan punter Blake O'Neill » http://t.co/rym4jFQlVm
— ESPN CollegeFootball (@ESPNCFB) October 18, 2015October 18th, 2015 at 8:14 PM ^
Not a big Tessitore fan, but this was a very good segment by him.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:54 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 8:09 PM ^
Fuck the trolls.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:09 PM ^
I would like to express my distain for Joe Tessitore. What was he grown in some ESPN lab somewhere? Dude knows next to zero about college football--he may as well be a robot executing a program.
Anyway--keep your head up Blake. Keep booming 'em. The vast majority of us aren't assholes and believe in you!
October 18th, 2015 at 8:05 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^
Don't rip them, don't support them. Got it..
October 18th, 2015 at 10:14 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 10:21 PM ^
As an employee of this blog, I'm not allowed to tweet at recruits. I wouldn't do it anyway, but you're lumping it all in to one. Players on this team and high school recruits are different. I've yet to have a player tell me not to tweet out photos of them. I'll make sure to check with you before I support the players on this team though.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:57 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 10:17 PM ^
Best fucking thing I've heard all day. Even though I still have a little-used Facebook.
I cant stand my generation.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:05 PM ^
O'neil booted an 80 yarder and pinned MSU within their 10 3 times. Without him we lose this game handily.
The last play sucks, but on a night where the offense was off and the defense was bending, he kept us solidly in the game.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:26 PM ^
MSU moved the ball in fits and starts and were helped a lot by UM penalties. Also a significant chunk of their yardage came on that short pass that turned into a 75 yarder. When the game was on the line MSU bogged down. Cook did not win them the game.
The game was pretty evenily played. No one dominated at any one spot, save for Michigan in special teams until the end.
October 18th, 2015 at 9:37 PM ^
Some of those Conner Cook back-shouder passes, though.... man, you can defend against that, and he hit more than a couple of those. Without that, MSU is toast. Cook at least kept them in the game, though he may not have won it for them.
October 18th, 2015 at 11:22 PM ^
- 74 yd fullback pass
- Botched punt (obv.)
- Rudock's inability to hit Jehu over the top twice
Flip 1 or 2 of those and Michigan wins by double digits.
October 19th, 2015 at 7:28 AM ^
and one memorable mistake. He has been incredible this year and we will need him to continue to excell to finish the year strong.
Chin-up, Blake!
October 18th, 2015 at 8:18 PM ^
No worries mate
EDIT We still love you and if you left it would break our hearts
October 18th, 2015 at 8:05 PM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 8:07 PM ^
I hope there is a way for Michigan fans to show their unanimous support for him at our next home game vs. Rutgers.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:09 PM ^
I'd be in
October 18th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
He downs YET ANOTHER ONE inside the 5 or 10 yard line, standing ovation for a couple of minutes?
October 18th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^
let's do it
October 18th, 2015 at 8:19 PM ^
Good idea, either way.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 8:18 PM ^
in Minnesota
October 18th, 2015 at 8:49 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 9:30 PM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 11:17 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 8:07 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 8:07 PM ^
Is the best punter in the B1G, if not the country. This is inappropriate, even if he were no good at football. Since he is really good, it is doubly ridiculous and sad.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:09 PM ^
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
October 18th, 2015 at 8:13 PM ^
He would get shot two years while giving a speech, finished the speech, and THEN went to the hospital.
Teddy Roosevelt, America's badass president.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:26 PM ^
Teddy Ro Ro is who many of us aspire to be... and oh yeah, broski was Dutch.
October 18th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^
Teddy Ro Ro? I should hate that, but...I love it!
October 18th, 2015 at 8:09 PM ^
that criticized him?
October 18th, 2015 at 9:53 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
I can't believe it came to this. Shame on those M fans for letting this happen. It is a football game. History is full of blunders. Move on.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
What pisses me off is that these idiots probably think their bashing of him is justified, and most likely no amount of people calling them out will change their minds.
The most annoying thing about ignorance is that you can't force logic into the brains of those morons.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 8:13 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 8:19 PM ^
2 yards short of breaking Monte Robbins' record for the longest punt in Michigan history.
Ironically, that punt happened in Harbaugh's last regular season game as a player here in a road game at Hawaii in December 1986.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:57 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 9:26 PM ^
Damn. Monte must've hung it up into the trade winds. I don't recall that punt, but I do remember listening to that game.
October 18th, 2015 at 11:47 PM ^
I remember that. Like all punts that long, it had a lot of roll. Also, Hawaii's field at that time was hard turf which added to the roll.
As an aside . . . .WTF, why do you need turf in Hawaii? Grass grows on everything there.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:12 PM ^
Question for UM fan from Sydney . . . do you know if this story has made it all the way to Australia?
Not for the college football angle per se, I doubt they know much about it, but for the fact that there are a lot of Oz rules football players making their way up here to the States, and one of them now has the whole country buzzing.
October 18th, 2015 at 11:44 PM ^
Cool.
I especially like that it won't let me watch the video of the muffed punt.
October 19th, 2015 at 9:36 AM ^
"Michigan next face Minnesota on Sunday."