Stupid Person Questions: The What-If?

Self-immolation.

Ed: Hm, that does seem a bit extreme after re-reading it.

Why do you do things?

Honestly, assuming no life changes between now and then I wouldn't do anything differently. I'd still be supporting the team. I'd still go to games that I could get to. I'd still watch on TV when I don't have a hard conflict. I'd still get excited at the opener and at the big games and at the chance to be cheering in the stadium (even if my seats aren't quite as spectacular as this year).

What would be different is how I feel. If Hoke were to return I'd spend much of the offseason not caring much about football. I wouldn't have a lot of hope for the future of the program, and I'd be pretty certain that one way or another he'd be gone at the end of next season. The choice of a great athletic director could ameliorate some of this, but the malaise would still be there. If things looked good at the start of next season I'd be back in it (albeit cautiously) and at the first sign of trouble I'd again think it's time to pull the plug.

Ultimately for me, as a fan. Short of voicing my concerns or perhaps not going to games. There's very little that I can do to effect any kind of change in the program. What I can affect is the fanbase. I can cheer, I can yell, and I can do a part to make the Big House the best place to play year in and year out. 

For me, it's a question of trying to accept the things I have no control over, working to change the things I can, and knowing where the difference is.

a little older, a little more confused!

the schedule and the futility already displayed, I would probably find other things to do when the game is played, record it and wtach it after wards ONLY if it turned out to be good.  Wasting 3+ hours on a Saturday to watch this unwatchable crapfest against next season would qualify as the definition of insanity....To say that no president would let this top tier program slip into medicrity... Ummm, it's already there.  But Schiss would have a lot to answer for if he kept Hoke and came out and said that graduation rates and changing the tide of the power that college football has over universities by de-emphasizing the results on the field would be his kiss of death to his presidency. (Not saying that is his plan at all).   Having a productive and winning football program is doable, see ND lately and Stanford.

in various sports both on and off campus, and I have always been impressed by their poise, characte and good-naturedness. I don't think that this is a unique perspective. And I don't think that it's odd that Michigan gets these kind of people, because the athletic programs look for well-rounded people who are also athletes. 

President Schissel isn't seeking to start a revolution, he just wants to find a way to make sports and the academic world more copisectic with campus life. He's primarily concerned with the student experience, broadening educational opportunity and fulfilling his larger mission at the university. The fact that the football program is the front porch and its foundation is in need of repair at the moment, gives this new guy a chance to air some ideas that haven't been heard from a Michigan president in quite awhile. 

I think he's a flexible and practical guy who wants to rebuild the Athletic Department in a way that helps bridge the gap he has described in his recent remarks. 

I don't know when school presidents are going to get around to it along with conference commissioners, but they ought to acknowledge the obvious and just admit that schools recruit athletes to excel at their sport, and they do that because culturally and otherwise, college sports has become great entertainment with a high return especially in football and  basketball. So why not just give those student athletes the opportunity while at school to either become full-time or parttime students during their scholarship years, and then allow them to complete their education later, if necessary. 

That ought to be a tradeoff everyone can live with and then certain kids who aren't such great students and who may not be fully academically qualiifed for the rigors of a fulltime course load, can come back to their studies when they are fully prepared to concentrate on that. This would at least remove the guilt and the apparent effort to direct guys to less difficult classwork just to meet an arbitrary standard that only satisfies a bureaucratic need than actual academic achievement. 

in various sports both on and off campus, and I have always been impressed by their poise, characte and good-naturedness. I don't think that this is a unique perspective. And I don't think that it's odd that Michigan gets these kind of people, because the athletic programs look for well-rounded people who are also athletes. 

President Schissel isn't seeking to start a revolution, he just wants to find a way to make sports and the academic world more copisectic with campus life. He's primarily concerned with the student experience, broadening educational opportunity and fulfilling his larger mission at the university. The fact that the football program is the front porch and its foundation is in need of repair at the moment, gives this new guy a chance to air some ideas that haven't been heard from a Michigan president in quite awhile. 

I think he's a flexible and practical guy who wants to rebuild the Athletic Department in a way that helps bridge the gap he has described in his recent remarks. 

I don't know when school presidents are going to get around to it along with conference commissioners, but they ought to acknowledge the obvious and just admit that schools recruit athletes to excel at their sport, and they do that because culturally and otherwise, college sports has become great entertainment with a high return especially in football and  basketball. So why not just give those student athletes the opportunity while at school to either become full-time or parttime students during their scholarship years, and then allow them to complete their education later, if necessary. 

That ought to be a tradeoff everyone can live with and then certain kids who aren't such great students and who may not be fully academically qualiifed for the rigors of a fulltime course load, can come back to their studies when they are fully prepared to concentrate on that. This would at least remove the guilt and the apparent effort to direct guys to less difficult classwork just to meet an arbitrary standard that only satisfies a bureaucratic need than actual academic achievement. 

I will stop following recruiting, that's for sure.

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Why am I supposed to support my alma mater's pathetic football program?  Because Hoke is a nice guy?   No coaching staff  has done so little with so much.   

I have a six year old son...

all he does is ask 'what if' questions all day...

he is six...

his questions are better than yours.

that is all.

I will most likely pay  a great deal of money for season tickets and only actually go to two or three games.

There is no way I give up my season tickets. I've waited a while for the opportunity to buy them.

It'll come back.

I look forward to being a very silver topped old man and taking my grand nephew to his first game and telling him how I was a student for every season of the "Rich Rod era."

This too shall pass.

If you had a sock stuffed in your mouth, do you think you could get it out without using your hands or feet?

If you had a boyfriend or girlfriend who was great in every way and fantastic in bed, would you be able to overcome the fact that during sex, they scream the word ‘porpoise’ in shortening intervals until they climax?

Stupid questions like, "Can we have more CC threads?"

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