WOW, why is he playing, lets see, according to our head coach, he wanted to win this game. By a very wide margin Whitmer is the best choice we currently - and I mean currently have. Now if you think we would have won this game with anyone on our team based on how they have been playing, i want whatever it is that you are smoking, drinking, snorting, and injecting! Do I think we were going to win this game NO! and that is a major Hell to the NO. However, if I thought we were going to get embarrassed playing ECU in their stadium, then yes that is exactly what I thought. No, I don't believe there are points for coming in second or points for style. All points go to the victor. Why would we start anyone other than Whitmer? Lets see our offensive line is Bad - really bad, and no I am not thinking we win another game this year. Our O-line played one game well with how much time to prepare. I don't mean to take the wind out of our sails. We played Michigan great last year too and look what happened, but to say that we would have won with TB at QB last night is just ridiculous at the highest level. Also for the record, next year is not going to be much better either. Get use to it fans, until this team can demonstrate that they are in every game each week which means winning at least half of our games, each season will be difficult to watch.
Lets reflect on our history which we somehow want to forget, inflate the sails with our past efforts and watch our over-confidence fade as the wind dies. Skip Holtz coach prior to Randy Edsall makes inroads in FCS, Randy Edsall remember the team playing on campus? Remember losing to GT and to Temple? Remember opening game at the Rent and the first fans there were UConn-nope University of Indiana - Hoosier fans. Lets look at our history not as negative as it may appear to you, but those are facts. Now go and improve on it! Tired of people asking who is we when talking about the team. We are the fans that leave the game early when the team playing knows the ugly score and knows the bus ride back to campus is long and arduous with all their nicks, scrapes, wounds, and injuries. We are the fans that in history were not the first ones into the Rent when it opened. (We as fans failed that day!!!) We are the fans who will witness the team turn-around or watch it wither. We are the 12th man! This season and next will be ugly, don't hide from it, don't expect to find that which wont be found, embrace it with a sense of truth. There is nothing worse than going into each game each week with higher expectations and feeling them ripped out of you. Go there, know what your about to see is no better than a scrimmage. Don't think of re-alignment, think of your fellow tailgaters and talk about the glory days of seasons past don't waste time on the future as the script is not written. Go to the game, and when the team under-performs just stay seated, your silence is the best motivator!