Football players don't quit, and the fans shouldn't either

[1Griz_Fan]

"But, what’s also unacceptable is a fan base being so unreasonable, so annoying and whiny"

Wow, talk about being so unreasonable, so annoying, and whiny...way to judge an entire fan base on a few bad fans or perhaps even trolls. I guess if that's the case MSU-Northern fans are a bunch of whiny little bee-autches, butt at least their not quitters, just annoying losers.

At any rate, don't be like MSU-Northern fans EVER, unless you like to lose and then complain about other fan bases that don't like to lose. By the way, I am not attending next game because I can't travel to all home games, not because the Griz lost to a lesser team. I pick the games I think will be most exciting and competitive so Weber was not an option. My five seats will be filled regardless. And my season tix are not going away next season either but thanks for assuming such unreasonable d-bag from Havre.

 

[statler & waldorf]

I liked the article and agree with it. Some Griz fans are giving up on the season, team, and coaches. Not most, perhaps not even many, but some. It was a horrible loss and a horrible time and place for it, and some of us think it was avoidable, but so what. Things happen. Time to stand up, get back on the horse, and keep moving ahead.

What I don't get is how many people didn't see this coming. Why get so worked up over this loss when you know it was going to happen. Maybe people put too much stock into the team after they beat NDSU but you had to know there was going be tons of highs and lows for this team. I'm hoping for a 7-4 season but I wouldn't be susrprised if we ended up 6-5. It is what it is...

The remaining schedule: ND, @ PSU, @ISU, EWU, @cats. Which are wins? Griz score much less than 30 pts per game, after week 1. What makes you think they can win 3-4 of these games? Did you watch the Weber game?

 

[PhxGriz]

The whole board is full of quitter assholes! :lol:

 

[PlayerRep]

I liked the article and agree with it. Some Griz fans are giving up on the season, team, and coaches. Not most, perhaps not even many, but some. It was a horrible loss and a horrible time and place for it, and some of us think it was avoidable, but so what. Things happen. Time to stand up, get back on the horse, and keep moving ahead.

What I don't get is how many people didn't see this coming. Why get so worked up over this loss when you know it was going to happen. Maybe people put too much stock into the team after they beat NDSU but you had to know there was going be tons of highs and lows for this team. I'm hoping for a 7-4 season but I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up 6-5. It is what it is...

I generally agree with your post. I didn't expect a great season, but thought it was possible that it would be a good one. NDSU was a pleasant surprise. I'm fine with how the season is going. I didn't see the Weber loss coming.

 

[PlayerRep]

I liked the article and agree with it. Some Griz fans are giving up on the season, team, and coaches. Not most, perhaps not even many, but some. It was a horrible loss and a horrible time and place for it, and some of us think it was avoidable, but so what. Things happen. Time to stand up, get back on the horse, and keep moving ahead.

What I don't get is how many people didn't see this coming. Why get so worked up over this loss when you know it was going to happen. Maybe people put too much stock into the team after they beat NDSU but you had to know there was going be tons of highs and lows for this team. I'm hoping for a 7-4 season but I wouldn't be susrprised if we ended up 6-5. It is what it is...

The remaining schedule: ND, @ PSU, @ISU, EWU, @cats. Which are wins? Griz score much less than 30 pts per game, after week 1. What makes you think they can win 3-4 of these games? Did you watch the Weber game?

Which ones can't the Griz win? I think they're all winnable. Not saying they all be W's, but don't see any we can't win. We'd need to Simis to come along fast. I think he'll improve quite fast, due to drinking from a fire house. Great opportunity for him.

 

[griz5700]

I liked the article and agree with it. Some Griz fans are giving up on the season, team, and coaches. Not most, perhaps not even many, but some. It was a horrible loss and a horrible time and place for it, and some of us think it was avoidable, but so what. Things happen. Time to stand up, get back on the horse, and keep moving ahead.

What I don't get is how many people didn't see this coming. Why get so worked up over this loss when you know it was going to happen. Maybe people put too much stock into the team after they beat NDSU but you had to know there was going be tons of highs and lows for this team. I'm hoping for a 7-4 season but I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up 6-5. It is what it is...

See this coming? I mean if you did any research on this coach or offense, then yeah, you may have seen this coming. But 95% of you thought prior to the season that our skill players were great, o-line was serviceable, and Simis would be starting. Here we are with the coach and pieces in place everyone wanted.

Too much stock into beating the 4X defending champs with a new coach and offense on ESPN? You're right, we should have known the wheels would fall off a week later and that the season was a write off.

I'm so sick of hearing about how shitty our fan base is. Sorry, we expect to win. Pretty sure none of our "peers" have 25K showing up on a consistent basis. In less than ideal circumstances. Bet we averaged over 24K in Delaney's second season. Yeah, our fan base sure does suck....
Total bull***t. We have great fans. Every fan base is critical of their coach. Step out of your bubbles. Take some pride in this program and stop being so soft. Stop with the over dramatic garbage.

 

[CV Griz Fan]

Whether or not the author of this article is havgrizfan really doesn't matter IMO. Hav has been a great poster over the years. He always complements good players on MSU and other Big Sky teams....He is pretty unbiased too. The last few years have been difficult on many die hard Griz fans. Sometimes emotions get the best of the posters on this board. I didn't support Hav's post right after the WSU lost. IMO, I just didn't think that It was appropriate. I told him so. Additionally, nobody should try to label Hav as a whiner now. It was one emotional post among many good, solid and well thought out posts. He deserves a break....

 

[NorthEndZoneDan]

No. Fu**k this sh*t. I'm done with slamming Griz fans. Numerous posts here on egriz claim that we have given up or that we shouldnt give or that we should just be better fans .....

I shit maroon and piss silver and say ftc when I brush my teeth every morning.

Stop telling me that I have to be in my seat at the exact moment of the second half kick off. Stop telling me to buy granite griz wear? wtf is that? stop telling me how to behave. I need beer to whet my whistle to get those false starts, so shut the fu*k up. My griz fan creds are not open for debate. The U of M is my alma mater, both of my degrees, your pie hole needs adjustment, so just stop. I didnt quit when during the Donovan days, the Read days, and now during the Stitt era. I'm going to be in the NEZ with 25,000 of my best friends on opening day when I should be out trying to get Ms. Elk into my freezer, so shut the f*ck up.
rant over.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

No. Fu**k this sh*t. I'm done with slamming Griz fans. Numerous posts here on egriz claim that we have given up or that we shouldnt give or that we should just be better fans .....

I shit maroon and piss silver and say ftc when I brush my teeth every morning.

Stop telling me that I have to be in my seat at the exact moment of the second half kick off. Stop telling me to buy granite griz wear? wtf is that? stop telling me how to behave. I need beer to whet my whistle to get those false starts, so shut the fu*k up. My griz fan creds are not open for debate. The U of M is my alma mater, both of my degrees, your pie hole needs adjustment, so just stop. I didnt quit when during the Donovan days, the Read days, and now during the Stitt era. I'm going to be in the NEZ with 25,000 of my best friends on opening day when I should be out trying to get Ms. Elk into my freezer, so shut the f*ck up.
rant over.

I just got a semi. Great post.

 

[bigkid]

Whether or not the author of this article is havgrizfan really doesn't matter IMO. Hav has been a great poster over the years. He always complements good players on MSU and other Big Sky teams....He is pretty unbiased too. The last few years have been difficult on many die hard Griz fans. Sometimes emotions get the best of the posters on this board. I didn't support Hav's post right after the WSU lost. IMO, I just didn't think that It was appropriate. I told him so. Additionally, nobody should try to label Hav as a whiner now. It was one emotional post among many good, solid and well thought out posts. He deserves a break....

As I agree that certain people deserve a break on things. This guy needs to realize that forums are a certain group of reader, a small sample of ignorance. He wrote an article that reached the general public chastising an entirety because he felt faulted in some way. He ridiculed me, you, and "Griz Nation" because of what a few people said in haste. He did this as a part of his position and reported it publicly. Not only should he be questioned but apologize publicly in the same jest as he wrote his original ridicule.

 

[NorthEndZoneDan]

What say you George? BW? The rest of you complaining about Griz fans? You are getting called out here and now.

 

[UMGriz75]

I'm going to be in the NEZ with 25,000 of my best friends on opening day when I should be out trying to get Ms. Elk into my freezer, so shut the f*ck up.

I skipped a Griz game several years ago to go Elk hunting. Finally found one up Wallace Creek and spent half a day dragging out quarters, she was so big.

At the Bonner Check-In, they looked at her tag and said, "well, congratulations, you shot the oldest Elk in Montana."

Served us right for skipping a Griz game.

 

[NorthEndZoneDan]

I'm going to be in the NEZ with 25,000 of my best friends on opening day when I should be out trying to get Ms. Elk into my freezer, so shut the f*ck up.

I skipped a Griz game several years ago to go Elk hunting. Finally found one up Wallace Creek and spent half a day dragging out quarters, she was so big.

At the Bonner Check-In, they looked at her tag and said, "well, congratulations, you shot the oldest Elk in Montana."

Served us right for skipping a Griz game.

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only in Montana.. Griz game or elk????

 

[Hammer]

No. Fu**k this sh*t. I'm done with slamming Griz fans. Numerous posts here on egriz claim that we have given up or that we shouldnt give or that we should just be better fans .....

I shit maroon and piss silver and say ftc when I brush my teeth every morning.

Stop telling me that I have to be in my seat at the exact moment of the second half kick off. Stop telling me to buy granite griz wear? wtf is that? stop telling me how to behave. I need beer to whet my whistle to get those false starts, so shut the fu*k up. My griz fan creds are not open for debate. The U of M is my alma mater, both of my degrees, your pie hole needs adjustment, so just stop. I didnt quit when during the Donovan days, the Read days, and now during the Stitt era. I'm going to be in the NEZ with 25,000 of my best friends on opening day when I should be out trying to get Ms. Elk into my freezer, so shut the f*ck up.
rant over.

:clap: :clap:

 

[snap]

I'm going to be in the NEZ with 25,000 of my best friends on opening day when I should be out trying to get Ms. Elk into my freezer, so shut the f*ck up.

I skipped a Griz game several years ago to go Elk hunting. Finally found one up Wallace Creek and spent half a day dragging out quarters, she was so big.

At the Bonner Check-In, they looked at her tag and said, "well, congratulations, you shot the oldest Elk in Montana."

Served us right for skipping a Griz game.

That's some fun elk hunting country. The hard part is driving up to Wallace and seeing big bulls lounging around on Paws Up property.

 

[statler & waldorf]

Amazing. All this over a Havre article which referenced the Griz. I really didn't know Northern HAD any fans. Comparing Griz FAN discontent with Lights FAN discontent is beyond absurd. Guess he had to print SOMETHING.

 

[George Ferguson]

Guys, and gals, I absolutely have no problem with being called out for what I write in opinion columns. That's why they're called columns. Trust me, I can handle it. To clarify a couple things, which I almost never do, I never referenced Egriz as the sole reason why I wrote what I wrote. The idea came to me actually while covering the Lights' game when a text came to me from someone at the Weber game who said "I'm never renewing my season tickets again." And he is actually not an Egriz poster. Of course I used blogs, and internet sentiments for my basis of the tone of Griz Nation following Saturday's game, but what's kind of funny about the responses I'm getting to my column now is, people who are mad at what I wrote, are some of the same people who are posting warnings, things like "I wonder how many recruits we'll lose," "we're going to be playing to a half-stadium in a couple more years", "the students have already shown they have written this season and this team off." Wouldn't those be considered negative tones of Griz Nation?

In any event, It's ok if people are mad at me for calling out the fan base. Maybe I shouldn't have generalized the entire fan base, sure, but according to many, the fan base is in fact already turning on Stitt and this season so, it is what it is. Again, that's why it's an opinion piece, and for me personally, I don't write them hoping for people to agree or disagree with me. I do wonder though, If I had or do write a column on Stitt's coaching decisions, I bet I would be getting applauded right now versus being ripped. So, what's good for the goose isn't necesscarily good for the gander I guess.

 

[Spanky]

Hav....not a good idea to compare the Havre team to the Griz....

 

[Yukon]

Griz are 3-3...Don't let facts get in the way.

 

[kemajic]

Which ones can't the Griz win? I think they're all winnable. Not saying they all be W's, but don't see any we can't win. We'd need to Simis to come along fast. I think he'll improve quite fast, due to drinking from a fire house. Great opportunity for him.

We just have to hope his bones are more durable than QBs #1 & 2.