<p>I am not a fan of football and isn't interested in drinking and partying all night either. </p>
<p>Is Football a very important thing in UMich? Is everyone all about their school spirit?</p>
<p>Football is a huge deal at Michigan, but if you don’t want to go to the football games or talk football, you’ll be just fine. With so many kids at UM, you’ll find the group of friends for you.</p>
<p>There are many students at Michigan who either don’t care much about football, and in some cases, like you, hate the sport. But don’t be surprised if your stance on the sport softens once you are at the University. I hated football growing up, but after I attended the first game in Michigan Stadium, I was a changed man! ;)</p>
<p>Sure there are kids that aren’t that into football. But I would say to have an open mind t, you just might change your mind. The season is short.</p>
<p>It would be hilarious if one pick a school because of football unless he is recruited into the team.</p>
<p>billcsho - guess why the University of Alabama’s enrollment has grown from just over 20,000 in 2003 to almost 35,000 this Fall. They ain’t all on the football team. Yes, that is why Saban’s comp of $5.3M is considered a fantastic investment for bama.</p>
<p>I can’t stand football and don’t drink. I’ll be honest: while you can find people here who agree with you, it will likely be challenging, and sometimes you might feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of people who can’t understand why you don’t feel the same way they do. </p>
<p>If you can stand feeling like a fish out of water on occasion in exchange for some other excellent points of the college (academics, resources, clubs/student groups, etc), you’ll probably be all right. You’ll have to work harder than many of your peers to find like-minded friends, but they’re out there.</p>
<p>(On a related note, I have met people who tell me they came here just for the football. The rest is just a nice bonus to them)</p>
<p>^^^There are many students just like you on campus. You don’t have to enjoy any sport to thrive at Michigan. You will not be ostracized because you aren’t going to a game. Just look at the stands in the student sections. Many students with tickets aren’t going to the games at all. To be honest, I think your concerns are unfounded.</p>
<p>"I am not a fan of football and isn’t interested in drinking and partying all night either. </p>
<p>Is Football a very important thing in UMich? Is everyone all about their school spirit?"</p>
<p>I like football a lot, but I don’t drink or party. People are all about school spirit at Umich. However, it’s ok if you don’t care about the football team. There are plenty of people at Umich who don’t care about the football team.</p>
<p>It’s a big place, filled with people of varied interests. Interest in football ranges from zero (e.g., my wife, who never attended a game in her 4 years there), to those with a casual interest who might attend a game or two a year, to the most passionate fans; probably more of the latter, but you’ll find plenty of people in the other groups as well. </p>
<p>Look at it this way: the student section at the Big House seats about 21,000, so at any given home game, there are probably more students not attending than attending. Many of the non-attendees are grad students whose passion for Michigan football is probably on average somewhat lower than among undergrads, but still, many grad students do go to the games, and many thousands of undergrads don’t.</p>
<p>Football Saturdays are a big deal on campus and in Ann Arbor; it feels as if takes over the entire town. But that’s typically only 7 Saturdays a year, and people I knew who weren’t into football always said gametime on a football Saturday was a great time to find a quiet study space on central campus, or a quiet niche in a coffee shop, or to take a quiet walk in the Arb, because all the energy was on the other end of town, along with all the people.</p>
<p>Not to worry. We don’t play football anymore…</p>
<p>Hehe! Actually, our 7-4 record is deceptive. We should have lost to Akron and Northwestern. This could easily have been 5-6 team. Anyway, barring a miracle, OSU will likely destroy us by 20-30 points next Saturday, but we will likely win our Bowl game. Either way, I think it is fair to say that Funk will be fired at the end of the season. Hopefully, Borges will also be terminated. We need a complete overhaul of our offense.</p>
<p>I’ve now gone to two Big 10 schools that are (were?) top football programs and I really do not care for football all that much (I’ve tried, I’ve really tried, but it just does nothing for me). I’m also not a big partier/drinker. Never had an issue at either school. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>“Anyway, barring a miracle, OSU will likely destroy us by 20-30 points next Saturday.”</p>
<p>The miracle will be if we only lose by 20-30 points next week. Meyer will need style points to try to move up the BCS rankings and will not be holding back the scoring against us. The only satisfaction I have at this time is that beating Michigan is not likely to help tOSU’s strength of schedule. I would hate to see them in the NC game in case FSU or 'Bama falters.</p>
<p>John Harbaugh replacing Hoke is the publicized rumor. Hopefully they can retain Mattison.</p>
<p>Poor original poster…his thread about whether he can survive umich while hating football turned into a football thread.</p>
<p>I hated football before coming here. I found games to be irritating noise. However, when I walked into the big house my opinion changed. I genuinely enjoy Michigan football…the rest is still irritating noise. Who knows why… there is significant history behind it…</p>
<p>W&G…do you have links to the John Harbaugh rumor? With a quick google search, I could only find other rumor’s on sports forums …nothing actually publicized…</p>
<p>If you had some good links, it would be a good thread in and of itself.</p>
<p>jack63 - here is the link and the pertinent quote:</p>
<p>[Exclusive:</a> Texas, USC and Michigan to pursue John Harbaugh as next coa](<a href=“http://www.chatsports.com/texas-longhorns/a/Exclusive-Texas-USC-and-Michigan-to-pursue-John-Harbaugh-as-next-coach-10-136-455]Exclusive:”>Exclusive: Texas, USC and Michigan to pursue John Harbaugh as next coach)</p>
<p>“The Wolverines are without question the wild card here. This is the one school that John Harbaugh would 100% take a job with if it was offered, even though he would have some reservations about taking over for his friend Brady Hoke.”</p>
<p>I think you guys should make a new thread…</p>
<p>“It would be hilarious if one pick a school because of football unless he is recruited into the team.” Don’t agree Billcsho. </p>
<p>D wanted a school with top academics and top BCS football. Her first choice was Stanford but did not get in. Her choices then came down to UVa, Tex. and Mich. UVa, top academics, good but not great football. Tex. top football (maybe not recently) and good but not great academics and Mich. great academics and (generally) great football. She chose Mich and has loved every minute of it. I had absolutely no problem with the quality of football being an important factor for her because she also wanted top academics. Now, if she had wanted to go to a truly AWFUL school just for the football, like, I dunna tOSU :), we would have had a discussion.</p>
<p>I have this concern as well, and the 4 other threads on football on the front page of this forum, as well as the irony of this one getting derailed into a football thread (!) aren’t particularly encouraging for students who aren’t interested in talking about football. The very fact that several posters jumped in to talk football strategy on this thread where it was obviously not of any interest has me concerned despite the assurances of others.</p>
<p>Oops, I miscounted. 5 football threads.</p>