Forty two. Historically brutal. Factions and Clans are gathering. The only thing keeping the Index off the 40 floor is the notion that it could actually get worse against Rutgers. In fact we could be heading for a reassessment of the worst season in Michigan football history (1934).
Charts and more thoughts below:
Considerations:
Going Even Lower. Many on Twitter chimed in with ratings below 40. Under 40 represents the Trough of Disillusionment. You are beyond rage, despair, feeling…you’ve completely checked out. That’s fine, but in this state you won’t care about a silly Mood rating anyway. At that point you are basically talking about 11, Ongie gets it:
Double Black Diamond. The Mood freefall over the last three games is notable. It’s definitely the steepest and deepest drop since the measure has been taken going back to 2013. The dive is no doubt akin to the hypothetical drop following The Horror (Appalachian State) and Sucks Unlimited (Oregon) games. Ironically, the free fall over the past three weeks is effectively the inverse of the Mood jump once Harbaugh was hired. Yikes.
COVID factor. Beyond the thought that this could get worse for those of us still checked in (i.e., losing to Rutgers, public team/coach disharmony, people quitting, ending up on GMA after a concussion-gate-like scandal…), you can’t ignore the odd/awful reality of the pandemic during all this. I don’t know exactly what that means but marking the Mood Index zero after a few horrible games seems a bit harsh in 2020.
So 42. And to answer the question wonderfully belted out below, yes, I’ve seen the rain:
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