BM sucks. Can't we play a school like Georgia Tech or Clemson? Enough with the MAC.
Seems like a good first year not to be a student/having tickets. Not missing that much.
when is UM bringing in kansas and mark mangino to complete the holy trilogy of enormous coaches?
and completly unrelated - if anyone is interested (or bored and surfing along blogdome) -i've started my super early season preview of the michigan wolverines starting with the WRs:
http://jimharbaughscramble.blogspot
I wonder what BCS conference schools would be willing to trade 2 games at Michigan Stadium for 1 game at home. Most of them would probably not go for a 1-game deal if the game is in AA.
The shifting of the home game vs. Penn State to the odd years really created an unbalanced schedule. The athletic department could be justifiably pleased with ND and OSU in the odd years, and MSU and PSU in the evens.
Is the 12-game regular season going to continue? We should be able to keep the athletic department afloat with seven home games every year, especially if we bring a good opponent in during the ND road game years.
Wow... what a crap schedule. Basically a donation to the AD to have the Wisconsin and MSU tickets. The rest of the home games are certifiably lacking of interest. Miami, Illinois, Toledo and Northwestern? Geez, the only thing missing is a Sun Belt opponent.
Gack.
I second JS. We can do better.
Is BM supposed to schedule EMU/WMU/CMU still to help out the instate schools? Or is that a figment of my imagination and we already have enough MAC schools?
Why play Ohio MAC teams when there are Michigan MAC teams? Yeah there are Michigan fans in Toledo and the whole Bo-Miami connection (answering my own question, I know), but why not keep the money in state? We haven't played Western in a while.
Or at least not have it go to Ohio...
Watch out for Illinois in 2008. It would be a mistake to take them too lightly.
Toledo has more UM fans than OSU fans
I wish the scheduling was a little bit more balanced. This year is STACKED for awesome home games and next year is absolutely horrendous outside of MSU. Good Lord that's bad.
Oh and Wisco.
Toledo was almost split dead even, 50-50, between UM & OSU fans -- but I think that OSU may now hold an edge simply due to their recent head-to-head success. Seems that the last few years when passing through Toledo I'm spotting a lot more OSU gear than UM.
Anyway, as a Michigan AND Toledo fan, I'm happy that these two programs are finally meeting. I don't think they've ever played each other.
...would like to see Michigan play Jowlgia tech or NC as a opeinning game!
again, this is a tough spot to fill...10/11 is in the middle of the conference season. there might be, on average, 1.5 teams per BCS conference with a bye that week. who they are, i have no idea. I'll bet M got UT for cheap since they can bus up and not take a charter. I always wondered why UT never tried to schedule M...45mins away is as close as it gets unless you're EMU-UM, Duke-UNC, NW-Uchicago (old school), USC-UCLA, WSU-UI, theU-FIU. any others closer than 10mi?
So 2 more open dates to fill . . . how about Eastern Michigan and Southern Illinois? What a great year next year is shaping up to be in terms of excitement. I'm sure having 3 or 4 MAC teams on the schedule will help us move up in the polls.
10 yrs ago during the Cooper blight you couln't find a bucknut fan with a spot light in the Toledo area. Today, they're like flies on shit. I've never seen so many tacky ass tee shirts and hats. Every homer in town sports a national championship chew cup.
As a BG alum and M fan I can't wait for the rocket butt-kicking. Toledo Tom is a good coach and a hell of a nice guy. If the point shaving scandle hasn't sucked the life out of the team it should be a good game for a quarter or two.
BM needs to switch PSU...no doubt. ND can't switch due to USC and OSU/ND together and PSU/MSU just makes sense. He needs to talk to PSU. To think we can make it through at ND at PSU and at OSU is bananas...take this past year. In terms of other teams, we should schedule a Big East team like Rutgers or Pitt since we recruit in NJ and PA, or a team like Stanford or Virginia. Keep in mind, the first game will be Mallet's first start, but this will give the team great focus in the offseason.
Maybe the makeup of the team is a STRONG consideration for the schedule (at least I'll hold on to that theory/story). We'll have a fairly young group starting at key positions.
The man is so fat his fingers have stretch marks. Look at them!
JHS -
Trinity?? Surely you can't be forgetting Ralph Friedgen...
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What a joke. College football is just a gigantic money-grab.
2008 sounds like a good year to sell the season tix, then just buy outside the stadium before games. It will come out to be a lot cheaper that way, you can get into a game against a crappy team for < $20.
If that game will be Malletts first start they aren't going to get anyone that can beat Michigan. Actually, I'm in favor of bringing in all the MAC teams. I still haven't seen Akron, Kent St, Buffalo, Temple, or Ohio U. Lets just bring them all in eventually!!!!!!!!
Goddamn, that's a shitty home schedule. Glad I won't be buying tickets.
re: Illinois, Wisconsin, and the rest of the B10
Who cares if they are "good" or not? Unless they start winning the MNC or beating the crap out of M at home (a la Iowa '02), nobody in the B10 outside of OSU, PSU, and MSU can get the fans up. Fans didn't even get up for Purdue '00 (w/ Drew Brees -- the Drew Henson show in full effect) or Wisconsin '98 (w/ Ron Dayne).
Get a team like Arkansas, Texas A&M, UCLA or Boston College (basically any team with some football history and against whom Michigan has around 55-60% probability of winning at home in any given year), and maybe the fans will be excited.
I'm a Notre Dame fan and I applaud the general tenor of the comments above.
It's the rare team that can afford to play more than three regular season games against major competition. But it's just plain embarrassing to schedule four or five teams that have only a single-digit chance of beating you.
The addition of a 12th game has, in effect, created an exhibition season for college football, though not all the games are played at the beginning of the season. And as any NFL season ticket holder will tell you, exhibition is fan blackmail, plain and simple.
Only bad things can happen during exhibitions. If you win, so what? If your QB throws for 610 yrds against St. Mary's School for Girls, who cares? A victory is expected, and any injuries that result from games against bullshit competition just detract from the quality of real games later on.
I echo the feelings above. A patsy or two per year is fine. But the balance of games should be played against teams that could plausibly beat you.
The 12th game is the devil.
Write letters to your AD, people. I do it all the time. They're treating this like a business, and they need to know their most loyal "consumers" are pissed.
Once again, I appaud your manliness.
Oh, by the way, I didn't mean to imply ND is above any of the stuff I refeneced in my comments. The trend of scheduling a lot of patsies is afflicting all teams, ND included.
hey Hal and "womanliness"...there's girls on this board too! haha
That away schedule is absolutely brutal. ND, PSU, OSU, Purdue and Minnesota all on the road? How does that happen?
Yeah, but they're not playing :>)
I meant no offense.
Speaking of big coaches, I'm sure Charlie Weis is twenty times bigger than Wayne Bennett, also. So Lloyd's got nothing on him.
Marketing always has to keep abreast of trends to be effective, and Bill Martin has a marketing dream in front of him that's tailor-made for our national obesity epidemic: See the Flab Five at the BIG House!
To start the heavy-duty slate off with a bang, Phat Phil Fulmer brings his Volunteers come into town on August 30. Then, on Sept. 6, Mark "Man Mountain" Mangino and the Jayhawks come to Ann Arbor, replacing Miami of Ohio in a late schedule switch. Next, on Sept. 13, Martin opens the stadium for those dedicated fans who'll watch the Wolverines play Charlie "Jabba" Weis and Notre Dame at South Bend on the giant scoreboards at the Big House. On Sept. 20 it's Ralph "Fridge" Friedgen and the Maryland Terps back in Ann Arbor, and rounding out the corpulent crew is "Two-Ton" Tom Amstutz and the Toledo Rockets on Oct. 11.
Special game promotions include raffles for routine angioplasties and gastric bypasses given out at each home game, and a liposuction will be performed live at the 50-yard line on the lucky ticket holder during halftime of the Toledo game. At the Carr's Wash for Kids in August, a special scale will be brought in so the coaching staff can try to guess the weight of UM fans willing to step on the scales. If the coaches come within 5 pounds, the fans donate $25 to the Cardiac Care Center at UM Hospital. If the guess is off the mark, the fan gets a coupon good for a double bacon cheeseburger deluxe and large fries at McDonald's.
Toledo will be loaded next year and you guys will be breaking in a new offense and a few fellows on defense. Don't become PSU 2000 for Rocket fans. I think the schedule fine considering what you guys are losing in experience the next season...
AD Martin's reasoning is faulty.
Not to play ND. Who cares if you play OSU & ND both home & away. It's not as though going into South Bend brings terror to the level of going into Columbus.
He refers to the games before the Big X1 play as 'pre-season,' what a boob.
Toledo, Miami of Ohio, you have to do better than that. Match up with other universities that have the sanme scheuling problems, be innovative, smoke a doobie get creative.
Sorry about -same & scheduling
We've got away games against OSU, PSU, and Notre Dame. We'll have a new RB and a new WR. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a candidate for our 12th game that would make sure we don't go into homecoming 1-3.
Everyone in the UGA world has been saying that UGA-UM home and home would be an ideal game. Unfortunately it is difficult to get teams to come play in Georgia in early September. What is wrong with 95 degree temperatures and 95% humidity?
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