Michigan Baseball Schedule Announced
44 game all B1G schedule, no non conference games, and no conference tourney. The latter makes absolutely no sense seeing as they’re playing a basketball conference tourney (as of now), but oh well at least we’ve got baseball!
MGoBligatory #FireBakich
https://mgoblue.com/news/2021/2/17/michigan-announces-44-game-conference-only-baseball-schedule.aspx
February 17th, 2021 at 8:54 PM ^
Too bad there is no big ten baseball tournament.
February 17th, 2021 at 8:59 PM ^
I think they are trying to use as much of the reg season for all teams as they possibly can.
A tourney will last 2 weekends I'd guess, with the half the teams not playing in the last weekend.
February 17th, 2021 at 9:14 PM ^
Sell some tickets, Warde. We need you and the county to get a little more cozy before football season.
February 17th, 2021 at 11:05 PM ^
Off to Bolivia I see
February 17th, 2021 at 11:12 PM ^
Release your pearls. Lots of us want to attend games.
February 17th, 2021 at 11:20 PM ^
I know it's fashionable for some around here to bash Warde every opportunity they get; after all, it what the really cool kids do, right?
But this isn't Warde's call, and it isn't the Washtenaw County Health Department pulling the strings, either.
Thank you to the OP for posting a working link; clicking it and reading the entire piece from MGoBlue.com brings the reader to the key last half of the final paragraph:
There is no public access to U-M events due to Big Ten policy currently in effect. Please check MGoBlue.com for further broadcast and coverage information.
Yell at the B1G commissioner and front office (or at the clouds, if that's your preference), but let's be fair to Warde here.
February 17th, 2021 at 11:25 PM ^
So my main takeaway here is that Kevin Warren and the conference decision makers should be criticized. Got it. Some road games would be fun as well if attendance was allowed conference wide.
February 17th, 2021 at 11:34 PM ^
Exactly. #FireKevin. And Bakich, too, of course.
Speaking of road games: until I read the linked article, I had hoped to take in a road game or series if fans weren't going to be allowed for home games. I've done that in the past, taking in games @ND, @WMU, and @msu. I also was planning on taking my granddaughter to a few Michigan softball games.
Bubble popped.
February 18th, 2021 at 8:07 AM ^
the 'cool kid' mentality rules the blog.
exhibit #1, MGoPoints.
February 17th, 2021 at 9:40 PM ^
Bummed about the lack of non-con games. Was hoping they’d come out west for a stretch, but, you know covid and all. Maybe next year. Go Blue and #FireBakich
February 18th, 2021 at 1:43 PM ^
Can someone explain the #firebakich joke?
February 18th, 2021 at 5:12 PM ^
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/fire-bakich
he continued to double and triple down throughout the tourney run.
February 17th, 2021 at 9:53 PM ^
At least there will be a season. Not sure how they could do anything differently. In many parts of the country (including within the state of Michigan) the pandemic rages on.
February 17th, 2021 at 10:25 PM ^
Bakich’s energy is responsible for all of these scheduling errors and for it he should be fired immediately and replaced by whoever can do the best Ted lasso impersonation.
February 17th, 2021 at 11:03 PM ^
So Jason Sudeikis then? Brilliant!
February 17th, 2021 at 11:04 PM ^
We shouldn't be playing a basketball tournament though. Too many games to make up.
February 17th, 2021 at 11:45 PM ^
B1G basketball Tournament = $$$$
B1G baseball Tournament = $
It’s all about the Money.
February 18th, 2021 at 9:07 AM ^
I'm really curious to see how the NCAA handles this on Selection Monday. The Big Ten has been a 3-5 bid league in the last few years, and obviously a Big Ten team made the championship game of the last NCAA baseball tournament, and the pre-season talk was that several Big Ten teams would be much stronger this year, so you would think a minimum of 4 Big Ten teams should make the tournament, even without the ability to compare.
I have a feeling though that the conference might be punished for playing an insular schedule, and am expecting only 2 or 3 invitations even though there will be 4 or 5 deserving teams.
Judging by pre-season talk, Indiana, Michigan and Nebraska are the top 3 in the conference. It looks like the conference is saving Michigan's big series against the Hoosiers and the Huskers for the last few weekends of the schedule: M hosts Indiana on May 14-15-16 and ends the season at Nebraska on May 28-29-30. The NCAA selects the tournament teams the next day, May 31.
February 18th, 2021 at 9:45 AM ^
Now that I look closely at the schedule, the Big Ten has obviously set up a "showdown" over the last 4 weeks of the season among their top 3 teams:
May 7-9: Indiana v Nebraska (2 games)
May 14-16: Indiana at Michigan (3 games)
May 21-23: Nebraska at Indiana (2 games)
May 28-30: Michigan at Nebraska (3 games)
Hopefully the BTN will feel like devoting some air time to these series.
February 18th, 2021 at 10:07 AM ^
I'm sure BTN+ will happily give the air time to broadcast the left side of the field and a drone shot of the pitcher/batter atop Yost ice arena while an unpaid student gets valuable experience announcing while you pay a nice fee to watch.