cutter

June 30th, 2016 at 2:30 PM ^

There are a number of articles linking the expansion of the Zika virus to climate change.  This is the first time Michigan football meets up with a changing, i.e., warming Earth.

Enjoy college football while you can, everybody.  In ten or fifteen years from now, when there is a full fledged acknowledgement regarding the threats behind global warming and climate change, the idea of having a satellite camp in American Samoa is going to seem rather absurd.

It wouldn't surprise me that Michigan's final home-and-home series with a team well outside the state's boundaries will be the one with Texas in Austin to open the 2027 season.  After that, we can probably look forward to annual games with Notre Dame (less travel, smaller carbon footprint) and perhaps a half dozen more with teams that have short travelling distances either in the Big Ten (Ohio State, Michigan State, Indiana, Purdue) or outside it (those teams in the MAC still playing football).   Conferences will be realigning to become smaller, there'll be fewer games, perhaps no or not many athletic scholarships and no bowl games (which puts the national championship back to a popular vote--wooh, wooh!!!).  

I suppose if he stick around long enough, Jim Harbaugh could be Michigan's last coach.  He'd be in his late 60s by the end of the next decade, so I guess it's possible he'll be the one that'll close the doors and turn out the lights for the final time prior to Schembechler Hall getting shut down and mothballed.  

 

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Blazefire

June 30th, 2016 at 2:43 PM ^

Nonsense. EVERY issue in the history of mankind had exploded into something that radically alters or destroys our way of life. That's why humanity has been wiped out for 500K years. Clearly this will too.



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ijohnb

June 30th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^

true.  I have learned that, in this day and age, something is either not a problem AT ALL and you are a fool if you think so or is clearly THE BIGGEST PROBLEM ever that will kill us all and cannot be solved.  it is either one or the other and there is no in between.

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Blazefire

June 30th, 2016 at 2:46 PM ^

Let's be clear here. Is global warming happening? Probably. Is humanity speeding it up? Probably. Are the whole ice caps melting in the next decade? No. At all, ever? Probably not, as they never have before. Will ecology change as a result of climate change? Yes, gradually.

You might want to reign it in, sir.



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LSAClassOf2000

June 30th, 2016 at 3:13 PM ^

I think you need to look at it this way - one theory estimates that by the 2050s or thereabouts, the Lake Erie basin, which includes southeastern Michigan, will possibly have a climate profile similar to, say, the St. Louis area, so it is entirely possible that - if that holds - the SEC might finally start playing up here en masse in the OOC schedule. If that were to hold, just think - it only took a regional climate shift for those chickenshits to do it too. 

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The Oracle

June 30th, 2016 at 3:02 PM ^

I'm surprised that Harbaugh wouldn't welcome a little healthy competition vs. the Zika virus. Babies with small heads are for lesser men.

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a different Jason

June 30th, 2016 at 3:21 PM ^

This is the correct decision. I sometimes want to cancel lots of stuff because of Zika fears. Going to work, getting out of bed, talking to my wife...can't mow the lawn, Zika. They have many young people to think about, I just have one lazy fatass.

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