Michigan Negotiating Home And Home With Texas Comment Count

Brian

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This has been in the rumble stages for a month or so now, but this is the first mention from an actual reporter in the wild:

They are "working on dates" that are a decade out, so don't book your plane tickets yet. If this comes to fruition it would be the first games Brandon has booked in the aftermath of Notre Dame's cancellation of the series that come close to the wow factor ND provides.

Comments

JClay

September 9th, 2014 at 4:19 PM ^

Oklahoma comes close to the WOW factor of Notre Dame, IMHO. Florida, while a one-off, is also pretty Wow.

I'm not putting Virginia Tech, Washington, or Arkansas on Notre Dame/Texas/Florida's level, but they're hardly Little Sisters of the Poor. All of those games will be hot tickets.

For Swarbrick having the jump on Brandon, I think he's booked a pretty diverse, interesting group of opponents that'll bring great non-conf games to the Big House and give alumni/fans in the other 4 conferences' footprints opportunities to see UM as well.

echoWhiskey

September 9th, 2014 at 5:57 PM ^

No chance it's "better" than Notre Dame, a traditional rival who we regularly compete with for prospects and regional bragging rights.  But, it is an interesting game and a welcome addition to the schedule.  It would be nice to get one of these larger name opponents to commit to a series rather than just two games so we could gin up a new rivalry.

wbpbrian

September 9th, 2014 at 4:30 PM ^

Both programs are looking to get back on track so this makes real good sense to make this happen. By the way Michigan and Texas are the programs that bring in the most revenue so I could definately see this happen.

nowayman

September 9th, 2014 at 5:17 PM ^

Mainly because I respect him.  

I truly think that if you got his seat hot enough he'd be able to fix things.  

And hey, if he doesn't you should still get a free pizza out of all of this.

(no one should take this post seriously.  If you do, feel free to neg but after realize that it was an admittedly stupid post.  Stupid enough that I'll neg myself [and I'm aware why my post is pretty dang stupid, bronx).