Notre Dame Series To Resume In 2018, Per Reports
The first person to reply to this post with "to hell with Notre Dame" or anything close to it will be banned. [Eric Upchurch]
The AP is now confirming that Michigan and Notre Dame will resume playing football against each other in the near future, as first reported by this dude:
Michigan-Notre Dame football series is set to resume in 2018, per source. Official announcement expected tomorrow around noon.
— Ryan Krasnoo (@RyanKras) July 7, 2016
Krasnoo says Michigan will eat a two million dollar buyout of "the Arkansas game", which I take to mean the entire 2018/2019 series since cancelling just the 2018 game at home seems super super unlikely.
The AP report says that the 2018 game will be played in South Bend, which would be crazy for Michigan and pretty odd for Notre Dame. Thanks to Good Ol' Dave Brandon even years going forward feature MSU/OSU on the road. Replacing a home game against an SEC team with another road game against a tough opponent doesn't make a ton of sense. Also thanks to the contract Brandon was blindsided with, ND got the final game before the series hiatus.
Meanwhile Notre Dame already has season-ticket tentpole games in 2018, when both Stanford and Florida State travel to South Bend. They've got USC at home in 2019; their second best home game is against Virginia Tech and third best is either Virginia or BC. It doesn't make sense for either program to have the series start in South Bend. We'll see, apparently soon.
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I'm perfectly fine playing Notre Dame, but don't feel the need to play them annually. Perhaps every other year or even two years would be better.
The at ND in 2018 I'm seeing some places makes absolutely zero sense. Why give ND the first game at home and have zero good home games for Michigan in 2018?
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I kid, of course. See my post above.
If this game is in south bend in 2018 warde manuel should just go ahead and resign.
Warde Manual just royally screwed up the first important action on the job... Home game in '18 should have been a precondition to even come to the table with those arrogant pricks.
I'm excited to play a team with whom we have a legit rivalry, and I'm not sad in the least about sacrificing the Arkansas game(s). I don't think we'd have a problem beating Arkansas, but watching a Bert Bielema team is about as fun as watching paint dry, and Arkansas is the least prestigious of our future P5 conference opponents (Washington, VT, UCLA, Oklahoma, Texas).
Making our schedule unnecessarily harder. Unreal.
If this is actually a road game in 2018, I'll be having some real doubts about Manuel as AD. Bad home schedule, tough schedule overall ,and basically paying $2 million dollars to give up a home game? Not a good look.
Talk about getting screwed. We give up $2 million and a home game against an SEC opponent and oh btw... we have to play ND in South Bend in the same year we have OSU/MSU on the road. Warde must have gone to the Dave Brandon school of AD.
so non-plussed right now
I don't care about this -- I only care about improving the wifi at the big house to enhance my game day experience
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every bit of good will Warde has accumulated has gone right out the window... count me among those who hate this.
Are they bringing back Damefan1 too?
Isn't this being done this way so M has seven home games in both 18 and 19?
Yes, this is an important point, Brandon said that the AD needs 7 home games for the football budget to work. Granted he's no longer there but that doesn't really change the math.
This is exactly right. Dave Ablauf was talking about it on WTKA this morning. We go to 9 conference games and in the odd years, we have 4 home conference games. The idea is that we have to have 3 non-conference home games on odd years. This makes the schedule unbalanced from year to year but gives us 7 homes games each year.
AP is reporting that 2018 game is in Ann Arbor, then next sentence says differently.......
EDIT - LOOKS LIKE THEY JUST UPDATED THE NEWS ARTICLE. IT ORIGINALLY SAID THE 2018 GAME WAS IN ANN ARBOR.
He's one of my favorite posters, and also there's no way in hell we do ND, OSU and MSU all on the road in the same year unless there's a really good explanation for this. Like Jim Delany kidnapped Warde Manuel's family at gunpoint
I'm very excited about Notre Dame coming back, but why are we getting shafted like this?
First game being away in a year we're already away with both OSU and MSU and when we're already giving up a home game and they got the last game? We're booting Arkansas when both ND and UM have an open date the following week? (I get that's a hard schedule, but I'd rather have a hard shedule and go with the loss(es) than play a bunch of cupcakes and pay out 2 mil).
Why is Michigan getting screwed over so much in these shedule negotiations?
giving up a home game in 2018 to play another road game at ND? Dumb, Dumb. Dumb. I don't object to putting ND back on the schedule Just not at this cost. They'll probably raise the price of bottled water to an even $5 now.
Per mgoblue.com.
So we gave up a home game against an SEC team in exchange for a road trip to South Bend in the same year we're already going to MSU and OSU.
Unless this decision is paired with a rectification of the MSU/OSU home/away schedule imbalance, Manuel has miserably flunked his first real test as AD.
Bring back Jim Hackett.
At least we have all those night games at Michigan Stadium to look forward to
but every year is stupid & suffocating.
It should be an every other year thing so all players get a chance to enjoy the rivalry (& it still would be with a consistent on/off schedule) and we still get to schedule other interesting teams.
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To Hellmans mayo with Notre Dame!!! It's the best of the mayos so they deserve it on their ham sammich.
For those of you that are season ticket holders--are you cool with 6 home game (vs. the 8 that we have been used to)?
That was the set-up with the schedule as is. We still get Nebraska, Penn State, and Wisconsin at home in '18. For all we know all 3 of those teams could be better then MSU at that point.
I'd rather have 3 tough road games (ala this year) then play 6 on the road in a year. As we saw at Minnesota/Indiana last year, it's tough to survive them all.
since they will schedule a cupcake on Sept 8 @ home.
non-conference games!
FND!
I'm tired of Notre Dame- more excited about home and home with SECs Arkansas and the Bielema/former rival connection. Same ol' Same ol'. Go Blue!
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