Angelique's Wish List for the Non-Irish Home-and-Home
Angelique provides her $0.02 on who our opponent should be for the 2018-2019 home-and-home.
Her conclusion: No PAC-10. Choose a top tier SEC, Big 12 or ACC team. Listing of usual suspects: LSU, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Virginia Tech.
For selfish reasons, I choose VT for geographic reasons (I'd make the trip to Blacksburg in a heartbeart or they might schedule it at FedEx Field like this year's VT/Boise State game) and because (hopefully) my son will be a Hokie alumnus by then. Nothing like a little family animus to get the juices flowing. Second choice OU since it's my other alma mater.
Discuss amongst yourselves...
March 28th, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
Living in VA, I would also like to see them play VT or UVA. Other than that, I would be interested in seeing them play LSU or Tennesse.
Actually, any team on Angelique's list sounds pretty good.
March 28th, 2010 at 11:22 AM ^
The best move, IMO, would be to schedule a storied program that resides in a fertile recruiting area. Texas, Florida, LSU would all be good choices.
March 28th, 2010 at 12:08 PM ^
I'm in total agreement with you on that. It could provide us with more exposure in areas that we can pull really talented recruits from.
March 28th, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^
It'd be nice to bend the Vols over our knee and spank them after all the Peyton/Woodson crap and the whipping they gave us in the Citrus bowl. Of course these games would be 20 years after all that happened, wow.
March 28th, 2010 at 11:31 AM ^
I would ideally like to see them play a "name" program from a fertile recruiting area, but one that they should sweep if they are playing to an elite level. Miami, Texas A&M, or Georgia would fit. For all I know, USF might fit the bill after a few years under Skip Holtz. In other words, I am hoping for a "big hat, no cattle" program.
Unless, of course, there is a playoff by then. That would make it so that one non-conference loss doesn't DQ a team from having a shot at the title game. As long as the NCAA is still going with the MNC model, though, it would only hurt UM's chances at getting to the MNC game if they schedule too good a program.
March 28th, 2010 at 11:51 AM ^
Texas, OU, Neb, VT, UF, FSU, LSU, Bama, Tenn, UGa
March 28th, 2010 at 12:39 PM ^
I would rather play Miami (yes that Miami) instead of FSU. They are on the up and I really hope they beat OSU next year. Compared to FSU who is on the down.
March 28th, 2010 at 12:38 PM ^
Tarheels. Playing Butch Davis would be cool. My wife is an alum too.
March 28th, 2010 at 12:42 PM ^
Well I think we can all cross off Tenn from the list considering the Buckeyes already have them on a future schedule for '18 and '19
Ah, good point. Well maybe Nebraska then, we owe them some revenge as well for the Alamo fiasco and the shared title. Who knows, might be in the conference by then..
March 28th, 2010 at 12:43 PM ^
I remember when Florida State came to the big house .. I want revenge and i think playing in the state of Florida would be nice for a change .. my pick Michigan vs Florida State
March 28th, 2010 at 12:50 PM ^
OU can be knocked off to because according to what I'm looking at they already have LSU those years, so it's already no Tenn, OU, or LSU. Texas, FSU, Florida, Bama, and USC all appear to be open.
March 28th, 2010 at 12:59 PM ^
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School not name west va. Ill blow a gasket!
I wonder if RR would be in favor of playing WVU. My guess is no.
but he may not have a say in this matter if he's at another school...
Jacksonville State. They should be D1 about the time of this series. Nothing like being their first home game in D1?
I vote for Georgia. Athens has a great college town feel and is a lot like Ann Arbor. Plus I live in Atlanta and am a little selfish.
Yup. Georgia would be great. I only live about an hour from Athens. Of course this is 8-9 years from now and the world is supposed to end in 2012 so who knows what might happen til then.
TEXAS gets my vote.
Give us some major exposure in South Florida.
Plus beating USF in a more impressive fashion than MSU in the same season would just continue to show the nation who is better.
UCLA! Nothing like playing in the Rose Bowl twice in one year...plus I live like 10 minutes from there so I would LOVE to see UM play against UCLA out here. UCLA should be a solid program built by then and Southern California is also a great recruiting ground. But mostly because I would be able to go.
I have no idea why you were negged, but I would love to see that match up to. OC is not too far from Pasadena.
As pointed out below, they already have a BCS AQC team scheduled in 2017. They are limited to only 3 OOC games per year. Not sure how big they consider Rutgers on wanting to schedule more than one "big game".
Texas Tech if all the other "Big Boys" are taken... chances are we may get them in the future seeing as though we are establishing some sort of a relationship by scheduling them for baseball.
Good point on Tennessee below, but scheduling isn't on a department level for baseball or most other Olympic sports. That's done more through the individual teams with AD approval, or so I understand it at least. Maloney found them, and brokered a deal to get the return trip next year.
Besides, we had road games at Arizona on the schedule last year, UNC this year, Stanford next year, and LSU in 2012 for baseball, so it's not like Tech is a singular baseball identity.
thanks for the insight! I thought everything was done through the Athletic department.
Just because of revenue, AD does have more of a say in football, but in the lower level sports, coaches have a lot more say from my understanding. AD assists in the process, but they let coaches handle the team and the way they want the season to unfold. Hence teams like Ohio State playing a bunch of one game series in baseball with more mid-week games than Michigan who prefers weekend series with multiple games, using baseball as the example. It's just different coaching philosophies.
way to do due research angeline as Tenn cant be scheduled as they are already playing Ohio State... LSU wont be scheduled b/c theyre scheduled with Oklahoma... geeeze
Teams with at least one major OOC game in 2017/2018, or a long running series. Not that this would make it impossible to schedule, but just for reference.
ACC
- BC: Syracuse (both years as they have yearly rivalry building)
- NC St: LSU in 2017/2020
- Duke: Baylor in 2017/2018
- GT: Auburn in 2017/2018
- Miami: Rutgers 2018/2019
- Virginia Tech: Wisconsin 2016/2017
- Colorado: Oregon 2017, @Arizona St 2018
- Iowa St.: Iowa 2017/2018, Navy 2018, only one open date left each year
- Nebraska: @Tennessee 2017
- Baylor: Duke 2017/2018
- Oklahoma: Ohio State 2017, LSU 2018
- Texas A&M: Arkansas 2017/2018(?), Oregon 2018 [Arkansas in 2018 is listed on Arkansas's schedule, not A&M's]
- UCONN: ND 2017/2018
- Rutgers: UCLA 2017, Miami 2018
- USF: Michigan State 2017
- Syracuse: BC, Navy, ND 2017, BC 2018
- WVU: East Carolina in long running series
- Az St.: ND 2017, Colorado 2018
- Oregon: Colorado 2017, Texas A&M 2018
- Oregon State: Minnesota 2017/2018
- UCLA: Rutgers 2017
- Washington: Wisconsin 2017/2018
- Washintgon St.: Boise State 2017
- Tennessee: Nebraska 2017, Ohio State 2018
- Alabama: Michigan State 2017
- Arkansas: Texas A&M 2017/2018
- Auburn: GT 2017/2018
- LSU: NC St 2017, Oklahoma 2018
I repeat lets go to Chapel Hill. I was their for the NC-ND game two years ago and it was great. Smaller stadium but great atmosphere. Franklin Street is a blast.
It goes quickly with one of several schedule sites. I prefer FBS Schedules.
Texas, Georgia, or USC
Maize n Blue Wahoo...
I'd like to see a home and home with UVa. The two pre-eminent public institutions of higher learning squaring off... maybe even make a trophy for it. Instead of playing in charlottesville, you could move the UVa home date to Washington DC...
...since my daughter is a Wahoo. Anything that gets Michigan to the Mid-Atlantic is more than ok by me.