Michigan Athletics twitter throws shade a Notre Dame
Good riddance.
Dear @NDFootball, we need to take a break. We’ve been doing this for a while now and we need our space. We’re glad we could end on good terms, thank you for not being defensive. Let’s keep in touch and maybe we’ll try again in 14 years if you’re still independent. ?
— Michigan Athletics (@UMichAthletics) October 27, 2019
October 27th, 2019 at 9:57 PM ^
Ha, my old ass had to zoom in on the face on my iphone.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:13 PM ^
Same here.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:14 PM ^
There is something very Notre Dame about Knute Rockne being memorialized in knee breeches.....
October 27th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
phenomenal work lol
October 27th, 2019 at 11:50 PM ^
Took me a moment. Fantastic work
October 28th, 2019 at 12:08 PM ^
Why does the dad from Good Times have a statue at Notre Dame?
October 27th, 2019 at 9:49 PM ^
Dear ND, I'm also glad you weren't offensive.
October 28th, 2019 at 8:34 AM ^
Another OP title not checked for accuracy?!?! For shame...
October 27th, 2019 at 9:54 PM ^
She'll be calling.
October 27th, 2019 at 9:56 PM ^
Well, at least they didn’t clap back.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:15 PM ^
Very sparty like
October 27th, 2019 at 10:21 PM ^
Yes. I thought ND played very Sparty like as well...
October 27th, 2019 at 11:12 PM ^
Member for a day... enjoy the trip back to South Bend!
October 28th, 2019 at 6:31 AM ^
It’s too clever for Sparty but I do agree I would have enjoyed this more if it hadn’t been from the official account. I don’t mind throwing shade but after you kick someone’s ass it’s not very sporting.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:21 PM ^
25-17-1 good guys, with the Irish stuck for 14 years holding an “L” for the 2019 beat down. Thank you Jesus
October 27th, 2019 at 10:23 PM ^
This is lame as fuck
October 27th, 2019 at 11:03 PM ^
The name Laser Wolf is lame as fuck
October 28th, 2019 at 10:01 AM ^
Unless his real name in real life is Laser Wolf. Then his parents are just awesome!
October 28th, 2019 at 10:45 AM ^
Taser Face
October 27th, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
This is kinda lame actually. And I hate ND with a passion.
There may not be a ND football program if not for Michigan. We kicked their ass. They know it. No need to gloat.
I look forward to playing them and don't understand those that don't. Been some epic battles through the years. They are one of the Big Alpha Dogs in the game that we have pretty good scoreboard on. A foregone CFB site that was heavily statistics had Michigan as the #1 team all time for SOS. That's a badge of honor to me. Not - "let's schedule chumps".
And I don't understand Fowler on multiple occasions last night saying "these teams won't meet again for 13 years!", or whatever the fuck it is. How does he know? There are bowl games and kickoff classics and shit like that if anyone hasn't heard. We see them sooner than that. Bet my house on it.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^
Makes no sense to schedule ND when better opportunities exist elsewhere (like Austin TX and Norman OK). Been to shitty South Bend far too many times. Good riddance. Looking forward to Seattle next year.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
Don't think anyone's saying it's gotta be every year.
If you haven't noticed, it isn't every year.
October 28th, 2019 at 5:49 AM ^
Why schedule them at all? We are helping a Quasi-ACC team compete for viewers inside of our BigTen market footprint.
October 28th, 2019 at 10:24 AM ^
You left out, "In the words of the immortal Bo Schembechler..."
Bo and Woody wanted nothing to do with ND for the exact reason you listed. However, it was also Michigan and Fielding Yost who blackballed Notre Dame from entry into the Western Conference in the 1920's - Purdue supported them and ND responded by keeping the Boilers on their schedule until they "somewhat" entered the ACC. Oh and ND got their revenge in the 1950's when Michigan tried to keep Michigan State out of the Big Ten by claiming that their schedule didn't warrant admission. ND promptly scheduled State on a yearly basis.
Politics.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:40 PM ^
We can play other big opponents. But ND is a rival. In my lifetime we've played them almost annually and it's always meant a lot.
This game needs to be played fairly regularly. It doesn't have to be every year but we should not go a decade without playing.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:53 PM ^
once upon a time, we did play ND AND a big opponent...FTR, I agree with you...I'm old skool enough that I still consider ND to be out second biggest rival
October 28th, 2019 at 8:39 AM ^
14 years without playing them will do a good job of erasing the "rival" label.
For example, the White Sox were bitter rivals with the Brewers... and then they stopped playing each other. That rivalry is dead.
October 28th, 2019 at 9:20 AM ^
Or Nebraska-Oklahoma.
October 28th, 2019 at 11:28 AM ^
I agree, was also "old school" and thought of ND as or 2nd greatest rival for decades. It was always OSU, ND and then a distant MSU. (Truth be told, I cared little if we didn't play MSU yearly. They were "Lil Brother". After awhile it gets boring beating on "Lil Brother", but as they were in our conference omitting them wasn't very realistic.)
Yet it seemed ND didn't feel the same, canceling the several series after they were commenced and also not choosing to join the conference when there was a vacancy which would allow a continued relationship with UM and their Midwest "neighbors" that they had long played in the past. Moving even more distant to a "pick and chose" relationship with ACC where they play their less frightening teams more often to fill their schedule. (Sure they have a Clemson, once in 10-12 years, FSU and Miami may return; but a continual diet of UM, OSU, PSU, Wisc, Neb, and Iowa seems a bit harder to swallow.)
So I have now moved past them and prefer we only schedule them intermittently if at all. They have demonstrated a continued relationship is not bilateral, so have also moved on. However, also feel they shouldn't have the best of two worlds, and do not feel we should keep scheduling them to increase their presence here. Frankly, I feel the entire B1G should show them a cold shoulder.
October 27th, 2019 at 11:32 PM ^
Sorry they aware no longer a rival. They joined another conference and moved away from the early games against BIG teams, including Michigan. Fuck them. I really don’t care if we ever play them again.
October 28th, 2019 at 7:41 AM ^
Agreed. People can say all the "to hell with Notre Dames" they want. The mere fact that a thread like this exists means they're a rival on some level. I don't think we should play ND every year. But two years out of three, or three out of five, yeah. Not scheduling them til 2033 is dead wrong.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:34 PM ^
No harm. By 2033 we will be in the zombie apocalypse and no one will have access to twitter or care
October 27th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
There may not be a ND football program if not for Michigan.
Well not quite. They formed their own team without our assistance. But we did literally go over the rules with them before playing that first game.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:41 PM ^
I'm guessing that was before they started hiring 25-35 year olds out of the steel mills to play for them? Or did it start then?
October 27th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
In addition to Yost giving Rockne the blueprints so Notre Dame could build their own knock off Michigan Stadium. And Notre Dame's fight song being inspired by the Victors when they watched Wolverine fans singing their "joyful" school song and decided they needed a fight song if their own.
So yes. They formed their own team. But the rules of the game were taught to them by Michigan, their stadium was copied off of Michigan and their fight song was written after a loss to Michigan.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:50 PM ^
Harbaugh teased scheduling them again in the future this past Monday. Days later the 2022-2023 UCLA series was cancelled. Many thought they were gonna be put there if you go revisit those threads.
If you also go look at ND's non-ACC games (lol can't say non-conference games) they're booked up until 2030 with marquee home and homes with OSU, Texas A&M, Alabama.
The fact that Michigan and ND scheduled games in the mid-30s suggests this is gonna be the last scheduled meeting until 2033 unless a postseason game happens. Obviously they could meet in the postseason, I don't think Fowler needed to say that.
I can't imagine Michigan agreeing to play in another kickoff classic again. Warde has been quoted plenty of times saying he wants 7 home games minimum every single season and kickoff classics aren't NCAA exemptions like they were however many years ago with the Pigskin Classic.
October 27th, 2019 at 11:19 PM ^
I don't really think "kickoff classic" actually exists anymore. Check me on that. I'm considering whatever game is at JerryWorld to be the modern kickoff classic. I don't think those are scheduled more than 2-3 years in advance. There is a pretty big stadium being built in LA and opening next year. No doubt in my mind that they will want to schedule something similar there a week before NFL season starts. And it won't end there. Vegas has a new stadium opening 2020 as well. NCAA is scheduling games across the Atlantic. M & ND will be scheduled somewhere.
What makes people think we will stay at a 12 game schedule? This would be the perfect year to play 13. 2 bye weeks makes no sense. Not ancient history that 10 or 11 reg season games were scheduled.
October 27th, 2019 at 11:43 PM ^
The NCAA doesn't schedule games. Athletic directors do. Warde has repeatedly said we will have 7 games every year. We just cancelled the UCLA series to ensure we have 7 home games every year.
October 28th, 2019 at 1:18 AM ^
Appreciate your passion and posts WD but you might be slightly naïve on exactly what makes the world spin on its axis.
Michigan and Notre Shame have arguably the worlds two largest CFB fan bases. They are simply the top brands - if not 1 & 2 they are close. Live sporting events are the most lucrative advertising outlet. Every other outlet to watch video content is evolving daily. Live football games are the most sought after space for advertising because you cant just FF through the commercials. Unless you want to watch it 3 hours after the fact. Football holds this diamond in their hand that everyone wants and they use it to full effect. There is no way the powers that be don't want ND & M to play anytime soon. They will convince the AD's that it has to happen. M vs ND sets records for viewership.
October 28th, 2019 at 8:14 AM ^
I can sort of see both sides of this. I'm 37 and always felt that ND was a major rival and always enjoyed the game very much. That said, UM/ND feels like it's gone the way of Oklahoma/Nebraska. A very good, heated rivalry and boom it's just done. I think they last played in 2010 and play again in the 20's so a 10+ year break and they'll play again twice and then play again in 10-12 years.
From a practical standpoint ND has already scheduled lots of heavy hitters to replace UM. Where UM has some TBD's to schedule a big out of conference game it looks like ND has scheduled them or is in process of doing so.
Also, unless there is a new AD (which absolutely could happen), there isn't likely going to be a dallas game added. Hes's made it clear he wants 7 home games, which makes sense.
Certainly it could happen but seems less likely especially considering how ND is booking some big boy games.
October 28th, 2019 at 5:32 AM ^
I agree that 2 bye weeks this year is pretty silly, e.g. look at the B1G schedule this weekend. But this year is an exception driven by the NCAA’s groundrules of starting on Labor Day (really early this year) and finishing on Thanksgiving weekend (really late this year). Two bye weeks a year is the exception, not the rule. All of this is irrelevant if the greedy-assed toadies who run the NCAA want more home games and the P5 schools want another home game, but I despise taking further advantage of unpaid college students.
October 27th, 2019 at 11:31 PM ^
Yeah I'm sure if the players didnt get off the train in South Bend and show the Domer students the game of gridiron that ND would never have discovered it, never mind that it spread throughout the country without our players visiting campuses to share our knowledge.
Regardless, we don't have some paternal responsibility to protect their superiority complex, nor to schedule them to ensure they flesh out a 12 game schedule. They are the ACC's problem. Eff them and the leprechaun they rode in on.
October 28th, 2019 at 2:32 AM ^
We only play SEC teams in Florida for bowl games. Or Florida in the SEC footprint. Either way ugh.
October 27th, 2019 at 10:34 PM ^
Suck it N.D. ! You didn't deserve to even being considered in the top 15 teams this year. Even though I probably won't be alive in 14 years when we may play again, I sure enjoyed our team kicking the shit out of you and watching Coach Kelly doing the slow burn. Maybe the NCAA will wise up and make them join in a conference. GO BLUE !
October 27th, 2019 at 11:47 PM ^
It sounds like you are downplaying our win by saying they don’t belong in the top 15.