Michigan will only play MSU once in 2017-18
The game everyone wants to see, which will most likely be a top-15 game. Ridiculous.
Michigan-MSU and Purdue-IU should be happening twice a year, every year.
Here's is the B1G slate for 2017-18 for MBB
Home & Road
Purdue, Maryland, Ohio State, Northwestern, Iowa
Home only
Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Rutgers
Road only
Wisconsin, Michigan State, Penn State, Nebraska
http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Michigan-will-not-host-Michigan-Stat…
I am Jack's raging bile duct
I am also Delany's vinegary perineum.
I believe that two years ago, the only match up was in Ann Arbor. Seems fair
just Jack
That is a pretty brutal Big Ten schedule TBH.
God I hate Delany.
This isn't a surprise.
In the 2015-2016 basketball season, MSU had to come to Ann Arbor without a return date in East Lansing, so it's not unexpected that it's flipped.
With so many teams in the Big Ten now, it's going to happen every so often (and has been for a while). We only met once in both 2008 and 2009 as well.
Quit trying to sound reasonable and grown up. Vent like the rest of us or get out!
And Notre Dame @ Notre Dame even though the last game was there. Which I'm not complaining about. Maybe I'll finally make it up there. Just seems a little odd.
It would be on the road.
I mean when it comes to getting fucked over by the B1G scheduling-wise we have no equal. And funny how it ALWAYS seems to involved MSU and we ALWAYS get royally screwed in the deal.
If only we were a nationally recognized school with an internationally valued academic and athletic department like they have maybe this wouldnt happen so often. If only we were considered one of the elite schools in the B1G and the world this wouldnt happen so often. If only we were a "cash cow" to the conference bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars in broadcasting and merchandising like them this wouldnt happen so often.
If only.
Must be lasting effects of being Brandon'ed
I don't see the point of outrage here. We got a single home game against them two years ago.
Single plays for this game and IU-Purdue are stupid. Those are games everyone wants to see.
Can you imagine if they did Duke-UNC once a year?
We also got our single home game against OSU back last year for the road game we had to play them in way back in 2013-14.
Big brothers should give those kind of advantages to little brothers. It's bullying if we had it our way all the time.
That said, if this is Dave Brandon's fault, fuck him.
we play in East Lansing the last time we only played State once? .
No, we played them once in 2015-16 and it was at Crisler.
that is right. Now I remember that game did not so well.
First time happened in 1997. But back then, the schools got together to schedule a non-conference game at the other school's arena. I wonder if we could get rid of the game Alabama A&M to schedule a non-conf game against MSU.
That was back when they had everything to gain by playing us.
Now they have a lot to lose by getting their ass beat (again) at Crisler. No chance stumpy schedules us.
I had to fact-check this because I thought it happened more recently. But in 2016, we only played them at Crisler, and lost badly. You could argue that since we were one of the last four in, another loss at EL could've kept us out the tournament that year.
So I guess, we're even.
Also happened in 2008 and 2009!
Take the glasses off. We weren't exactly world beaters in 97, brah. And Izzo isn't exactly afraid to schedule tough games. Guy gets his ass beat by Duke every time they play, and he still schedules them every few years.
...and we were coming off back to back first round exits as low seeds, and if memory serves, sparty was just coming off losing Respert, who put on a show against us which I remember to this day.
And considering they both made the NIT in 97, they weren't exactly far apart talent wise.
I don't know what happened, but I went to the Palace when we beat Arizona and they went on to win the title that year. We looked good in that game are were in the Top 5 at that time.
But you can't lose four in a row in February, which is what we did. And folks wonder how we could so easily fire Fisher, instead of waiting to hear his side. Look at how we closed that regular season. It was a microcosm of the post-Fab Five years: Uninspired, very talented teams, playing mediocre basketball. Fisher probably would've needed the 97-98 team to make a tournament run to keep him off the hot seat anyway.
Yeah, I remember being upset over the way they finished the season, especially with two high first round draft picks on that team.
Two times actually between 1997 and 2016.
2001-02 & 2002-03
L 44-71 at East Lansing on 1/30/2002
W 60-58 in Ann Arbor on 1/26/2003, Amaker's 1st win over them
2007-08 & 2008-09
L 62-77 at East Lansing on 1/28/2008
L 42-54 in Ann Arbor on 2/10/2009
scheduling that non-conference MSU game back then?
His initials are Warde Manuel.
After a good start, he somehow forgot to do it, and nobody called him out on it. So it stopped happening.
Don't get your hopes up for a revival now that he is AD.
And since the BT is clueless about rivalry games, we get to live with this every few years.
As Brian said: Some people are in charge of things for no reason.
solamente jugamos una vez contra los espartanos
Que triste! Me encanta los partidos desde las putas de East Lansing...
Así que sólo tendremos que patearles el culo y violar a sus mujeres.
Need to put up a pay-wall. #MMGBGA
Deport them all, I say!
Please deport them to my home address in Arizona, which has been approved as a place of sanctuary.
I've often joked that Americans would change their tune on immigration if we had Colombia (or Venezuela) at our southern border instead... ;-)
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
This really isn't a big deal. Happens all the time. We got a home-game only with MSU a year or two ago. Ended very poorly for us, but this year we just got the short straw.
This is not news. Moving on.
I guess we have no choice now but to beat them on their home floor.
Mich St and Wisc road only hurts. Rugers home only hurts. Indiana home only is nice.
So we only get to blow MSU out once next year?
Double post apologies. Eff the buckeyes!
And AT Michigan State? Perfect.
Let's schedule them out of conference at Crisler.