So I guess playing 1-AA teams is the status quo now
UM schedules Bowling Green and UMass for 2010
http://mgoblue.com/football/article.aspx?id=179414
Bowling Green is a MAC team.
umass is 1-aa
I know. The OP sounds like he thought BG was a 1-AA team. Also, my post has nothing to do with umass.
I was talking about UMass
And I was talking about BG. Nevermind, I see where you're coming from now. I thought the way the OP stated it meant that he thought both were 1-AA teams.
I see how it reads that way. But come on give me some benefit of the doubt here.
longest chain post ever
Rival of Toledo, actually. Play for the Peace Pipe.
(I double hate BG these days, by the way. I was behind some BG volleyball players in line at Panera Bread recently so I shouted out "Go Rockets"! My wife thought I was flirting and yelled at me all afternoon.)
Edit: this should be in reply to the first reply.
Is Michigan really above 1AA schools? It's a chance to run up the score and get real work for your 2nd teamers.
Anyone remember who we played in 97?
I do...Colorado and Baylor. Crap, there goes that argument.
Colorado was #1 in the country that year when we played em...
I don't want to stir up the whole scheduling debate again, but the 2010 home slate is less than exciting. C'mon! At the very least, the Ohio State, Notre Dame and Penn State triumverate of games should be split up so all three aren't home/away each year. I think Bill Martin asked ND to flip home/away years and they said no. So what did he do? Signed them up for twenty more years anyway.
Penn State rotates off the schedule, so I'm sure next time it won't be this way.
you know, for old times sake. Maybe after we blow out a few teams I will be ready to schedule tougher foes, but its been too long.
I'll (hopefully) be a freshman there in 2010 and this sucks. I want to see some competitive games against good teams.
My first freshman game was Wash in '02. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
That was the first game I ever went to.
SCREW SCHEDULING THESE CUPCAKE TEAMS! I AM VERY ANGRY NOW! RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE
I really think that at this point we just need to develop our identity and then we can start scheduling some tougher teams.
This will be the second time I have referenced Stewart mandel's book "bowls, polls and tattered souls" on this blog:
Page 183
'In 2006, 74 of the nation's 119 Division I-A teams played at least one game against a I-AA opponent'
Let it be noted that Michigan was NOT among those 74. (at least not that I remember) I think there comes a point when it is almost a disadvantage to not have a total creampuff on the schedule, in part because parity has made some scheduled creampuffs (app state, utah, etc...) end up taking more of a toll on M then was expected when the game was scheduled.
Why do we play easy teams? We haven't lost a single game in years; we really need a challenge.
Oh, what's that? We don't always beat the teams we play? Not even the crappy ones? Shit, maybe we should ease back into being a super power, eh?