Warde talks B1G schedule, night game in 2017, UNIFORMZ

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Warde Manuel says conversations ongoing about breaking up msu and osu to home and away each year

— Chris Balas (@Balas_Wolverine) August 23, 2016

Manuel says Michigan will probably have to wait for the next batch of B1G schedules to split OSU/MSU home/away on UM's schedule

— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) August 23, 2016

^that would be 2020.

Michigan "could" have a night game at home in 2017. ... Which, of course, is what we've heard every year for a long time. So stay tuned.

— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) August 23, 2016

Manuel says Michigan will have conversations with Nike about alternate uniforms down the line. Michigan makes the call if they wear them.

— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) August 23, 2016

Manuel: "I'm not going to dictate to my coach that on a certain game you've got to wear a certain uniform." So it's Harbaugh call.

— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) August 23, 2016

Manuel will not dictate to Harbaugh whether to wear an alternate uniform....remember, JH said he's open to it.

— angelique (@chengelis) August 23, 2016
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The Mad Hatter

August 23rd, 2016 at 11:12 AM ^

I'd be willng to play two more in a row in EL to balance out the schedule.  Now that we finally have a great coach, where the games are played isn't going to matter nearly as much as it used to.

Lansing or Ann Arbor, MSU is getting their asses kicked.

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The Mad Hatter

August 23rd, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^

with that sentiment, but I also don't care as much as other people do about the whole issue since I'm not a season ticket holder.

Although I don't understand WTF Warde was thinking with the ND schedule.  We should at least have them at home if we're on the road to OSU and MSU.

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SpikeFan2016

August 23rd, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^

See, you would think that MSU would want to switch as well. 

 

Because it's best for them to have Ohio State and Michigan in alternating years too. 

 

In the East we got screwed in both the short term and the long term, MSU got screwed in the long term, and OSU got exactly what they wanted (either get their #1 game at home or both their #2 and #3 games at home in PSU and MSU). 

 

Fuck OSU. 

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MichiganExile

August 23rd, 2016 at 1:49 PM ^

I'll bet they are saying to themselves, "we can absolutely sustain winning games by controlling the weather and snap taking ability of the other team's punters."

Is it satire though if they are actually saying that to themselves, because they probably are? 

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SpikeFan2016

August 23rd, 2016 at 11:46 PM ^

To be fair, they honestly should've beaten OSU by more than 3 in that game. They way outplayed them. And MSU was missing its QB. 

 

They won that game by fluke, but it wasn't because of an extraneous factor like weather. That had nothing to do with it. OSU played their worst game. That was it. 

 

 

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charblue.

August 23rd, 2016 at 1:24 PM ^

if Ohio State were forced to appear twice in a row at Michigan, there is no way that wouldn't be just an in-home and conference issue, it would be a national one, and columnists here and abroad would be raising it to a national debate.

The fact that our former AD was forced into accepting the double scheduling with MSU, which is the rivalry game date that needs to be unhinged from the home away coupling with OSU, can occur more quickly should Michigan take care of business this season and win the East. That would mean that each school has won the division once in the past three seasons under the revised division format.

What's more, the conference might be less inclined to schedule MSU, OSU and Michigan back-to-back as recompense for that other scheduling quirk. Who knows?

But the fact is, Michigan ought to challenge that scheduling to correct the imbalance that no other in the conference has been forced to deal with. Not like Perdue has been forced to play Indiana and Notre Dame on the road in the same year unless it scheduled itself that way. No other school has been forced to play its natural rival let alone an in-state one two years consecutively on the road. Michigan did get a trophy rival, Minnesota,  and Indiana as consecuitve home opponents in compensation. But again that is different from beng forced to play you in-state rival twice on the road and then compete against both it and your primary rival on the road every other year. 

 

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saveferris

August 23rd, 2016 at 12:19 PM ^

Real or not, MSU getting two straight home games against us a few years ago played into the narrative that they had leveled the playing field against us.  Having the B1G turn around 5 years later and swtich things back in favor of Michigan getting two straight home games would just reinforce the reality that nothing has really changed in the grand hierarchy of the conference.  That would be fun.

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aratman

August 23rd, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^

You want something but are not willing to concede anything.   This is how negotiations work, our current situation is we want MSU and OSU on different years.  Take any bad deals previously made off the table, they have no impact on the next deal.  As we are the ones who desire a change we must be willing to give to get.  Demanding something else isn't the way to make it happen, 

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1201SouthMain

August 23rd, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^

I understand why you feel it's a workable solution but you don't take the tradition and pageantry of a rival like UM/MSU and move it to a professional football stadium.  I'd rather play them in EL than Ford Field.

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blueyinohio

August 23rd, 2016 at 10:54 AM ^

Yeah I am still salty about having to play there back to back. When it's fixed it better reverse from last time. We better not have to play back to back in that dump again!

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Doctor J

August 23rd, 2016 at 10:57 AM ^

I'm glad this is still on the front burner for Warde, even though we might not see the changes until 2020. Regardless of performance (and I hope it will be high) - the issue for ticket holders on years like these (both away) is real. So close - can't wait! 

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ak47

August 23rd, 2016 at 10:57 AM ^

I just wonder what leverage Warde has, he needs to come big dick swinging and make Hollis and msu eat it because there is a zero percent chance they willingly give UM to home games back to back even if it makes sense for them to balance out their schedule too.

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Brian Griese

August 23rd, 2016 at 11:22 AM ^

it was discussed in Endzone.  I'm going off the top of my head, but I seem to remember in the book Bacon discussing how Brandon went to the first BIG meeting in his tenure and saying how he needed to learn from the other AD's, he was the new guy on the block, etc.  That last for about 90 seconds before DB started running his mouth about his thoughts on everything and why they were good ideas because of his buisness history.  Long story short, he pissed off everyone in the BIG from the start and it didn't get much better.  

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