Michigan and Oklahoma to Play a Home-and-Home in 2025, 2026
Michigan will play Oklahoma in a home-and-home in 2025 and 2026.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/071414aac.html
It's all Dave Brandon's fault! Oh wait ...
Oklahoma will change it to 2 home games in a row for them and Dave Brandon won't try and stop them like the MSU fiasco of 2014
/s
While msu got the sweet end of that deal, it was only temporary. They also got screwed in general like UM by having a schedule of @OSU and @UM in the same year. Their home schedule in odd years will be as bad as our home schedule in even years.
is getting off scot-free, during even years they play @MSU and @ PSU. Then look at OSUs B1G home schedule this year, Rutgers, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan, every bit as bad as our home conference schedule.
The knee jerk complaining about the DB pushback is almost worse than DB himself.
The complaining about people complaining about complaining about DB is the worst
[Edit] South Park reference withdrawn, due to likelihood of someone misconstruing it.
Suffice it to say, nobody likes those who nag.
The complaining about people complaining about people complaining about people complaining is the worst.
DB is the worst.
something to be excited about. It may take a decade, but paying the PSL for the next 10 years waiting for 1 good non conference game will be worth it.
Care to explain this year's line up? Dave Brandon couldn't stand up to the other Big Ten ADs and got bent over.
Have never understood this sentiment. You can complain all you want about the non-conference scheduling, but I just have never understood how Brandon gets blamed for what the Big Ten decided to do. Not only have we seen no information on when Brandon became aware of the MSU schedule "flip," but we also have no information on any type of response he made.
As far as I'm aware, every Big Ten member gets an equal vote in the process. If other schools did not have a problem with the schedule, I'm not really sure what Michigan could have done besides whine and complain. Until I see a reason to believe that Brandon was somehow involved in flipping MSU, I don't understand how he gets blamed.
Also, people do realize why MSU got flipped, right? It's so we wouldn't have to play OSU AND PSU on the road in the same year. I would take MSU and OSU on the road over that scenario going forward.
to aligning the schedules of the big four from the East Division (UM, MSU, OSU, PSU). Each of the four teams will play two of the other Big 4 on the road one year and at home the next.
UM MSU & OSU
MSU UM & OSU
OSU MSU & PSU
PSU MSU & OSU
Yeah, I guess my point was just that it was primarily a conference-based decision. Whether it was the right one is a totally different discussion, but I think people are just trying to group in things they don't like and throw it all on Brandon's doorstep. With some stuff that's fine, but truly don't think this is one of them.
I should have made it clearer that my point wasn't a criticism, rather it was an opportunity to show that a lot more was going on than just Michigan getting hosed in 2014.
Quite possibly the conference schedulers presented the future plan and DB said, "Wait a minute there, we're getting hosed having to play MSU on the road in consecutive years and MSU and OSU on the road every other year." Whereupon DB was offered the opportunity to do better without anybody else raising similar objections. That scenario seems much more plausible than DB purposely screwing Michigan or just being a total incompetent.
It's really a one year anomaly which people should try to accept.
They only got to see MSU once in their four years.
...2025/2026.
In the year 2025, if man is still alive.
Visage... One of the original techno bands of all time. Well played.
In the year 2525, is a song written and performed by Zager and Evans from 1969. They were a folk rock duo. Don't know about Visage, likely as not a poor cover band.
As a sidenote, although the New Romantic / New Wave movement of the late 70s and early 80s is perhaps an acquired taste as music goes (I am a fan), Visage was probably one of its more innovative acts. Probably best known in the US for the song "Fade To Grey", they did actually cover this song in 1978 as a single, I believe, and with some modest commercial success.
It's too far away! Fire Dave Brandon!
Damn it Dave Brandon! /s
Wow that's a long way out. By that time I'll be mGrowOld as shit and Wolverine Devotee will be able to drink legally and everything.
I'll actually be Herm when those games happen.
Herm
aphroditus?
but at least Herm will STILL be Herm
Actually, I am pretty sure that Herm will either be extremely Herm indeed by then or, if fortune should not be so kind, formerly Herm. I do admit some interest in seeing what the former might be like though - I don't know if I would quite be there myself though, as I will be 47 and 48 respectively in those years.
Not even Herm was Herm. If I make it I'll be in my middle 70's. You know what, fuck Herm!
Bolivia.
and I'm very happy that UM has scheduled this series.
But...is anyone else looking at the dates and thinking....uhhh, okay. When??? I hope I'm still around.
Edit: Based on the responses above, I'm thinking the answer to my question is a definite yes.
To answer your question, yes and I am only 26 right now.
That's if there's still an NCAA in existence in 2025.
My son will be in high school. He is 4 right now.
My son will be 11, he's about -2 weeks old right now
Nice to see a home-and-home with a powerhouse program, but it's over a decade away. Shrug.
Good pull. Date is a little far out to get me excited right now, but that should be a good game... I just realized that is 11 and 12 years away... Lol
I will be 34/35 when that happens. I hope I'm still alive to see it.
#zombieapocalypse
Weird. I'll be 33/34 and my actual name is davis....
SMH. In 11 years from now..... Son of a bitch, I don't even want to think about that.
I'll be flirting with 40 when (if) this is played.
That's depressing as hell.
By then I'll be married to the bitch.
At 40 you'll look back at 27 or whatever age you currently and realize just how clueless you were about thousands of things. You'll find 40 to be just fine. 50's the big one.
wish it wasn't 11/12 years away
This should be a great recruiting tool for the 2nd graders.
So...the first "marquee" is Arkansas, then OU in 2025/26? Am I missing something inbetween? I wanna say VT is in there in the middle I thought.
Va Tech 2020/2021
UCLA 2022/2023
and yes...the home games of both of those are the even years.
The starting QB is like 9 or 10 now.
of the day he plays his first game in the Big House.
Über cool!
He will be playing his 1st game the week before against App St.