OT: Create a rivalry with Michigan Football (Hypothetically)
What team would everybody choose to be a significant rival with Michigan Football over the next 25+ years (home and home games). Why?
I'd choose: Texas
It'd be two traditional powerhouses, Austin is a great city to visit, and there would be a cool factor of Southerns vs Northerners.
University of Toronto.
Except that even by Canadian College Football standards the varsity blues suuuuck out loud and have for most of my natural life. Actually their peak may have been the 0-0 tie with M in 1879.
Eastern Michigan, but only if them make their mascot the EMU, the EMU EMUS. How can you not do that?
The Battle of Washtenaw County for annual bragging rights.
Alabama. We owe those motherfuckers.
I'd also be cool with Georgia (or even Georgia Tech, if you want the good school down there), Stanford, Texas, or one of the big Los Angeles or Florida schools.
I heard that loud and clear!
beating Alabama in the playoffs every couple of years.
I like the idea of playing them and possibly beating them. Booooo Florida State
I don't want to hear that stupid chant every year.
The University of Chicago would get serious about football again. They'd make an awesome rival.
April 21st, 2015 at 10:38 PM ^
Original Hated Rival.
(Marv Albert voice) Yessss! And an up vote, sir.
Manily because I live in Louisiana and I'm surrounded by LSU fans. It would be nice to have Michigan come down every two years. I'd also love to see us beat an SEC team every year and tap in to their recruits. I'm tired of hearing about the "Speed of the SEC". Maybe we can fabricate a rivalry because of Les somehow? I know a lot of LSU fans were mad we didn't get him
For the immediate future- the RR, Ferns, and Bosch story lines could be good as well
- Texas
- Stanford
- Florida
- North Carolina
- Cal
Those all just seem to fit. Notre Dame should also be at the top of the list.
But if you ask me, I just want MSU and OSU to be a rivalry again.
but only once every three or four years.
Fill in the other years with Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, and Missouri.
April 22nd, 2015 at 12:04 AM ^
It needs to be a school that brings significant cache (i.e. national attention/storied program), is located in a football recruiting hotbed (SEC/Texas/Cali), is not going to be incredibly favored over the next 3 to 5 years (NOT Bamma), and, most of all, a school that sees the fit as equally flattering for them...i.e. NOT Notre Dame. IMHO, Georgia seems a great fit given that criteria. Texas maybe, but they seem to favor their own independence too much to make a lasting commitment stick. Florida would be my third choice, with Stanford/UCLA tied in 4th place.
But I would LOVE to play Tennessee. It's amazing how much their history parrallels our for the past 30 years or so ( From our most recent National Champions, even the recent fall of both programs and the recent buzz around the program).
April 22nd, 2015 at 12:08 PM ^
their basketball powerhouse versus our pretty damn good basketball program. Their pretty good football program versus our better than pretty good football program. Add the educated, intellectual fanbase of ours, versus the grass eating incestual car licking gap tooth whiskey guzzling lush fanbase they have, and its on!
With a fanbase like that - they're called Ohio State.
Football in Tempe on labour day weekend.
Basketball and hockey in Michigan first weekend of January. Hockey Friday and sat night. Basketball Saturday afternoon.
A 3 game baseball series in Tempe at the start of baseball season
And a three game softball series in Ann Arbor in the first weekend of home games.
The next year flip the home sites and the timing of the softball and baseball series.
Notre Dame. National prominence, they get the blood pumping, and they give the illusion we are playing a much better team than we actually are.