News on Michigan-Maryland Game Coming Tomorrow (Weather Related)
So....this ain't good.
Team source: "people at Schembechler are freaking out right now." Says decision on potential postponement/new site should come Thursday.
— Ben Fidelman (@bfidelman) September 30, 2015
September 30th, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^
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September 30th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 4:12 PM ^
Thank you for the chuckle.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:20 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 4:33 PM ^
of player injuries with bad weather/ field conditions. This game is not necessary and if the forecast are anywhere close to being accurate they need to just cancel the game for the good of the players and fans.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^
This game is not necessary
Says who?
99% of all human activity is not necessary. But a Michigan game is.
September 30th, 2015 at 7:53 PM ^
Michigan will be judged by their record and it will count in the Big Ten standings. For them to be deprived of a game against a tomato can would totally suck, especially when OSU and MSU get to play them.
They can play this game at the Big House if they have to.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:57 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 5:33 PM ^
This quote gets used around my office on a very regular basis.
September 30th, 2015 at 6:06 PM ^
Are you a Urologist?
September 30th, 2015 at 6:05 PM ^
we're 4 games in with a new coaching staff, this game is necessary for building confidence and players getting actual game experience (ok, yeah, its Maryland) with the new offense and defense
September 30th, 2015 at 4:01 PM ^
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September 30th, 2015 at 4:13 PM ^
LOOKS LIKE I PICKED THE WRONG WEEK TO STOP SNIFFING GLUE
September 30th, 2015 at 4:16 PM ^
Is that Lee Corso? He sure acts like he sniffs glue, too.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:20 PM ^
Does any of this look at all familiar
It's from a movie called Airplane that came out in 1980 (yes that's 35 years ago and older than many on this blog. I know!)
September 30th, 2015 at 4:22 PM ^
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September 30th, 2015 at 4:37 PM ^
...you must be joking.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:40 PM ^
I am serious.....and don't call me shirley.
September 30th, 2015 at 5:13 PM ^
Do you speak jive?
September 30th, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
8 years old. First boobs I ever saw on the big screen. Me and my posse in my 3rd grade class talked about that scene for months. I love saying the word boobs.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:49 PM ^
+1 for your first boobs experience.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:57 PM ^
I watched it at a birthday party on VHS. It was rewound and replayed for about an hour.
September 30th, 2015 at 5:04 PM ^
I remember we rented Airplane for our disc player, not laser disc, disc player. It was like a record in a huge thin plastic sleeve that you would load into the player, it would grab the disc, then eject the plastic sleeve. It was awesome!
Movie came out in 1980 but I think we rented it around 1984 right after my 4th grade Saturday morning basketball game. My parents had no idea there were boobs in it. This must have also been my first experience with boobs, and they were spectacular! My poor mom trying to deal with the hormones of 10 and 11 year old boys after that little snafu.
September 30th, 2015 at 7:01 PM ^
CED was a competing technology with LaserDisk/Betamax/VHS before VHS beat everybody. My aunt had quite a few CEDs (no Airplane!, though) and we watched Star Wars and Time Bandits every time we went to her house in Pennsylvania for Easter. Good times from childhood. Nothing like getting a break halfway through a movie because you had to flip the disk over.
September 30th, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^
Hopefully, this is Maryland's reaction to the defense....
September 30th, 2015 at 10:31 PM ^
Air Controller Macias: Captain, maybe we ought to turn on the searchlights now.
Rex Kramer: No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 6:00 PM ^
Mendlebaum
September 30th, 2015 at 4:26 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 4:34 PM ^
maybe if they move it early enough it will coincide with our usual Friday Posbang post.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^
An 8am start would be 5am on the west coast so it might also coincide with the Friday evening drinking thread.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:55 PM ^
You mean Thursday night at 10:30?
September 30th, 2015 at 4:39 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 5:02 PM ^
and give Maryland all the revenue they are entitled to as a home team, unless the Terrapins want to switch the game as a home team and let Michigan host. Can't really see that.
This is actually a huge decision for many reasons. I think postponement because of a potential hurricane is NCAA and league policy, for safety of teams and fans. This is a BTN broadcast so after the choice of venue is determined and time, they do have kind of a stake in the proceedings.
Again, I wonder if Michigan could make the Big House available on short notice for this contest, I mean security-wise for a potential night game. Unless it was played at noon instead, Harbaugh time.
Rather than seek to reschedule on another date, I think switching sites makes a lot of sense, with Maryland then getting home dates the next two times the teams play.
September 30th, 2015 at 7:22 PM ^
Serious idea: Ford Field has hosted games on zero notice before very successfully and a sellout would be guaranteed.
September 30th, 2015 at 8:54 PM ^
That's a great idea. Easy access for a ton of UM fans in the metro Detroit area. Even though the crowd would be for Michigan, it would nullify many of the home game advantages for Michigan.
Both teams would be using a locker room and playing on a field they are not used to.
September 30th, 2015 at 10:21 PM ^
Seriously, I don't know why people keep suggesting that the game be played in some random ass east coast location like Pittsburgh... DC area fans are going to be more concerned with hunkering down than travelling to the game, relative closeness to the Maryland campus is irrelevant. College football is not the NFL, either, where you could probably get 75,000 people to watch the Jags play the Titans on a Friday morning, nobody in Pittsburgh gives a shit about this game. Detroit is obviously not a neutral site, but it is the only place with the experience and the interest level to take a relocated game like this on.
September 30th, 2015 at 3:55 PM ^
Please Jeebus, not Friday night.
September 30th, 2015 at 3:55 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 5:35 PM ^
We'll also kick their ass whenever! :)
September 30th, 2015 at 5:38 PM ^
September 30th, 2015 at 5:45 PM ^
Do you want to finish your sentence?
September 30th, 2015 at 6:59 PM ^
October 1st, 2015 at 12:17 PM ^
Ah, I see now; I was a dummy - sorry.
September 30th, 2015 at 3:55 PM ^
nearby? Or maybe the Terps would like to come out to A2. The weather should be great here.
September 30th, 2015 at 4:21 PM ^
- There are only 8 in the NFL (4 fixed and 4 retractable) -- Detroit, New Orleans, Atlanta and St Louis, along with Dallas, Houston, Indy and Arizona. So none on the east coast, or near it.
- In college, you've got the Carrier Dome and the Alamodome (which hosts a bowl).
So unless they want to go to say, Syracuse (who is coincidentally off this week), a dome's not an option. And I have no idea why'd they'd go to Syracuse, where they'd play in front of less than 10,000 fans, and it's not close to either team (which I guess is fair, but I'm sure a huge pain in the butt).