UPDATE: Michigan to open 2018 season AT ND, host them on October 26, 2019!

I'd like to see confirmation from Michigan before assuming the report is accurate.

Big Ten schedules will eventually change again, assuming that realignment isn't done.  When that happens, I expect the Big Ten and Michigan/MSU to rectify the current scheduling imbalance.  

Warde whiffs on his first big move as AD. The 2018 had to be at home to save that schedule and keep ND for getting an extra home game in the series. Really disappointed right now.

Warde needs to go back to UCONN

This guy doesn't schedule a night game and now this? He's been an absolute disaster so far. The decrease in quality between Hackett and this guy has been really, really scary. It is not a difficult job and yet we somehow keep finding people who are completely unable to do it well.

Scary and aggravating.

So can I safely say "to hell with notre Dame now?"

Wow, and the big house game will be in october? why would we want to play them in the middle of B1G season? oh, to accommodate the Irish schedule, warde?

With Manuel.  This idiot fucked us over twice now scheduling this.  

But hey Warde is friends with Harbaugh, so its all good!

I think we are the only team that tries to make it harder to win anything.  

 

This just doesn't make any sense for either side....

Ho Lee Fuk...  We pay our ADs millions of dollars to continually be outwitted by the Big 10, MSU and ND.  Totally unacceptable.

There could be scheduling changes made to conference scheduling. Hell, there could never be a realignment. By 2018 Michigan will also be a Harbaugh machine.

How does this happen? We're just a bunch of fans on a blog, and we get this immediately. How does the athletic department not say, "Now, wait a fucking minute here!"? Either they know something, schedule wise, that we don't, or this is about the worst god damn disgrace I've seen in a while.
I especially feel for those of you who are season ticket holders. To pay for a full season with ZERO home rivalry games would be a tough pill to swallow. Yuck!

That's very expensive in terms of cash and prizes. Aand how does UMich, of all people, have such terrible schedules? Not impressed with Warde's first big move.

If this is our season opener then ND better not have a game the week prior.

October 26th? What the fuck?

So we're all focused on the weird trifecta of road games in 2018, BUT, maybe JMFH figures that by 2018, he will have so decimated MSU's recruiting that Staee won't be what they are today.  (We can all hope.)

What jumps out to me is that the 2019 game is late in the season -- utterly weird.  Although, it might take on greater significance about the playoffs, as ND's Clemson game did last season.  I don't ever recall a late-season OOC game with such significance.

Not a fan of the three rivalry games being on the road that year.

Manuel is literally making decisions as if he is an 80 year old Michigan fan who gets his Michigan news snippets by telegram and pays no attention to details. Noon games? yay! Red's back? yay! Notre Dame's back? woohoo! These all seem like wonderful decisions to the casual fan, but when you look closely... in a way I'd expect an athletic director to do, they all have major concerns.

I'm so pissed. I leave close enough to travel to Arkansas and see a game there. There goes my chance to see a Michigan road game. Why cancel a series?! Notre Dame didn't need to be on the schedule this soon! Plus three road games again the rivals in one year?! 

This is just flat out stupid. I want the ND rivalry back more than anything, but all 3 rivalry games away. stupid.

No respect. Two in a row away games to the school that f'ed us?

I thought only MSU and Delaney could do that.

And then October 26th?

Clearly we acting like we are second fiddle to ND. Bo was right. The Hell with Notre Dame!

Okay I'm glad ND is back on the schedule.. BUT WHY DO THEY GET THE FIRST HOME GAME? WTF... they got the last home game before they bitched out on the series.. whatever.. hopefully they make MSU come to AA twice in a row to adjust the schedule back. assholes

In this situation can someone explain why we couldn't just keep Arkansas and have a decent SEC opponent visit and not pay the penalty? It's obvious we shuffled our schedule in a negative way for us for their visit in 2019, so don't tell me they couldn't move Ball State in 2018.

I said I hated it and now I hate it more. What can men do against such reckless hate?

SkyNet strikes again

RIP the athletic department's inbox today, going to be a lot of complaints.

Better be an announcement coming quickly that MSU scheduling fiasco has been remedied or this makes ZERO sense.

Odd, really odd. I love the ND series, but I can't imagine JH didn't at least throw out the fact that 3 big road games like this is probably a bad idea. Looks like I can probably pick up some cheap tix for the 2018 home season though. What a shitshow that schedule will be.

The athletic department are going to receive Brandon-level complaints today