Brutal Schedule for us in 2020

Submitted by reddogrjw on

for those looking at "tough schedules", look at 2020 - weeks 3-6 in particular

at Washington

Ball State

Virginia Tech

Wisconsin

Penn State

at Michigan State

at Minnesota

Purdue

BYE

Maryland

at Rutgers

Indiana

at Ohio State

 

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corundum

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^

Just another reminder on why this guy should be Bolivia'd. His posting history: Fire everyone. Harbaugh is just doing this out of spite now. They laid down badly there. Fuck this staff. This team is going to get ass raped next week.

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killerseafood3

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^

I wonder what it’s like to be you or your buddy Salvatore. Spend your time going through post history, finding users to tell them they are “the worst”, or “are not funny”, giving all of us history lessons on politics in the ‘Net’ thread. I can only imagine you two blowhards just need things to do when you are killing time at the local glory hole eh?

Send me to Bolivia, I mean, I’ll be devastated. It won’t change you being a supreme asshole with what I imagine is some type of inferiority complex.

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corundum

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^

Tbh it only took me about a minute to copy and paste that from your history. Was hardly an inconvenience. At the end of the day I'm pretty sure we are all Michigan fans and I wish nothing but happiness for the both of us. Just wish you'd cut out all the inflammatory 'fire errybody' type posts.

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bronxblue

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:03 PM ^

So 3 home games and a road game in state? 

I get people wanted to be worked up, but we're talking about 3 years from now.  Who the hell knows what any team will look like.  That could well be a bunch of middling teams coming to Michigan and getting crushed.  Or they could be a death row.  But getting worked up now doesn't semm all that useful.

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MJ14

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:12 PM ^

This is crazy for a lot of reasons but as others have mentioned a lot will change. Dantonio could very well retire. Moorehead is leaving PSU and they'll go back to an 8-4 team. Wisconsin is basically Michigan lite. Michigan by 2020 will be fully operational. I like tough schedules and they make for good games. But let's worry about 2020 in a few years.

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NittanyFan

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:18 PM ^

Colorado (who was pretty darn good), Penn State, and Wisconsin ---- all at home.  U-M, of course, went 3-0 over that stretch.

That's not considerably different than the VT, Penn State and Wisconsin stretch in 2020.

The road game at MSU differs from the game that came after the 2016 3-game stretch.  In 2016, it was Rutgers.  But who knows, maybe MSU IS Rutgers in 3 years.  The future can be hard to predict.

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PapabearBlue

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^

The best teams win it all regardless of who is put in front of them. Besides, Id rather get the tough stuff out of the way early. Gives the team plenty to analyze and work on, lets Michigan develop more that they can hide before Ohio State, and gives injuries time to recuperate because you can let dinged up players rest rather than needing them to try and be superman for 4 games in a row at the end of a season.

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tybert

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^

But think about '97 when we finished with:

ranked Iowa

at ranked MSU

Minnesota

at ranked PSU

at ranked Wicky

ranked OSU

Peters will be a senior and Dylan a junior - if we have a decent OL, I'm happy with the challenge

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Wolfman

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^

Co, Baylor and ND to kick start the season. We had about 5 qbs setting around, 3 of them that would make it to the league, one to become the best ever to play the position. We turned the DL into the O line and what did we have? The best damn chemistry in the land along with a great leader in Griese. Looking forward to this. 

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uncle leo

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:25 PM ^

Something.

Enough with the excuses. 

"Big Ten intentionally handed Michigan a bad hand"

"Officiating."

You know, if you want to be the best, sometimes you have to beat a few good teams, and this part might blow your mind. You may have to beat a couple of them on the road.

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mfan92

November 22nd, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^

Why does everyone complain about tough schedules? It makes the games more exciting and it's something to look forward to. Let's be honest what's more exciting to see. Us play Va Texh and Washington or Army and Hawaii? I'd rather play tough schedules to see who we really are instead of playing low level teams and when we play a tough team and get embarrassed thinking we are better than we are. If we wanna be the best we gotta beat the best

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Ghost of Fritz…

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^

schedule has three "exciting" games.  Maybe four.  But not in a row.  

Playing so many hard games (especially all in a row) takes a mental and physical toll.  It is cumulative.  It adds up.  And it makes a difference.

The best situation is to have about three key games per year. 

Allows for the players to recover from minor injuries better. 

Allows for younger guys to get some meaningful playing time experience againt in Illinois/Rutgers/etc. type games than they will get facing UW, VT, Wisconsin, etc.

Allows for wins even when the team has a bad day (and even top 5 teams have one or two off days every season).

Most importantly, it allows the staff to use film and practice time in several weeks during the season to prep for the three key games.

I am not calling for a parade of lower tier MAC teams through Michigan Stadium.  But facing 5 challenging games in the first 6 weeks is a bad idea.

 

 

 

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KTisClutch

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^

I "love" that people keep saying "another 8-4" year as if that has become the norm. No, that is the down years. Yes, our down years with Harbaugh are 8-4. That's good!! It's not Ohio State or Alabama good, but that's equal to the down years in most stretches of Michigan football and hell of a lot better than the down year in recent regimes.

 

Hasn't gotten it right in 3 years? Two 10 win seasons including 1 that was 1 or 2 breaks from being in the CFP. Breaking news, theres an amount of randomness to CFB and the randomness went away from Michigan last year.

 

Slightly better version of Iowa? trolol

 

 

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KTisClutch

November 22nd, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^

the 2018 class is aroun 15th, not 30th. Nice try, though. 

Michigan has commitments from two Top 300 OL recruits from Michigan in 2018 so nice try on that one too. 

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fksljj

November 22nd, 2017 at 1:57 PM ^

Arkansas was looking like an easy P5 win until they replaced it with a resurgent ND. Plus I was looking forward to it because the SEC doesn't come up North that often.

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Wolvie3758

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^

with the least bit of smarts he would demand that OSU and MSU be split home and away..not ask... Demand.....sadily we have a marshmellow AD

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Blue1972

November 22nd, 2017 at 2:37 PM ^

I have it on good authority that we are feverishly working on replacing Washington and VT with Mercer and The Citadel.

 

Should be announced shortly.

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Wolfman

November 22nd, 2017 at 3:12 PM ^

that will have to play us. Whoa Boy!!! By 2020,this machine will have rolled two years and counting. We'll have so much talent, 2 and 3 deep throughout. M will be feared and revered both. Look out now. 

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