Hypothetical: Where would UM go if/when it leaves the B1G?

Exactly. Osu would have to replace us with Penn at as their primary rival.

Michigan - Notre Dame > osu-psu 

And we could have our own tv contract, The Michigan Wolverines Football network.

I don't trust rebuilding bridges.

Only 3 schools are net providers and 11 net takers. We've been ganged up on in the past. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Or we could grab Notre Dame and have the 2 of us join the MAC. Seriously, it wouldn’t be that different from the old Big 2 - Little 8 days. Is Indiana any better than Western Michigan? 
/s

2b. Invite the Pac-2, because those guys were treated like shit and deserve a break.  

I think this is the right approach, though I would try to not do the ACC deal. Michigan could pretty easily build a schedule of 4 buy games and 8 home and homes with decent teams which would always give them 8 home games a year. Michigan is already in pretty deep with Fox and doing something that keeps games on Fox would make it more likely they could pull this kind of thing off. Which is why I would propose the following.

• Independent in football with a standalone deal with Fox. 
• Join the Big East for all sports they sponsor (BE has a basketball deal with Fox)
• Wait until the landscape changes again to find the right football landing spot. OSU would probably go to the SEC in 2030 when the current TV deals are up and that would open the floodgates to finding / building a 10 team conference without any dead weight. 

That's the move, and we would probably come out way ahead financially not having to share revenue with a bunch of bottom feeder programs.

Whatever happens, this "all teams get an equal share of TV revenue" bullshit has to stop. 

I am un-ironically rooting for this.  

Exactly - MICHIGAN is going nowhere 

UofM could rejoin the CCHA.

Or NCHC like WMU.

A bad marriage is not good for the kids, get a divorce. 

I agree overall that staying is preferable, but a couple of thoughts.  First, the traditional rivalries and local road games are going to be significantly eroded by the addition of the West Coast teams.  Second, "one bout of idiocy" may be symptomatic of a larger rot where the bulk of the other schools are willing to be OSU's puppet.  Both of those should give us some pause in the value of trying to fix what may already be an irrepairably broken relationship.

I'm not going to shout from the rooftops that we have to leave immediately.  But I don't think it would be the worst thing for the Regents and Santa Ono to give it some serious consideration.  

You might be right. But I hope we leave.

There's damage done in our relationships that will last for years.

But how would MSU exist without us?

You are thinking of this like a fan and while that is admirable, none of the decision makers A) care about rivalries, traditional matchup, and lol about road games, or B) fans. I'm not sure the decision makers give two shits if fans are even in the stadium at this point. They care about one thing, TV dollars. Is it short sighted? Probably, but the last 10 years or so have been proof that the above A and B are 100% correct. 

I don't think UM is leaving the B10 either, but those things you cited are not the reasons. I do think they should at least be considering an escape plan if the current behavior continues. You just can't have all other teams in the conference against you at all times. It just won't work as 11 against 1 or whatever. 

There is significant lack of sportsmanship coming from both MSU (tunnel, initial reaction to signgate) and OSU (PI firm, sharing scouting against us).  Taking a pause for a decade or two may not be a bad thing.  They don't deserve to play us.

Which traditional rivalries? The ones with Maryland, Rutgers, and Oregon?

Eh, CFB is inevitably headed toward superconferences anyway. Had the Stalions thing never happened, this would still be the case. This season, while enjoyable due to dominance, has also featured a slog of mediocre opponents. I'd be fine never playing Minnesota, Purdue, Illinois, and Indiana. Those games are pointless and dull. Forward into the future!

Been a cfb and Michigan fan for a long time. Back ten years ago I’d have agreed with the tradition and rivalry angles. Maybe even just two or three years ago. Not anymore. I’ve kind of had enough of the B1G. There is no tradition anymore. Especially not with OSU. Sure they play a game against UM every year, but there is nothing traditional about it. OSU became the northernmost football factory masquerading as a college team, like a few SEC schools you could mention. To them it’s not about the competition, it’s not about respect, it’s not about anything but winning, and winning in whatever manner is possible. They don’t care about sportsmanship, integrity, and honor, unless it’s to call someone else out for not having any. To h*** with OSU. Let them go to the SEC where they’ve Belonged the past decade or more. 
 

You want tradition? You want rivalries? Forge new ones then.