UCLA Series No Longer Scheduled
October 25th, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
Mgoblue.com confirms
October 25th, 2019 at 4:35 PM ^
October 25th, 2019 at 8:19 PM ^
WTF?
Please tell me we didn't pay UCLA to *not* play us.
October 26th, 2019 at 12:31 AM ^
October 27th, 2019 at 8:28 PM ^
A more accurate assessment: I said it like an alumnus and a season ticket holder who believes marquee games (both in and out of conference) are what help define each football season from being just another indistinguishable series of games against the same opponents.
That being said, it *does* effect my personal money since the costs of 1) paying off UCLA (and Arkansas, and probably OK and/or Texas) as well as 2) paying cupcakes to come and play us get passed on to the ticket holders to varying extents.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
Man, I swear the Athletic Department reads this board.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:17 PM ^
That's what I was just thinking. Ironic after yesterday's discussion
October 25th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
We wish, but we're still playing service academies and have been talking about not playing them for at least 5 years.
October 25th, 2019 at 8:04 PM ^
Texas and Oklahoma in the future as well.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:30 PM ^
There is a player parent who has stated in some Facebook groups that Harbaugh has people close to home who look at message boards like this one and he takes some of the criticism to heart. Take it fwiw
October 25th, 2019 at 2:35 PM ^
Isn’t there a photo floating around with Jim and his dad and MGoBlog is on the desktop in the background?
October 25th, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
Maybe that’s the problem. Harbaugh is reading MGoBlog and taking coaching advice from a bunch of fat bald dudes.
October 25th, 2019 at 5:32 PM ^
Hey, who are you calling "Bald"?
October 26th, 2019 at 1:06 AM ^
And who are you calling "Fat?"
October 25th, 2019 at 7:31 PM ^
He's not listening... How many times has a throw gone deep towards a single covered Nico?
October 25th, 2019 at 8:54 PM ^
If Harbaugh is in any way reading, and paying attention to, and doing something suggested or talked about on a college football message board, he needs to be FIRED immediately
I have a hard time believing ANYONE who is in ANY way really important in sports looks at this shit and responds to it.
Maybe to put up on a wall and laugh at for hours on end, but using it in any way other than that would speak to that persons incredible lack of sense.
October 25th, 2019 at 11:44 PM ^
Hey wait a minute Brian is anything but bald. Also let’s be honest, if there’s any blog that takes a rational, scientific approach to the game, it’s this one. We’re not talking about bullshit hot takes from Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd. I would be happy for Harbaugh to take input from here.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:42 PM ^
For the record I think he and his family are awesome.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:45 PM ^
I would also like that on my record.
October 25th, 2019 at 3:12 PM ^
I venerate them more than you do and you know it.
October 25th, 2019 at 3:17 PM ^
I think the Harbaughs are the tits!
October 25th, 2019 at 3:59 PM ^
Speaking of Harbaugh’s tits:
October 25th, 2019 at 3:57 PM ^
Does anyone actually think otherwise?
October 25th, 2019 at 2:53 PM ^
If this is true then, Christ Almighty. Now I'm really embarrassed by all the dickhead comments about him here more than before if he knows what is being said.
Yes, sure, I'm certain he has a thick skin, but fuck.
October 25th, 2019 at 3:10 PM ^
Makes you wish the site had actually implemented some controls to make it easier to hide/block the comments of certain posters, doesn't it?
October 25th, 2019 at 3:02 PM ^
If that were true then he would have hired Maizen as his recruiting coordinator. /s
October 25th, 2019 at 3:27 PM ^
If that was actually the case, JH would have been prancing around in jorts years ago.
October 25th, 2019 at 7:30 PM ^
He was an NFL QB. I'm sure he's taken more shit than most people on Earth.
October 25th, 2019 at 4:10 PM ^
"he takes some of the criticism to heart. Take it fwiw"
Whoops, is this why after last season we scrapped the offense, for a new one which everyone here now hates?
October 25th, 2019 at 4:00 PM ^
Are people happy about this? This is such a horrible decision because UCLA isn't even good! And likely won't be good by then. So you get an attractive matchup by name, with a game at the Rose Bowl and you don't even have to risk much. C'mon!
All this does is reduce the schedule from 12 games to 11. If we like Michigan football and get excited about it in the offseason, why wouldn't we want more semi-real football instead of expensive exhibition games?
October 25th, 2019 at 6:13 PM ^
In this era of the college football playoffs, the non-conference schedule means absolutely nothing. Alabama regularly schedules 3-4 cupcake, non-power 5 teams every year (This year it is New Mexico State, Southern Mississippi, Western Carolina - FCS, & Duke - Power 5). We already play a 9th in-conference game, scheduling a 10th power 5 team in this era of college football just seems dumb. Win and you're in --- so, schedule the easiest teams possible and get to the Big Ten schedule.
October 25th, 2019 at 6:29 PM ^
i am guessing that you don't have season tickets
October 25th, 2019 at 9:22 PM ^
Are you saying UCLA is not a cupcake?
October 26th, 2019 at 3:48 AM ^
ya. i would rather pay my $200+ per ticket to see ucla instead of ecu or hawaii
October 25th, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
Even if UCLA isn't any good that makes the home schedule less attractive.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:12 PM ^
And if they’re good (our luck similar to Army who sucked at the time it was scheduled) we’ll bitch up a storm.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:40 PM ^
Let's be honest...scheduling Army is way different than scheduling UCLA.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
Remember when we barely beat Army and people here were all like "This was indicative of nothing. Army is just so good. They aren't going to lose another game this year."
October 25th, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
They lost to Army?
October 25th, 2019 at 3:46 PM ^
In the sentence "They aren't going to lose another game this year" the "They" refers to Army, not Michigan.
October 25th, 2019 at 2:51 PM ^
Not your point, but Army is currently 3-4 with losses to Tulane, Western Kentucky & Georgia State. Anytime we want to collectively stop pretending they're a good team, feel free.
October 25th, 2019 at 4:09 PM ^
I guess we drained the mojo out of them!
October 25th, 2019 at 6:10 PM ^
Mojo is yummy on pig meat.
October 25th, 2019 at 3:05 PM ^
I won’t, iron sharpens iron! Playing cupcakes and then facing a formidable opponent will not help things.
October 25th, 2019 at 3:09 PM ^
I wouldn't sleep on either rainbows or pirates.
October 25th, 2019 at 9:15 PM ^
Dont rainbows and pirates usually end up in the gulag in vlads russia?
October 25th, 2019 at 4:47 PM ^
It sure helps Alabama and Clemson
October 25th, 2019 at 4:59 PM ^
"And if they’re good we’ll bitch up a storm."
Long-term forecast calls for scattered bitching storms no matter what
October 25th, 2019 at 2:13 PM ^
Wins > attractive home schedule
October 25th, 2019 at 2:20 PM ^
UCLA is exactly the type of mediocre P5 program Michigan needs to keep on the schedule to make the OOC easy enough to go 3-0 but with enough name recognition that national pundits / cfb committee don’t dump on our scheduling.