OT: Notre Dame and Michigan talk renewing series
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I heard ND is demanding that Michigan home game to be played at the Giants Stadium.
That's incorrect, Michigan wants to play at Paramus Catholic.
Detroit Free Press
Reports: Michigan and Notre Dame to restart football series
I suppose it is "good for the conference".
Reports: Michigan and Notre Dame to restart football series
I suppose it is "good for the conference".
Which will be warmly received here once the Rutgers Athletics Department learns of the financial windfall it will get from the Big Ten and Notre Dame for the date shift.
Flood isn't our head coach anymore. Don't expect us to get blown out of many games, these Ash teams are going to play tough.
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Per UM board, there would likely be no financial gain here as it was a scheduled game anyway that year and RU isn't being removed from the schedule but rather just moved to an open date currently for both teams. But I haven't seen an official report on that.
Arkansas apparently got a $2MM buyout from UM to cancel some games though.
We now have an open date on Oct. 26 and Nov. 9. Let's fill that Nov. 9th date with someone worthy of the 150th anniversary game of college football.
Downside is we now open the season with three straight Sept. B1G road games after the Aug. opener. Ouch.
Downside is we now open the season with three straight Sept. B1G road games after the Aug. opener. Ouch.
Rutgers has plenty of bargaining ground. Anyone who follows Rutgers will think lots less of the Rutgers Athletic Dept and the leadership of the school if this set of events does not become some kind of meaningful payday. We have tons of competitive ground to make up. Rutgers needs to stand its ground until the arrangement is a plus for everyone involved. AD Hobbs has already blundered with the game at Yankees Stadium. Very, very small time.
Yeah, looking at Michigan schedule on FBS, I'm not understanding why they cancelled the home and home Arkansas series in 2018 and 2019. Looking at FBS which may not be up-to-date, yet does include the Notre Dame series, Michigan has 1 OOC open spot in 2018 with Notre Dame and SMU scheduled, and 2 open OOC spots in 2019. Does anyone know why they cancelled the Arkansas series? Does it have to do with opening weekend dates for the 2 seasons? It would have been a good series for B1G and SEC.
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I fully expect an ESPN-led push to restart A&M v Texas (which I personally think belongs as a bowl or better game) and ou-Nebraska (neither here nor there to me) and MU - KU (again, neither here nor there to me)...
Honest question, why should there be any financial payday from UM or the BIG here? It's not like you would be losing out on revenue from a cancellation of the game. It's still going to be played, just 4 weeks earlier. Obviously if you got bounced from their schedule to make room for another team, that would require payment, but moving a date?
Don't believe they dropped anyone. They had some slots to fill. It looks like they may still have one open slot for 2018. ND keeps a slot or two open for situations like this and also for their Shamrock Series games.
I think Michigan ( and/or the B1G) will be giving Rutgers some kind of extra accommodation
for agreeing to change date, but don't think it will be anything that would be considered a big deal.
One of the arguments made by someone above is that Rutgers would open its Big Ten schedule with three consecutive road games in September. Not an attractive way to sell season tickets, lousy from a competitive standpoint. And by going along quietly with the plans of Notre Dinero and Michigan, Rutgers reaffirms its doormat status.
Do we even have any say in this? B1G could do what they want.
Not worth it if it means dropping home and away series with Arkansas and most likely future series we have scheduled with Texas and Oklahoma.
Also considering the last game was in South Bend and we're already playing Iowa, MSU and OSU on the road in 2018, I don't see why they'd agree to playing 2018 on the road instead of having Arkansas at home.
With only 3 OOC games no quality team is going to schedule 2 other quality OOC teams. Most teams don't even do that now.
I love watching us beat ND and it's something that has been done rather consistently since I started getting into college football around 14 years old (2007) but they abruptly backed out of the series, not us. Shouldn't scramble to put them back on and cancel quality games.
Also considering the last game was in South Bend and we're already playing Iowa, MSU and OSU on the road in 2018, I don't see why they'd agree to playing 2018 on the road instead of having Arkansas at home.
With only 3 OOC games no quality team is going to schedule 2 other quality OOC teams. Most teams don't even do that now.
I love watching us beat ND and it's something that has been done rather consistently since I started getting into college football around 14 years old (2007) but they abruptly backed out of the series, not us. Shouldn't scramble to put them back on and cancel quality games.
The schedules are created years in advance, at least the conference games.
Everyone who cares should know which Big Ten teams we will be playing up to 2019.
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa-19/2019-rutgers-scarlet-knights-football-schedule.php
The 3rd B1G game on the schedule is at "home" against UMd so, if that game is actually played on campus, RU will start with two B1G road games in 2019, not 3, but we also go to Miami in September. This is not a good move by RU to agree to the early game at Michigan. There are two TBAs on the 2019 schedule in September so those will be our only home games and they will almost certainly be against opponents from smaller conferences. So agreeing to this deal for the benefit of ND(!) and Michigan will almost certainly cost RU money in terms of lost season's ticket sales unless the team has made a huge leap forward by that time. I for one do not favor RU doing anything that helps ND fill its schedule, and especially not when doing so is potentially harmful to RU.
From the article:
Additionally, the insertion of the Notre Dame games forced a date change for a 2019 conference game against Rutgers.
"While it’s never easy to change football schedules, I appreciate Arkansas’ Jeff Long understanding of the need for this change, as well as Rutgers athletics director Pat Hobbs and coach (Chris) Ash for agreeing to change the date of our conference game so we could bring this Notre Dame rivalry back to the field," Michigan athletics director Warde Manuel said in Thursday's announcement.
I wonder if they got this idea from the Yankees?
