Michigan Football - 2024 Season.

[Mike]

Made one great hire in particular.

[Mike]

MSU is officially a 7:30 kick on NBC.

[Whitley]

MSU is officially a 7:30 kick on NBC.

Will have my DVR on it.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Same ...... that sucks. A full day for Spartans fans to get drunk. EL will not be an M friendly place to travel.

[Mike]

Fuck 'em.

[lineygoblue]

10-11 hours of Sparty fans drinking before the kickoff. This is not a good idea. But television $$$ controls everything.

You've already got Sparty fans angry over what happened last year after the game. Many of them still believe M is to blame for everything. Now we're going to play this thing at night, and give them 10 hours to get totally schnockered? I wouldn't go anywhere near EL on Saturday.

[Whitley]

10-11 hours of Sparty fans drinking before the kickoff. This is not a good idea. But television $$$ controls everything.

You've already got Sparty fans angry over what happened last year after the game. Many of them still believe M is to blame for everything. Now we're going to play this thing at night, and give them 10 hours to get totally schnockered? I wouldn't go anywhere near EL on Saturday.

I wonder if the coach BBQs will be in full swing before kickoff?

[lineygoblue]

Oh... and John Bacon just tweeted that Michigan is going to make Harbaugh the top paid coach in the Big Ten within the next 2-3 weeks. They say that Harbaugh, Manuel, and President Ono are all on the same page with this, but I think this is mostly Ono's doing.

[edindetroit]

Same ...... that sucks. A full day for Spartans fans to get drunk. EL will not be an M friendly place to travel.

I went to EL for a game with Indiana. My friend Mark got tickets from a coworker whose son was on the team and he gave him a nice Indiana coat. As we were walking in some drunk Sparty girl went to high five him and then saw his coat so she boooed him. I had a good laugh at that one. From where we parked to the stadium we walked by some student houses and every driveway had a big table on it filled with booze and no one around. We could have gotten blasted on the way in for free if we wanted to.

[Mike]

Sparty is checked out and has no fight in them. I’m going to the game and have absolutely zero safety concerns. Unless a Michigan fan wants to be a dick and go looking for trouble, I don’t expect there to be any. The Michigan section is well removed from the students and I expect them to be gone by halftime anyway. This will be my 3rd game in the last 5 in EL. They were all Michigan wins and there were no problems.

[edindetroit]

Sparty is checked out and has no fight in them. I’m going to the game and have absolutely zero safety concerns. Unless a Michigan fan wants to be a dick and go looking for trouble, I don’t expect there to be any. The Michigan section is well removed from the students and I expect them to be gone by halftime anyway. This will be my 3rd game in the last 5 in EL. They were all Michigan wins and there were no problems.

Just watch out for Spartan players swinging helmets.

[Mike]

Speaking of Michigan State, that game against Kenneth Walker was the last time Michigan lost to a Big Ten opponent. If Michigan beats Indiana and MSU, they will surpass two full calendar years without a Big Ten loss.

[iam416]

Meh. Ohio State went 3+ years. CRD started off at well over 2 years and look at what a goddamn disaster that's turned into.

One day you're never losing conference games and the next you're hoping to fucking god you can pull out a win at Purdue.

Enjoy the run. It's fleeting!

[Mike]

Oh, I know! Seriously, I get pissed when folks find every little thing to nitpick about. We survived the RR/Hoke fiasco and it looked like Harbaugh was going to disappoint only to miraculously right the ship and have us performing at a historically high level. There will be a precipitous decline next year but we have 7-9 games left of the 2023 Michigan football team to enjoy and I plan to do exactly that.

[lineygoblue]

I'll enjoy it while its here. I don't think anyone can accurately predict where the conference is going from '24 and beyond. OSU and PSU will be the big dogs in whatever the East is, and I suspect that Oregon and USC will dominate the West. All the rest of us will just have to be content with whatever we get.

If by some miracle, we manage to keep JJ for his senior year, and Donovan hangs around, we could be looking at a ceiling of 8-9 wins, but M is going to have to beat some very good teams to get to that level. Even with the playoffs being expanded to 12, its going to be very difficult for a 3-4 loss team to qualify. I'd be satisfied with a good NYD bowl berth, and a great '25 recruiting class.