The conference is meeting this week to figure out its 2024+ scheduling. It seems they're already leaning towards doing away with divisions, and now only need to decide how to protect rivalries. So let's discuss the different ways they might do things, what's best for fans, the conference, and Michigan. DIVISIONS? Seem to be a dead letter. The result of the February meeting established two core tenets for their scheduling, in order: Do whatever we can to get teams in the (12-team) College Football Playoff. Every four-year player should get to play on every B10 campus at least once. This was well-received, and means they are almost certainly heading towards a divisionless system with a championship game. Removing divisions effectually takes Big Ten teams from their current six protected rivalries to between one and three, freeing up those games to see the rest of their conference opponents. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME? SHOWCASE?!?! Now would be a good time to implement my alternate
This should be entertaining. The Indianapolis Club wants me to be the speaker this Thursday night at this building: Link: https://umalumni.force.com/s/lt-event?id=a1Q2L00000AsIlqUAF Details: December 1, 6:30pm
Hockey plays Minnesota at 6 tonight and Thursday is Thanksgiving so. Two live radio/video scheduling notice (because of holiday and hockey): -MGoRadio is going to be at 1:30PM tomorrow afternoon instead of 5PM. -WTKA Roundtable next week is going to be at 9AM Tuesday instead of Thursday. pic.twitter.com/XZGWgtfnrc
9/17/2022 – Michigan 59, UConn 0 – 3-0 After the opener someone complained in the comments that this bit above the fold was a utilitarian bit of text that didn't tell anyone how to feel. This is a completely fair criticism and also the work of an utter lunatic. It puts the emotional prose on the internet or it gets the hose again, sort of thing. I don't know what emotion to communicate here in the aftermath of a third straight beatdown of Baby Seal U. It was generally pleasant to be out and about in the stadium on a not-too-hot day, watching helpless oompa-loompas grasp fruitlessly at our valiant warrior-poets. All conclusions, thoughts, feelings, and idle thoughts are polluted by the quality of opposition, with a few limited exceptions. It was… fine. Any attempt at a grand conclusion is a stretch. But, lo: it is demanded. So I will stretch. If there's anything to take from this game going forward it's that we might be on the verge of De