On the one hand, I'd like to think that the team's mindset is shifting more towards "they should be afraid of playing US" - but after the extremely up and down year we are having, yea...it does look like a hard schedule,
I fear they might be right- if Fleck has another down year that seat is going to be warming up. It isn't warm for me yet, but ask me that this time next year and I might start to fidget. Still rowin, baby!
Thank you. I've been curious why people are reacting in shock. We knew we were playing those 3 crossover games several years ago.
I'm not convinced at this point that 2021 Michigan State was anything more than a fluke.
Don't sleep on the boys from Ypsilanti. I'm surprised their coach, Chris Creighton hasn't had other offers, if you can win and go to bowl games in Ypsi, you can win anywhere. Before he came along, EMU was thinking of getting rid of football or dropping down to FBS.
Pretty clear they do not want Minnesota vs Purdue to be a battle of unbeatens
Someone at UW obviously still has tremendous influence with the conference in the Post-Aleverez era.
Because we are DAMN good, OK? We da best! We BLUE blood!
If this was the year the stars were aligned then we would’ve had a better team.
Your wish was answered!Maybe we’ll get both Michigan AND tOSU
Kick offensive game planning up a notch, too. We have to play too many very tough defenses. We can’t just overpower these teams. We’ve got to out-think them. And that’s on the coaches.
Whatever you’re smoking, I’d like some, too!
I'm guessing the original post confusion was referring to the first home and home series we had scheduled with UNC, which was cancelled by Jerry Kill. We re-scheduled this current version a couple of years later.
Week 6. Both teams undefeated and playing for the Jug.
Raging’ Cajuns.
Except for a few weird brain farts when Fleck calls an against-the-conventional-wisdom play call that is high risk with an unreasonably modest upside, Fleck calls a very conservative offense. Against excellent teams he likes to “shorten the game” by running a molasses slow offensive pace and using a repertoire of 4 or 5 plays. History has shown that this is an OK strategy when we have taken lead, but a failed strategy if we have fallen meaningfully behind. We don’t seem to have a different strategy to switch over to when our initial game plan isn’t working. We don’t adjust our pace, our playcalling or our predictability. Given the number of great defenses we will face next year, and our disinclination to produce creative offensive game plans, or to make adaptations at halftime, 2023 could be a very tough year.
No schedules have been posted past 2023 for Conference Play. Crazy the people that can make up websites and fake news these days. They do play Alabama in 2024.
