Comments on: Schedule Update: Conference Games Set

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:41:15 +0000

LETS GO BLUE!!

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:05:59 +0000

I hate the “one plays” in the Big 10 schedule. I wish they would go back to a full home and away round robin schedule like they had before the introduction of the Big 10 tournament. Give up two meaningless pre-season games and make the regular season a fair assessment of which is the best team in the league.

By: aMaized

aMaized — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:27:51 +0000

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By: jmblue

jmblue — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:32:10 +0000

Old Style – mgoblog.com is terrific. Brian (the host) breaks down every single play from each game. He’s also a very good writer and can be hilarious to read.

I don’t think we need to worry about our conference strength of schedule. First, the conference’s RPI is going to be through the roof no matter what – we may well see 10 of the 11 teams go to at least the NIT. Second, our nonconference schedule is stacked, so we’re pretty covered either way. Anyway, we shouldn’t be in a position where we’re sweating it out on Selection Sunday next year.

By: Old Style

Old Style — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:46:08 +0000

Dylan, totally unrelated but I was wondering if you could recommend a Michigan football website.

By: El Capitan

El Capitan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:49:53 +0000

I’m just glad that we get another crack at sPARTY at Crisler… there is simply no way they are winning here next season

By: JBlair52

JBlair52 — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:34:32 +0000

interesting thoughts

But the way I figure – our Strength of Schedule is going to be pretty tough no matter what 2 games we miss.

Last year it was pretty tough and we missed MSU.

Xavier, Marquette, Alabama, Boston College, Utah, Connecticut, Kansas, Michigan State (2), Purdue, Illinois, Ohio State (2)

that could very well be what our schedule looks like…and i’m not even including some of the other big ten teams. (obviously the old spice isnt set but it could easily be something similar)

so yeah – not too worried about the strength of schedule.

actually, we could probably use a “SLIGHT” break IMO. And we’ll have our shot to get some wins in the Big Ten – which is going to be a loaded conference.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:26:23 +0000

Perhaps a new spin on missing out on Purdue and Illinois: Not only will we miss out on an opportunity to notch 2 additional quality wins, but not playing Illinois and Purdue also puts greater pressure on us to win @PSU, @NW, @Iowa, and @Indiana which has been very tough for us to accomplish (2 OT wins and 2 Ls last year). Even though we know that the Big Ten will be very competitive top-to-bottom this year, a loss at one of the 4 aforementioned venues would probably look a lot worse than a loss at home to Purdue/Illinois would.

That said, I see no reason why we shouldn’t win 10-12 games in conference this season and (hopefully) rest a bit easier on Selection Sunday. GO BLUE!!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:10:50 +0000

I don’t know if I like that we are not playing Illinois and Purdue twice. I’d rather play them and get more tune-up games for the tourney. Playing Indiana twice and Iowa twice does nothing for our schedule strength but make it lower. I mean I guess Iowa could be a pretty good team next year but I really dont think so. All I know is the Big Ten is gonna be stacked next year and I could definitely see 8 teams from the Big Ten making the tourney. In a lot of preseason polls I’ve seen 5 to 6 teams from the Big Ten in them: UM, MSU, Minn, Ohio State, Illinois and Purdue. Wisconsin, Penn State and Northwestern will be good teams and all I know is Beilein better have our boys ready to play.

GO BLUE

By: hambone

hambone — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:24:30 +0000

remember though, that we only had to play MSU once this past season (at home nonetheless), which may have also been a good break for us last season… this year we’ll be playing msu twice…