2014 Football promotions announced: Night Game will be UTL III
If there were any doubts that this year's night game wouldn't be a big production in a UTL format, they are erased now it would seem.
http://www.mgoblue.com/promotions/fbl-gameday.html
- 8/30 vs Opener -
MMB Halftime Show: "Virtual Victors"
Game Day Sponsor DirecTV
- 9/13 vs Miami University-
Military Day
MMB Halftime Show: "National Anthem Anniversary"
- 9/20 vs Utah
Family Day
MMB Halftime Show: "2 Seasons & Winter Construction"
- 9/27 vs Minnesota
Game Day Sponsor Hyundai
MMB Halftime Show: TBA
- 10/11 vs Penn State
Under The Lights III
MMB Halftime Show: TBA
- 11/1 vs Indiana
Homecoming Game
MMB Halftime Show: "Sing-A-Long"
- 11/22 vs Maryland
Senior Day
MMB Halftime Show: "Evolution of Band"
At this point, it's just a night game. I don't need alternate jerseys or t-shirts to tell me that this is the closest thing to a decent home game on our schedule.
Sorry Devotee, I know how you love new merchandise. You are a marketer's dream.
You kind of have to stop the numbering thing at a certain point. We should have had 'UTL' in 2011, then 'UTL Re-loaded' last year, and that's it.
But what about UTL Revolutions?
Geez how old do you think we are?
It's soley for marketing and merchandising.
The same type of shirts they sold in 2011, they sold last year but with a UTL II logo on it.
Merchandising, roman numerals, big productions. Sounds like a, ahem, Super Bowl....
It's all about the Michigan "Brand-on"! We don't need these hokey night games to stand out. We're Michigan. Let the teams without tradition down south trot themselves out like homely show-girls.
Dude do you have any interests whatsoever outside the michigan athletic department.
Dude, I see you posting just as regularly.
Wtf is a gameday sponsor?
advertising being brought into Michigan Stadium and injected into the U of M Game-Day Experience, in the form of sponsorships. In how many not-so-subtle ways will the names "DirecTV" and "Hundai" be emphasized ad nauseum those two games?
We're eerily close, it seems, to a point in the development of this particular era of the Michigan stadium experience, where one of us will see someone dart past us in the stands and then the announcement will state: "This emergency run for additional sliced jalepenos to go with the stadium nachos is brought to you by your Metro Detroit Fifth Third branches and BP with Invigorate"
I'm hearing there will be scoreboard video ads and minor merchandise sponsorship from the Gameday Sponors.
is winning football games, I don't care when or where we do it, just win games please.
I like it way more when we matter in the rankings.
"11/22 vs Maryland
Senior Day
MMB Halftime Show: "Evolution of Band" "
Wouldn't it be great if the MBB could go all "Stanford Marching Band" on Dave Brandon and show what "Evolution of Band" really stands for (in terms of the screw-job the Michigan Marching Band has endured, as wow-factor RAWK music has crowded them out) ?!!
Sure, there are some great things that the MBB is still allowed to do, but I am sure that I'm just one of many who has gotten fed-up with the MBB being drowned out by the same old tired stadium-anthem stuff (and I'm not talking about just Seven Nation Army, but pretty much all the stuff you hear in practically every NFL stadium and in too many other sports venues). There have been way too many instances in which the MBB has been several seconds into playing something when the press-box DJ hits the "play" button and drowns them out.
Maybe for that game's halftime show, the MBB could dramatize that by marching into formations while playing several bars of a song only to get interrupted by a deafening stadium anthem as the band scatters and ducks for cover. Then do it over... and over... and over, again and again and again, to make their point.
Enough already, and don't forget to F'N GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
The marching band needs MORE attention, not to be drowned out by DJ Jazzy Jeff.
I will say, for a second there you confused me with the MBB. Men's Basketball? I understand though...you were on a rant.
I see I typed "MMB" correctly the first time, then got it wrong the next 5 opportunities. A big FAIL for me. Maybe next time I get up and on MGoBlog at 4:30am I'll have a coffee first.
But thanks anyway for understanding my rant. One point I forgot to include was that they should also change the title of that day's show to "De-evolution of Band", or maybe "De-evolution of MMB" (there, I finally got it right this time).
No worries. I've typed more than a few posts when I was sleep deprived. Sometimes I look back and am surprised there weren't MORE mistakes in my posts.
Anyway, your points in the post still remain valid, in my eyes anyway.
I was in the band when the piped-in music began. There was some talk of doing a show called "A Tribute to Canned Music." The band would march out, make the formation of a can, then pop the lid off and play all of the terrible songs that got played over and over by the stadium DJ (7 Nation Army and the like).
The worry was that AD funding for away trips and bowl games would coincidentally become unavailable, so it never went beyond informal discussions.
oh goody i can't wait to see how Dave Brandon whores his way through this season.
They are going to introduce the new mascot that week. "Wally the Wolverine". Quickly to be adopted by State fans as "Wally the Wal-verine" and every variance thereof. This leads to a mass exodus of true blue fans, which allows the Horseshoe to overtake the Big House in average attendance per game. Dave Brandon subsequently accepts the invitation to the first ever "Bahamas Bowl" for the barely .500 Wolverines, while Brady Hoke receives a three year contract extension.
We should call it U3 and create an overweight U2 tribute band, "U3". Then, they can play halftime instead of that stupid marching band (which is boring, recruits hate it and is a giant waste of money...besides, they have real bands at the Super Bowl, not some lame marching band). After U3 blows up in "U3 Presented by Charter Bank and Long John Silvers", we can put them on an international tour with Mini Kiss and Lez Zepplin!
UTL becomes commonplace that normal daytime games are called Under the Sun and the AD makes all sorts of UTS merchandise
Under the Sun. That made me laugh. Can't wait to see that alternate jersey, or should I say jerseys, since we will have so many Under The Suns every year.
Rocky III was the only thing I enjoyed as much as 1 and 2.
Damn, I was hoping for UTL The Remix., oh well, at least the PR department didn't screw up and have signs printed for UTL" C"...wait, better check with the printing department!