August 31st, 2015 at 2:19 PM ^
Maybe we should make a sticky for these and consolidate... This is getting out of hand.
August 31st, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
I kinda thought the same thing but i figured for those who cannot get the book till tomorrow or are not going to get it this will help with their fix before Thursday.
Go Blue!
August 31st, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^
Their research is further proof that Michigan should play noon games sparingly. Granted some of that is on the networks, but Harbaugh and a good football team means very few early games.
August 31st, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
If I were a cheapskate I would simply copy and paste all of these excerpts together and probably only be missing the foreword, table of contents, and an anecdote about Brandon hating puppies.
August 31st, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
I'm not sure about the puppies bit, but I do know that he hates people who try to pull all-nighters, that much is certain.
August 31st, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
At this rate nobody will need to buy the book. We can just organize all of these posts into one coherent book.
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August 31st, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
From the man himself: "And don't worry, readers: all the excerpts combine add up to about 30 pages of a 460 page book, or about seven-percent. Plenty of meat left on the bone. Hope you enjoy it."
August 31st, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
Not that I wouldn't buy the book anyway, but after all these excerpts I can't wait to get it.
August 31st, 2015 at 2:26 PM ^
But the formatting of that page is totally screwed up for me. The text runs along the left side in two 1-letter columns...
August 31st, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
Another highlight of how clueless the department was. When measuring attendance they didn't consider game times and opponents to determine the effects of a policy change?
August 31st, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^
August 31st, 2015 at 2:32 PM ^
LOCHDAWWWWGGGG
August 31st, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
“As shaky as that was, the department’s system for tracking attendance in 2013 was even worse: They measured student attendance by the number of section cards they handed out to students, which the ushers handed to them when they walked into the stadium."
Kinda almost verifies that the 100,000+ attendance streak was fudged.
August 31st, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^
"Look, I don’t know how to say this without sounding like a jerk,” Proppe told me, “but Hunter and his group were not as sophisticated as we were about analyzing data. When I looked at this data for ten minutes on an Excel spreadsheet, I could figure out what the data really meant. I realized once we segment it out by start time, the attendance for both being on time and showing up overall, was worse under the general-admission policy than it had been in 2011 and 2012. When Hunter gave me the data so quickly, and urged me to share it with the public, I don’t think he realized that.”
Superficial, hurry-up, feel-good marketing vs. quantitative statistical analysis and facts.
Gotta love it.
August 31st, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
for her senior season. So long, good seats with friends on the 30 yard line. She witnessed some of the fighting in the queues and being on the petite side, she gave up on trying to get down low in the corner to get on TV. She even skipped a game which is something I was shocked to hear, because she is as fanatical about Michigan football as I am. Another DB innovation that only pissed people off including alumni, not just the students. Glad he's long gone.
August 31st, 2015 at 4:21 PM ^
...men's basketball and hockey during my time as an undergrad at Michigan. Hockey for my junior year and hoops for my last year (which was the Fab Five's first year).
August 31st, 2015 at 4:00 PM ^
Wow, Ed Rothman is still teaching stats? Had him for 402 - in Fall 1978! He was one of the best profs I ever had.
August 31st, 2015 at 4:19 PM ^
GA, done well, works fine. They just botched the execution, big time.
The attraction of GA is that it rewards those who show up early; those who are first get to sit where they want, with whom they want. But the big problem that the athletic department didn't realize is that the size of the seats works with assigned seating b/c a person has to try and squeeze a grown-up, adult-sized ass into a seat size best used for an infant's high chair. So, when students come in a sit GA-style, they're going to take up more seats than there actually are, leaving some students without a seat.
After realizing this, their solution for the ND game was to give each student a ticket as he/she entered the stadium, locking the student into that seat. So, if you didn't arrive at the game next to your friends, you couldn't sit together. Furthermore, even if you did, you could be separated if you ended one row and your friend started another, putting you not only not next to each other, but at opposite ends of the section. This actually happened to me and a buddy of mine, and we had been looking forward to going to the game together and talking football during it.
And to those students who don't believe GA would work, let me ask you: how often did you sit in the seat printed on your ticket?
August 31st, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
Just picked up my copy of ENDZONE at my local B&N in Grand Rapids. The lady working was nice enough to grab me a copy from the back and sell it to me because I asked nicely.
August 31st, 2015 at 9:14 PM ^
“Department employees have told me the electronic scanning system can miss 5,000 to 10,000 tickets a game—or about 5 to 10 percent, a remarkably high margin of error,”
Saying you went to a Michigan Football game seems like a great alibi...