Dave Brandon Sees Future Ticket Price Increases; Future Schedule; Baseball Coach and More EDIT: Different Article, More Tidbits
Summary
Ticket Prices: Gradual increases coming
Future Schedule: Announcement "days away"
Baseball Coach: Very deep pool of candidates
Air Force Game: Planning for special day
Student Incentives: Coming (no new news)
EDIT: Ann Arbor.com Article w a few more things
Would like to schedule more military teams
Entertainment factor examined when scheduling: "networks are fighting over that game" - 2014 App State game
Still working to move UConn game to new venue: "working hard on that"
Air Force will probably be the game for the Charles Woodson to become a LEGEND.
Pick 6 would be good. But personally, I'd prefer the game to end on a one-handed INT from Countess, with Woodson in attendance.
I feel like it would be more fitting, you know....
Woodson kinda still plays in the NFL.
So unless he detoured the day before a game or they coincidentally had a bye week with a big Michigan game in the near future, highly unlikely Woodson gets his jersey honored before he retires.
Would it be wrong to honor the Navy Seals team during the Air Force game?
Ticket Prices: Gradual increases coming
Future Schedule: Announcement "days away"
Baseball Coach: Very deep pool of candidates
Air Force Game: Planning for special day
Student Incentives: Coming (no new news)
That's a lot of non-news.
Is there any sort of news on the Pac-12 opponent from non-DB sources?
....THE FUTURE!!
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I still don't understand why we could not have sent the band with the NHL winter classic and the increased ticket prices. Brandon comes off as a prick by needing support from a donor.
Aside from the part where they go to bowl games and this game in Jerry World was referred to as being "like a bowl game." Oh, and that whole part of the contract that DB negotiated to get seats reserved for the band.
Dave Brandon made cardboard taste like pizza and slept in 22 hotels while visiting 9 cities in 3.78 days so he just might know what he's doing, no?
Brandon made pizza taste like cardboard for most of his time at Dominoes.
domino's still tastes like cardboard. they just spent a ton of money on marketing to convince people otherwise. That change, along with what he's done here, was nothing but a gimmick.
(CNN)- Brandon Plans Special Event For Michigan - Air Force.
The US Air Force is coming to Ann Arbor, and Athletic Director Dave Brandon has special plans in store for the Michigan Faithful and their guests from the service academy. Michigan fans are used to Air Force bombers and jets doing fly-overs of the largest football stadium in the US, but they've never seen anything like what this marketing genius has planned for halftime: World War Three.
Yes, there will be bleachers out in the sun, but it will not be on Highway 61!
The wily Brandon plans to have a B-2 fly over the stadium and drop a spectacular low-megatonnage nuclear smart-bomb that will explode exactly on the 50 Yard Line, dead center in the stadium!
Although some collateral carnage may be expected, Brandon informs CNN that Luxury Suite guests will be unaffected by the blast, as this event was carefully planned before construction was completed, and the Luxury Suites are bomb-proof. He believes that the stadium is large enough to absorb the blast and that the nuclear device will be small enough that only the first few rows of seats will be toasted.
He believes that the teams will not be bothered by the crater in the second half. Michigan fans, he says, need to be more forward-looking and not rely on ancient traditions and singing The Victors in order to enjoy games. The blast will be accompanied by piped in rock music, as the band will be busy at a wedding during halftime.
especially after 9/11 and the ever-present threat of terrorismIt's been 10.5 years, that reasoning doesn't really make sense anymore
I think it's also been some time since someone successfully blew up a commercial airliner, but just try to make a joke about a bomb or gun while you are within earshot of a TSA agent, and see how that goes.
"close to making an announcement regarding a home game, a home-and-home, or both, with Pac-12 teams."
Sounds like Utah is coming back for a one and done. As for the "home and home" possibility, if it's not a big team (usc, oregon, stanford, ect.), I'm hoping for a road trip to Tempe or Boulder.
They need to charge every season ticket holder in the End Zone a PSD, not just post 2006 season ticket holders. Then instead of raising ticket prices, raise the PSD. At least it's tax deductable.
Obviously, I'm not in favor of any increase.
No PSD please. We like that we were smart enough to not only pay that bullshit, but getter better seats out of the deal too. My view is better than any view along the sideline.
if I didn't have to pay the PSD, lol, but raising the PSD is better than raising ticket prices.
I just got negged by a season ticket holder who is not required to pay the PSD.
Also, if im paying more i want more home games and better non con games.
I really wish DB would leave the UConn game alone. I know there isn't much by way of seating capacity there, but the point is that we scheduled a home-and-home (which we always complain we dont' get) and now we're wanting to back out of it because of a little greed.
This is total bull that we're playing App State so "networks can fight over it" and this is the side of DB I hate. Know what else TV networks would fight over? A home and home versus a traditional college power.
A.) We don't get individual TV revenue from playing our games, that goes to the conference to be redistributed 12 ways
B.) The Horror is an embarrassment; selling out to draw a crowd because of the initial embarrassment is even more terrible than losing to them in the first place
C.) Schedule 1A/FBS teams or find someone who will. We don't need to be playing lower division teams, ever.
Not sure if already posted and can't start a thread anyway, but UConn AD Warde Manuel says they don't intend to move the home game. Michigan buyout would be $2M if they opted to go that route.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120606/SPORTS0201/206060408/UConn-…
The race to the revenue moon has clearly been ratcheted up the past several years. No other reason for DB to build the suites. They bring in money. GOBS AND GOBS.
But I've pointed out the obvious before regarding Ohio and their ability to draw fans and, more importantly, money. You see, they are the only show in town. They don't have the kind of competition that occurs, say, in the state of Indiana--even sans an IU powerhouse. With 2 1/2 B1G teams in the state, that makes it difficult to fill the hole that Ross-Ade dug or that structure on the IU campus that's not former Knight-ville. Despite ND owning that state, it still comes down to revenue sharing vis-a-vis competition, saturation, and the total number of fans within reasonable travel distance.
If the state of Michigan was like Ohio and we were the only show in town, we'd be looking at a 150,000-seat stadium and perhaps a couple more donors. The footprint would be much bigger.
The trick is for DB to stay ahead of Gene Smith. <Insert jab here.>