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
I hope you are not right
I wanted a little lady luck on our sides and Charles on the sideline for the MSU home game this Year. Desmond was at the UTL game last year and we won it with a reception at the end of the game. I had a dream that we won the MSU game where they retired Charles' jersey on a pick 6 by Blake Countess...
I want to put a beating on Sparty....and I want Charles there to see it.
"We want the Big 10 championship. And we’re going to win it as a TEAM"
Pick 6 would be good. But
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....
It's been a lot. Its been a roller coaster that for some reason seemed like it would never get good. But you know what? We kept fighting. It's like that old saying goes, "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions." -David Molk
welp only problem
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
Would it be wrong to honor the Navy Seals team during the Air Force game?
Vice.com
Not particularly,
Not particularly, inter-service cooperation and all that.
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order because it is better organized.
Ticket Prices: Gradual
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.
CoE Class of 2007
Is there any sort of news on
Is there any sort of news on the Pac-12 opponent from non-DB sources?
"Michigan isn't going to lose a game" - Fielding Yost, 1901
Just don't give us yet
Just don't give us yet another horrible uniform for the Air Force game.
Dave Brandon sees...
....THE FUTURE!!
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yes
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yes
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I still don't understand why
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.
903 wins most in college football
shut up about the band
my god. there is no precedent in sending them. literally none. brandon doesn't unilaterally decide these things in a vacuum.
'Cause I Bleed Blue...
Aside from the part where
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
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?
No.
No.
Actually
Brandon made pizza taste like cardboard for most of his time at Dominoes.
domino's
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.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia - but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
Oh joy!
I didn't think the $85 I paid for the Nebraska game was enough
So hot. Milk was a bad choice.
Whatever the schedule is
Make it a good ole fashioned home and home. Please.
I have a Fandom Endurance III merit badge
(CNN)- Brandon Plans Special
(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.
I'm all for a little humor,
but trying to make a joke about dropping a bomb in the Big House, especially after 9/11 and the ever-present threat of terrorism, is just not that funny.
especially after 9/11 and the
especially after 9/11 and the ever-present threat of terrorism
It's been 10.5 years, that reasoning doesn't really make sense anymore
If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?
Are you nuts???
10.5 years or 100.5 years that still reasoning makes sense - making a joke about bombing a public place is just not necessary, or at least in my way of thinking its not.
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.
Dangerously close to the No
Dangerously close to the No Politics! Line here, guys.
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order because it is better organized.
"announcement regarding a home game"
"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.
Go Blue!
Before they raise ticket prices...
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.
Go Blue!
No PSD please. We like that
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.
I would be saying the same....
if I didn't have to pay the PSD, lol, but raising the PSD is better than raising ticket prices.
Go Blue!
Let me guess...
I just got negged by a season ticket holder who is not required to pay the PSD.
Go Blue!
Solid business plan. Price
Solid business plan. Price out the old timers, move younger demographic in who will but more shirts, bobble heads, hats etc. the real money is in the merch and in my experience the people with tickets for 20 yrs plus pay enough to enjoy a few games a year and dont sit at the Mden for hours.
Also, if im paying more i want more home games and better non con games.
Its called a royale with cheese
Regarding Ticket Prices...
"Ohio State charges $75 a game, and Brandon said that gives the Buckeyes more money to put back into their athletic program and makes them more competitive." -from the article
Maybe, except this is not the whole story necessarily. I understand the need for gradual raises in ticket prices simply due to the cost of doing business, but although Ohio generates more total revenue than we do, revenue from ticket sales at least is fairly comparable most years. Moreover, we tend to have a more profitable department than Ohio - despite financing some very expensive facilities improvements too. It would be interesting to know what the budget targets are for the AD - I bet this has something to do with why and when certain things happen.
The other thing is pure economics - the demand for "Michigan" is pretty inelastic. Fans are intensely loyal, there isn't a practical alternative and to that end, the department potentially has quite a bit leeway in what it could ask for, but obviously it would not intentionally price itself so far above market that attendance would actually suffer. It simply means that they would have to make "Michigan" egregiously expensive before that happens.
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UConn game
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.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia - but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
So fucking what?
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.
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
UConn won't move home game
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-won-t-move-bigger-venue-2013-football-game-vs-Michigan?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
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RE: Regarding Ticket Prices
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.>
A proud first member of the Hoke Pointed at Me Club since 1/12/11.
Air Force will probably be the game for the Charles Woodson to become a LEGEND.
"There will be blood on the field and it won't be mine." -KK