Football Season tickets are at 93,000; highest in a decade
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/050217aaa.html
Bye.
Well, I'll always be thankful that he dropped that pass against Virginia on the second-to-last play.
Did he almost tip the pass right to the safety on purpose, too?
True. If he was anything like his twin brother with the same name who won the NFC championship 25% of the years he coached in the NFC, he'd have a record to brag about. But this twin has never won anything.
But he will never win enough to satisfy our shittier, more selfish fans, no matter what he wins.
John and Jim aren't twins. John's a year older.
99% chance this is a sparty concern troll.
[edit: Looking through the post history let's change that to OSU concern troll. Sad!]
I live in Utah but will take them over for you if you stop wanting them!
Time to fill-in the endzones between the suites and video boards.
Maybe I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but with the ticket packs being a great option this year (MSU and OSU at home), I have a hard time believing there are going to be many tickets available to the general public this year. Obviously, some single tickets will be available, but it's awesome to think that virtually every game will be filled with minimal promotion.
Have you been to an away game? If you deny our opponents tickets, they'll do the same thing. Being a part of a small band of Wolverine fans on the road, celebrating a victory is one of my fondest memories of childhood. Road trips with Dad to Wisconsin, Purdue, Iowa, etc. were great bonding experiences. I still remember the first time I graduated from a Whopper, Jr. to a full-sized Whopper. Road game, at Minnesota. Another trip, we both got 2 for $2 Egg McMuffins in the morning, drove to Champaign Urbana, got 2 for $2 Big Macs, watched the game, drove home and got 2 more Big Macs. Ah, the gastro-intestinal memories. Whole trip was $6 for food and whatever gas cost. The one regret I have is spending Halloween night at a Motel in Minneapolis one year.
So you end up scattered all over the stadium, surrounded by douchebag buckeye or spartan fans? No thanks. It's much better to have a small section of like-minded fans to root with.
WD, I like you most of the time but ST3 is 100% right on this. 10k is still a lot though. You have 17k tickets to sell after season ticket holders and over half of them go to the opposing side? at least make it half and half, or 60/40% in favor of the home team.
To Mike's credit, the secondary market is larger at other stadiums because unless they're a big name B1G school they won't be able to sell out their stadiums anyway, especially in down years. Which...for places like purdue or rutgers is every year.
But still, limiting it to parents of players would severely impact the ability to get tickets to away games for our large alumni and fan base around the country. Having to use the secondary market for osu, psu, msu, wisc, unl (etc.) games would suck. You can get away with it in evanston where half the fans are UM fans anyway. Not so much in cbus.
I'm with WD on this. Make the Big House as intimidating of an environment as it can get for opposing teams and fans. I have no problem with road fans going to games, but they should have to buy them on the secondary market. I wouldn't even have a problem with the athletic department refusing to sell single-game tickets to people with out-of-state credit cards.
last year in columbus I felt safe in the michigan section. I would not have wanted to be sitting alone with my wife in a sea of Red....
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No way, people coming in adds to the college atmosphere greatly. Also in response they limited of tickets UM gets for road games to just parents, and in the era of stubhub this policy would not do anything to dent the red wave when Nebraska and Ohio visit
Usually away fans only get the very few top rows in the south endzone which I can't imagine is 10,000. Seems like the also get a lower section in the SW corner for big games like Notre Dame and MSU. I specifically remember seeing several very sad Notre Dame fans in that corner after Roundtree's catch at UTL
is what I have read a few times. Having problems linking.
...but I don't know what avenue to take to ensure I am included in the "donor" group. If I go to:
http://support.mgoblue.com/annual-giving/
...and donate money, will that add me to the donor base? Does anyone know if you need to donate a certain amount of money to be considered a donor?
$150 was to join the season ticket holder interest list.
To be considered a donor for ticket packs, you need at least 1 priority point ($100). I made my donation this morning.
That's a heck of a price jump. I thought we got rid of Dave Brandon!
by removing season ticket holders that sell their tickets for the ohio home game ... to ohio truckers. It has been fucking pathetic to have 15,000 bucknut truckers in the stadium for the "Game" over the last 4 ohio home games.
Oh I know ... what a great financial move to sell these tickets (wrong you don't deserve to have season tickets) !
This NEVER happens in C-bus or Nebraska, or Oklahoma, or Alabama .. or ANYWHERE ELSE where big games are held, ONLY in Ann Arbor. Take another look at the crowds for ohio home games during the Bo thru Carr years to see what the stadium should look like.
Go Blue!
you'd never see OSU fans sell off tens of thousands of tickets to Michigan fans. All the home OSU games I've seen lately have been embarassing. For all the loyalty the fanbase seems to project, we sure sell out in a hurry. Why buy season tickets if you're not going to go to the OSU game?
(I know some people will say that's unfair because they can't make the game which is obviously fine, but we clearly sell off a disproportionate amount of our tickets for the OSU game)
A large contributing factor is that the game is on Thanksgiving weekend now. I live in Ann Arbor but am out of town to visit family that weekend every year. Don't worry though, I don't have season tickets to sell to OSU fans.
I made a thread with suggestions 2 years ago:
Have to show alumni ID to get in the stadium
But they don't care about anything except maximizing profit so
Who will sell their tickets for $. The bucknuts are willing to pay anything for these tickets on stubhub to cheer on their team at the big house. I think these season ticket holders are old and don't feel like attending the games any longer. Or some may have young families and the kids are too young to bring to the game.
They used to have this policy that if you were caught re-selling you'd be banned. Not sure if that ever happened, but now they flat out encourage it partnering with stubhub. It's just a $ making scheme any more
The fees they charge are CRAZY. Huge % for both seller and buyer.
I live out of state now but hang onto my season tickets since I have 4 and I did move back in-state for a few years a while back and was able to use them. Plus someday I hope I can use them again.
I've sold through Stub Hub, but I prefer direct selling to avoid all the Stub Hub fees.