New U-M Golf Clubhouse Proposed
The news article is here :
According to the Ann Arbor News, UM is seeking approval for a new $12 million golf club house.
I think it is needed and fits in with the whole upgrade of the south university athletic campus paid for by the big donors. The club house is very dated and could be used better to host university functions.
btw the progress on the field hockey complex is rapid and it looks very impressive.
that clubhouse is horrible...Radrick's got redone a few years back...Chantel will be happy!
^^^ Counldn't agree more. Really surprised it took so long.
to know Chantel is still around. Went to high school with her.
So that's the reason rates have drastically increased...
I could've done without, and saved some cash - that, or have had the money spent on replacing diseased trees.
Yeah, and I think it's wrong to have the students bear the cost.
Totally agree. Was back last week to play as an alum (after a decade away from Ann Arbor) Our group of guys in our early 40s were the youngest folks on the course. Used to play weekly in grad school @ $20, with the group I played with last week. We couldn't have done that @ $35.
If I'm not mistaken, the alum and guest prices were the same as they were a decade ago. Ridiculous that it's only student prices that have gone up.
Nice to see everything is being approved and going according to plan.
Also, you aren't kidding about Ocker Field.
I think they're going to rename it Ocker Stadium. Michigan will host the 2014 B1G Tournament and 2015 NCAA Semifinals and National Championship.
Also, U-M Soccer Stadium just got their HD scoreboard as well. The scoreboards have been improved all across the athletic campus to HD technology.
I'll say it again, DB has done so much good for Michigan Athletics as a whole. Field Hockey desperately needed a fix. What they got was essentially a new stadium. Also, the old South Ferry facility has been completely redone and is now a Field Hockey team facility.
Women's soccer used to play where South Ferry was back in the 90s to mid-2000s. That was their varsity field. And if they had conflicting games with the Men's team that was added in 2000, the Men's team was forced to play at Elbel Field or Pioneer.
By the end of the decade when this massive renovation adventure is over, Michigan is going to have the top overall facilities in college athletics.
Harbaugh? The coach who doesn't coach here?
Well, all I can say is that we have the preliminary landscaping plans at work and the University actually wants us to do an estimate (for budgeting purposes) for rearranging the existing underground distribution which feeds the existing structures at the course based on them. As the University makes aesthetics a priority, that's why we managed to get those plans before anything else. They are very interested in doing this if they can get the formal funding, to say the least.
These facilites are very impressive. I don't know how needed they are, but there appears to be no shortage of big money alums who are happy to foot the bill.
In truth UM had been leap frogged by other universities, most notably OSU, and now it looks like we are back to setting the pace. Once the Edwards Brothers property is bought and those athletic facility improvements are made, we truly will be leaders in facilities across the board.
Hopefully better facilities will mean better coaches and athletes, leading to more M wins : )
DB has already spilled the beans on a lacrosse stadium coming. It's going to be at the Edwars Brothers site, most likely. They just have to finalize the deal.
that place was obsolete the first time I played there 20 years ago.
Fantastic golf course, needs some refurbishing here and there but a terrific layout. Radrick is even better.
I would like to see us brick the end zones and make it match with the east and west side structures.
Something like this:
Or maybe something like ND's doing with their expansion:
Doak Campbell's end zone design is my favorite:
South side endzone upper deck.
Is there anything new on that?
Hopefully they do both sides together and with the same design. I would hate to see Michigan Stadium look like a horseshoe or lose the iconic bowl design. Packers really screwed up Lambeau when they added an upper deck to one side: 
If the ticket prices don't lower, they're going to have trouble filling that 121,001-seat stadium of the future.
Although, the opposing fans would be moved to the top of the nosebleeds in the upper deck making room for several new sections of Michigan fans plus the remaining upper deck.
This expansion plan was discussed at the stadium usher meeting, at least twice in 2011-2012. We tailgate with friends who are stadium ushers and DB has discussed this in their annual preseason meeting.
I find it hard to find a bad seat in the big house but really don't like row 85+ endzone, it's just too hard seeing past the other 30 yard line. Couldn't imagine being another 20 or so rows up.
Are you kidding me? They're going to have trouble filling what they have NOW. Not a chance in hell the Big House goes to 120,000+ in the next ten years.
Also agreed IF someday we add an upper deck to the big house, I hope they don't go the Lambeau Field route or recently the LSU Tiger Stadium route. Neither match the stadium at all.
When the fairweather idiots come running back when Michigan gets better (they will), the plan will be executed.
If you read my original post on the renovations, the final one is the arena to replace Cliff Keen which will come in 2018. The dust will settle for a few years after that. Not even the Ross $100M donation is going to cover the entire plan. Michigan Stadium expansion would happen in the 20s.
I'm going to sit back and laugh at how season ticket demand will be back up when the team starts winning again. Similar to Basketball. "Gee, where did all these people come from?"
Not a prayer of selling out a game against a directional school 10 years ago, and then Michigan sells out all three games against them in 2012-13. Winning cures everything.
Well we've sold out (besides a few games here and there) for the past 40 years. When we get back to winning there will be even more demand. Are you saying we won't be good for the next 10 years?
What a visionary, or nut, he was to think football would become so popular, not long after many college Presidents wanted to ban the sport, so as to put a second deck on the Big House.
There would be way too many sets if we did both endzones. Once you get past 122k, you'll have trouble filling the seats even if you go 15-0 every year.
Maybe they can name it The Lacy Underall Memorial Clubhouse?
I really like the current clubhouse. Is this really necessary? Or does Brandon have too much money to spend by milking season ticket holders?
I believe greens fees increased for the 2013 season. My guests formerly paid $62, now summer rates on the weekend are about $77.
Guest is $50 during the week and $60 on the weekend, alum/fac/staff is $40/$48, student is $35/$35. Maybe they raised or instituted weekend fees for guests and alums, because I know guests paid $50 when I regularly played as a student in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (Student rates were initially $18 then and went up to $20 sometime around 2000).