No tailgating allowed at the Spring Game
Found this little amusing bit in the Spring Game information guide on MGoBlue....
The parking lots surrounding Michigan Stadium that are owned and operated by the University of Michigan will be free and open to the public starting at noon.
Pioneer High School: The school district will be charging $30 for cars. The Pioneer lot will also open at noon.
No tailgating will be allowed in any of the parking lots.
No fun for you. Come back, 1 year.
#SoberInSpace
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
I guess he is back and we just don't know it.....
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$30 to park for a practice. The spirit of Brandon is alive and well!
That's at pioneer
I find it funny that this affects people who just want to eat and have pop or water. LOL. Gotta make sure all of your bases are covered and outlaw everyone!
Well in order to tailgate, there needs to be a game.
Pay Pioneer HS $30 for WHAT???
The privilege of parking your POV on its hallowed grounds...ghost of Yost and all that stuff, ya know.
They aren't paying Pioneer. You're paying the school district. This is how they plan to pay for Skyline HS.
Better be a damn nice building
I guess I will day drink at home then.
So you can't tailgate but you can park starting at noon for a 5 p.m. practice. If you show up early trying not to pay $30 to park, what the hell are you going to do?
M-den will be open outside the stadium, so you can shop for some overpriced Michigan gear!!
Or
just wander around campus
Fun times!!
Just stay home
The University of Michigan doesn't want us there this Saturday.
Or go watch other Michigan teams playing that day.
#8 Michigan Women's Lacrosse is having their senior day game vs Rutgers at 3pm. We've made the decision to attend that instead of the spring "game". Might go see M Tennis beforehand play Minnesota for the Little Brown Jug (of Tennis)-
And you can tailgate with the Women's Lacrosse teams parents by the entrance to the soccer stadium. I've been offered coffee and doughnuts but not their pricier drinks. Mind you, I have been hobnobbing with them for three and four years, thru many losses and this years many wins.
FIRE WARDE
Why even have a game then?
They aren't
Why even have an open practice? Why even invite anyone down at all?
Those are valid questions.
Big Ten Network contractual obligation?
Holy shit. Is it even possible to enter Michigan Stadium sober? I know I never have. I just assumed drunkenness was required...
Go downtown and Uber to the stadium. Also, Why pay $30 at Pioneer then can't have a picnic? Fun governors. I blame this on sparty. They must have done something. They always set a bad example.
It sounds like no football will be allowed at the Spring game either.
I got an email from the AD promoting the spring "game". But then at the same time we get this, and no TV, and not really any game environment to it.
Why even bother at all? Why pretend this is a thing?
Hell, Eastern does spring games better than we do.
FIRE WARDE
Wow what fun this is sure to be.
No game
No player interaction
No tailgating
And watch, in a few years when a portion of the fanbase has been sufficiently disenfranchised so they don't buy tickets anymore (if they ever start) the Athletic Department will blame wifi, smart phones and them damn kids nowadays with their short attention spans.
No tailgating is something that's on the athletic department. The other two are choices made by the program.
I know they are different WD but to me they are one and the same in this regard. They take their fan base massively for granted and act like their paying customers should be grateful Michigan takes their money and allows them to attend games.
I can tell you it's nothing like that down here in Ohio with the evil empire's team. They pretty much cater to their fan base and it shows.
I don't agree with that.
As I've said before, 30 of the 31 teams at Michigan make themselves accessible to fans. Whether it's through selfie night, skate with the Wolverines or full-blown team autograph sessions after games.
I was only referring to football. No other sports.
I was talking to my cousin about this. I buy tickets for many games at home and on the road and he controls his company’s tickets/tailgates. The feeling after last year is all around apathy. You would think the Athletic department and the Football program would use this as a spring board for this season.
Can confirm about the buckeye spring game. They fill the stadium. It's a little weird all the way around. OSU acts like they have to entice their fans to attend the spring game and get excited about a new season (they don't) while UM acts like fans are a bother at spring game/practices. And beating us in football is such an obsession to the buckeye fan base that you'd think it was THEM that had only beat us once in over a decade.
April 10th, 2019 at 11:00 PM ^
Geez, maybe this "it matters" attitude is why they beat us all the time . . .
Unfortunately the biggest factor over the past 10+years is they've had the better team and more skilled coaching staffs. The "it matters" helps keep the goal in the forefront of everyone's mind-- fans, players and coaches.
Changing our attitude won't change the outcome unless it also changes the way we recruit, coach and prepare.
Has Michigan Football ever had fan outreach events similar to OSU's "football camp for fans" (I think they have one specifically for women)?
We had the women's football academy and men's football experience.
Both ended when Harbaugh came here.
MGO I couldn't agree more with you about the program and how they treat fans. They really better be careful because you are seeing more and more disgruntled people coming out on various social media platforms.
I guess I get making it a practice if there are injury concerns but the AD could allow tailgating and air it on tv if they wanted to. Not a great look for Warde.
I'm certain they can find 22 healthy bodies.
April 10th, 2019 at 11:01 PM ^
Ohio State does every year. We act like injuries only apply to us.
The spring practice experience just gets worse and worse every year. Thanks Warde.
Michigan football has truly fallen. Fans make you bastards not the other way around.
what is this country coming to?
I noticed this a couple of years ago and was worried about no tailgating. When I got to the parking lot just north of the stadium it was jam packed and people were tailgating. I don’t think there is any way they can enforce this.
The solution is simple - get smashed or at least tipsy before the Spring Game, and then have some drop you off that way. No tailgating, no mess.
Let's think this through logically.
The university is probably calculating this in terms of security costs they don't have to spend patrolling the lots for drunk people doing stupid things, probably less parking staff to employ, don't have to worry about staffing lots full of drunk drivers after it's over, etc., for a Spring Game that isn't actually a game.
In the big picture, tickets will still sell, the university's admissions rate will still hover around 25%, and 99.9% of the fan base will not care one bit whether or not they got to drink a Bud Light in the parking lot before watching some riveting punting drills.
In other words, evergreen advice: Investing any level of emotional attachment to the Spring Game is not something you need to do.
I'll now take the predictable negs and indignation.
Not negging but regarding security costs is the $30 going to the Athletic Department or to the school district?
Also, only 30K show for spring practice right? Is it that much more of a burden on public safety and/or the city than on game day with over 100,000 people around?
April 11th, 2019 at 12:30 AM ^
Yes, because A-Day and Ohio State's spring games are cold calculated venture capitalist home runs for those schools sky rocketing share holder value. Some programs manage to be fun to follow, while Michigan attempts to make it as grating as possible.
Of course Bud Light is your beer of choice ??
Of course it isn't. But sick burn.