U-M announces new Football Ticket Packs...
If you think the 2014 home schedule is bad, take a look at 2016.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/052814aaa.html
"There has never been a better opportunity to see a Michigan football game at Michigan Stadium," said Hunter Lochmann, Chief Marketing Officer for Michigan Athletics. "A smaller returning student ticket number has opened ticket availability and allowed us to create and offer these affordable and fan-friendly ticket offers."
There's no way that schedule is worse than this year's. As for Lochmann's statement, excuse me while I go bash my head into a wall.
Yeah, you're right actually. It also has PSU at home, a division rival.
The non-conference for that season is horrific, though. At least there's two games this season that have the revenge factor.
2016-
- Hawaii
- UCF
- Colorado
Between UCF and Colorado that's at least one bowl eligible team
since something like the 2006 season. Maybe their new coach (heading into his 2nd year) will have them better in a couple years but they've been awful for about the last 4-5 years.
UCF just won a BCS (Fiesta) bowl, Hawaii trumps App State or Miami (NTM) any day, and Colorado at least has some name recognition. That's easily better than the three we're stuck with this year. It could be much worse, to be honest.
What's the over/under on how many times we get to watch Kordell Stewart leading up to the Colorado game?
Fewer than the number of times we'll see clips from the Horror
2016's is better.
Revenge for The Horror is pointless (it's lose/lose and we shouldn't even be playing them again) and the worst Michigan team in decades barely losing to a 13-0 Utah outfit hardly seems like something to be angry about.
Might as well play them again since Michigan is tied to them forever.
Now that they're FBS, it's pretty much like playing another mid-major.
I really don't see what the outrage is about. If Michigan beats their ass like they did against CMU last year, what's the difference?
The worst thing about the Horror II game is that every time you open the Michigan team page on ESPN, Appalachain State is staring you in the face. For the next 3 months, that's the first thing you'll see. One more reason to get sports news from somewhere other than ESPN, I guess.
Michigan plays Wisconsin in 2016? Nice. It's great to see DB finally grab a good nonconference game.
I'll take Colorado, Wisconsin, Penn State and a yet to be determined opponent over this year's garbage anytime
TBD is actually a bye week.
9 B1G games
D'oh missed that. 9 conference games in 2016
Hawaii
UCF
Colorado
Wisconsin
Penn State
Illinois
Maryland
Indiana
*This definition of 'pretty good' brought to you by Jim Delaney and Dave Brandon
First of all, it's Dave Brandon's job to represent Michigan's interests to the conference, i.e. ensuring we don't get boned with the scheduling.
That aside, having State on the schedule would not rescue it from being awful. Two conference games against the historical football powers of Maryland and Rutgers every year is an anchor on the schedule and weak out of conference scheduling is the final dagger here.
So does Dave Brandon have the autonomy to dictate the entire B1G schedule? How do you know he didn't go out of his way to represent our interests but was overruled? Were you there?
Brandon should have been very demanding behind the scenes for that not to take place. If he played his cards right, it's easy to see him influencing the decision to change before announcement. If he fought as hard as he could to do that and still failed, considering Michigan's influence, it says a lot about what the conference thinks of Brandon.
There is no way he looks good in any of it. Any logical person can read between the lines here.
Obviously I was there. What a silly question.
In response to "How do you know he didn't go out of his way to represent our interests but was overruled?", I never said he didn't try. But the two options are 1) he tried but was ineffectual or 2) he didn't consider it important enough to fight for. Those are both pretty crappy.
"There has never been a better opportunity to see a Michigan football game at Michigan Stadium," said Hunter Lochmann, Chief Marketing Officer for Michigan Athletics. "Pricing out tons of our fans in the name of the almighty dollar has opened ticket availability and forced us to create and offer these now-comparitively-affordable and future revenue generating ticket offers."
I graduated in 2009. Student tickets were $20-25 per game. This is crap.
You're pretty on point as far as I'm concerned.
Student ticket prices going up 50% in 5 years is a great way to not make future fans. I don't mean to talk about MGoPoints but I assume that LochhhhhhDawg and NotDaveBrandon may have > 100 points and voting rights.
FWIW my brother kept his two seats this year and has around 65 or so points. Yesterday he got the away game invitation for Northwestern and Ohio State (ND & MSU were now sold out) and this is the first time we've ever seen OSU tickets being offered in our point total range.
may be decent in 2 years. If even one of them is a 5 point dog or less, then it's not that bad of a schedule.
Central Florida went 12-1 and beat Baylor in the Fiesta Bowl. While Maryland went 7-6 last year, they are on the highly coveted upward arc of improvement.
interested to see how they transition into the post Bortles era. I think they've got a decent team but I'm wondering if they caught lightning in a bottle with him.
Two years from now the AD will be banging on North Campus apartment doors as employees fluent in Chiense and Korean rapidly explain the added value opportunities of season tickets to confused, immigrant grad students.
While pretty crappy (of 8 home games, Wisconsin, Penn St, and maybe Central Florida look like attractive match-ups), still not close to as bad as the 2014 home slate.
How many seasons before U of M gets the attention of the schedule makers and return to having MSU and OSU on opposite home schedules??!
No, but I expect more of the same crap we saw last year with the attendance not being at capacity or over.
No it is not at risk at all. It has been going on for 40 years now, give or take a couple and there have been periods just as bad (or worse than this) and the streak has never been in jeopardy. In fact, within the past 6 years I seem to remember a couple turrible years of on-field performance and attendance remained just fine.
Stubhub will have tickets for $15 for Miami and Ohio. Maybe not between the 30s, but in the endzones and corners, you won't get $30 for those games. Even with App St being the first home game, I don't think people will get face value on StubHub.
Otherwise, I agree with your comment about bundling.
So you think all times are created equal? Interest in college football is dwindling with younger crowds. Just because Michigan sucked in '08 and '09 and still sold out doesn't mean they can with what might be only slightly better teams in 2014-2015.
You might be right that things might not be as bad as they seem, but it could also be they've exhausted every avenue they know of to try and sell season tickets and are now hoping they can increase sales through multi game packs.
1. Penn State (almost worth the $200 on its own)
2. Miami (OH)
3. Plus pick 'em (I'd take Homecoming vs. Indiana or Minnesota)
PLUS a " free adidas Michigan 'Go Blue' Baseball hat."
Wow.
Almost $250? I think PSU is half the value of the tickets this year.
Penn State is almost worth $200 alone? They are still two years away from postseason eligibility. Outside of the lingering scandal stench, they will remain irrelevant a few more seasons.
"There has never been a better opportunity to see a Michigan football game at Michigan Stadium," said Hunter Lochmann, Chief Marketing Officer for Michigan Athletics. "A smaller returning student ticket number has opened ticket availability and allowed us to create and offer these affordable and fan-friendly ticket offers."
Yeah I wonder why. During the end of my time at Michigan I saw student tickets go up to $300 and I had to deal with being a Sr that got screwed over by a horribly managed general admissions system. Now the best home game for next year is PSU? I'm not surprised the remaining students aren't buying tickets.
You think this schedule sucks? Wait unitl you see the 2021 schedule.
- Univerisy of South Hampton
- University of North Hapmpton
- @The Kanye Kardashian School of Whogivesashit
- @Rutgers
- Indiana
- @Purdue
- Illinois
- Northwestern
- Purde (Home and Home series )
- University of East Hampton
- ohio
- University of West Hampton.
That my friend is the #DaveBrandon school of mass marketing.