Would you go to Michigan vs ND 2014 @ Neutral Site?

Tweaks them right back and earns more money.  Just find a decent team--maybe one to start a home and home series with, and to straighten out the scheduling issues that see us with OSU and ND both home or road games in the same year.

But how does this solve that problem?  We'd still play one more game in South Bend than Ann Arbor.  The only neutral site that would feel more like a Michigan home atmosphere than a Notre Dame home atmosphere is Ford Field in Detroit, and that would be pretty lame.

Jerryworld got between $125-$285 per ticket, and this game could net more per seat. That's significantly higher than M or ND is bringing in for the one game (especially considering M gets nothing if it's in South Bend), plus the suits all go in one-off rentals. A few of those sales plus the outrageous face prices might bring it close to what ND would get, if not up to what M brings in.

I'm not saying ND would bring in more cash, but I doubt it's that low.

The other way it could happen is if we dig in our heels and say we're cancelling the 2014 game otherwise.  And why not?  ND pulled a bush league move by informing us on the day of the 2012 game that they were exercising the out in the contract.  The contract called for either school to give three games' notice before exercising the out clause.  They may have legally upheld that provision but certainly didn't respect it in spirit.

To reach a gate of $32 million at Soldier Field (capacity 61,500) you'd have to have an average ticket price of $520.  I know that's just an average but still, that seems insanely high for a one-off game.  I'm beginning to think my original post was not that great an idea now in terms of revenue for the schools. (not that either is hurting for money)

I am curioius where are you getting these numbers for gate revenue?   $42m divided by 80000 seats is $525 per ticket.     $60m divided by 140000 seats is $526 per ticket.   I don't think ND or UM averaged that much per ticket...

You're thinking too local.

Moscow here we come!

Well, see, when I say I live "in Chicago", I'm lying. I live in Grayslake, as my medical school is in North Chicago. I've only been here since August, and I've not yet ventured downtown to a bar for a game. Several friends of mine go to Duffy's on a pretty regular basis, and they love it. But that's the extent of my knowledge.

The Diag is pretty nice.

there was a place that listed all of the UM friendly bars in all cities in one spot...man that would be helpful.

Also, does anyone know of a place where I can get a stream of the game, I'm out of town/in a wedding/kids soccer tournament...

Well technically, it doesn't go back farther than ours - we were their first opponent ever (and actually taught them how to play).  But the two schools stopped playing in 1910 and didn't resume on a regular basis until the 1970s.  You're correct that they've played MSU a lot more often that they have played us, though.

BTW, the Domers may claim that it was anti-Catholic prejudice that caused other programs to shun them, but they also had a reputation in those days as a program that didn't play by the rules.  We stopped playing them after we became convinced that they were fielding players who were ineligible.