Michigan to open Big House for student watch party during opener against Alabama
The Center for Campus Involvement posted the following on its website:
"Michigan students are invited to open the football season in the Big House for a Go Blue Pep Rally on the field and to watch the first away game! Experience the Michigan tradition of our stadium, cheer on Maize & Blue, and have fun with multiple activities and free food as the Wolverines tackle the Crimson Tide in Texas. Be sure to bring your MCard for entry. Let's Go Blue!"
Edit: more details here, thanks Captain Blue:
https://www.michigandaily.com/sports/michigan-alabama-viewing-party-pla…
Will they have beer?
The Daily has actual details here. OP might want to update.
Beer is a no, of course, but field access, stands access and concourse access are all a yes.
Only current students?
upon graduation. Several friends still use them for games as alumni with student tickets. I doubt this would be any different.
And if the people checking the student ID's are as thorough as the ones on gamedays, you could probably get in with a Michigan driver's license with a block M drawn on it with a sharpie.
I've done this the past two years. Hoping I can get in for this game, too.
In retrospect, losing my Mcard while drunk during my senior year is looking like the best thing to ever happen to me. Doesn't expire until 2014.
I used my mcard last year, but i know my GF and some others made sure to go get new ones to switch to the RFID ones. I seriously doubt they will scan them, but i guess they could in the future...
So incredibly jealous I can't go...I would be posted up on the block M with my giant fold out Coleman chair....Damn
Brandon gets knocked for all the bad things he does...
But this actually seems to me to be a pretty good idea and way to kick off the season for those not in Dallas.
I heard about these plans a few weeks ago at a meeting on campus. The people involved expressly said that the Athletic Department was being "absolutely great" about all the arrangements.
I'm moving into the dorms on that day.
Now I actually have motivation to finish getting all of my stuff in, messing with the furniture, etc.
You have no idea how jealous I - and I'm sure many other Mgobloggers - am of you.
Nah, just move it in and lock it. Unpacking can wait. Too much else to do and experience. (Sometimes I was lucky to be done by Oct. 8P )
Sort of. I can't help but thinking all of the students will say, "screw that" when they realize the team won't be there AND they can't have beer. Then again... those new scoreboards should make for some friggin awesome highlights.
With only 6 home games this is a great way to get students in the gates one extra time. My first game as a student was the Washington Phil Brabbs game in '02. Impossible not to be hooked after that (if you weren't already).
Since these freshmen don't get to enjoy a home game to start of their college experiences, walking through the tunnel onto the field and watching the squad play on the big screens is a pretty incredible way to introduce them to the Big House.
Hell yes! I've always wondered why they don't do this more often. It will be my first game as a student, very happy I wont have to watch in some random bar.
It'll be my first game as well. Can't wait!
Tom Goss (AD from 1997-1999) did the same in September of 1998 when he opened Crisler Arena to students for the first game of the season against Notre Dame to show off the new jumbotron at the time. I must admit this is a WAY better idea.
I'm a big Brandon fan.
Well, it was originally going to be in the big house because they had just got the new scoreboards with screens after the '97 season. It was basically inspired because Joe-Vision had become really popular for the Red Wings games during the playoffs.
The newspapers were hyping it saying maybe there will be more people at the big house than at the actual game. But that obviously never ended happening.
I never knew it got moved to Crisler.
Yeah, it was at Crisler. I was there. It was still pretty cool (although it was a loss), but would have been better at the stadium.
This will serve as a pretty great climax to Welcome Week, I would think, not to mention a great "Welcome Back" for returning students. Kudos to the Athletic Department for running with this and being, as someone mentioned, great about the whole thing. The next best thing to being in Dallas, I would think, would have to be this.
I am pretty sure I have an old student ID card somewhere....
Bad news, I think the Mcards expire now. 8(
This is really awesome. Wish it was for everyone. Would be a full stadium, plus DB would make money. Make it happen!
I'd pay $5 or $10 to watch and cheer with my fellow M fans.
...but it's dumb if it can't be for anyone else. I think it would be great to fill that entire stadium with anyone who wants to go.
We're sitting on the field, not in the stand, at least that's what I was told at orientation. So there might not be enough space for others on the field, though I don't know why they won't let non students go in the actual stands.
I watched one of the Fab Five's NCAA final games in Crisler Arena. They let everybody in, not just students. It was a great way to watch a game. I hope a bunch of students show for this one at the Big House and have a great time.
as far back as early June. I'm really excited for it since it'll basically be my first weekend on campus. It's a great idea for the students to have a awesome place to go to watch the game and we apparently get to sit right on the field for it.
My first weekend on campus was fall 2007. There was no football game that weekend. I am absolutely certain that there WAS NO FOOTBALL GAME that weekend.
Cool idea and I'm glad it is just for the students.
No offense to non-students (and I fall into that category now), but something like this can be a huge deal, especially for freshmen, to make friends and enjoy as a student body. That atmosphere would be markedly different if the place was crawling with high school kids, toddlers, and "family event politics."*
*These seats are saved for my four kids. Please watch your language. Please sit down. Etc.
Last year i showed up to a game an saw that my seats were taken. I said, no big deal ill take these seats in the next row and if someone wants them ill take my real seats back. Everything worked out well for the first half, but then at halftime the people sitting about 5 seats down from me for the whole half came and told me i was in their seats. I was so confused. The seats are not unique. I couldnt get the stubborn old man in my seats to move and thus was crammed in between seats. The old man subsequently used my girlfriend as an arm support when he stood up to go to the bathroom 3 times. Dont be like this people.
/cool story
I mean I'd love to go and sit in the stands, but keeping certain things special just for the students is a good idea as well. There should be some advantages for students and alums that random fans like me can't access.
My MCard expired two years ago but it still got me into two games last season. Let's hope it works for this, too.
Awesome idea. One thing though - it says that students will enter through the tunnel. While I am totally down with that idea, I get the feeling that most of the new students won't exactly know where that is, it being smaller than a stadium and all.
Students have no money. It is the Alums with the deep pockets.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/michigannd-2012-big-screen
looks like my emails worked. Now come on DB, invite everyone to the party.
Pretty please??? I have a valid mCard too!