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Brian

Get away from tourists. Visit a Miami game. Miami vs Bethune-Cookman, second quarter:

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At least one intrinsically corrupt football program has had the decency to wither up and die. BTW, that was reported as 39k.

Massive injuries. No fair bringing up Blake Countess if Michigan happens to lose against MSU or ND, as both of those opponents came down with injuries just as important over the last couple days.

MSU right tackle Fou Fonoti is out six to ten weeks with a broken foot. M plays MSU in four weeks. In his place MSU inserted Skyler Burkland, who missed most of last year with an injury of his own. Burkland proceeded to get owned by ND LB Prince Shembo on several third and longs on which ND rushed three and still got plenty of pressure. MSU also replaced their LG, which didn't help matters but doesn't look like it's something that will persist until the Michigan game. The Spartan OL is now on depth alert equivalent to Michigan's: they've got a guy or two on the interior; a tackle injury will be time to sound the klaxons.

Notre Dame's already flimsy secondary took another major hit when Jamoris Slaughter tore his achilles against the Spartans. Projected starting CB Lo Wood is also out for the year. It looks like redshirt freshman Matthias Farley is Slaughter's replacement; he is a converted WR who was a consensus three-star with middling offers (Illinois, UCLA, Wisconsin) as a recruit. He's been getting talked up some, and played big chunks of the Purdue and MSU games.

In injury news that may not affect Michigan, Minnesota QB MarQueis Gray has a high ankle sprain and is projected to be out 2-4 weeks.

Gathering data. Seth had a good idea that we're going to give a shot: we're going to collect a bunch of data about the market for Michigan tickets and try to make it useful. This is an idea that the MZone also had at about the same time we did, undoubtedly prompted by the calculation a lot of people made this year: would I be better off scalping instead of getting season tickets this year? For UMass, it's a blowout in favor of yes, but that's the easiest ticket of the bunch.

Their hypothesis is you'll actually get off cheaper at Stubhub, which if true would be a stunning upset since Stubhub not only takes 15% from the seller but tacks on twenty bucks in fees for the buyer. We don't really have a hypothesis, we're just trying to figure out what's a good deal on gameday. 

AIRBHG is running out of targets. Dude.

The Hawkeyes lost two more running backs Saturday, as both Damon Bullock and Greg Garmon were forced to leave an eventual win over Northern Iowa early due to injuries. However, it appears Iowa has learned how to overcome the wrath of AIRBHG in the process: With so many other choices available, the Hawkeyes turned to fullback Mark Weisman, who ran over the UNI defense and AIRBHG en route to 113 yards and 3 touchdowns.

Bullock and Garmon are supposed to be good to go this weekend. AIRBHG licks his chops. Weisman dances.

Yost. Another shot of Yost:

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Since an assistant coach took this one hopefully the athletic department won't ask him to take it down, as they did with the last batch of Yost photos.

Etc.: Hope you didn't care about the Block Ms on the pylons, because they gone. ND used wristbands to prevent sign stealing after an S&C coach moved from ND to MSU this offseason. Given massive game prep problems w/ MSU in recent past, that might be a good idea. Q: why isn't that more commonly used anyway? I'd rather have rotating wristbands than having to communicate in hostile environments.

Comments

Waters Demos

September 17th, 2012 at 7:28 PM ^

WatersDemos writes a post.

Actually, I suppose the subject of the title should be some regular column name, and then that name will have its own present-tense-predicate instead of me. 

So "Confirmed Spockulation Smokes Eyelids."  Alright!

Row26

September 17th, 2012 at 10:24 PM ^

I have season tickets in the Blue section, which cost $980 this year ($790 for the tickets and $250 for the PSD, ignoring tax deductions). Partly because I wasn't sure if I'd be able to go to the UMass game, and partly because I knew I'd be able to find cheap tickets if I did go, I sold my tickets to Saturday's game in July. Thanks to the U-M partnership with Stubhub, I was able to sell them even before my physical tickets arrived, and before U-M began selling individual UMass tickets to the public. I got face value ($75 each, or $123 for the pair after the fees they take out). Then when I found that I would be able to go, I bought a new pair on Stubhub the night before the game for $25 each, plus $10 in fees. Seeing how well that worked, I may do it again for the various UMass/Akron/etc. games.

As weak as this year's home schedule is, the MSU game is what makes it hard to come out ahead buying individual seats vs. season tickets in the endzone ($50/seat PSD). MSU tickets have a face value of $95 and are going for $200+ on Stubhub but cost season ticketholders only $65. each, Assuming you pay $200 on Stubhub for MSU, you'd have to buy the other 5 games for an average of $49 or less (including the 10% buyers fee and ridiculous $4.95 "electronic delivery fee"). It would be all but impossible to do better individually in 2013 and other odd-numbered years when there are at least 3 big home games. Plus there's no way I'd ever give up my lifetime renewable season-ticket rights just because I might pay slightly more than market value in a particular year.

mgoblueballer

September 18th, 2012 at 5:33 AM ^

I know UMASS is the outlier, but I was riding my bike around looking for a ticket about 60 mins before kickoff and went to one of the scalpers and asked if he just had a single, to which he replied "how many you need?" I offered him $15, he told me to get lost. So I rode by Hoover and State and got a single in section 24 for $16 from a very friendly Ginger.