Price of Michigan's IMG Academy Practice Revealed - Approx. $350k
This was just posted by Angelique of the Detroit News.
Michigan spring football trip expenses Total: $348,553 (per open-records request) pic.twitter.com/mcxgUm0eaz
— angelique (@chengelis) May 27, 2016
I was just about to bring that up.
This is probably less than what Clemson offered Rashan Gary.
Because then the people complaining about the WD random shots would stop. Then the people taking futher WD shots would stop. And WD could just be another poster again and not every thread would have to go meta with a mini WD thread in each one.
For how much people rag on WD, those same people sure do bring him up a lot. And like with most memes on mgoblog, it has gone way past its useful life and just gets tiring to have to read through them in every single post.
(And yes, this was one of the more innocuous comments regarding WD, but still)
am not trying to make this into one of those "thread within a thread" WD conversations, but what actually is it that WD did to piss everybody off. I know he "broke" the Brandon email stuff, and I remember he posted a rather hilarious(and horrifying) video of him eating a lemon. Other than that, he seems like a relatively normal, frequent poster. Did he have a meltdown or something that stuck with people that I may have missed?
I don't really care one way or the other(beyond sharing Space Coyote's antipathy for threads devolving into a fairly useless topic). But I think overly frequent posting which has been attributed to being more of a "Look at Meeeeeee." thing rather than genuine interest is the heart of the issue.
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That opens up a void on the MGoBoard, though.
Do you have any suggestions for commenters to be made fun of instead of Wolverine Devotee?
I suggest MeanJoe07. Because he's a koala, and koalas are dicks. You ever seen a koala working at a homeless shelter or ringing bells for the Salvation Army? Nope!
Dicks.
I'm a defender of WD too, but for this one I just had a chuckle. The more mean-spirited stuff is old though. Full disclosure, I upvoted the bash on WD above, again, because I thought the spirit of it wasn't mean. Seemed more like someone giving their short friend a hard time (full disclosure, I am short).
Have at thee!
I really enjoy his regular reports on the minor sports. Except for softball, very few others bring this kind of info to the blog. It takes a lot of time for him to do this.... And saves me the trouble.
So, if he is a slight nuiscense (sp?) at time, so be it.
Edit: And remember, we are all U-M bros. THE TEAM! THE TEAM! THE TEAM!
More helpful: Also knowing how much it costs when spring practice is held on campus.
I was wondering the same thing... I'm sure it's lots and lots cheaper to have it in Ann Arbor.
I know, 'crootin and separate athletic budget and all... But I can't help but look at this figure and think "holy shit, that's not a great look for a public university..."
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having Brandon make an annual salary of $1.3 million looks worse to me. And still, the athletic department runs in the black with no cost to students in tuition fees. And the football team is 90% responsible for this. Doesn't it look better to have fringe benifits for the students who help to keep the department in the black rather than a bunch of fat cats making money?
think there is really any basis for legitimate outrage or objection here except to be contrarian and appear somehow more sophisticated than other people. So, I think that is pretty much it.
Well, that's not it, but continue to put words in my mouth.
Blah Blah Blah, self righteous comment, blah blah blah, humble-brag snark, blah blah blah, faux-intellectual put down. That better?
If we can't pay the players, this is the next best thing. I have zero problem with this. I would rather Michigan spend the money on experiences for the players than hire 10 other athletic administrators just because the money has to go somewhere.
impact on (obviously valuable) future recruits >> $350,000.
Remember, Michigan football generates $85 million/year on ~$25 million/year expenses. Pre-Harbaugh.
With Jim at the helm, it'll undoubtedly go to $100+ million on $30+ million/year of expenses, but only because Jim is constantly at work selling Michigan as, IME, the most effective marginal-value-added salesman in college football.
IME, any criticism of this figure is penny-wise and pound-foolish. I don't think you want to line-item micro-manage Harbaugh. Show me someone and their methods who would bring a greater positive NPV to the program.
Since it was spring break, I'm sure the dorms and cafe would be closed so if it was on campus those expenses would be part of it. I know where I've worked in the past (I work in college athletics) if student-athletes were on campus during a break (spring break, christmas break, Thanksgiving), the sport/athletic department had to pay for the use of the dorms and food. I'm not sure if it's like that everywhere though.
Since spring break at Michigan doesn't fall on a semester or quarter break, the dorms are not closed--that only happens during Christmas break. Other than that, you can stay on campus, eat in the cafeterias, and otherwise function as a normal human being uninterrupted during spring break in Ann Arbor. At least that's how it was when I was in school in the not-so-distant past.
EDIT: And still is. See:
If that means we start tapping into their immense talent I'm all for it!
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I'd bet that Drew Dull is salivating and can't wait to post his next article on this. I really don't understand how he keeps his job unless he has pics of his editor embracing chickens.
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Worth it
Money well spent.
you stay at one of the budget resorts, you can do Disney for closer to $250,000 round trip.
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Plus, if you then load the gift cards into a Disney savings account, they will send you $20 gift cards for every $1000 you spend.
Q: Can I pay my bill with a Target GiftCard?
A: We're not able to accept Target GiftCards as payment on an account.
from Red Card FAQs
No, you misunderstand. If you have a Target.com account that is connected to your Red Card, you get the 5% discount even if you aren't using your Red Card. So buy with gift cards, not your Red Card. I'm already done buying all my Disney cards and haven't had to use my Red Card once.
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for all the publicity they got out of it. Plus as others have mentioned, you can't put a price tag on pissing off the entire SEC. Well worth it.
Definitely way less than I would have expected.
I could do that kind of damage with a smaller group of much smaller people.