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
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Rustling the Jimmies of the entire SEC: Priceless
HOLY CRAP, they spent $3,580 on other!!! Talk about irresponsible, no doubt skankey will want the ncaa to investigate.
Other is the line item on the balance sheet where you hide shit as a business expense that you would really prefer if anyone looking at it didn't know exactly what it was.
it was the bus to bring all the equipment down. I think even when they charter a plane there is so much gear they still sometimes drive it.
still have to pay for fuel, driver and expense the mileage depreciation of the trucks so even if the trucks are owned by the AD, this would make sense for this line item.
Ground transportation sounds like everything from limo rides, cabs, rental cars, leased buses for the entire week at the ready, and the equipment trucks that carry the teams gear (including the travel pay, and such, for the drivers). Seems reasonable to me...
Other = $3,580 on cans of whoop ass they bought and filled that are going to be opened up this fall!
Best Spring Break Ever.
I will buy more gear to help offset the "other" line item....
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I was curious so I did some googleing.
Michigan spent $2,097,867 for the team’s trip to Orlando for the Citrus Bowl, the program’s first bowl game since December 2013
Michigan received $2.02 million from the Big Ten in travel reimbursements for the Citrus Bowlhttp://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wol…
I'm (probably wrongly) guessing 150 players, coaches and staff went on the trip, so roughly $2,323.69/each.
The initial cost seems staggering a bit, but when you break it down it actually seems in line with what you'd expect.
and it seem pretty reasonable. I think it is money well spent as it feels like it is money being spent for the players who help bring in millions and millions of dollars.
Oh wait she's dead.
I took ur mum instead.
Allegedly.
More schools should try and get this done...that's a big chunk of revenue. Just got a brand new locker room or weight room or field turf for your field.
Worked out for everyone and only the SEC is salty.
Next year I'd like to see Harbaugh go to a school in desperate need of the money. Let his guys appreciate what they have and give back to some powerhouse with shit facilities.
Good idea! But there are field standards and space needs that must be met. I'd hate to lose Peppers to a knee ligament tear due to a poor field. Not worth it... There has to be a better way to 'give back', or whatever. Hell, Alabama just pays for new facilities as a donation!
#1 Of course...you're not going to put anyone at risk. That's a given.
#2 Peppers is back next year? HELL YEA!!
That right there is a good idea.
Agree 100%. There are lots of schools in FL that are in desperate need of money like this and can do a lot with it. Now that we've built the bridge with IMG it would be great to spread the love a bit or maybe even do some practices at different area schools throughout the week in exchange for a piece of the overall spend. Even $10k of essentially free cash could make a big difference for some of those schools--not to mention what it would do to help us build a relationship with the coaching staff and potential pipeline.
Ground tranportation- 51k. I guess that's what it costs when you fly the students and make the staff drive.
yet we didn't bring the band to a single away game last year
Besides "facility" being slightly cheaper (remember, that includes room and board above), the price is essentially in the same ball park. And as much as I like the band, and as much as I understand you can have a reduced group for away games, at the end of the day, there aren't many people putting down money to watch the band. The football team brought in the vast majority of the money that they ended up spending on themselves.
So yeah, I'm not going to make a stink about this one.
I'll say it: It's strange for a football program as big and successful as Michigan's, and a band program as big and successful as the MMB, that the band has not gone to a regular- season away game that wasn't in East Lansing, South Bend, or Columbus (aside from having to beg their way to Dallas) since (IIRC) the Illinoi game in 2000.
Just think about that for a second when you consider how common band travel has become these days. Every other school finds a way to get their bands to as many games as possible. Michigan? Rivalry games only.
I go to about every away game and having the band there doesn't make the visiting crowd seem so isolated. Can't believe the University can't get it done.
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There are conference rules on pep bands, but if you notify the home school and there's space in the stands, it's allowed. Hence why when MMB students would arrange away-game trips on their own for their off weekends, we couldn't take instruments into the stands on our own accord. It wasn't pre-arranged and agreed to, or some such thing.
Also, for whatever reason, the MMB administration has always been super anal to the point of absurdity when it comes to pep bands. They're absolutely insistent upon creating the perfect balance of symphonic sound no matter the size of the group... I get it, but sometimes... More damn sound, you guys.
The band has a great reputation and that it is a symbol of Michigan, but I just can't get myself to care whether or not they travel to Jerryworld. This is just my opinion watching on TV.
Gotta spend it to make it!
That is more than what Auburn spent to buy Cam Newton! ($327K payment to his father's church, FWIW).