1 Month til Spring Game, why lack of Promotion by Athletic Department
1 month til the Spring Game, and a lack of Promotion by the athletic Department on this
We got 2 Water Polo games that day, Baseball and Softball that day. Not hard to figure out this is gonna be Later in the afternoon or evening , especially with OSU having their Spring Game earilier that day. The Michigan Marching Band Calender even gave it away as to a later Spring Game this year.
Just spit out the time my goodness, and start Promoting the game. I just do not get why the AD hasn't done this to promote this, Were a month away.
The one day you can really help all of these other sports and promote football also.
Than we wonder why we only get like 40000 people to the spring game. Osu has had their spring game hyped for months and will sell it out.
SMH
we might as well cancel the season if Patterson isn't eligible.
It's probably the easiliest time that works for everybody
it's probably the easilieielieistist
Because Jim hasn't signed a consensus 5 star in the last month so we're shutting down the program
#Maizen'd
or 2
The athletic department has never given the spring game any shits. We had 2,200 in 1997 and only 4,000 the year after the national championship.
Spring game attendance is message board fodder. Win games, the end.
Are you dropping zeros? I attended at least one of those and the attendance was more than that. 22,000 and 40,000 sounds more like it. Could it be more? Absolutely.
1997 was definitely 2,200. I have the mgoblue article from 1997.
I think I was off on 1998 but it wasn't great.
Do you have a link to the mgoblue article? I'm curious about the weather. Generally, spring games draw decently well in good weather, lousy in bad. My memory of the weather in spring 1997 is good, but perhaps I'm just remembering what the weather was like in Augusta, since that's when Tiger Woods was dominating the Masters for the first time.
If that article said "2,200" it was probably mistyped. We typically drew in the 20-30K range in the Carr years.
SuperGuidance™, WD. That '98 Spring Game was one of the best-attended spring games I've ever been to, and I've been to at least 20 spring games in the 41 seasons I've had Michigan Football season tickets.
Without researching at all, I'd be shocked if there weren't somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,000+ for that one. Great spring weather plus defending National Champs meant good attendance, even though numerous sections of Michigan Stadium were restricted due to concrete work.
on the attendance figure for the 1998 Spring Game (following the National Championship). I was there with my family, and even though part of The Big House was off-limits due to construction work, there was a nice crowd on a beautiful spring day.
No kidding the Spring Game means nothing as far as season results, but it's still nice to go to the Big House for free at the halfway point between the last game and the first game of the coming season. But they treat it like it isn't a big deal when it could be a lot better of an event. They don't promote it worth a shit.
I was at the 1998 spring game. Probably a good 60000. Only one I attended.
Shine I'm there. Support the Team and AA ... a yearly ritual. I do agree, many call out the attendance but never show. Posting is easy.
Kinda like those that whine about the team then sell their tickets to rivals. Great "fans".
Message Board fodder? Didn’t you catalog every spring game attendance in your guide?
Notice such things
March 15th, 2018 at 12:08 AM ^
Are we talking about RECRUITIN? Not a game, not even a practice... Recruiting!
March 14th, 2018 at 10:05 PM ^
Three things are certain with regard to the spring game and this board:
QBs will be underwhelming, and half the people here will wring their hands, and the other half will intone some variation of "we'll be fine", both groups with no justification at all.
There will be a fierce debate about whether the offense is really good or the defense is really bad, or vice versa.
Someone will make a really eye-catching play that everyone will rave about and post crappy videos of, and that player will end up doing nothing the whole season.
Well done good sir
The athletic department knows it's time to cut the BS and do it between the lines. I think that is why JH has made himself small since the Bowl Game fiasco. Just effing win now!
How's he supposed to "make himself big" between January 2 and March 14?
(here we go again...)
Take it away, Gracie.
When she's ten feet tall?
C'mon man! You know as well as anyone that all he had to do was continue performing his "antics".
(/s, for those that need it...)
We going to pretend that there hasn't been a steady stream of off-season noise to drum up attention in years past?
Between the bowl and spring practice starting excluding signing day? Yes, it is always the dullest time of the year.
To be in the headlines on a daily basis in previous years. Climbing trees, sleepovers, judge Judy, etc. I still believe in JH . Just want Wins asap.
We signed nearly everyone in our class in December, so there's been no room for recruiting visit stories. There's nothing to be doing right now. In the next two months we'll have spring practice, spring game, Eurotrip, camps, etc. You're not making sense.
Did you forget the Peru trip as a football emissary so that he could teach us about water conservation on his return?
Why do you feel entitled to wins?
Being an accident scene hero, signing of the stars, and talking backward before reminding us of what the dormouse said.
have Steve Martin on the staff now, too?
I hope the lack of promotion isn't an indicator that this team is going to suck.
Yep. That’s it. Fuck. See you guys in 2019! :(
First Purple Stuff and now you reappear on the board. This has been a good week around here other than that virus thing coming back.
....I thought it was because we are a basketball school now!!!
Because of going 8-5.
SPRING GAME APRIL 14TH
PROBABLY AT NIGHT
There, is that enough promotion for you!?
A time would be nice since your the all knowing
Simple B-E-I-L-E-I-N!!!!!
Michigan will win the game.
There's a good reason that they aren't. That is all.
Spring game at Stade de France?
Why have it if there's a reason not to promote it?
showing Ohio State's spring game attendance while Ed Warinner was there is not ready yet.