Michigan Football season ticket demand down significantly?
Well, if you tried to getting season tickets in 2017 and were denied because of the large demand and the minimum number of priority points to be offered tickets set at 22, then you probably are happy if you re-applied in 2018.
According to MGoBlue, there has been a tremendous drop in season ticket interest-
Here is the 4-year table they updated
| Season |
# of New Requests/Interest List Donations |
% Offered Season Tickets |
Minimum Points to be Offered Tickets |
| 2018 | 789 | 100% | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 1,024 | 39% | 22 |
| 2016 | 1,398 | 100% | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 2,093 | 100% | 1.5 |
and then see what happens...after the bowl debacle fb is dead to me..15 years of misery??? I mean COME ON...Ive focused my attention solely on basketball right now and THEY DELIVERED!
The increasing pro-style atmosphere is likely a factor. The music blasted so loud that you can't converse with your friends or hear any actual football noises keeps some people away. Know anybody that stopped going to games because it was more marching band and less piped in? I know several who have stopped coming because of the pro-style experience being promoted.
That and also I swear the TV timeouts are getting longer and longer each year when I go to a game, but I realize that that's a college football problem and maybe I'm also just getting old.
The forced entertainment is getting real annoying at sporting events. I think it works in a basketball arenas, but when I'm in a historic stadium or baseball park I like to soak up the atmosphere and the scenery. I took my mom to a Tiger game last year for her birthday and we had trouble just having a conversation in between innings because the speakers were so loud while they desperately tried to keep everyones attention to the fan interactions and interviews that were piped on the scoreboard.
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For me it's the guy in the red hat, telling the teams the commercials are over so they can play. absolutely ruined the gameday experience. add it to the 22 inch wide space on a metal bench and replays at the mercy of whoever is operating the scoreboard, and i am done. haven't had season tickets since i was a student, but the only games i ever go to anyomre is when someone in a suite invites me. fuck the guy in th red hat there are three other games on, it's nice and warm and dry, food, drinks. the only way o go that stadium anymore.
What level suite do you usually sit in when you go if you don't mind me asking? I've sat in the first level once and I remember the big advantage were the spacious bathrooms that werne't busy and I think there was ham they sold that they don't sell elsewhere, if I remember correctly. What are the advantages of the 2nd and 3rd levels (I am sure there are some but I just don't know eactly what so am curious)
Me too. I don't have season tickets, but try to attend one game every year and EVERY time I go I'm reminded of how tediously long those TV timeouts are, and how they ruin the flow of the game. Greed has nearly killed the game.
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