MDen Deal on Yahoo Front Page
So, the MDen deal made the Yahoo front page, and the article probaby contains more info on the deal than anyone cares to know, but at 3:13 a.m. MST, this is a very fascinating article to me. Welcome back, MDen, we heart you.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=rivals-382088
Brandon should get props for this decision. Instead of trying to paper over the problems, the Athletic Dept effectively admitted they made a mistake and corrected it. And they didn't take 3-5 years to do so.
As I recal (1983-'87), mDen was out at Briarwood, and wasn't really that great. Moe's was the place to get your Michigan stuff.
That said, clearly having a clicks and mortar based official partner in Ann Arbor makes sense in so many ways. We all knew a Texas based .com supplier (insert French car horn sound here) was just not right. An Ann Arbor based business is going to be way more in tune with the market, and the market is going to be willing to pay a few dollars more because they are buying from an Ann Arbor based business.
I live in North Carolina, and I bought from mDen over mgoblueshop.com for those very reasons. In fact the only time I bought from mgoblueshop.com is during the recent firesale, and frankly the ordering, shipping, and customer service experience sucked. (Just some Joe in Texas cheaply selling to just another fan of a team he doesn't care about from somewhere else ...)
local, hard core and with different merch.
Why do I bother reading the Yahoo comments?
Don't. You are only going to aggravate yourself.
Good to see MDen back in the fold.