I am also very curious about season ticket holders. I personally go to every game. Always have a fun tailgate and love the whole experience, win or lose. I have always thought about season tickets but financially, I don't understand how it's justified. $1320 PSC plus however much tickets are (around $700-$800 I'm guessing) means $300+ per game per ticket? I sat in the Victors section for every game last year and paid around $600. Sometimes my wife joined me and I paid for two, sometimes she didn't and I save money. Even if you have the money to spend, I'm just curious why you would for an extra $1500? Is it just the friendships you build with people around you? Or just the comfort of having the same seat and not having to deal with searching for tickets?
I understand paying extra for something you enjoy but the PSC just doesn't make sense to me. Also, I have friends that visit that would love to sit together, so it's always nice to be able to do that.
I am genuinely asking and not judging as I spend money on unnecessary things all the time.
MLB - Eliminate divisions and interleague play. Each team plays the other 14 teams in the league 10 times (5 home, 5 away) for 140 games or 8 times for 112 which seems like enough. Top 4 teams from each league make the playoffs or top 6 teams if you prefer to award the top 2 a bye.
This is assuming of course you would be ok with not seeing the Yankees play the Red Sox 19 times a year on ESPN at an average of about 3.5 hours per game and rising.
Responding to your comment, not an argument for or against paying players. When reading many of these pay or don't pay players threads, it seems many people are unfamiliar with how football tenders work. Scholarship football players receive Full Grant-in-Aid which is the equivalent of cost of attendance and consists of tuition and fees, room and board, books, transportation and personal expenses related to attendance at the University. You can get a breakdown of residents/non-residents/upper lever/lower level for Michigan here: https://finaid.umich.edu/cost-of-attendance/
In addition, students with need may receive a Pell Grant (this year the max is $6095 for the academic year) on top of their cost of attendance. Here is a random example of a full need student's athletic tender as an upper division nonresident: COA= $67,850. This hypothetical athlete with high need will receive $67,850 + $6095= $73,945 for the academic year. This fake athlete lives off-campus and pays his own rent, so his student bill is only tuition and fees for the year which is $52,814. He then receives the remainder of the money as a stipend to spend towards housing, food, books etc. Simple math shows his refund is $21,131 or $10,565.50 a semester. At this point, it is up to the athlete to use that money wisely. Some kids choose cheap housing and spend their money in different ways. Some may lease a car, send money home, whatever. So yes, many of these athletes do have some spending money. It is up to the student athlete to budget that money for housing, personal expenses, books, transportation etc.
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New NIL news just released.
https://mgoblue.com/news/2023/2/1/general-michigan-announces-learfield-allied-nil-initiative-for-brands.aspx
Not that it matters, but Michigan’s drop/add deadline is really the 24th. The 17th was just for seven week mini courses.
I’m in. Would love to take my son!
https://www.on3.com/nil/rankings/player/nil-100/
I see several names here that are not on scholarship and would have to be renewed. Is some of this an educated guess on who you expect to come back?
That rule was for 2021-22. It is no longer in place. They do get a covid year back, but they will be considered a counter.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29564114/ex-michigan-student-bo-schembechler-knew-abuse
I am also very curious about season ticket holders. I personally go to every game. Always have a fun tailgate and love the whole experience, win or lose. I have always thought about season tickets but financially, I don't understand how it's justified. $1320 PSC plus however much tickets are (around $700-$800 I'm guessing) means $300+ per game per ticket? I sat in the Victors section for every game last year and paid around $600. Sometimes my wife joined me and I paid for two, sometimes she didn't and I save money. Even if you have the money to spend, I'm just curious why you would for an extra $1500? Is it just the friendships you build with people around you? Or just the comfort of having the same seat and not having to deal with searching for tickets?
I understand paying extra for something you enjoy but the PSC just doesn't make sense to me. Also, I have friends that visit that would love to sit together, so it's always nice to be able to do that.
I am genuinely asking and not judging as I spend money on unnecessary things all the time.
If you do attend Michigan, here is a program you may want to consider.
https://lsa.umich.edu/michinwash
How does one get the ability to down vote something? Asking for a friend.
Great. So like is there a specific time frame on a new EA college football game? What else has to happen before this can become a reality?
MLB - Eliminate divisions and interleague play. Each team plays the other 14 teams in the league 10 times (5 home, 5 away) for 140 games or 8 times for 112 which seems like enough. Top 4 teams from each league make the playoffs or top 6 teams if you prefer to award the top 2 a bye.
This is assuming of course you would be ok with not seeing the Yankees play the Red Sox 19 times a year on ESPN at an average of about 3.5 hours per game and rising.
Responding to your comment, not an argument for or against paying players. When reading many of these pay or don't pay players threads, it seems many people are unfamiliar with how football tenders work. Scholarship football players receive Full Grant-in-Aid which is the equivalent of cost of attendance and consists of tuition and fees, room and board, books, transportation and personal expenses related to attendance at the University. You can get a breakdown of residents/non-residents/upper lever/lower level for Michigan here: https://finaid.umich.edu/cost-of-attendance/
In addition, students with need may receive a Pell Grant (this year the max is $6095 for the academic year) on top of their cost of attendance. Here is a random example of a full need student's athletic tender as an upper division nonresident: COA= $67,850. This hypothetical athlete with high need will receive $67,850 + $6095= $73,945 for the academic year. This fake athlete lives off-campus and pays his own rent, so his student bill is only tuition and fees for the year which is $52,814. He then receives the remainder of the money as a stipend to spend towards housing, food, books etc. Simple math shows his refund is $21,131 or $10,565.50 a semester. At this point, it is up to the athlete to use that money wisely. Some kids choose cheap housing and spend their money in different ways. Some may lease a car, send money home, whatever. So yes, many of these athletes do have some spending money. It is up to the student athlete to budget that money for housing, personal expenses, books, transportation etc.