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2010 TSUN News (in-season)

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cincibuck;1837961; said:
But unlike Indiana, things will eventually get better in Michigan... not unlike the battle of wits between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill: "Sir Winston, you are drunk."

"Lady Astor, you are ugly, the difference being that in the morning I shall be sober."
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Paraphrasing Winston:

Wolverine: "If you were on my team, I'd put poison in your coffee."

Hoosier: "If I found myself on your team, I'd drink it."
 
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cincibuck;1838387; said:
Was a basketball school. And probably will be again.

<Notre Dame> Michigan was a football school. Despite the events of recent years they still put butts in the stands, they have a demanding fan base, a great history, great facilities and the biggest endowment fund in the <country> Big 10, perhaps the biggest of any public university. They'll be back.
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Maybe they will...but it might be awhile.

ND and Miami are still working to get back. Neb may finally be back. It took USC a couple of decades..and already it may be slipping away from them. Yale and Harvard gave up trying to get back on top many decades ago.

I can't think of any programs that dropped as low as UM and roared right back to prominence ibn a short period of time, although I have to think it has happened. It can be a long, slow road.....
 
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Michigan only sells 7,000 bowl game tickets

Michigan has sold about 7,000 tickets to the Gator Bowl, associate athletic director Dave Ablauf said today. ?The ticket sales are lower than we expected, but higher than some of the previous bowls of similar nature,? Ablauf said. ?It?s well over what we sold for the Alamo Bowl, slightly under the Outback Bowl, and about in middle of what is normally sold for the others.?

Entire article: http://www.freep.com/article/20101221/SPORTS06/101221034/1054/Sports06/U-M-returns-some-bowl-tickets
 
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what you didn't post from that article is that lots of Michigan fans are buying their tickets directly from the Bowl itself to get better seats. Just because they are not buying them directly from the University does not mean they are not buying tickets.

my guess is that MSU will still travel better than UM. Probably a 60/40 split in their favor.

Just sayin
 
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http://www.freep.com/article/201012...320/Michigan-gets-oral-commitment-from-kicker

Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez said during the season that if the U-M kicking situation did not improve, he would have to recruit a kicker.

He wasn't kidding. Scout.com reported that Chaminade College Prep (West Hills, Calif.) kicker Matt Goudis gave U-M his oral commitment.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Goudis kicked nine field goals and made 37 extra-point attempts last season. Scout rates him as the No. 5 kicker nationally in the 2011 class and Rivals has him No. 12.

Goudis had been committed to Boise State but changed that for Michigan.
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WolverineMike;1838835; said:
what you didn't post from that article is that lots of Michigan fans are buying their tickets directly from the Bowl itself to get better seats. Just because they are not buying them directly from the University does not mean they are not buying tickets.

my guess is that MSU will still travel better than UM. Probably a 60/40 split in their favor.

Just sayin
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Regardless, you'd think there would be more interest from the fanbase of a UM team who hasn't sniffed a bowl game in years.
 
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buckeyesin07;1839955; said:
Regardless, you'd think there would be more interest from the fanbase of a UM team who hasn't sniffed a bowl game in years.
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how do you know what the interest is? again, many fans are choosing to buy tickets through the bowl and get much better seats. Is there a difference in 5000 fans buying the crappy seats through the allotment and 5000 fans choosing their own seats through the venue? Not really, other than another news article that says how many tickets the university itself sold.

so yeah, it sucks the university will have to eat the tickets and donate them to charity, but i'm pretty sure a lot of schools do that with their unpurchased tickets. It's not unprecedented.
 
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you guys realize you're not forced to buy tickets through the university, right? again, just so we're clear. Just because the University has only sold 7500 tickets, DOES NOT mean that only 7500 Michigan fans are going to show up at the game. there are other ways to buy tickets to actually get *gasp* better seats.
 
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