Just for the record: the NFL can't figure out a way to pay it's employees out of a $9 Billion pool, Jim Tressel "forgot" about his players selling it's gear and got fined $250,000, UConn went to a BCS Bowl and ended up losing close to $1.8 Million and now Michigan is looking for a few extra dollars of your money.
With the new Glick Field House, the new score boards, the new basketball practice facility, the Crisler Arena renovation, the new field turf, the new luxury seating, RR's contract buyout and the nicer bathrooms at the Big House you knew the Michigan Football Program would come for your money soon rather then later.
That announcement happened on Monday, when Michigan announced that ticket prices were going up. Season tickets are going up about 12% and individual tickets for "regular games" are going up $15 to $70 a ticket. The "premium tickets" for the good games are now $85.
I am a little torn on this news. On one hand, Michigan has made a lot of improvements to the Big House and (soon) Crisler Arena. On the other, the Michigan economy is still struggling and to raise prices for the masses seems difficult to take when giving up your season tickets pretty much means you will never get them back (due to the waiting list). I know it would never be "spun" this way but I hope this doesn't have anything to do with RR's buy out. Michigan spent a ton of money on that guy and got little to no results.
Recruiting News
Michigan is still looking for it's first verbal commit for the 2012 class and it seems two prospects with Michigan offers are picking other schools.
- Taylor Decker a 6'8 offensive guard picked ND over the weekend. Taylor had a Michigan offer.
- Dan Voltz one of the top offensive line prospects in the Midwest is expected to announce his decision for Northwestern today.
- Vince Biegel a LB from Wisconsin visited A2 this past weekend. He is visiting BYU soon as well. The word on Vince is that his dad played at BYU and is probably a Wisconsin lean. He wants to make an early decision and unless U of M can get him back on campus for a practice, Michigan seems to be playing catch up in his recruitment.
- Allan Gant from outside of Toledo visited Ann Arbor last week and didn't come away with an offer. Allan's dad played for Bo at Michigan.
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Funny how this money flow is always one way: from us regular people to the large corporate entities. When Michigan gets huge money from TV contracts, how come ticket prices don't come down?
The same with the NFL owners. They need money to build new stadiums? Taxpayers pay for most of new stadiums. And with their profits being as good as ever, I don't see their ticket prices coming down at all either.
Perhaps, Michigan season ticket holders should choose to watch the games on TV this fall rather than continue to support lower quality football managed by over paid coaches....
With the federal government, printing money that they don't have, and spending it at an increased rate, governmental spending is driving down the value of the dollar. That means gasoline and everything else is going up, which also means we are spending more for less. Unfortunately, these ticket prices were going to increase no matter what.
If you want to make a difference, tell your congressmen to decrease the budget by about 500 billion dollars and put a budget in place that makes sense; or else gas soon will cost over $8.00 per gallon, ticket prices will require a small mortgage and your great grandchildren will be paying off this trillion dollar debt with nothing to show for it.
Then tell congress to try to stop US jobs from going overseas and encourage meaningful businesses to come back and start new jobs here. Try to stop them from throwing good money into a bad health care bill, etc., and once we get some fiscal sanity back into this country, then we could possibly expect reasonable prices for sporting events...maybe.
That doesn't take into account all of the craziness that is going on around the world with the revolutions in the middle east causing instability with the world's oil prices, along with the crisis in Japan that will have a big impact on the world's economy and the US. Yes, there is a lot that will effect ticket prices and everything else.
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