I don't know how many of you are in Enterprise Sales but my best analogy for Michigan's home scheduling comes from that profession. Let me run this example by you: You're "carrying bag" and have a $2M quota on your territory. You have a great year and do $3.5M in sales. You make big commission and life is good, right?
Until you see your next year quota on those same accounts. You have done your job and sold those accounts your products. Now that $2M territory you have has a quota of $4M. You can't sell them the same thing they just purchased so you have to get new accounts or new products. From a compensation point of view, you have had a great year and now maybe a difficult one.
This has to be what season ticket holders are thinking about the 2013 and 2014 home season at the Big House:
2013 you get to see:
Central Michigan
Notre Dame
Akron
Minnesota
Indiana
Nebraska
Ohio State
2014
App. State
Miami Ohio
Utah
Minnesota
Penn State
Indiana
Maryland
What is the best home game on the 2014 schedule? A sanction heavy Penn State? Utah from the PAC 12? Maryland's first trip? Brandon is saying that the Penn State game will probably be a night game.
How does scheduling the App State game look now? Poor Minnesota and IU have back to back trips to Ann Arbor in 2013 and 2014.
2013 has the last trip to Ann Arbor for ND, Nebraska and OSU. A very good year for season ticket holders. 2014 is a good year for Stub Hub buyers.
I wouldn't recommend David Brandon raise ticket prices after the 2013 season.
- Michigan now has the #1 recruiting class in 2014 to ESPN. (and Peppers is still un-committed!)
- There are 3.5 years left on the Michigan Adidas contract per David Brandon.
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