Football ticket renewal vs COVID-19
I got a postcard in the mail from the Athletic Department stating I can make the payment for my season tickets soon. I'm planning on renewing since I already paid the seat fee however that was before the outbreak in the states and the cancellation of classes/sports at UM are making me not want to make the payment right now.
Does anyone have any insight into how this might be handled? Renewal starts March 14 and the deadline is April 10 and I don't want to get boned by the AD as I'm not sure we'll have definitive answers regarding the virus yet.
UMbig11, someone, anyone?
PS. RDU-90 would cure all this in a matter of days.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:07 PM ^
I know you are looking for an answer, but nobody knows. Not Umbig11 or anyone at Michigan.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:22 PM ^
All I want to know is if the April 10 deadline could change. I understand this is uncharted territory for everyone but I thoughts someonehere might have an idea.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:09 PM ^
Just wait. A lot of people won't be going to games this year. Not virus related.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:12 PM ^
You mean Provasic?
March 12th, 2020 at 10:21 PM ^
If only Lentz wouldn't have been killed in a car accident.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:27 PM ^
Oh yea, the Lentz car accident. Quite an accident indeed. And in a Devlin MacGregor company car no less.
Not gonna lie...it’s these types of comments that make me love this blog. Well done!
March 13th, 2020 at 11:13 AM ^
When I first read RDU-90 the word Provasic was the first thing to hit me. Well done.
March 12th, 2020 at 10:46 PM ^
If this isn't over by football season we all have much bigger problems.
The virus will never be "over", but the panic should be by summer or so.
This will end up just being another virus that exists in the population (like influenza, norovirus, rhinovirus, SARS, MERS, measles, rubella, etc.) We will continue to see the initial shock for several weeks (may be even months), but then life will go on. Eventually a vaccine will help to spread immunity, but much of that will be accomplished naturally by this first wave also (which will also cause the most death in at-risk populations unfortunately).
March 12th, 2020 at 11:32 PM ^
It is just starting here. China's outbreak started in mid October of last year. China covd-19 peaked in late January. That is 3 months in a communist country that is essentially a surveillance state where large cities can be quarantine. So the earliest the US will peak in cases would be mid June and since people are free to travel in the country and the government cannot control people's movements, the peak could last into September. I'm very worried about the 2020 college and pro football season. It may all be cancelled. The only bright side is that OSU will not be able to beat us again in 2020.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:52 PM ^
Everything I have read or heard is that China's outbreak started in December. The U.S. is about 50-60 days behind them.
March 12th, 2020 at 11:58 PM ^
And on the undercard M season ticket renewals vs the stock market
March 13th, 2020 at 12:52 AM ^
If Football Ticket Renewal played COVID-19 in a bowl, it would probably lose.
Exactly, they are already starting with a 19 point lead. Fuck John O'Neill.
Are you serious?
Will always upvote a Fugitive reference. Came out 25 years ago and still holds up well.
I don’t care
March 13th, 2020 at 10:46 AM ^
Whoever negged me obviously didn't get the Fugitive reference.
I would bet if the season were interrupted they would refund the money. I am going to renew and assume the season will happen until I hear otherwise.
Just moved to Section 39 to get to 4 seats
Wow. Just pay the tab on time. Not that complicated. Are you in line at Costco?
I cannot see it any other way: If games are not played you would get a refund.They are refunding everyone with baseball, softball and lacrosse tickets for games that aren't played.
I heard this morning that they are able to cure Coronavirus with a regimen of anti-virals developed for HIV treatment. I feel like this is a game changer as it takes serious illness off the table for otherwise healthy people. I would guess by Football season that this has faded completely as an issue.
I've heard they were looking into it but I thought the early data wasn't very encouraging.
List your source, please.
COVID-19 is a weaponized pathogen that "escaped" from Wuhan City's Biosafety level 4 facility. It is a chimera which includes flu, SARS and HIV genetic material. It was engineered to allow it to spread greater distances than other viruses. This is a serious matter. Protect your family.
March 13th, 2020 at 10:36 AM ^
No, it's a weaponized pathogen biogengineered by the aliens in the secret underground base at Dulce, New Mexico.
March 13th, 2020 at 11:58 AM ^
very possible. Bio-warfare is the next wave.
March 13th, 2020 at 12:36 PM ^
Take off the tinfoil hat, buddy.
FWIW I believe the virus is man-made but I do not believe it was intentionally released.
The scientists at the germ warfare lab positioned less than 200 feet from the wet market in Wuhan considered ground zero are extremely underpaid. An associate of mine who is an executive for a company with a plant in Wuhan told me they believe one the scientists sold a lab animal into the market thinking it was "cured" or not infected to make a few bucks.
If this thing is man-made this seems like a reasonable explanation for how it "escaped" much more so than the Chinese government intentionally wiping out a large number of their own people (and their economy) to hurt other countries.
March 15th, 2020 at 10:48 AM ^
Please don't feed the conspiracists. Everything plausible can be researched and evidenced, but pushing hypotheses on message boards before either of those two events is dangerous.
March 13th, 2020 at 12:27 PM ^
Very interesting the U of M has their hand out during this virus crisis. If U of M were to be smart about this, they'd send another postcard to you season ticket holders to hold off for a few more months.
Let's hope all this chaos will be over in a couple of months and we can get some sense of a normal life back.