OT: OSU student appreciation day
Today was Student Appreciation day at the OSU spring practice. Students and their siblings were allowed to watch the practice. While I hate OSU, this is something Michigan should be doing instead of pissing their students off and taking advantage of them every chance they get.
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2014/04/34855/eli-app…
Well it wouldn't be hard to beat today's spring practice. If Michigan isn't going to put any effort into making it an enjoyable experience for fans, why invite them?
Couldn't every Michigan student have gone to the spring game (practice) today?
Not the same and you know it.
I didn't read the article so I did not know, but thanks for the downvote.
The OSU students get to be on the field and be with the players. It is actually a pretty cool event.
I see, that is pretty cool. I'd be on board with doing something similar at Michigan. Having football coaches involved in the intramural championship would definitely be cool.
Normally I would totally upvote his post. Just not now.
"Ohio." Still a thing.
K.
and start appreciating and winning.
and stop the piped in music fergodsakes! This is Michigan!
was in good taste. It was background just to avoid complete silence and not rawked up like a big crowd. Thought the small band did a good job too.
It's goin down,
I'm yellin tiiimmbbeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Prepare to move
Prepare to dance
/repeat
Sometimes Michigan makes it difficult to be a fan. A few fan friendly things like this would help a lot--for me, anyway.
I agree with everyone else about the spring game and the complete lack of effort to make it fan friendly. It's either we have Beyoncé and Eminem with a laser light show or we have punting drills to some rawk music. I'd prefer a football game.
The only way this happens at Michigan is if Dave "DollarsToDonuts" Brandon figures out a way to slap advertising on the students.
A huge fucking adidas sign didn't always used to be on the back of the official basketball student section t-shirts, you know.
You don't think 2,000 students would come to a practice where they're on the field with the players, someone gets to kick a field goal in a drill and who knows whatever fun things they throw in.
They'd definitely draw 2,000+.
Major distraction? Please. It's still a game. Taking an hour or whatever and having fun with the team and the students is an hour well spent.
If an hour is that important and you are unable to make your practices efficient enough such that you desperately need that hour, then you're already fucked.
Increase attendance at the Spring Game by holding open try outs.
open tryouts. It would be fun to spot the next Kovacs.
I think this was a fantastic idea and we should definitely copy it for next year. It's a statement that the team is part of the student body - not separated from it - and I think it demonstrates inclusion, something our student body very much needs to feel right now.
But we dont do that. Instead we "punish" our students through a crazy GA policy that wasnt GA at all, screw around with their basketball tickets and then wonder why attendance is faltering. Oh well - we gave them the script Ohio - maybe we can take this as a small payback on the idea-meter.
David Brandin' is using tried and true business practices related to the simple concept of supply and demand. He has a full stadium, so he charges more and more and gives less and less. As long as the stadium is still full and he is maximizing income, he doesn't give a shit about any of his customers.
I am fully convinced that he is committed to wringing every last dollar out of everyone who walks into the Big House. Although I don't think he really sees fans as "people." I'm pretty sure fans are all just "fannies" to David Brandin'. The only way he will stop is when those fannies are no longer in Big House seats.
That isn't going to happen. I expect David to keep Brandin' and keep degrading user experience for as long as the income continues to rise.
The students are already fading, and I personally know of two people who have given up season tickets. I'm sure It only takes a couple more poor seasons, terrible home schedules, and another miss on a coaching hire. Don't think it can't happen here.
Pete Carroll also used to have open practice and seemed to run his program in a pretty fun, casual manner.
I think that's the sort of thing you do when your team is in a really good place, though, not when pretty much everything about your team is uncertain.
Details.
Ohio sucks.
this is something Michigan should be doing instead of pissing their students off and taking advantage of them every chance they get.Maybe the students should do a better job of going to games and supporting the team better.
Meyer . . . refers to the students as the lifeblood of the program.From Brian:
"You know, people are fickle," Hoke said. "That's just the way it is. That's the world we live in."If there exists a level of program-building that goes beyond recruiting and developing players and waiting for them to mature, ie, building relationships with the fan base, it could well be that the bad guys are doing this better than ours are.