Semi-OT: Texas reportedly offered $15 million per year by Under Armour
If this report is true, I imagine it's going to put a lot of pressure on Nike to up their offers. Regardless, $15 million is, what, almost double what we get from Adidas? That's bank.
Report: Under Armour to make record-setting apparel offer to Texas -> http://t.co/PI0ldaEELE pic.twitter.com/nPH75D9p6A
— Phil Hecken (@PhilHecken) May 28, 2015Adidas gives us $8.2, btw. I'm curious to see what our new deal looks like
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/10328133/notre-dame-figh…
But it's not publicly disclosed and ESPN has been wrong before.
If anything, Texas is worth more. There's a reason why they have the richest athletic department in the country.
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What's next?
They overtake us in stadium size capacity?
Welp...
"The final planned phase of the stadium's expansion includes the enclosing of the south end zone, completely enclosing the playing field with two levels of seating (not including club seating and luxury boxes). This plan has been part of the University's master plan since at least the early 1990s, as renderings and models of a fully enclosed stadium have existed since that time. If the expanded south end zone seating mirrors the current north end zone seating, which seats approximately 28,500 fans, the expansion could add approximately 24,000 seats to the existing 4,525 south end zone "temporary" bleachers. The stadium's final seating capacity is expected to be between 115,500 and 125,000 when the south end zone is fully enclosed, supplanting The University of Michigan's Michigan Stadium as the largest football stadium in North America and also becoming the second largest stadium in the world."
Texas started to look for funding for this in 2014... hopefully they don't get it.
to start adding that upper deck to Michigan Stadium then. Another school having a bigger stadium is completely unacceptable to me.
I'll pay more for tickets.
Absolutely not. 1000x no.
You already have two corporate towers making the place feel boxed in, thus, ruining the original bowl look and feel the stadium had.
If they put in a hideous upper deck, that will make the place completely unrecognizable.
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Michigan had no problem winning at home before those boxes went up.
Boxes not the issue.
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All I said was that they won before the boxes.
As in, crowd noise isn't a must-have thing to win.
provide a fuck ton of revenue to the program. I'm not fond of them, as I don't like the fans being separated by the size of their bank accounts, but they do provide a tangible benefit to the program. They also have made the quietest stadium in the Big 10 A LOT louder.
The stadium was originally designed to be expanded to a capacity of 150,000. How do you propose we add more seats without an upper deck?
Or are you content to have "just another kinda big" stadium to play in?
I for one am not. Make sure it's the biggest in the country, whatever the cost.
So, make sure it's the biggest in the country, even if there's a shitload of empty seats when Michigan plays the Indianas and the Rutgers of the world? Because I can guarantee you that there will not be 150,000 people for a game against Ball State. There wouldn't even be 115,000.
Attendance across college football is going down. Right now, expanding makes no sense.
150,000 will never happen. That would be a nightmare for gameday traffic and parking in the city.
Virginia Tech and Tennessee are probably going to break Michigan's single game attendance record when they play a football game at a.....*sigh*....NASCAR track in 2016.
So, should Michigan go play a game at Indy to take the record back?
if there's some empty seats? And I'm not suggesting that we even have to go all the way up to 150, but I want it to remain the largest in the country.
The single game attendance record isn't important to me, having the biggest and best stadium is.
I'm actually surprised that it's not important to you. Michigan Stadium has been a point of pride for almost a century now. And the stadium's capacity is a large part of that pride.
Also, as I've mentioned in the past, Nebraska gets about 97k fans to their games. If we could get the same percentage of Michigan's population to attend a Michigan game, Michigan Stadium would need to have a capacity of over 435k.
Imagine an 11-0 Michigan at the end of November. Think we'd have any problem selling 150k tickets to The Game?
What makes Michigan Stadium special to me is that (forgetting the DB years) it's always full and it looks like there's not a seat open.
What looks better to you? Having this eyesore-
or a full house
I understand what Yost had in mind when he built the place and I think that's great. But I miss that picture you get that I had when I was a kid. Walking into the stadium and seeing it open up as you're walking in and feel like it's never-ending
You don't get that anymore because you have these massive boxes.
They did the best they could with the boxes. I've been inside them, in the suites and all and they're nice if you like that sort of stuff.
I just miss what the stadium was. I'm sure I'll get over it as time passes, but I'm just not there yet.
I don't think comparing Penn State at half capacity against a nobody to UM hosting one of its 3 night games in history is a fair comparison.
Adding a few thousand more seats won't make Michigan look any worse than it did all last season when it was empty for a good part of the year.
If Michigan goes back to its 90s standards of actually winning important games and contending on a national level, then filling the seats won't be a problem.
That's not the point.
Michigan still managed to have this against EMU in 2011-
You'd have quite a few empty seats in an upper deck if they played EMU.
Fine then don't add a deck. Add another ring or bowl on top. Michigan essentailly "fakes" the appearance of dense crowds due to the way its seating is arranged anyway.
Any space essentially gets filled due to people spreading over time. A deck may look bad but adding another ring of seats wouldn't change much.
I don't think a deck would look bad if it were married up to the ends of the boxes. That would lend a little more continuity instead of having an erector set just kind of hanging out there. It would maintain that sweeping elegance that allows you to scan the stadium without having to focus on one aspect. If there was a seemless transition between an upper deck and the boxes, you'd preserve some of that feeling.
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Go to a game at Penn State and get back to me before you trash Beaver Stadium. Sure, it looks like an Erector set because of the rather haphazard way they did their renovations, but it's one hell of a great place to see a football game.
I'm not as privileged as you, so I don't ever travel.
The place looks like shit and sounds like it on TV with its loud, annoying piped-in music and lion RAWR every first down.
That's enough to keep me away.
Privilege? Yeesh.
Man, I scraped together a bunch of pennies when I was a lowly undergrad, got in a car with a buddy, and drove off to State College. It wasn't exactly breaking the bank. Most road trips to B1G stadiums aren't.
Think of it this way--if you spend a tenth of what you spend on Adidas Michigan gear, maybe you could pay for a cheap road trip to State College.
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If it means widening seats. We really need to look at making seating more comfortable in the stadium. I have seen many Michigan fans and away-fans alike complain about the tightness of Big House seating.
I don't need to see our capacity number skyrocket - would just be nice to see the experience improve, especially as ticket prices escalate and the home experience gets better and better in comparison.
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I'd expect you, of anyone, to know that Fielding Yost expected to potentially expand to 150,000 and the foundation of the stadium reflects that. The bowl could simply be expanded additional rows rather than making it look like that Happy Valley "Erector Set" stadium. In my opinion, the expansion should be started sooner rather than later. I'd like to see a capactiy of at least 120,00-125,000 before the end of the decade.
Only problem: Even in our wildest dreams, there simply isn't the demand to fill 125,000-150,000 seats on a consistent basis, nor is there even remotely the infrastructure around the stadium to support adding essentially another 25-50% of the crowd. You think parking is a nightmare now? Like it or not, an extra 5000 seats or so is probably the ceiling, and even that's optimistic--Yost's almost-century-old plan and all.
Just win baby.
125,000 / 113,000 = ~11% increase
It's very possible if everyone wants it.
(But bring back the troughs / pee wall in the bathroom if we're going to do that. Need to move them in and out!)
i'm a reader of shaggybevo, Texas' version of mgoblog, and they have their very own DB running their AD like it's a corporation.
The feeling there is that they have already over-expanded and anymore will be bad.
It's really called Shaggybevo?
Bevo is the name of the Longhorn steer mascot they parade around at home games.
No I know their mascot's name is Bevo. Their version of Bluebucks is called Bevo Bucks too.
I just found the image of a shaggy Bevo funny on their website.
Shaggybevo is a great site for Texas diehards... more imortantly they gave us http://prevailandride.blogspot.com/
This is lame. It doesn't even make business sense to build a stadium that large. You just make it harder for it to sell out, and thus drive down demand.
Having the largest stadium is our thing. Other schools need to get over it.