<p>No they wouldn’t. We went around calling ND chicken… and now WE’RE gonna back out? That would be stupid and make us look bad</p>
<p>Michigan fans would welcome Brandon ending the series on his own terms. What does make us look bad is getting jerked around by ND on scheduling.</p>
<p>No, we’d look like hypocritical idiots backing out on ND after we complained and insulted them for backing out on us.</p>
<p>ThisIsMichigan is right. We have the high ground…and we should keep it.</p>
<p>It’s college football…when it comes down to wins and losses, moral scheduling highground (if that’s even a thing) doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>So we should back out of the game and replace it with an easier opponent? That’s even worse. </p>
<p>We could over sign and have shady roster management like Bama and Saban, but we don’t because we aren’t that kind of program</p>
<p>Let it be known who chickened out of the Michigan/Notre Dame game. Michigan should honor the remaining schedule, unlike those yellow domers. We have won 4 of the last 5 games, hopefully, we’ll make it 5 of the last 6 this year!</p>
<p>Everyone oversigns…we oversign every year, just not by as much as Bama. If we sign 18 kids this year we’ll need 4 people to leave the program by 2014 and when we sign them we’ll have to submit a plan to the NCAA on how to get to that number, as we do every year. So that’ll either be redshirt juniors not being asked back for a fifth year or transfers. You can almost guarantee at this point that Richard Ash and Jordan Paskorz won’t get a fifth year on scholarship in 2014.</p>
<p>That’s right maizandblue. As it stands, we have 15 scholarships to give. We have 14 commitments to date. However, it is very likely that by the time summer ends, another 2 or 3 players will no longer be on scholarship, which would raise the number from 15 to 17 or 18. We should be careful though. We need to leave room for Da’Shawn Hand and Malik McDowell.</p>
<p>I seem to recall reading somewhere that when Michigan made its current contact with Notre Dame, each university agreed to keep all in gate revenues for their respective schools when they host the game. If that is the case, and since this current series home/home will be evened up this year, it might be fiscally beneficial for Michigan to drop next years ND game and schedule another team at home. Even paying a financial penalty might be worth it if the amount generated by an extra home game overcomes the difference. In all honesty, it’s going to be many, many years before these schools will schedule each other again.</p>
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that when Michigan made its current contact with Notre Dame, each university agreed to keep all in gate revenues for their respective schools when they host the game. [.quote]</p>
<p>I believe that’s right, rjk. Usually a non-conference visiting team gets a nice paycheck from the home team. Michigan typically pays non-conference visitors between $500K and $1 million per appearance, depending on how big a draw they are. But Michigan and ND agreed that in their series, the home team would keep the entire gate receipts and pay the visitor a token $100K to cover team travel expenses. So essentially that same $100K changes hands each year, and the host team makes a killing financially. (Michigan usually brings in about $5 or $6 million per home game, probably a bit higher for the ND game because that game commands higher ticket prices from non-student paying customers).</p>
<p>I’m sure it’s no accident that those pikers at ND timed the termination of the series so they’d end up with one more home game, thus in the black financially. Bleedin’ ingrates: we TAUGHT them the game of football (and you can look it up).</p>
<p>I think you might have a point on the financial side. Typically the contract specifies a penalty for cancellation, which is almost certainly less than Michigan would net from an additional home game. (Minnesota recently canceled a game with North Carolina and ate a penalty of $800K; Michigan-ND might be a bit higher, but probably less than the $5 mil or so an additional home non-conference game would net). </p>
<p>Financials aside, though, I’d rather see Michigan play the game and kick their chickensh** asses to Kingdom come.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, thanks for the awesome discussion!</p>
<p>It looks like I lucked out, I called the ticket office this morning and was able to buy student season tickets at the same price. Thanks for all of the help!!</p>