Monday, October 13

Has Michigan Sold Out?

Eric Zorn, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and UM football fan, sums up the difficulty with being a true-blue Michigan fan:
Has the team ever sunk lower than it did on Saturday?

Yes, the Appalachian State defeat at the beginning of last season was a bigger upset and threw a bigger shock into a team that was supposed to be contenders for the national title.

But Saturday's loss -- 13-10 at home to Toledo, a 1-4 Mid American Conference team -- marked a low-water point for the Wolverines.
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And I have to say that there's part of me that's pleased. The program has become increasingly unseemly in recent years.

In 2003 our student fans behaved contemptibly in victory over Notre Dame...In 2005 the athletic department began charging annual seat-license fees of up to $500 a seat that caused my parents to relinquish the season tickets they'd held onto since 1971. This year the program raided West Virginia University and hired away their coach at an obscene salary and began presumptuously constructing luxury skyboxes along the formerly low, formerly graceful rim of Michigan Stadium.

Sub-mediocrity serves them right.
Ouch, that hurts. I agree the seat-license fee is BS, and get this: its labelled a mandatory "donation." The addition of luxury skyboxes is also very hard to stomach.

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