Attendance Crisis

For both home games this season groups of 99 tickets have been available the week of the game.

Plenty of good seats still available for Saturday - let me know if anyone needs 99 together... #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/KHEeVJBPeC
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) September 11, 2014

Blocks of 99 tickets still available for Saturday - nice work @davebrandonad pic.twitter.com/CIXmXx3gWo
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) August 26, 2014

I tend to think this is a perfect storm of indifference:

• Coming off consecutive poor seasons
• Only one "successful" season since 2006
• Horrible home schedule
• Continual messing with the student tickets
• DYNAMIC pricing - and just pricing in general
• Getting shut out at Notre Dame

I predict an announced attendance below 104,000 this week.

Appalachian State prediction based on historical data

M is 185-52-1 in games I have attended - all data is for games I have attended unless otherwise specified
M is 0-1 against Appalachian State
M is 33-5 in the season opener
M is 5-1 in August
M is 63-14 in non-conference games
M is 134-21-1 against unranked opponents 
M is 28-16 when unranked
M is 17-1 when facing a conference for the first time (only loss to App State in the Southern Conference)
M is 0-1 against teams with the Nickname Mountaineers (Mountaineers are 2-0 in all games I have seen - WVU over Syracuse in 1988)
M is 155-36-1 in Michigan Stadium
M is 56-21-1 when facing schools with human-ish nicknames
M is 3-1 in my first game in new seats with my non-student season tickets (again only loss to App St)
M is 3-1 in games at Michigan Stadium when - in my opinion - there was potentially less than 100,000 actually in attendance (Northwestern 1984; Memphis 1995; Purdue 1995; Northwestern 2008)

It's easy when you add it all up

M 38
App St 3

blocked again

Dave Brandon joins Jalen Rose in blocking me on twitter.

I'm not exactly sure when he blocked me. Here are the tweets that I mentioned him in:

@mayph shouldn't UM football prefer UMHS? @davebrandonad and his marketing pinheads are so annoying #GoBluebutnotdavebrandon
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) November 16, 2013

Why is @umichfootball "presented by Meijer"? Another #marketingpinhead plan from @davebrandonad ? pic.twitter.com/gQ0VeQuTjY
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) October 14, 2013

Needed in Michigan Stadium @DaveBrandonAD MT @darrenrovell: Patriots are latest NFL team to offer free Wi-Fi http://t.co/1LpFyMw1
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) September 10, 2012

Ahem @davebrandonad MT @tigers: #Tigers fans: Don't forget you CAN bring sealed bottles of unflavored water to every home game.
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) June 23, 2013

Pssst @davebrandonad time to follow suit #goblue RT @DBriggsBlade: University is more than quadrupling financial commitment to OSUMB.
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) May 21, 2013

@DaveBrandonAD not sending the #MMBtoDallas to support @UMichFootball is an embarrassment - still time to do the right thing
— Mike Altese (@mpharmd98) April 19, 2012

I will admit none of these are very positive towards Dave, I don't think they're block worthy. Maybe the "marketing pinheads" was too far?