I guess that matters but to what extent?? This year they will get Kentucky and Seton Hall. After this year I don’t believe Michigan will be playing a home game in the Gavitt Games.
I don’t think you need a premier team to draw fans if they drew 12,000 for Houston Baptist or UMass Lowell. I don’t think the fans would be offended if there was one less home game. Instead you get Michigan playing a top 30 team on a neutral court in non conference.
I think we as fans want to see them play top teams but as for the site of those games I am not sure it matters. I could make a case that Michigan should be looking at schedule 1 game a year at Little Caesars Arena.
Some of my thoughts are due to how much games are geared towards television now and quite frankly for a premier non conference game eg. UNC Dec 18 the game started at 9pm. That start time is all for tv and for out of town fans it’s not feasible in most circumstances to attend that game. If a premier game is at such a poor time why would the consideration of fans be so important?
Football/basketball school monikers are more cultural than anything else. A decade of football terribleness isn’t going to change this. Maybe 4 or 5… When people are whining about Crisler being too small and needing to be expanded because tickets are so hard to get we’ll be a basketball school
No idea, but the current four teams in the Jumpman Invitational are locked in for a three year cycle. That prob means there’s not much pressure on the CBS Sports Classic for that timeframe.
As a long time season ticket holder and the parent of two UM grads who attended games as students, I would much rather see home and home series against good teams than more tournament games in neutral locations - although Charlotte can hardly be called neutral when it comes to UNC - or in ridiculous places like London. If you care about the student fans who show up win or lose, give them more to cheer about by scheduling more games at home against good teams.
Yeah, let’s not neglect the rich G-town football legacy. Four-time champion of South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in the 1910’s (yes, four times in one decade)! They scored a touchdown in 1941 Orange Bowl, and were ranked 13th in the nation earlier that year. Mostly downhill since then (although who can forget the glory of the brave losers of the 1950 Sun Bowl), including almost 25 years in D2 and D3, from which they returned to D1 (glory?) in 1992.
