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As in previous years, the Win- ter Classic will be coupled with HBO's "24/7" series, a behind- the-scenes documentary series leading up to the game that chronicles the each team's prep- aration for the New Year's Day showdown. "We do a reality show and then we put another element on it, and that's playing in the ele- ments," said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. "So this is the ultimate reality show." At a secondary press con- ference at Michigan Stadium on Thursday, Bettman handed Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon a $250,000 dona- tion from the NHL's charitable gifts fund. Brandon said the gift would be deposited into the gen- eral student scholarship fund. The timing of the NHL's announcement is atypi- cal, considering that previ- ous announcements about the event's location had typically been made in late summer or fall. "That's frankly because of the enormity of the event," Bettman said. It'll take time to sell 115,000 tickets in two countries - or to turn away the latecomers. "Even at 115,000, we're going to have demand for tickets that we're not going to be able to sat- isfy," Bettman added. Red Wings coach Mike Bab- cock is no stranger to Ann Arbor. His daughter Alexandra is a stu- dent at the University, and the coach has been to a few hockey games at Yost Ice Arena and football games at the Big House. "Football Saturday out there is hard to beat," Babcock said, smiling. "(The Big House,) it's grandi- ose, it grabs ya. The first time I went in it didn't have fans. When you go.in with fans, it's some- thing else.... It'll be spectacular." The biggest hurdle for final- izing the Winter Classic at the Big House was taking the match-up away from Detroit yet still appeasing Mike Illitch. Ultimately, implementing the secondary rink at Comerica Park for the Hockeytown Win- ter Festival and the ability to fit over 50,000 fans in a stadium won the owner over. "It's going to be great," Illitch said. "I think it's going to build some confidence into the city of Detroit." "What matters to me," Bab- cock added, "is that playing in Ann Arbor was going to give more people a chance to see it and I think a bigger stage for us to celebrate hockey." The NHL is expecting an attendance of 115,000 at Michi- gan Stadium on New Year's Day, as well as a total up to 200,000 participants and fans enter- ing Detroit for the festivities at Comerica Park. "Based on what we're doing for this Winter Classic and Detroit, I'm not sure if anyone's going to be able to top it," Bet- tman said. "(That's) both in terms of the number of events and the sheer enormity of how fans can connect to it." Brandon talks attendance record . ByZACH HELFAND Daily Sports Editor Michigan Athletic Direc- tor Dave Brandon treasures the record Michigan set last year, when it hosted the largest crowd to ever watch a hockey game during the Big Chill at the Big House. So the prospect of the NHL breaking that record dur- ing the Winter Classic must trouble him, right? NOTEBOOK Wrong. At the announcement of the event on Thursday at Michigan Stadium, Brandon said that if the record falls, Michigan will simply have to break the mark. Again. Yes, that means Big Chill 2.0, though the event will probably go by some other name. Though the Athletic Depart- ment has not yet initiated plans for another game, Brandon said he isn't content to just have the record set in Michigan Stadium. It must belong to Michigan, too. "We'll digest this," Brandon said. "We'll let this happen, but if they break the record ... records were set to be broken." Brandon did not appear wor- ried. After all, Michigan doesn't have too much competition. "We can only break the record in this stadium," Brandon said. "I don't think you're going to see a hockey game in the Rose Bowl." Skeptics argue that the allure of outdoor hockey is wearing off thanks to a flood of such games. The Winter Classic has become an annual staple, and with the Great Lakes Invitational at Comerica Park next season, the senior class of the Michigan hockey team will have played an outdoor game every season in college. Brandon shares those con- cerns, but said the fans still desire hockey in the open air. "I do (worry), except the mar- ketplace speaks," Brandon said. "These things wouldn't keep happening if there weren't peo- ple really enjoying them." Will Brandon be among the thousands of those people? Not Athletic Director Dave Brandon mentioned that there won't likely be an outdoor football game at the Big House in 2012. if he has his wish. The timing of the Winter Classic conflicts with a certain bowl Brandon has his eye on. "I'm not sure I'm going to be here," Brandon said. "I hope I'm going to be at a football game in Pasadena." LIGHTS OUT ON 2012 NIGHT GAME: While Brandon was in the prognosticating mood, he said another prime time football game is also in the works. Just not for the 2012 season. "It's getting pretty late in the game for us to be looking at scheduling a night game," Bran- don said. "I am just reluctant to have a night game here unless it's going to be really big. I think we set the bar high with our first one, and I want the second one to every bit as good. "I don't think it's probably going to happen this next year ... (but) I bet it's going to happen the following year." . That's probably a pretty solid bet considering Brandon has the authority to schedule such games. Brandon cited the potential match-up and the time of the year as factors that may influ- ence a decision to play another game under the lights. PLAYOFF? PLAYOFF?: Though the Big.Ten has been discussing ideas for a college football play- off system, Brandon is skepti- cal that any such plan would be effective or feasible. "I'm happy to look at a pro- posal, I just haven't seen one yet that solves any of the problems that people say they're trying to solve," Brandon said. "People want a playoff, they want to fig- ure out a way to determine a true national champion, and I frankly haven't seen anything yet that will get you there." The idea of the plus-one play- off format, with the top four teams meeting at two campus sites before the National Cham- pionship game, has gained trac- tion with Big Ten commissioner Jim Delaney recently. } Brandon cautioned that none of the ideas have developed into anything further. The athletic director said te recognized the desire for change, but a plus-one playoff format would have the same ten- sions about rankings as the cur- rent system. Instead of teams fighting over the No. 2 spot, they'd fight over the No. 4 rank- ing. And often, those teams come from different conferences, play different competition levels and have few or no common oppo- nents. ; "I like the bowl system, I think the bowl system is great," Brandon said. "You look at the situation this year with us. We go to New Orleans. We had kids that had never been to New Orleans in their life. We hadn't been there as an alumni base in 23 years. "We play Virginia Tech, a his- toric program that we have never played. That's a terrific opportu- nity. And we go down and played a great game and came back with a trophy, and our kids just loved that experience. I don't want to screw that up." The Rose Bowl remains . a major sticking point for Brandon and other Big Ten athletic direc- tors. Any plan that diminishes the importance of the Rose Bowl or its connection with the Pac- 12 and Big Ten could be a non- starter. "If we figure out a way to come up with some new scheme that puts at risk the history and tradition of that Rose Bowl, and the relationship that the Pac-12 and the Big Ten have, then that would be a sorry day," Brandon said. NOTES: Brandon said the NHL will have the freedom to put up advertisements in the Big House for the Winter Clas- sic game, similar to the ones Michigan used for the Big Chill. Brandon also ruled out the idea of holding a concert at Michigan Stadium. 0 0 0 0 WANT MORE ONTHE WINTER CLASSIC? HEAD TO MICHIGAN DAILY.COM FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE FROM ANN ARBOR AND DETROIT I h 4.