8E - Tuesday, September 3, 2013 Spr! The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com FOOTBALL New ticket policy By GREG GARNO gan State University and Pennsyl- Daily Sports Writer vania State University, as well as national programs like Alabama, APRIL 22, 2013 - For some Notre Dame and Oregon. students, it may be time to put the In 2012, the athletic depart- red Solo Cup down earlier on Sat- ment created the H.A.I.L. mobile urdays and head to the Big House. application to incentivize atten- Monday, the Athletic Depart- dance at athletic events, including ment announced that it will no getting to the Big House on time. longer assign seatsto student tick- Many students have expressed et holders, instead opting to have mostly negative opinions regard- student seating as general admis- ing the change on social media. A sion. In an announcement on the petition through CSG's UPetition its website, the Athletic Depart- site had over 2,600 signers as of ment will give students general- early Tuesday morning. admission tickets on a first-come, A group of students has already first-serve basis as an incentive to voiced their displeasure about the arrive prior to kickoff. announcement via Facebook. The Ticket prices will be $295 for group had more than 1,500 likes seven home games, or more than in less than three hours since its $40 a ticket per game. For the creation. 2012 season, students paid $205 "The goal of the page was for six home games - just over to raise awareness and gather $34 per game. The new cost is enough followers to voice our 40-percent less than the general displeasure though petitions, in public season ticket price and hopes of overturning the new doesn't include a required pre- policy," said LSA junior Josh Spie- ferred season donation. gel. "We feel the policy destroys According to associate athletic the tradition of working your way director, Dave Ablauf, the average closer to the field through years of number of "no shows" per game studying and work." was 5,434 in 2012 and 4,376 in Central Student Government 2011 president Michael Proppe, a busi- "We are concerned about the ness junior, has already taken decrease in students showing action to discuss the newly imple- up and decided to change our mented changes. policy to create a culture of arriv- "Why didn't the Athletic ing early to provide our football Department ask for any student student-athletes with a home input before implementing this?" field advantage prior to kickoff," Proppe said. "In my first resolu- Ablauf said. "This move is similar tion as student body president to what has already been done at ... I am calling for U-M Central Crisler Center and Yost Ice Arena Student Government input on any for student season ticket holders. ticketing policy changes made by Both are decisions that have been the Athletic Department." metfavorably." The Wolverines open against Ablauf noted that the atten- Central Michigan on Aug. 31 dance policy is similar to fellow before they host Notre Dame for Big Ten teams including Michi- its second-ever night game. Matt Slovin:'M' redeemed itself By MATT SLOVIN After one shaky, how-did-that- Daily Sports Editor not-go-in first period, the Wol- verines came out in the second MARCH 25, 2013 - DETROIT period and took the pressures that - Jeff Jackson woke up the morn- come with manning a program so ing of March 10 and exhaled, accustomed to postseason suc- The Notre Dame coach cess and shoved them down the checked the score of the previous RedHawks' throats. night's game between Michigan Somewhere along the way, State and Alaska, saw that the Michigan redeemed itself. Coach Spartans hadsurvived, and let out Red Berenson saidhe beganto see one massive sigh of relief. a change in early February, when Michigan State's win, stretch- the Wolverines played at Notre ing into the wee hours of Monday Dame. The signs of improvement morning, meant that his Fighting were there, but the results weren't Irish would avoid playing Michi- - Michigan gave up 13 goals on gan in the CCHA quarterfinals. the weekend and was swept. Jackson was relieved then. This weekend, the Wolverines He's relieved now. Nobody want- held two of the best offenses in ed to play Michigan - not in the the CCHA to two goals apiece, quarterfinals, not in the finals, not minus an empty-netter. in the NCAA Tournament, where This hockey-loving university the Wolverines would have land- didn't yet forgive them after that ed with a win in Sunday's title February series for a season that game. was, more often than not, mis- The Fighting Irish dodged a erable. Perhaps for some, that bullet in Fairbanks. They dodged forgiveness didn't come until a more dangerous one on Sunday. Trouba's play, an overwhelming *** display of grit that signified just Jacob Trouba stopped the how far the Wolverines have truly puck, tantalizingly close to cross- come. ing the goal line for Miami (Ohio) Inevitably, this team will be fans, gravely near it for Michigan known as the one that broke the fans, calmly with his stick. That streak. When the pride and joy puck would've crossed a few short of the program expired after months ago. Sunday's 3-1 heartbreaker, that And had Trouba arrived to the became reality. puck a split-second later in the But because of the turnaround first period of Saturday's CCHA that nobody saw coming, nobody semifinal against the RedHawks, will blame them for that. After all, Michigan might nothave reached Michigan won't be gone from the Sunday's stage where the Wolver- NCAA Tournament for long. And ines faced an all-or-nothing game teams out there would give up for the ages. anything for 22 out of23. Win, or the 22-year NCAA *** Tournament appearance streak Lee Moffie broke off from - the one that predates the birth the line of his teammates.; They of all but two of Michigan's play- had been tortured far too long ers - would be over. by then, straddling the blue line I I PATRICKBARRON/Daily Freshman forward Andrew Copp returns this season to wear the 'A' patch. at Joe Louis Arena, watching as their now-former conference rivals accepted the Mason Cup. Before the playoff trophy could disappear, bound for Toronto, the Hockey Hall of Fame and poster- ity with a quick detour in South Bend along the way, Michigan dipped into the tunnel. But not before Moffie said goodbye to the Wolverine faith- ful, who hoped to see a team that was once 10-18 punch its ticket to the NCAA Tourna- ment. That would signal that the group Berenson repeatedly called "vulnerable," and once, a "train wreck" midway through the sea- son was now magical. Moffie skated a quick circle, waving his stick to the Michigan fans who remained in Joe Louis Arena. All of their last-ditch efforts, like goalie Steve Racine turn- ing on a dime on his way to the bench and diving back toward the crease to stop the empty-net goal that sealed the Wolverines' fate, had fallen short. Moffie's goodbye as he stepped off the ice for the last time in maize and blue might aswellhave been a white flag, but he didn't do it until after the game. Most everyone else, besides the play- ers and coaches, had waved one in surrender months ago. Everybody except for the peo- ple in the locker room gave up on this team. Don't feel bad for them. Beren- son said all year that this team was going to earn its fate. If the Wolverines didn't make the NCAA Tournament, they'd have nobody toblame but themselves. But how can we blame them? 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