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from the "SavetheBigHouse" FAQ:

Can Michigan student athletes continue to compete and win without revenue from private luxury boxes?

Yes. Federal data confirms that U-M already spends more per varsity athlete ($160,000) than any school in the country.

Gracious. Unbelievable.

Some of the questions, however, are just a tad biased:

"Would the proposed private luxury boxes undermine the historic architecture of America’s quintessential, classic stadium?

"Yes. While many other institutions have chosen to alter their stadiums with private luxury boxes, none started out with the famously understated [oxymoron -ed.], classic subterranean bowl that Michigan fans have known and loved since 1927. Adding towering banks of private luxury boxes will radically alter the unique, historic fabric of this iconic structure and leave arch-rival Notre Dame [not Ohio State? -ed.] with America’s only major stadium completely free of advertising and luxury boxes. We might ask: does Notre Dame value its tradition more than Michigan? The fact that Michigan Stadium is one of the very last of its kind makes protecting its traditional form and character all the more important."

Just a bit shrill if you ask Y.

I dont really care too much if they do or if they dont add luxury boxes but I can certainly appreciate the point of view of those who want to keep the status quo. It is a neat stadium and adding boxes would really change the character of the place.

At least they arent talking about abandoning the stadium and leaving it to rot like they have done with Tiger Stadium in Detroit

I agree, it would change its character. I think it would feel a lot more corporate.

Yeah, but it is just a stupid football stadium though and a palace or temple of all that is good and holy in the world like *some* people seem to think. ;)

Well, that's true. I went to a grand total of one game during school, playing some obscure team like oh, I don't know, Guam or something, and just sat there in the freezing cold, taking note of my brain cells dying with boredom one by one.

But to each their own.

people still listen to WAAM ?

Yes sir, I listen to it every day, and I'm listening to it right now, even though it's the "Sports Den" program! That's how alluring it is.

I like Michael Savage, who'e an original thinker, even if I don't often agree with him, and my Saturday morning treat is Joe Gagnon, the Appliance Doctor. Do you know how to fix a bum refrigerator sealing-ring? I do! :) Merely apply a hair dryer and stretch 'er out to its original springiness. Of course, I don't have a hair dryer, since I consider them wastes of electricity, so that knowledge does me no good whatsoever, but still. I could use my hurricane lamp, like our hardy pioneer forefathers.

Ted Heusel has interesting guests, on and off, and, bless him, can usually be counted on to say something like, (to a black pastor), "Is it true that the more intelligent blacks have migrated to the white churches?" It's only on AM radio that you get to hear cringeworthy stuff like that.

The Glen Beck show rounds out my evening. He's pretty sharp. And in the morning, while prying my eyes open over a cup of coffee, I hear more local news than I do in the whole subsequent workday of listening to NPR.