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Michigan has season ticket waiting list for first time since Lloyd Carr era

By Patrick Schmidt

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The Michigan Wolverines have a waiting list for season tickets for the first time since Lloyd Carr was the head coach.

Jim Harbaugh is paying off for Michigan as the former quarterback who played for Bo Schembechler has renewed the passion of the Wolverine faithful before he’s even coached a game in the Big House.

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After hosting more than 60,000 fans at the spring game last Saturday, Michigan athletic director Jim Hackett tells MLive.com that the school has a waiting list for season tickets for the first time since Lloyd Carr was roaming the sidelines as the head coach.

“We’re getting close to figuring out (if all season tickets are sold out for 2015),” Hackett told MLive.com. “We’re getting close to that line. And we’ll find out if there aren’t any more new renewals and then we can fulfill requests. But we have a demand list for requests right now that we haven’t had (in a long time). We have thousands of people who want multiple (season) tickets.

“The season ticket prices, we worked really hard on that. We tried, deliberately, to make an opportunity for every fan that’s priced in a certain way to reward loyalty. Loyalty matters. Every (luxury) box we had for sale is gone, there are no openings there. And we had some openings (before Harbaugh was hired). I remember getting informal comments from people after Jim was hired telling me they weren’t going to mail a check in until (they saw who the next coach was).”

Michigan has also sold all 81 luxury suites as fans don’t want to miss one game of the 2015 season as they are behind Harbaugh 100 percent and convinced he will resurrect his alma mater and lead them back to the top of the Big Ten and to another national championship.

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