I didn’t spend a lot of time on the concourse, but here’s a look at the standard menu.  As I understand it from Dave Brandon’s comments this week you’ll be seeing much more.   And postscript, the $6 drink price mention is just about the only thing Stoney got right in his tweets from Saturday’s scrimmage: To appease the uproar over the water bottle ban, the athletic department decided to fight hate with a little H20 love and offer free commemorative bottles of water for the UConn game.  This isn’t a hot button issue for me, otherwise you would have heard about it on these pages.  Truth?  I didn’t even know you could bring water into the game until this came up.   I got an advance edition of the exclusive water at media day and it’s cool.  Here’s a blurry shot of the logo:

You’ve been spoiled for the past four years with Zoltan and you know it.  Enter Will Hagerup.  I got a glimpse of this kid’s leg recently and he can really hit it.   The kicking duties are up in the air but I think this guy will jump right in on Sept 4.  I ran over to chat with him today: How does it feel to walk in the footsteps of Zoltan?  "Obviously it’s an honor to follow a legend here and a pretty daunting task.  I’m just trying to do as best as I can personally do and not try to set any insane goals and try to compare to him.   He’s been a great mentor to me and doing real well so far in the NFL." On his performance in the Saturday scrimmage: "Just getting out there and warming up at first was just awesome, first time kicking in the Big House.  So that was a lot of fun.  I thought I did well there, which doesn’t count for much.  In the game, the ball was pretty heavy, it was like punting a sponge.  I didn’t do great, I hadn’t a few pretty good punts but I’d like to do better.  I’ve got two weeks to get myself ready." On whether he was still helping out on kick-offs:  "I…

Just returned from media and mulled through the photos.  The typical mix of on and off topic items from the day. Barwis talking about Brock Mealer’s progress and program:    Brock after this press conference chilling:     Denard is still going with the untied shoelaces.  One media member still rocking the docksiders:  Just begging for a caption contest: I tried to get an all braids dreds photo, this was the closest I could get: Big Jon Falk hasn’t lost his 1997 championship ring: Fred Jackson talking about the next Chris Perry:   Don’t mess with Molk: Tate as Drew Sharp looms.  Tate said all the right things today, more later. Tate checks in with Coach Rod before the team photo:   BigHouseATron – did you know the tunnel expands? It really does!    This is the cool, they hung bowl, conference championship and national championship banners inside the indoor practice field: Another look: Related: Will Hagerup – Media Day Devin Gardner – Media Day Tate Forcier – Media Day Media Day (Photo Gallery)   Follow MVictors on Twitter

[ed 8/21:  I attended today, couldn’t take photos and can’t talk about it (sorry).  That said, I’d suggest you take the tweets from Mike Stone (@stoney16) with a grain of salt.  I think Stoney got into the Bloody Marys this morning.]   There will be some sort of scrimmage today and yes, a few fans will be in attendance.  From the Freep’s Mark Snyder: While the Big House is usually empty for such events, there could be a few thousand fans today as U-M invited its premium season-ticket holders for a sneak peek. "We hope whatever they see there will stay there," Rodriguez said Friday on WTKA-AM (1050), conceding that hope might not be enough in the Internet age. "We’ll keep things (schemes) close to the vest. We certainly won’t show anything that anybody from UConn or the Buckeyes or Sparties or Notre Dame fans will pick up on. We’ll keep it close to the vest." Snyder is correct that premium season-ticket holders can attend, but also invited are folks who donated (at a certain level) to Mott Children’s Hospital during this year’s Spring game.   All guests today have been instructed not only to be sober, but also to leave their cameras, video equipment at home.

Check out this shot of Old 98 Tom Harmon with his son and to-be Hollywood star Mark Harmon, currently up for bid: Mark just finished a Pina Colada at Trader Vic’s The auction also includes these shots of dad donning some wingless “U OF M” headgear alongside son Mark in his UCLA #7 about to toss the rock while simultaneously breaking hearts: The ‘U OF M’-ed helmet didn’t quite stick like the winged helmet, to be certain eBay Watch mavens might recognize the first image.  It was used in a 1973 Michigan State-UCLA program that led this January 2008 eBay Watch post.   As noted back then, the younger Harmon’s Bruins faced Michigan in Pasadena (’72 regular season) and MSU in East Lansing (’73). There were a couple storylines leading into the Wolverines trip to Los Angeles in 1972. The week prior UCLA started their brutal schedule with a huge win over #1 Nebraska, snapping the Huskers’ 32 game winning streak.  It was Harmon’s first game for the Bruins, and a wishbone offense was installed to suit the new quarterback. Mark was named the MVP of the game and finished with 71 rushing. A headline in Sports Illustrated that week declared, “YOUNG HARMON MAKES HIS MARK: From Out of Hollywood Comes the Saga of Mark Harmon, Handsome, Articulate, the Son of…