Not cool man!  Not.  Cool. According to AnnArbor.com, 95 of parking tickets dished out during last Saturday’s Spring game were voided after fans went berserk.   There are special rules enforced on home game Saturdays each fall and cops applied this policy last weekend.  Via Ryan Stanton’s piece on A2.com: Several cars parked on the side streets near Michigan Stadium were ticketed for being in areas where parking is prohibited on game days. Whether the spring game was considered a football game was up for debate, and city officials agreed after some protest that the city didn’t make clear how it would enforce parking this past Saturday, [city administrator Roger] Fraser said. The city said it’s “likely” to enforce the gameday rules next Spring game and will work to communicate the policy a little better.   Based on this comment from supervisor Mike Rankin, they’ve got some work to do: …it’s important to enforce no-parking restrictions on side streets around Allmendinger Park because it’s a residential area, and problems have occurred in the past due to the size of the crowd. Also, team buses need to get through the area. Team buses for the Spring Game?  Umm, maybe he means the tailgate buses?: Often the comments on the sports posts on A2.com are horrible (Rich Rod sucks! /  You’re no fan!)  but…

On the eve of the 2010 Griese-Hutchinson-Woodson golf outing to benefit the new Mott Children’s hospital, on May 14 WTKA 1050AM will be bringing an unbelievable line-up in studio to specifically benefit the Charles Woodson Clinical Research Fund. Feast your eyes: 7 – 9 am – Lloyd Carr and Charles Woodson 9 – 10 am – Jerry Hanlon 10 – 11 am – Steve Hutchinson 11 am – Noon – Gary Moeller Noon – 1 pm – Brian Griese 1 – 2 pm – Jake Long 2 – 3 pm – Jeff Backus 3 – 4 pm – Jerame Tuman and Aaron Shea 4 – 5 pm – Mike Hart, Ron Bellamy and Drew Henson 5 – 6 pm – David and Jan Brandon and Rich Rodriguez All contributions provided through the Radio-a-thon will benefit the Charles Woodson Clinical Research Fund. This fund aims to support and encourage ground-breaking innovations for new pediatric treatments and is critical to moving these initiatives from brilliant idea to viable therapies. Use our online form to make a donation. Mark your calendars.  For those out of town, you can pick up the live stream on WTKA.com. A few more details here on the ‘Month of Mott’ campaign.

Same yellow envelope, same dot matrix printed ticket summary, new season.  The 2010 season ticket renewals hit mailboxes today.   Notes: Price is $375/seat.  Of course the required donations are handled through the Victors Club priority points program and outside of this. This is of course the first season with the boxes and the club level seating.  You have to wonder how many folks who moved to the premium seating will reject their regular seats.  I don’t think there will be much movement but we’ll see. Ticket holders are also able to purchase additional seats to the 9/18 UMass and 9/25 Bowling Green games for $50/each, and to Indiana ($50) and Purdue ($46) road games. Ticket holders are able to add Big Chill tickets for $15/each to renewal order.

Rodriguez addressing the players after the game File this under Miscellanea, a few final bullets, photos and takes from the Spring Game: The punting was so brutal Rodriguez didn’t even have to be asked directly about it in the postgame news conference.  He called it “concerning”.  Yep.  Let’s hope incoming freshman punter Will Hagerup lives safe and clean until August. Speaking of the presser, you can here the whole thing here.  If you’re wondering, it was radio voice Frank Beckmann who asked the Pat White question which has got to be getting old for RR: [display_podcast] A few folks asked for a high res copy of the Denard making everyone blurry photo (above), here you go. I spoke to senior Greg Banks who won the great Meyer Morton award, presented to the player showing the most development and promise during spring ball.   The history of this honor dates back to 1925 and as discussed here more than once, it was originally intended for underclassmen but don’t blame Rich Rod for changing this.   Bo started to give the award to seniors and juniors, and for the past several years it’s been given exclusively to seniors.   The official press release even calls it an award for “the senior football player…”   Past winners include Braylon, Henne, Breaston, Jimmy Harbaugh and digging way back,…

I grabbed Fab Fiver and U-M hoops radio voice Jimmy King after the Alumni Game.   King was a surprise add to the festivities but helped out the Maize team quite a bit, with a great TD catch and nearly pulled down a Hail Mary on the last play of the Alumni game. Should have a former hooper been allowed to join the fun?   I didn’t hear any of the former players object and frankly who cares?   He made the event more fun.  I asked him about whether he kept his feet in bounds on the TD grab, the Hail Mary he nearly pulled in and on his experience on the gridiron (No, coach Moeller never asked JK to lace ’em up).   Audio: [display_podcast] .