The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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inside michigan athletics 1 By The Numbers 5,434 Incoming freshman point guard Derrick Walton's rank among the top five sleeper recruits in the country according to ESPN.com. Average number of students, out of 21,770 tickets sold, that did not show up for Michigan football games, on average, in 2012. 7 $140,131,187 Left tackle Taylor Lewan's positioning among the top 2014 NFL Draft-eligible prospects according to Athlon Sports. 9 Michigan's post-spring football rank for 2013 in an updated ESPN Top 25. (Ohio State was ranked No. 1.) Total revenue for the U-M athletic department in 2012 according to figures in USA Today, ranking Michigan third behind Texas ($163 million) and Ohio State ($142 million). 23 Brady Hoke's listing among college football coaches according to Sporting News. The site rated him fourth in the Big Ten. 23.4 Viewers, in the millions, that watched the NCAA Tournament championship game between Michigan and Louisville, up from around 20 million in 2012. Payout in the millions due to each school in the Big Ten from revenues generated by the conference, up $1.1 million from last year according to a report in the St. Louis Dispatch. photo by lon horwedel $25.7