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🗓️ 13 February 2025
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This week, Michigan Athletics and multi-Platinum, GRAMMY-winning artist Zach Bryan jointly announced a first-of-its-kind concert at Michigan Stadium, with special guest John Mayer, on September 27, 2025. Rob Rademacher, Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director and Chief Operating Officer at Michigan Athletics, stopped by this week's Conqu'ring Heroes episode to discuss the origin of this project, share some details on the event, and detail its impact on the athletic department and the Ann Arbor community.
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0:00.0 | Well, a brand new experience coming to the big house, September the 27th of this year. |
0:05.6 | Zach Bryan will be holding a concert in the big house, trying to break the record set just a few years ago by George Strait for the number of people ticketed at a concert to join us and to talk about all the details that have gone into making this a possibility. |
0:24.9 | Rob Radamacher, who's the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director, joins us in just a few minutes on Conquering Heroes. |
0:34.7 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics. |
0:39.6 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
0:44.9 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
0:47.0 | Here's your host, John Chanson. |
0:49.3 | Join at this time by the Executive Senior Associate Athletic Director, Rob Radamacher, and Rob, the reason |
0:55.9 | that we're having you on because Michigan made a huge announcement. They're going to host |
0:59.3 | a concert in the big house. Zach Bryan will be here next September. First of all, |
1:05.8 | thanks for joining us. How long has it taken to put a concert like this together? |
1:11.9 | Yeah, first off, thanks for having me. |
1:13.9 | You know, excited to join you guys and share a little bit about what we do. |
1:18.8 | You know, this has actually been, for me, at least, quite a long process where, you know, we have looked at this. |
1:25.5 | And we were really close probably 12 years ago to pulling this off. |
1:29.3 | And for a number of reasons, it spelled through. |
1:31.1 | But I think within the concert industry, it really created this narrative that we didn't want to do this. |
1:38.5 | And so, you know, over the last year or so had several meetings meetings, and then late fall, uh, got introduced to |
1:46.1 | Aegee and, uh, a promoter and, uh, those guys have been great to work with. And, um, it really, |
1:52.4 | really kind of sped up soon after the bowl game where, um, you know, we kind of had the same vision |
1:59.3 | and, you know, led to yesterday's announcement where |
2:02.0 | we're hosting the first concert in michigan stadium what's the goal of hosting events like this |
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