loved the cannon and football on the hill as a kid
Been to Ryan to see more games than I care to count. Enjoyed my time there only because Michigan was on the field (save for the shoot out in 2001? 2002?). Saw a couple of games not involving Michigan as an NU alum friend's guest -- it's almost an entirely forgetable game day and in-stadium experience. Not awful. Just kind of meh.
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but I would almost rather hear special K than that wild cat roar a bazillion times.... almost
it's like 20 minutes from my house and feels like a home game when Michigan comes to town.
I want to watch a game at Autzen. They don't have a ton of fans but the noise level is incredible.
not really, only if oregon is winning is that place loud. fans spend the whole game bragging to you about how loud they are. went to the 2003 michigan game i almost got in 10 fist fights when myself and 2 sons stood up and yelled the whole time michigan was making their comeback
needless to say after the game we almost needed a police escort to leave. but they were loud during most of the game but they love rubbing your noses in it.
Hate to say it guys, but the Horseshoe is a pretty good stadium. It's the perfect rival stadium -- imposing, gray, bleak. Both time I've been there it's reminded me of some combination of WWII-era germany and an imperial star destroyer. Especially with those marching band uniforms, which could easily pass for the police uniforms of a dystopian totalitarian regime.
kind of have that North Korean military uniform look to them. If you take liberties and try really hard to connect the two.
Germany you say, I might go visit one day.
The Horseshoe is really good on a number of levels, noise, views, more noise. If it weren't for all of the jackwagons in scarlet and grey it would be perfect. PSU is pretty good too. Going to Utah on September 3rd hoping that it is a wonderful experience.
I liked Jerry's world for modern convenience. PSU was pretty good. Notre Dame for another historic place. I played in the Horseshoe and that was pretty cool. However, Georgia between the hedges was probably my favorite, with LSU a close second.
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The fans are MUCH closer at Michigan, Iowa and Purdue than you are at Ryan Field. Yeah, you can see players there like you would at a high school game ... oh maybe that's the reason.
Go Blue!
Been to the following:
Spartan Stadium, Ohio Stadium, Michigan Stadium, Kelly-Shorts Stadium, Dyche Stadium (Ryan Field), Mountaineer Field, Kinnick, Metrodome, Erickson Stadium (WVU vs ECU and Tire Bowl), Lane, Byrd, Carter-Finley, Gator Bowl, Heinz Field, Cardinal Stadium, Alumni Stadium, Wallace Wade, Memorial Stadium (Indiana), Carrier Dome
Big Ten mini review in order:
- Kinnick Stadium - my favorite in the BIg Ten
- Spartan Stadium - concourses need to be redone and they've cracked down on tailgating. Great instadium experience
- Ohio Stadium - my favorite of the mega (90k plus) stadiums.
- Michigan Stadium - too crowded. If they used normal sized seats would seat 85,000 and be much more comfortable. Much louder since they did the renovations though.
- Beaver Stadium - They just kept expanding. It's like an errector set go awry. Good tailgating.
- Byrd Stadium - Can't believe they're in the league - nice little stadium. Good fans for the most part and no issues tailgating.
- Dyche Stadium - went in the 80s when they sucked. Saw a frat rolling a half barrel into the stadium and they set it up in the endzone stands.
- Memorial Stadium - sad. Could be nice if they were ever any good
- Metrodome - garbage
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Michigan Stadium's capacity if it were entirely chairback seats would be (110,000/1.15 or 1.2) around 93,000 to 95,000, so down 15,000 or so but certainly not over 25,000 seats.
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Spartan Stadium over Michigan Stadium? You can't be serious... the exterior of SS looks like a Soviet era bunker.
Why didn't we brick the entire exterior of the stadium, minus the scoreboard? That blue ring around the stadium feels out of place IMO.
$$$.
Future expansion?
When they finish the final expansion, they will probably brick the endzones like Iowa did with Kinnick Stadium.
It will depend on what Texas decides to do with DKR. If they push for the ultimate buildout (with the south endzone enclosed), it would bump them up to 114,000.
So back in the day when Bo would ask the student section to tone it down, or Michigan would get flagged for crowd noise, how did that happen without the renovations?
They would call that penalty and it wasn't even that loud. It only happened on the student section side. That fact that it was a penalty was kind of a challenge, which fired up the students more. Bo also said he would play in an empty Michigan Stadium if the students wouldn't stop booing Steve Smith for being unable to get the ball to AC.
You've been to Wallace Wade (Duke) and Carter Finley (NC State) but not Kenan (UNC)?
Carter Finley is a dump, and Wallace Wade good only because you can sit wherever you want (but I don't like the track between the field and the stands), but Kenan is the nicest stadium I've been to.
Duke is renovating Wallace Wade and are in the process of removing the track.
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I would slide Husky stadium in there before sparty tho. It was crazy loud there in 2001, but they had a track around the field (we had low seats) and the visibilty sucked. It was still better than spartan stadium. That place is a dump or a woodshed or whatever else they call it.
They did a great job with the renovations and the view is amazing.
You can't beat the location. It's definitely in my Top 5 college football stadiums. I would love to go there for our game in 2020.
Anything EL in my opinion is a dump. Apparently you weren't an undergrad when marshmallows littered Michigan Stadium though.
The marshmallows were great. Another unique and quirky Michigan Stadium tradition gone extinct.
I think the tradition only died because they marshmallows got banned:
1. Because of Field Turf
2. Because some students started making them hard as a rock and using them as projectiles.
Notre Dame's stadium, pre the circa-1998 renovation, was about as old-timey and intimate as I've experienced. So, disdain for their fanbase aside,* I'll go with Notre Dame.
*The actual fans at the stadium were unterrible. Staid and lily-white crowd, but mostly good sports notwithstanding the foregoing. The students could trend a bit douchey, but overall the fans-in-attendance were fine. Plus I got an entire section of the crowd to sing "Happy Birthday" to my dad one year, which - try that while wearing Michigan garb at Spartan Stadium or the Shoe!
I've been there twice. Madison is a great town, but Camp Randall sucks. It's just a big block of cement.
Thought it sucked. The town and tailgating is fine.
I've been, and it's fantastic. Best combination of great structure, great atmosphere, and good people in the B1G (outside of Michigan, of course).
Liked how they got into the game and loved Jump Around! The stadium though, meh.
Death Valley at LSU is unreal
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Have been to both to watch UM and both offer a wonderful enviroment. Fans great at both venues. The view of the Lake at Husky Stadium is great
Of those I've been to, ND stadium because it's reminiscient of ours. Of all, I think Penn State would be awesome to check out for a night game.
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