OT: MSU's Video Screens at Field Level
There has been comments on MGoBlog about MSU's ribbon of video screens above the stands that often flash bright colors when the visiting team has the ball in key situations. Some describe it as seizure inducing.
Now MSU has a walls of video screens at field level - right in eyeline sight of players looking straight ahead. MSU's players when on offense get to view a screen with stationary imagery and one that typically isn't bright. ASU's players when on offense often had to view moving imagery and/or bright imagery.
Is this (1) just petty, (2) an unfair advantage, or (3) no big deal? If it is no big deal, where is the line drawn with this sort of thing? Can we get military grade spotlights and flash it across the field at Lewerke when he comes to town?
September 17th, 2019 at 9:58 AM ^
They're to busy paying people to be quiet.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:08 PM ^
I find it obnoxious whenever the TV cameras pan to field level. I can't imagine how annoying it is to the players.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
Husky stadium in Seattle, as some of you will see next year, has two ribbons of bright LED ad boards that circle the stadium. one at field level and one at the top of the lower bowl. Both are entirely fucking obnoxiously bright and I found them to be a significant distraction as a fan. I cannot imagine what it's like to play into them on the field.
Not every fucking thing has to be for sale.
But at least Husky stadium isn't blaring piped in music 2/3 of every break; they actually let the band(s) take complete care of non-playing fan entertainment.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
I am shocked - shocked - to find that bush leaguery is going on in Trash Tornado Arena!
September 16th, 2019 at 11:24 PM ^
Their stadium has been a cheesy mess for decades. They've got the same stupid DJ and/or DJ playlist used at the Joe since the 90s. Their use of advertisements for just about everything should be an antidote for any Michigan "fan" who says stadium ads aren't that big of a deal. And lest we forget the trash tornado?
This is all true to form. Same Old Sparty.
September 17th, 2019 at 12:07 AM ^
If only Sparty could learn from their #1 fan, The Situation, reform their lives, sober up, make financial restitution and do jail time, I might give them a break.
September 16th, 2019 at 11:30 PM ^
2) An unfair advantage.
I forgot what other college football game I was watching this season where the screens were low and flashing... the camera got a shot of what the quarterback was seeing and I was "how the fuck can they even play!"
September 16th, 2019 at 11:44 PM ^
Paranoid much ?
September 17th, 2019 at 4:16 AM ^
I mean. . .NO ONE else on the internet appears to be talking about this. Officials were at the game and could have shut down any illegal tactics such as this. This thread is kind of batshit.
September 17th, 2019 at 2:54 PM ^
Are you MSU's ribbon-board operator? You seem really defensive about this.
September 17th, 2019 at 3:47 PM ^
Maybe I'm just appalled at how many people take something and run with it uncritically while virtually zero evidence appears in this thread. All because it fits a preferred narrative.
September 17th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
Appalled? Stop cluthing your pearls.
September 17th, 2019 at 7:00 PM ^
Are you a political talking head? The statement in your post sounds like a collection of tropes from a 24/7 news channel when a politician has been accused of doing something wrong and his cronies are in crisis management mode.
September 17th, 2019 at 6:04 AM ^
Hopefully the blowing trash will block them.
September 17th, 2019 at 6:13 AM ^
Pure Sparty
September 17th, 2019 at 7:17 AM ^
come on guys, how else do you expect Menards, Big Lots and Farmer Jack to get their brands into the zeitgeist?
September 17th, 2019 at 7:27 AM ^
I was thinking an image with a sloth, riding a Unicorn, floating on a taco, while being surrounded by flying burritos... And lasers and kittens of course...
Less imagery, more counting maybe?
(3) no big deal
September 17th, 2019 at 3:54 PM ^
There was a corny book I read years ago about what makes a fan(atic). Their study concluded something similar. It examined free throws and said that it was far more effective to have everyone wave to the left at the last second than wildly waving their hands back and forth.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:36 AM ^
Next will be a fiber optic turf field which is one giant video screen.
Sorry Shea you may have seen Tacopants there, but it was just MSU's field...
On a serious note I find it ugly tacky and disturbing.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:44 AM ^
There's only so much you can do to liven up concrete...though I did think it was against the rules to have field level lights like that.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:48 AM ^
I think they should be banned in endzones or at least set to black/off and only be used during timeouts and other non-playing moments.
I know USC has them now, but they may be just along the sidelines. At the NFL level, Jerryworld has them, and I think Metlife does too.
September 17th, 2019 at 9:58 AM ^
Seems like an unfair advantage, particularly if they're static during MSU drives and MAX DISTRACT mode during opponent drives. Someone probably just needs to complain to a sympathetic ear at the NCAA and they'll get banned.
September 17th, 2019 at 10:17 AM ^
Maybe MSU should try putting flashy, moving imagery on the screens when its offense has the ball. The stationary imagery doesn't seem to be working for them.
September 17th, 2019 at 1:34 PM ^
This reminds me though, I was at the MTSU game and I mentioned how it seemed really petty that Michigan plays artificial noise pre-snap when the away team is on offense and none when Michigan is on offense. Similar to this post. I think they should stop it.
September 17th, 2019 at 7:24 PM ^
Are you sure thats not just the crowd?