Stadium Experience Today

Picking nits, but I'm not a fan of the neon goalposts after game 1. Keep winning and you can paint them whatever color though.

It was better than the worst depths of the Brandon era, but still too RAWKy.

 

our announcer mispronounced Joel Stave's name, it was like we hadn't played them in a while or something.

I don't mind the piped on music, but they need to do a better job with the songs. Do crazy train and TNT really fire people up?

Still too much piped in rawk muzik.

Needed more band music. Too much piped-in. Couldn't tell whether the video voiceover part of the halftime show was an error or not--they drowned out the band (at least on the east side).

The captioning on the screen is often lousy but boy did those Oregon state names pose an obvious challenge today.

Also, the no-bags policy was not carefully enforced. I saw two women who had purses today, both sitting within 10 feet of me.

Seemed to be some grumbling about the cash-only situation at the concessions, and the sound in the bathrooms wasn't piped in loud enough. That was a JRSC issue, not sure about elsewhere.

It was great. 

 

I'm really happy that Hackett had some Seven Nation Army before kickoff. Brandon over did the music, but in moderation it is excellent. It should not be purely the band.

 

I thought the pom poms looked great and the crowd was definitely louder than any game last year. 

If cry babies to me. Not enough music, to much music, goal post to bright, cash only wtf, 2 ladies had purses right next me. I swear I'm ashamed to say I'm a die hard Michigan fan sometimes after reading these threads. You people need to lighten up and tugged up a bit. Jesus Christ already

at the field hockey stadium. Even during the afternoon field hockey games. No porta potties outside Glick. Brandon had them open. People were pissing under the stands today. So minus one point for Hackett. I mean isn't that what my donation is for?

Regarding piped-in music: Besides pregame warm-ups I didn't hear any Eminem. The last few years there has been a ton of "Lose Yourself" played. Still quite a bit of AC/DC though. Overall not as bad but still quite a bit. Probably already mentioned, but I haven't the energy to read all the posts and have yet to watch my recording, but how did that pop Jabrill laid on the WR in the 4th look on TV? I was in section 2, had a poor angle on it, and had about 8 rows stand and block what view I would have had. (No replay at the stadium for that play).

I sit near the goal line on southwest side and missed most of JEJ because we couldn't hear it.

1. So. Much. Rawk. Why on earth does every second have to be filled with noise? 

2. Loved that the assholes who have sat in front of us for years and acted like meatheads and picked fights with people every week sold their tickets. To Oregon State fans. But they were cool as hell. Seemed like all the Beavers in the place were good-natured and fun. Wish those dudes would come back every week.

3. I'm not sure how this can be fixed, but I think it's time Athletics took a hard look at the concourses under the sideline structures. It's sheer hell in there between the lines for the bathrooms, the lines for the concession stands, and the fact that it's so damn dark you can't see where you're going. Needs way more lighting, and perhaps a better system to mitigate how people move and queue in there. I've really just had enough of trying to wade my way through there during peak times. Just an unfortunate, unintended design flaw.

The pre game video was epic! Had chills, was that James Earl Jones?

Great experience today for the obvious reasons.  And as others have noted, the crowd did seem to adapt to the change of guard.  It wasn't what it was in the old days, but it was certainly better than it has been in the recent years.

There were more stretches of game where you could converse with people instead of nonstop eardrum damaging noise. 

Concession prices are actually higher, the 4$ popcorn is now 5$.  Lines everywhere took longer, be it at the gates or to buy concessions but I thought this was sort of positive as there really were 109,000 people there.

I get that we can't go back to the 1970s.  If I could pick one thing to change about today, it wouldn't be to get rid of the RAWK, as annoying as it is.  No, what I would do is create a stadium experience that would focus on 2 key moments: the beginning of the game, and the beginning of the second half, when our team takes the field.  These moments should not be an afterthought that you hardly notice above the RAWK.  These should be highlights of the experience for everyone, players, coaching staff, fans.   Turn off the RAWK and announce when the team is taking the field, with their coach, and the band.  For lessons on what this is supposed to be like, Carl Grapentine.   

Can we discuss the fact that our fans don't seem to know you don't scream your head off when our offense is on the field?

I was there for a perfect day. I can say that it seemed better for many reasons than its been in the last few years.

How was the crowd volume?

The hi-lighter yellow block M on the 50 and 'M I C H I G A N' in the end zones now look funny compared to the uni's.

This was like one second before massive clipboard asskicking.... The crowd was booing the refs loudly from where I was at then erupted into cheering once harbaugh started going nuclear jackhammer...... It was kind of glorious.... I really felt like I was at something special for a second :)

Jim was actively getting people to try to get eh crowd into it on third downs in second half.....and was waving for people to quiet down on the big offensive plays ... It worked well, quite a few players helped rile the crowd up as well, but coach deserves credit for getting the hand sitters loud....

There was a 360 Fan Cam picture taken at the end of the 1st Quarter from yesterday's game? Anyone have a link to it?

To the guys or girls below talking about compression, I wanted to add mu two cents. I was a student 25 years ago. We always crammed down to fit many more students in the lower sections. That was especially true as freshmen and sophomores. I have no idea whether the student section was full or not, it certainly was not many times last year, but even were it full you should expect to see substantial space at the top of the bowl.

Sound like a bunch of babies in this thread, my God.