New stadium features louder or not?
September 26th, 2011 at 9:05 AM ^
The crowd noise is a lot louder now cause of the renovations.The last two Notre Dame games have been my loudest I have heard. UTL being the loudest. The band delay is bad over the PA.
September 26th, 2011 at 9:14 AM ^
The stadium is way louder now. I live over by Virginia Park and Liberty and the sounds of the game carrie all the way to my back yard!
September 26th, 2011 at 9:16 AM ^
I sit in section 7 right behind the visiting bands. At the ND game I couldn't even hear their band. I mean, it was so loud it was like ND's band wasn't even in the house. The piped in music is very loud and I agree with another poster that the UM Band being miked is alittle much but since I sit on the other side of the stadium in the opposite corner, I can at least hear the victors with a slight delay. Would like to know how loud the crowd is without music playing. It seems louder so it's safe to say the new construction has been designed to help with that.
September 26th, 2011 at 11:14 AM ^
They were "facing" us in that location that I was in (Sec. 23), opposite my usual season tickets.
It really makes a big deal, which way a band faces.
So ND's band was very loud, for the West sideline seats. The Michigan band hardly ever even needs to be amplified, if you are in the north-east part of the Stadium (Secs. 40-44, 1-2). The Michigan band, sans amplification, is actually hard to hear, in the south-east corner of the Stadium, Secs. 15-19.
September 26th, 2011 at 9:25 AM ^
Here is a comparison of the stadium noise. I attended the ND game with my wife, her first game, and sat in the South end zone. My ears and my wife's ears were ringing for most of Sunday after that game, it was awesome! This past Thursday we attended a Foo Fighters concert and as loud as it was my ears were NOT ringing the following day. Take that for what it is worth but to me it is a testament to the noise level at the ND game!
September 26th, 2011 at 3:17 PM ^
That's probably just because you lost half of your hearing from the ND game.
BTW, isn't Dave Grohl the MAN?
September 26th, 2011 at 9:45 AM ^
My freshman year was before they started renovations, and each year the following three years, as the renovations progressed, it got louder and louder. UTL had to have been by far the loudest Michigan home game ever. It was as loud as a hockey game.
September 26th, 2011 at 9:45 AM ^
My freshman year was before they started renovations, and each year the following three years, as the renovations progressed, it got louder and louder. UTL had to have been by far the loudest Michigan home game ever. It was as loud as a hockey game.
September 26th, 2011 at 10:00 AM ^
It will be interesting to see what happens should the possibility of adding seats in both the endzones comes to pass. Obviously results in more fans and probably more reverberation of the sound, with both increasing noise levels.
September 26th, 2011 at 10:11 AM ^
Seemed significantly louder on TV
September 26th, 2011 at 10:13 AM ^
the louder it is.
I won tix to the ND game 2 years ago and sat in section 25 row 2 - home sideline around the 24 yard line. The entire student section and band is just over your left shoulder. That was the closest to field level I'd ever sat in over 30 years of attending games. It was deafening down there. It went from extremely loud throughout the entire game, to hypersonic pitch ringing after the winning touchdown - it was beyond noise at that point.
I sat near the top of the bowl in the north endzone in section 36 row 87 for this years UTL game with ND and it was extremely loud up there, but not to the point of "hypersonic ringing" - even though the entire crowd was infinitely more "electric" in the 4th quarter. I think this has to do with how high we sat in the stadium. I have to believe it was just as deafening this year at field level, if not more-so.
FWIW, I love sitting under the speakers in the north endzone. I gives me the green light to yell my fool head off. Before the rawk music, I would start yelling but hardly anyone else in my section would chime in - now with the rawk being piped in so loud, I'm seeing far more people getting into it.
Final Note: Don't wait until the opposing offense lines up at the line of scrimmage to start yelling loudly -- do it as soon as they huddle up! It was like this at the ND game 2 years ago - it was loud during every down of that game (not just 3rd down), and it started as soon as they huddled up. Disrupt their communication in the huddle as well as at the line of scrimmage when they try to call an audible.
September 26th, 2011 at 10:25 AM ^
the RAWK music tends to get the crowd into it. At big games, when it starts to get loud I think people start shouting even louder. The PA system was extremely loud for the nd game ... even before kickoff.
However, Michigan Stadium is still full of fans that would prefer to sit on their ass and watch than actually be a part of the game. This is sad ... but true.
Go Blue!
September 26th, 2011 at 2:28 PM ^
Fact: One can be seated, watching the game, AND be a part of it.
I will never understand this sentiment that the only acceptable way to watch a game is to be standing up.
September 26th, 2011 at 2:46 PM ^
Student sections. Where they stand. And make noise. That is, when the students finally get there. (I like the students where they are, and what they do. They can't make too much noise for my tastes. I like them, as part of the spectacle. I did my time there, to be sure. Although it was a very different era.)
As anybody sitting anywhere on the East side of the Stadium last Saturday knows, the rockin', standin' and yellin' student sections were about 1/3 empty midway through the First Quarter.
September 26th, 2011 at 2:50 PM ^
One thing I will never understand is the fact that students will make it to a 10AM class on time, hell, they'll make it to an 8:30 or 9AM class on time.
Yet a noon football game? They're rolling in at 12:15-12:30, and even at that, a few thousand won't show up.
I know drinking is fun, that Pregame with Pat YouTube series is proof positive. But is it really too hard to make it to the stadium before kickoff? Class isn't fun, but you show up on time...
September 26th, 2011 at 5:24 PM ^
September 26th, 2011 at 6:05 PM ^
Yep. Every game.
The 20somethings amongst us (and I'm one of them) need to realize that the rest of the stadium is NOT the student section. While you may have stood the entire game while screaming your drunken head off over there when you were 18, that may not be acceptable/general practice in, say, section 15. Context and consideration is key.
Like I've said before, if you're standing up in row 25 and no one in front of you or behind you is doing the same, you're doing it wrong. And when you get confrontational because everyone around you is politely asking you to sit, you're definitely doing it wrong. It's called being an adult. That's lost on far too many people. I've seen dudes get mouthy with parents and their kids, even with the elderly, who just want to be able to see the game. And it's just really, really low-brow.
I'm not saying you should be quiet and sit on your hands, but rather that you should be aware of those around you, which is more than I can say for the "Up In Back!" folk I've encountered in the stadium in the last few years. Consideration never killed anyone at a football game. It's not your right as a fan to ruin the experience of others because you think the only way to watch a game is standing up.
Be loud, be involved, be a knowledgable spectator. Really, be loud by all means. But if you're in a section where people don't stand up all the time, do it from your seat. That's all I'm saying. There's no reason why you can't do it. I do it every game. It's possible. Your vocal cords don't stop working when you sit down.
September 26th, 2011 at 7:07 PM ^
is CLASSLESS!
Plus in my section the ONLY time I can hear a few of these fans is when they yell at the top of their voice for people to SIT DOWN.
Go Blue!
September 26th, 2011 at 6:08 PM ^
sitting in my seat, than did the students who were not even inside the Stadium until a few minutes were remaining.
September 26th, 2011 at 2:41 PM ^
Probably if you are up at the top it wont be that loud.