Blue Endzones at The Big House?

Why must we always find something else to try to change?  Spec banner designs, spec end zones, just leave the damn stuff alone.

So why not

I like it!

Reminds me of the baselines at Crisler, which look equally great.

Throw in a hashtag or an @ and DB will be all over it

Woohoo! The manifest destiny of cost-benefit analyses!!! Yea! Let's change everything! Let's replace the Michigan Stadium flood lights with black lights, body paint all the players as Maori tribesmen with phosphorescent paint, and play half-field night games while Thievery Corporation rents out the south endzone for a rave! Is there any way to rent pandas on leashes; I feel like this would be superior yet with three pandas on six leashes.

Having gone off the deep end, please allow me to come back. Nothing makes a young fellow feel older than the realization that whereas he used to mock those who resisted change, he joined them before he had the sense to notice. Listen, I have no interest in watching Michigan stand shin deep in stagnancy while competitors pass it by. I care deeply about our success and wish to capitalize on every competitive advantage. But our institution, this football program, is itself a natural advantage. I admit, in some ways, Michigan may need to change. Further, I admit it's difficult to tease out that which is best off unchanging versus that which is best off changing. But concrete signs exist to separate the change-worthy from the unchangeworthy. Pointedly, good change comes with good reason--a story and logic lending a solution. Good change happens never for mere change's sake.

Michigan as a realm of real-life fantasy named football is both strong in brand and rich in character. It doesn't need your sparkle. Blue endzones. Matte-finishes. Canned music. It's just glitter. Please stop the gimmicks. I was born in 1983 and, yet, so as to help balance the extremes in conversations like these, I find myself longing for the era in which the bowl on Stadium & Main held a six-feet-thick residue of suitcoats, bowler hats, and sun dresses. I long for this far more than is reasonable and productive. Help me help myself, which i promise will help you too. Please quit this nonsense. This isn't simply directed at the O.P. This is directed at every purveyor of a new idea designed--not to address some fault, but--to make some classic something "POP!"

Stop effing with our ess!

 

i say a fiber optic block M on the 50 that lights up maize at night.   

Phineas T. Brandon any ideas.

I think it looks decent, but I wouldn't change it permanently. Perhaps once a year, for the ND game or something.

I have been clamoring for blue end zones forever, but I feel like M only wants to use them for bowl games.

That would be cool! How about white turf, blue end zones, yellow jerseys, topless cheerleaders and rockets that shoot out of the goal posts. We could pay kids to rollerblade around and shoot t-shirts into the crowd. The post of any "lets do this threads" could blow people as they enter the stadium. How is that for an idea? Or we could just win games and keep looking great.

Navy blue end zones would be bery cool.

This is just like the day you argued against 3:30 games because of how much you love the tradition of noon starts.  Then the same day decided that you wanted Michigan to join the Big 12.

of your idea, and it will be taken up at the next board meeting of Domino's--whoops, the UM athletic deparment.

It's not that hard to compromise y'all. Let the old guard have their tradition 10 out of 12 games and allow the creative people to do their thing the other two. Everyone is happy. This stuff sells. It sells for the U. It sells to recruits. I'm not saying to go crazy like Maryland did a couple years ago...just liven things up twice a year fir God sakes!!!

I always liked the look at the Rose Bowl.

...it looks cool and all, but how do you monetize it?

 

Brandon has plans for the "wow" factor:

At halftime, Bigfoot will be introduced to the crowd and given a Legends jersey.

Madonna will be wheeled out on a stage for a Super Bowl style halftime show. When her performance is over, she will fight gladiators with a light saber while the Band plays themes from Star Wars.

The grand finale will be the landing of an alien spacecraft. 

 

I don't care if we wear maize n blue tutu's. I want wins. Winning is all that matters. Stay traditional and win - OK. Change to all the goofy uni's and win - OK. The tradition of winning and staying the team with the most wins in college football is the tradition I care most about.