Crowd noise
I know i was yelling and standing about 70% of the game today and waivin my all in towel! i was in the nne corner and let me tell you we were screamin our heads off. and i KNOW, that Western was having problems because of it. twice they had to call a timeout cuz the couldn't hear and they had a few false starts. the north was definately the loudest part of the stadium, but the south got loud too, and a little in between, but you know how that is (old people). they also screwed up the wave =(. but anyway, great job at standing up and yelling, most of you, but we gotta step it up one more notch next week for ND!
God that was a great game! One of the most fun i've ever been to. Tate was great passing and Denard blew past people running. I hope both play all year, and i do respect Sheridan, but, please leave him out rr. Plus Boubacar's interception and Koger's Woodson type catch. What a great effort. Go blue! Beat ND! Hey Rudy, up yours.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:33 PM ^
It was amazing on TV, I switched to the ND game and could tell a difference. Told my g/f how quiet it was there.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:33 PM ^
The Big House could be silent by the end of next week's game. Notre Dame is a great team with a boatload of explosive players.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:36 PM ^
2006. Remember that?
September 5th, 2009 at 11:47 PM ^
2007 as well.
I hate trolls.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:37 PM ^
Not to mention a coach with a boatload of fat and arrogance. Did I mention he's fat?
September 5th, 2009 at 11:58 PM ^
Looks like he's carrying a baby kangaroo in that pouch
September 6th, 2009 at 9:14 AM ^
With the size of that thing? It's either the biggest baby 'roo known to man, or it's a full-grown one trying to go back to it's childhood.
September 6th, 2009 at 3:05 AM ^
That comment he made about clockwork pissed me off. I know they dominated their opponent, but the sheer comment of “clockwork” was unnecessary. I hate his arrogance.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:44 PM ^
This literally has to be the worst board to troll on. If you want to really work some people up head over to MLive or ESPN...
September 6th, 2009 at 8:48 AM ^
Needed a Sunny Fix
September 6th, 2009 at 9:09 PM ^
A negative 94 is pretty impressive.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:15 PM ^
-95 now.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:39 PM ^
I'll be there next week. I'm so pumped. I wanna see the renovations for myself. However the wave is played out. Thats something fans do when they're bored. I guess if you were doing it when the team was up big its ok, but it should never be done in a close game.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:42 PM ^
It pretty much never gets done in close games... and this week wasn't any different (though, having to teach people the way the wave works every year gets annoying).
September 5th, 2009 at 11:52 PM ^
The wave is sort of a tradition when we have a big second half lead, and I must say, the effort today was piss poor. Maybe it was too hot for people?
September 6th, 2009 at 8:26 PM ^
I enjoy the wave but after this last game I now understand why the "Old Alumni Section" always don't start it right away. I was in Row 7 in Section 24 right by the parents and didn't even realize the student section was trying to start it. So I now understand why it takes a while to start it. Secondly I remember the wave going from regular to slow to fast and then reverse and criss cross. And the Slow and Fast got switched around. Plus they should have tried to start the wave during a commercial break not when our defense needed some noise.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:37 AM ^
i think the fact that we did the wave a grand total of zero times last season covered it with a pretty thick layer of dust. everyone had to be reconditioned today, but im glad the wave returned to michigan.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:41 PM ^
Noise travels a lot louder in the dark.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:49 PM ^
If it were a night game I'd be even more pissed off than the piped-in music made me today. Neil Diamond, Journey, AC/DC? All fine for games, when played by the BAND. I'm not a particular fan of marching bands, but they practice enough and put in a lot of work with few opportunities to showcase. I'm sure we could have a big-f'n-singalong to the band playing that shitty Neil Diamond song.
Baaa-Ba-BAAAAAAAA
touching me, touching you indeed.
September 5th, 2009 at 11:59 PM ^
Neil Sedaka and Dinah Shore for that modern crap.
September 6th, 2009 at 8:34 AM ^
No idea what those singers (?) sound like, but I know that Slipknot and Ramones would not make me any happier to hear at a UM game, even if it's what I listen to elsewhere.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:23 AM ^
As a student with seat in row 70 I sort of liked the piped in music. With the band facing away from the students we usually cannot hear what they are playing until the song is already over. While I will always prefer the sound of a marching band at Michigan Stadium, it was nice to be able to tell what was being played.
September 6th, 2009 at 8:39 AM ^
Good point: I can relate. When I was in the student section the band played directly across from us. I sat in the student section again after they had moved the band into the section, and I remember not being able to hear much. Never understood why they never mic'ed the damn band.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:37 AM ^
As others have stated, nobody can hear the band anyway, so until they either A) mic the sh*t out of the band where it sits in its current location, or B) move them to the top of the stadium in one of the endzones, I am fine with a little bit of RAWK music.
September 7th, 2009 at 12:52 AM ^
I'm surprised I'm the first to mention this, but what about C) play prerecorded MMB music that the WHOLE crowd can hear instead of Neil Diamond and ACDC.
Sure, it isn't ideal. Neither is RAWK music in the Big House.
There has to be some way to make the band more audible, and some way to inform the powers that be about the issue.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:50 AM ^
But I liked the way they did it. It wasn't played too much, and the only piped in music was played to interact with the fans (Sweet Caroline and Don't Stop Believin') or pump them up (Hells Bells, Welcome to the Jungle, etc.). If they played it over the band or all the time that would have been annoying. But it was done during random delays or coming out of extended commercials, which fit in nicely.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:05 AM ^
The Band? You mean the one 80 percent of the stadium cant even hear?
I'm fine with RAWK music, especially as it was done today. I'd ditch the Journey, though. Its not the JLA.
The AC/DC they played, I thought at least, was Shook Me All Night Long. And, in my section people we kind of in to it.
A lot more than we were for Thriller. We wanted to groove to Thriller but we cant hear ya up there.
September 6th, 2009 at 2:01 AM ^
blasphemy.
steve perry may not live on the charts but he lives on in my heart.
September 6th, 2009 at 1:38 AM ^
Was the student section yelling at the rest of the stadium when they wouldnt continue the wave, cause thats what it seemed like to me
September 6th, 2009 at 2:48 AM ^
Yeah, we basically booed the west side at the 50 yard line because they wouldn't continue the wave.
But they did get it, eventually, so we were happy, we cheered for them once they got it lol
September 6th, 2009 at 8:32 AM ^
I always have to chuckle when I see the "wave" for the first time in a season. The fact that it remains not only popular year-in and year-out at M Stadium, but that it always starts at the student section blows my expectations. Seriously, the wave is about as old-school crowd antics fun as you can get---think waaaaay before LED screens showed crystal-clear replays and ads (sorry, PSAs, no ads in the Stadium, right?) during breaks--but it remains popular with the trendiest and most fickle of all fans--the student section.
Hard to believe that the same wave I learned about during those awesome days in Tiger Stadium in 1984, and the same wave that I thought was played-out by my UM days in the 90s is still done with boos, cheers, and laughter in 2000-freakin-9. I still don't ever do it, but I guess I can respect it a little more now.
September 6th, 2009 at 8:57 AM ^
The Wave is fun and popular at Michigan Stadium because it's not simply the wave.
When you have a slow motion wave then a super fast wave, then two waves going at once in opposite directions.... that's awesome.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:16 AM ^
...it's not like their have been any improvements or even changes in like 20 years at M Stadium! Which is why I'm still amazed at it's popularity. It IS, however, an excellent barometer of a blowout.
September 6th, 2009 at 9:27 AM ^
I was never a fan of the wave during my undergrad. The way we do it isn't unique. There are a few other schools who do the same sequence. The wave isn't a great football cheer. It quiets the crowd when we're on defense and distracts people from the game at hand.
But at the same time, I wouldn't mind it nearly as much if it was used, as you put it, as a "barometer of a blowout." It just seems that too often it is brought in way too early.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:34 PM ^
It is pretty cool when almost all of the players are looking at the wave go around the stadium. even when they are on defense and should be looking at something else
September 6th, 2009 at 2:08 PM ^
i think the Wave was ALWAYS too early. LOL (OK, OK, i'm done writing revisionist history about L-L-oyd...i still love the guy.)
September 6th, 2009 at 4:22 PM ^
Oh yeah, I agree 100% about the "Barometer of a blowout" line. It should only be done late the third or fourth quarter and only when we have an insurmountable lead.
Much like "It's Great to be a Michigan Wolverine" should only be done in the waning seconds of a major victory (curses to M cheerleaders who tried to get it started during the Michigan-Oklahoma bball game).
September 6th, 2009 at 10:15 AM ^
on TV from this year to last year. Obviously it's a different team, but the climate just looked different - EVERYONE seemed to be up, yelling, having a good time (not just the students like usual). I'll tell you though, the loudest thing that registered on TV was the "Rich Rod-ri-guez" cheer. You could tell he was trying not to smile...
September 6th, 2009 at 12:10 PM ^
Maybe it was just the people on the south side of the stadium, but we couldn't hear the band playing before the game on the field at all. It was so loud, nobody could hear the band. I was really surprised at how big of a difference there was. Also, it seemed like this got people more excited or something, because we stood a lot more during the game. Maybe not on offense, but on defensive plays everybody was standing (except for first down most of the time). I was really impressed and hopefully it carries over to Notre Dame with even more noise.
September 6th, 2009 at 8:32 PM ^
There's a single section between the band and myself, and I could barely hear them.
September 7th, 2009 at 12:32 AM ^
My Seats are in Section (16)
I can not hear them during the game. I looked over and saw the instruments moving in unison, and said to my 12 yr old son, do you have any idea what they are playing? He couldn't tell either..