The final touch to the Big House

NO.

The Big House doesn't need fancy signs and gaudy, tawdry embellishment.  It's an iconic structure whose beauty and awe is derived from its simplicity.  It's minimalist approach is what makes it so special.  You remember the halo?  We don't need to bring that back.

We have commemorative plaques and displays throughout the stadium.  Banners or signs are tacky (for football), and would do nothing but make us look insecure.

We could stick them onto the glass of the boxes.

How about some maize-and-blue Elivis impersonators, with little Wolverines dancing in cages?  Wait, I know; air fresheners.  But instead of little pine tree things, we'll have actual pine trees!

Thoughts?

I agree. Their is a lot of blue there. I think doing something to spruce it up is a excellent idea.



Not sure exactly what though.

i too thought the blue siding looked a little bland.  big ten championship years, national championship years and "Michigan Stadium" would be nice.  a listing of hall of famers or a "ring of honor" wouldn't be cool with me since michigan is all about the team, the team, the team.  and definitely no mottos or even the fight song -- remember the halo?

The East and West Concourses have the National Championships and All-Americans listed.  They look fine where they are.

We already have a "Ring of Champions" (or something like that) in one of the four plazas outside the bowl.  The championship years are engraved on the four pillars.  And now we have the little displays in the concourses.  That's enough. 

I think this is an AWEOSME idea.  I think it would be a goo idea to put like a maize little around the stadium top too.  Maybe to look a little more unizue.  We should also have a couple night games.  I've always wondered why UM being the bestest ever doesn't have night games.  Wheat do you all think about this idea?

I know what your thinking and I think it could be pulled off.  however, I think its been attempted two different ways with no success for different reasons and I like whats done now

1. Halo....nuff said.  The outside of the stadium has always been the most intriguing of any I've seen.  It even bothered some the boxes made it look bigger from the outside....and...maybe it did lose a bit of that feeling, but, the change is welcome and looks great.

2. Current scoreboards....They were awsome, but, look cheap now don't they? How about that roadside billboard scroll at the bottom of it.  Things get dated faster then you think and the scoreboards are now the eyesore...still nice....just not as nice as the rest.  Simple holds longer

So what works? you DO have to honor.  Well, the deals they have up in the concorse are very nice....AND....that is the one area of the stadium that is blah.  Its just enough

The problem with adding anymore to the stadium is your attention now is always being pushed down to the field. The way it should be. Don't but butterflies in the outfield for the special kids.

The "halo"...

The '59 Edsel ...

New Coke ...

Michigan Stadium on one side The Team, The Team, The Team one the other.

Im ready to watch next year's game against Notre Dame under the lights baby!

...Glick Fieldhouse earlier this year.  Courtesy MVictors.com:

Championships:

Bowl victories:

several ACC school football stadiums, a couple ot the PAC 10 and a couple of the SEC.

And I have to say, whenver I see the walls plastered with retired jersey numbers, the "ring of honor," the years that they won the league title back before the World War, I think, "cheesy."  I think that they really must've had an angry old alumnus who was determined that his donation was going to go to a memorial of ol' Elroy, or some such character.  And it always ends up looking like the decorations in a 14 year-old boy's bedroom. 

What happened with the lettering that was on the old pressbox? They should put that on side of the new addition.

The entire stadium should be encased in a gigantic maize & blue funnel that will extend 9,000 feet into the sky, topped by a rotating Block M that will be visible from Toronto on a clear day.  This wil (a) hold in the noise better, thus contributing to our home-field advantage, and (b) "let muthafuckas know."

Nice ad image, but I think the level of suckitude that the Halo achieved was far greater than that poor misbegotten automobile reached. I really like how those geniuses ran part of "The Victors" behind the scoreboard.

Now, I think that Death Valley is one of the great scenes in college football.  They have a nice stadium.  Its a fantastic game-day experience.  The Hill, Howard's Rock, etc., etc.

But somebody insisted on doing this:

Now, all I need to know is whether you can get those letters at Home Depot, or do you have to go to Lowe's?  And are they the self-adhesive kind, or do you have to buy extra epoxy?

the fear of putting up the stadium equivalent of a lower back butterfly tattoo.

but  the blue does kind of look like it's waiting for something to go on it. 

the right words in maize could be iconic. even if those words are just "michigan stadium" or "hail to the victors."

The new structures from the ouside look great but on the inside the new boxes look too plain.  I wish UM would have Michigan Stadium or something painted on the blue.  Kinda like the Rose Bowl has on the face of the RB's press box.