The future of Michigan Stadium

Submitted by That's Just Kramer on

For future expansion/renovation which option would you choose...

1. Lambeau Field style south endzone upper deck with more seats

or

2. Doak Campbell Stadium/Kinnick Stadium brick endzone with fewer seating but matching the overall stadium design

 

GOBLUE4EVR

May 21st, 2015 at 3:41 PM ^

the suites for 4 seasons and zingerman's doesn't cater anything... sodexo is the catering company that the university uses for all of the atheltic venues... sodexo buys product from zingerman's and then slaps the zingerman's name on the menu to get people to order it at a much higher pricees...

now for the team that might be a different story, after RR got fired and hoke was brought in sodexo stopped doing the team meals because they weren't being held at the stadium anymore...

Wolverine Devotee

May 21st, 2015 at 3:41 PM ^

That sounds like a Brandon idea if I've ever heard one. 

Michigan Stadium does not need any of that crap. Doesn't need suites or club seats, but it's too late now. 

The stadium felt much bigger when there weren't two giant boxes making it feel boxed in.

RGard

May 21st, 2015 at 4:25 PM ^

Some bright Michigan physicist or Michigan accoustics engineer should be able to figure out some way of creating a force field or something to direct the noise back down at the field when the opposition has the ball.  The force field should be invisible to Dantonio and Urban so they  can't see it...only hear and feel the noise.

That all makes sense to me in that my concentration was History.

M-Dog

May 21st, 2015 at 4:25 PM ^

Me too.  And I don't even get to use the boxes!

I think the ship has sailed on 125,000 seat CFB stadiums.  We can probably forget about 10,000 seat additions to the end zones . . . we can't fill up the ones we have now for every game.  This is not a Michigan thing per se, it's a CFB thing in general.

Given that, I think it would look great to brick the outside of the end zones some day, so that the bricks go all the way around.  

It would look very classy, very college-y.

 

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

May 21st, 2015 at 5:16 PM ^

I don't think there need be such a gloomy prediction about the future of football attendance at Michigan.  Students are one issue, but I bet you they come back with lower prices and a team worth getting out of bed for.  But the season ticket waiting list didn't dwindle away like attendance at a lot of places.  It went poof almost overnight because Dave Brandon.  That's a very pinpointable reason.  It won't reappear overnight, but when you consider that the waiting list and attendance survived the recession, things should look a lot better in coming years, evenutally getting more like they had been pre-Brandon.

Long-term, like, 20 years, I think expansion should stay on the table.  And given the choice between having the traditional bowl shape and the biggest stadium in the country, I'd choose the latter.

wolpherine2000

May 21st, 2015 at 10:45 PM ^

It looks like what it is - a cladding on top of the actual structure of the building.  The clowns that did the last one detailed it as if it was glued on like wallpaper.  A school with one of the best architecture schools in the country should be able hire an architect who knows what they are doing.*

*Halo not included.  Presidents who don't get college football shouldn't be allowed to hire architects who don't get college football.

ST3

May 21st, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^

Talk about uniformz. Only one guy has an M sweater. Another guy has a Y on his chest. Some guys went with dark sleeves under sleeveless vests, a la Harmon Killebrew and the Cincinnati Reds. And frankly, that doesn't look like Maize to me.

/s

 

markp

May 21st, 2015 at 2:47 PM ^

Next round of renovations should be a second deck the goes from the current towers, along the rim, and around the scoreboard.

MinWhisky

May 22nd, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^

Last year I took an hour-long, guided tour of Lambeau Field with one of my sons.  Great lines, atmosphere, and design concepts including:

  • The entrance tunnel for the GB players is 20 feet wide, allowing them to storm the field. The opponents tunnel is only about 3 feet wide, so they can only come out one at a time.
  • A Packer football history museum adjacent to the Atrium.
  • An annexed, large store offering GB merchandise.
  • A 40 ft high, glass-sided atrium (that would be a great place for the UofM Marching Band to assemble and play before/after games).

IMO, anyone involved with modifying UofM's stadium should be required to take a tour of Lambeau. 

BigT

May 21st, 2015 at 2:48 PM ^

I've thought this ever since they renovated it. I love how they put the boxes further away from the field like Michigan did, and I think the end zone seating would be great if we could fill it. I could see another batch of suites on one end zone and another level of regular seats on the other. It would make it even louder.

SagNasty

May 21st, 2015 at 2:48 PM ^

It would be nice if there were more bathrooms or additional urinals in the existing bathrooms on the upper concourse. Other than that no further changes are needed right now.




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1464

May 21st, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^

I think we should explore putting a ring around the top of the stadium that says cool things like the lyrics to The Victors or something.  That'd be pretty cool.