The future of Michigan Stadium
Adding a restaurant in either the north or south endzone.
Cracker Barrel?
Maize and Blue in South End zone.
Finally went to Zingerman's last Friday before softball, kind of wish I didn't. Not a huge deli guy but fuck was that a good sandwich. Will require more visits. Also tried out hopcat on Sunday and was happy with my meal there too, the fries were some of the best I've had
and the pregame/postgame meal for the team.
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...
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.
Maybe, but the acoustics are no much better as before all the sound just went straight up and out, now at least the opposition can hear the fans and this will no doubt help make it tougher to play in the Big House for the opposition.
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.
That's how Century Link was designed, to trap and echo the noise from the fans directly back on to the field, which is why it's absurdly loud.
I love the brick exterior. It resembles the Roman Colesseum and helps keep the sound in.
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.
"we can't fill up the ones we have now for every game"
I'm pretty sure our new coach will reverse that trend.
When the winning comes back, 120,000 seats could easily be filled. My guess is that it won't happen until somebody else tries to have the largest stadium and forces Michigan to add more seats.
A&M's expansion of Kyle Field pushed them over 105,000. Texas will try to go up to 114,000 when they enclose the south end zone of DKR. I think 120,000 should be our goal especially when Harbaugh gets us back to our winning ways.
When the winning comes back, 120,000 seats could easily be filled. My guess is that it won't happen until somebody else tries to have the largest stadium and forces Michigan to add more seats.
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.
Winning will bring people back in droves. Those who boiught in this year (on the 3 pack deal from last year or for $150 in April) have bought low. There will be demand. An MNC in the next 10 years and you have to be looking at 120k
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.
I think it looks sweet from the outside, but I loved the bowl look inside. And the big blue walls look kind of dumb and tacked on. I'd rather have them gone but obviously that ship sailed a long time ago.
I agree and will add that the uniforms of the 1893 team were just fine and didn't need all the fancy crap, but I suppose it's too late now.
Which one's Prettyman?
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
I'm pretty sure the Y is a legends patch honoring 1879 (Team 1) member Richard Guy DePuy.
- Richard Guy DePuy,[22] Jamestown, North Dakota – rusher (with the ball); starter against Racine and Toronto
Killebrew played his whole career with Washington Senators/MN Twins (after they moved). I know this become I'm so damned old I watched him play. Now Frank Robinson wore stuff like that for the Reds.
Excuse me while I go yell at a cloud.
You're old enough to have watched Harmon Killebrew play baseball? And you know how the internet works? Herm is that you??
Go to a Lions or any other pro game if you want restaurants and corporate suites dragging the atmosphere down.
Yost would be turning over in his grave at the thought of that tacky restaurant BS in the stadium.
Hell, Yost's grandson tried to stop the plans for suites in 2006 with the Save The Big House campaign.
Yost would also be turning over in his grave if he knew we had a black quarterback. I'm not terribly concerned about conforming the program to his standards.
I honestly cannot figure out how you got to be so get-off-my-lawny about the stadium and so dazzle-eyed enthusiastic about uniformz.
Haha not even uniforms but fucking socks and gloves
You like everything old. The stadium is fantastic the way it is now.
BTB or a five guys?
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Fiber optic field turf so that block M can be seen from space.
That would be amazing
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amaizeing
We hope
We're recruiting workers, not "hope"ers. Harbaugh.
We work.
I like the way I said it better
Next round of renovations should be a second deck the goes from the current towers, along the rim, and around the scoreboard.
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.
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.
I don't get it, but I'm not a Packers fan. I actually feared the Lambeau ring of suites around the top of Michigan Stadium when I first heard about our expansion plans.
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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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.
And the ring should be made of bright yellow aluminum siding for a touch of class.
Brightly painted 18-gauge steel. Manly and straightforward.
...calling Howard Roark! (though John Galt could probably get it done as well)
I'd rather hire Galt to make an engine powered on excess Harbaugh energy/Cracker Barrel/whole milk.
Is Ragnar a free agent yet? Hiring a pirate to fuck with Meyer and Dantonio actually seems fitting at the moment.