How many away Big Ten Stadiums/Arenas have you been to?
Iowa, Indiana, and Northwestern. All football. Kinnick is really kick ass at night.
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These circle jerk threads are so fucking lame. Everyone just opens the thread and brags about their experience without looking at anyone else's post? At least the "what are you drinking?" threads is good way for us to get drunk as we brag about who is a more sophisticated alcoholic.
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Ooh, someone skipped his Cheerios this morning.
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Football
MSU
Wisconsin
NW
Iowa
Purdue
IU
Basketball
i think just NW
that said I’ve been to 2 Michigan Rose Bowls, Sugar Bowl, Cowboy Stadium. And basketball all three recent LA regional games, one recent final four, and both recent finals.
been to ~20-25 other power 5 stadiums.
MSU, Wisconsin, Nebraska, OSU, Purdue, Northwestern, Illinois, Rutgers. Visited stadiums of Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana, but not for games.
Basketball - also just Northwestern.
Hey, we were at the Rose Bowl ('98) together, man! (Not sitting together, my ticket ended up being fake, but part of the same travel gang.)
Oh man I've told that story several times over the years. I think we realized a few of you accidentally bought fakes when the tickets didn't have the raised stamped lettering or something. And we were paranoid that the ticket taker was feeling for that on the ticket. So we tried to distract him. I forget, where did you guys end up sitting then? Think the fakes were all for the same pair of seats.
I was on my own as nobody from our group was in my section. Luckily some random guy pointed out to me that my ticket was fake before going in. He and his girlfriend also had fakes, and all three tickets were for the same seat. And you remember exactly right. The gold lettering that said 84th Rose Bowl Game was shiny, not sparkly, and flat, not raised. At the entrance gate they were checking that exact section.
So I first scouted which of the guys looked the laziest about checking and went to his line. When I got to him, I kept my ticket in my right hand as far away as possible, and shoved my camera bag towards him asking him "Is this OK to bring in??" "It's just a camera? You're fine, go ahead." The guards at the section were all 84 years old themselves, so it was easy to evade them.
But then I got to "my" seat, smack dab in the lower level of the WSU section. Stuff 20-25 extra fans into a packed Rose Bowl, most of them Michigan fans in the other team's area, and you can imagine how heated things started to get. I decided to move location, and just seat-hopped whenever someone got up to go to the bathroom or get a drink, until finally I found one where the guy just didn't come back.
Also, Michigan won the national championship, which was not fake. What a time!
football: state, IU and northwestern. ND, too which is kind of a B10 team.
EDIT: i see people are mentioning rose bowls. i've been to at least 4 of those.
hockey: played at munn, only wiscon and minny, besides state, were in the CCHA in my time.
Football:
msu
The Shoe
Big House
Rutgers
Bball:
crisler
Breslin
Ohio state
Football:
PSU, Purdue, Sparty, Ohio St. (I really liked Ohio Stadium as a building- thought others all sucked) bonus l: rose bowl is the best football venue I have ever been too, but Jerry World was a neat experience
hoops: only sparty bonus the pit in Albuquerque is a cool place to see a basketball game
Oops. I almost forgot, been to Cameron Indoor stadium 4 times for Duke games and I hate duke, but that is the best place on earth to see a basketball game imho.
Agree that PSU and MSU stadiums are terrible. At least PSU makes up for it with the atmosphere.
UofM, MSU, OSU, NW, IU, Iowa, Illinois + ND, Jerry’s world vs Bama and 97 Rose Bowl.
Been outside Kinnick on a random day in May when I was staying in Iowa City.
Went to the game at Camp Randall last year. Wisconsin fans really don't like Michigan but they keep the Midwest nice on. I was half-heartedly cheering for all the bombs we were hitting in garbage time and lots of them got way saltier than they should have been.
Bonus: Walked halfway up the tunnel of Vanderbilt Stadium the other day, pretty basic but they have some hedges and nice brickwork going on.
Only MSU. I was a poor as hell when I was there and moved away when I graduated.
All but Nebraska for football. Also, Cowboy Stadium, Citrus Bowl, Outback Bowl, Notre Dame, and Connecticut,
Football: Northwestern
Basketball: Breslin center at MSU
Hockey (also including CCHA venues) Spartan Stadium, Munn Ice Arena, Lawson Arena (WMU), Omaha Civic Center (UNO), Schottenstein Center (OSU), and I've walked around Mariucci (Minn).
I've also been to bowl games in Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville and Numerous Frozen Fours (far less of which involved UM than I'd like).
Football: Illinois (09), NW (07, 11).
Basketball: Staee (06). Lots of concrete. Terrible arena which was not a surprise.
Indiana, Purdue and Michigan State.
Iowa. Wisconsin. Indiana. Notre Dame. Utah. Illinois. NW. Penn State. Rose Bowl.
I'll never go to Columbus or East Lansing.
I've only been to the Horseshoe. It was the one Michigan-OSU game that I've seen in person. And honestly, it was pretty great. There was no missing that it was an event with great passion and years of history behind it. I came away with more respect for Ohio State than I had before the Game.
Football:
Michigan
Ohio State (watch yourself)
Wisconsin (great time, great area, bad outcome)
Iowa (far surpassed my expectations, Kinnick at night rocked, again bad outcome)
Michigan State (trashy)
Maryland/DC (during a "hurricane", beautiful campus, sell beer and friendly)
Rutgers/ NY (definitely New Jersey!, again bad outcome)
Purdue (Well, we won)
when you said Rutgers bad outcome I was confused, but then I remembered a game that I think I blocked out of my head rather successfully for the past 6 years.
I've been to 4 football stadiums...basically anywhere UM plays in the Northeast. I've been to UCONN where we got luxury box tickets, which was really cool. I've been to Rutgers a few times. I've been to Maryland once. And, I've been to PSU several times.
Football I am just missing Minnesota. Doesn’t look like I’ll make it this year.
No BigTen stadiums, but I did see games in the following
Owens stadium: Norman, Oklahoma
the glass bowl, toledo, Ohio
Doyt-Perry (?), Bowling Green, Ohio
I grew up in Ohio and didn’t step foot in C-bus until I was 50.
All 10 of the pre-expansion Big 10 football stadiums but none of the four faux 10. Michigan Stadium literally hundreds of times, @Purdue 7(?) games, @Northwestern 8 games, @Indiana twice, @ Minnesota twice(once each at the Metrodome and TCF Bank Stadium, and once each at osu, msu, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
Basketball: Crisler approximately 2 dozen games, also Purdue, Northwestern, IU, and Breslin once each.
Hockey: Yost ~two dozen games, ND 3 games, WMU (when they were in the CCHA with us) approx. 6 games, Munn once.
edit: also Ferris State once
12 of 14 for football. 3 of 14 for basketball (U-M, MSU, PSU).
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Focusing on football. All but Rutgers and Nebraska. My school plays at both in 2020, so the plan was to complete the list. Probably won't happen now, of course.
In terms of my rankings:
(1) Campus/stadiums that I liked (as do most people): Indiana, Michigan, Northwestern
(2) Campus/stadiums that I liked but I feel many don't (I view as under-rated): Maryland, Michigan State, Ohio State
(3) Campus/stadiums that I didn't like but I feel many do (I view as over-rated): Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin
(4) Campus/stadiums that I didn't like at all (as do most people): Illinois, Purdue
Ryan Field - Evanston is beautiful, but Ryan Field is a glorified high school stadium. There’s nothing special about it.
Ohio Stadium - I was not harassed as much as I thought I’d be, but this was also for the 2014 game. I don’t think anyone outside of the student section hated on and heckled Michigan that day. They just felt sorry for Michigan. The guy sitting behind me said he wanted Michigan to be good again. He wanted OSU to be challenged.
Outside of this, I’ve been to Sanford Stadium to see Georgia play Auburn, went to Army-Navy in 2016 where Army won for the first time in I think 15 years, and went to this year’s Red River Rivalry in Dallas.
Football: 4/14
Basketball: 2/14
Just one. Wisconsin 1997.
Been on the field of 14/14 football stadiums. I'd say it's definitely worth experiencing each stadium once!
Only 7/14 basketball arenas (and Ohio State's was during a hockey game).
I have been to the following:
The Big House
Wisconsin (also 1997, National Championship Baby!)
Illinois
Purdue
On campus for games, but not in the stadium:
MSU
ND- 1990 while on the UM rugby team. Only bar brawl I have ever been a part of. Pretty scary, but no major injuries on either side fortunately
For football I've been everywhere but Nebraska.
Best: It's probably Ohio St. but it hasn't been enjoyable since 00, so I'll go with Iowa.
Worst: A few in the running but I'll say Illinois.
Basketball: MSU
Football: MD, MSU, NW, OSU and Wisconsin and three Rose Bowls (ironically the first Rose Bowl was Iowa v. Washington).
Football (4/14): Michigan Stadium, Spartan Stadium, Camp Randall, and Ryan Field
Basketball (2/14): Crisler and Breslin
Notes: The trip to Wisconsin was well worth it. The people, stadium environment, tailgating scene, Madison as a whole, etc made for a very fun trip (despite our loss in 2017). The Jump Around is overrated in my opinion, however. Ryan Field is a hilarious pipsqueak of a big ten stadium. Probably 50% Michigan fans, stadium speakers are only located in one endzone, lame student section cheers. The tailgating environment was fun but very different; all very nice homes (as opposed to the 100-year old dilapidated college houses you see in other college towns) and the only place selling alcohol we could find was a craft beer store. We missed the first 7 minutes of the game because we had to wait for the NW band to get seated. And hate to say it, but the Izzone is the best student section of any stadium/arena I listed.
Also been to the Rose Bowl and Notre Dame Stadium.
Football: NW, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Wisconsin, Iowa, Toilet Bowl
For basketball, Welsh Ryan at NW.
Football: All Big10 and ND (three times, still haven't seen M win there) except Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers. Favorites are Kinnick and Happy Valley; honorable mention to the new TCF in Minnesota (Metrodome was horrible). Least favorites: Illinois and Purdue.
Bowls: '86 Fiesta, '87 Rose and '98 Outback
Basketball: only IU, but that's a great place to see a game.
Only been inside the Big House. I've walked by/parked in front of Spartan Stadium many times, since it's just across the river from the College of Music building up there.
Fun story- in 2010, I went up to MSU to get a lesson with the trombone professor there, and we met on saturday early afternoon, the day of UM-MSU that year, when the game was in Ann Arbor. As I was walking down the sidewalk back to my car, just about 10 minutes before kickoff (I was planning on listening to the game on the radio on the way home) a couple in their car pulled over next to me, rolled their windows down, and started frantically asking where the stadium was. I pointed to Spartan Stadium, right on the other side of the street, and said "it's right there." They then asked "well, then where is the game??" And they shoved their tickets out of the window at me. I said "oh- it's in Ann Arbor this year. See? Your tickets are maize and blue, and that's a picture of MICHIGAN Stadium. You probably should have left 6 or so hours ago." They scowled and drove off.
EDIT: I've been to graduation ceremonies in Crysler Arena and at the Breslin Center, but not games. And if I can brag a bit, since I've mentioned the music thing a couple times- I've performed at Hill Auditorium a few dozen times, Rackham Auditorium a couple times, Stamps Auditorium and Britten Recital Hall; a few dozen performances at the Wharton Center, Fairchild Theater, and Cook Recital Hall (I gave the first trombone recital in there after it opened), plus single performances at Northwestern's Pick-Staiger concert hall, and the large concert hall at Penn State, the name of which escapes me right now.
how about you do some more bragging by posting a link or two to some fancy performance where you were playing. guessing you have some that we'd all enjoy.
(Sorry to hijack the discussion here for a second- the point of thr venues list is that those are all of the Big Ten venues in which I've performed, sorry if that wasn't clear) Yeah, I can do that if you're interested. Unfortunately, there aren't any videos from what I was at UofM- I was there from 2008 to 2010, before colleges had really started doing a lot of filming of concerts and putting them on youtube. I am on a bunch of videos from MSU ensembles, though- here's one of the ones I'm most proud of.
I've got a personal youtube channel, but I dont know that I'm super comfortable posting it, since it's just under my real name.
Only been to UM, Illinois, MSU and Nebraska. Been to the shoe, but not on game day.
Nebraska has an awesome game day experience. Great stadium.
Also ND and the Rose Bowl a couple times, including ‘97. Was planning for Washington this year, but right now I’d just be happy to see it on TV....
Football: been to away games at Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Purdue, Minnesota, and MSU.
Basketball: none - do people really go to to road basketball games? I’m sure they do. It just never occurred to me as I dont live in B1G country anymore
All 14 stadiums/3 arenas (Michigan, MSU, and Purdue)
Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, MSU and of course Michigan. All football.
Also, went to Jerry world twice, Rose bowl in 2005 and went to FedEx field for Army v Navy.
spartan stadium three times, none against UM. 1966, 1975, 1987.
breslin for high school playoffs
Rose Bowl twice
UM@ Hawaii 1998