Overhang at The Big House

As long as they add hang-overs, too, if you know what I'm sayin'

The Bog House sounds like a seedy dive bar one goes to after a game.

I'd rather build an upper deck in the north endzone and widen the seats. Build a new scoreboard on top of that.

I read Yost designed the stadium to hold a 300,000 capacity. If you build it, they will come. 

If they can do one in Rome, they can do one at Michigan Stadium.

I think they should build a dome and have glass pods suspended from it where you can hang over the field and watch the game with a birdseye view of the action. 

Shit, just make it a half open dome! 

I've always wished it had some kind of upper deck. Those games shake the stadium.

But I second widening the seats. It's ridiculous how narrow they are. 

Bog House may not work for us, but it would be an apt nickname for Notre Dame Stadium, especially since their stadium is a smaller replica of the Big House and the Fighting Irish play there.

Someone on here photoshopped a partial and full upper bowl a few years ago.  I thought it looked fantastic. 

I do think they did a tremendous job with the renovations, suites, and new scoreboards; the masonry especially looks beautiful from the outside.

However, there was something special about the open stadium with a small scoreboard and a press box that looked like a gust of wind could blow it over, poorly irrigated grass field, and marshmallows flooding the end zone. Not saying it was better than what we have right now, but it did have a special feel to it

I’ve thought the same thing, for what that’s worth. 

I've always been in favor of either an upper deck on one or both endzones or a canopy a la the Washington Huskies or numerous European soccer stadiums (I think FSU has a small canopy as well).  Don't think we need something quite as big as the double awning the Seahawks have, but having a bit of protection for fans during shit weather as well as better trapping the noise of 100,000 is always gonna be a yes in my book

Doubt anymore additions happen

there isn’t the budget for it and we aren’t filling the stadium now.

For them to figure a way to add an overhang just for a louder venue makes no sense at this point.

they may upgrade the scoreboards at some point, that was coming before the pandemic ruined everything (thanks China) 

I think they should cover the entire top of the stadium with glass. The rationale would be three-fold: First, trap sound, making the stadium insanely loud; second, trap heat, making those November games bearable; and thirdly, you could sell 30,000 extra tickets to fans willing to watch the game from above, perhaps lying on their stomachs.

EDIT: Four-fold: insane up-skirt action like that new art exhibit in NYC…

If anything programs will be looking to scale back their massive stadiums as less and less people choose in-person over watching on TV.

All but the most dominant programs will struggle to fil their stadiums in...5 years ago. The time in now, haha. It's not coming but a current reality.

Awnings are just not standard offerings in American football stadia. They are common in European soccer facilities, of course, but those also have different weather patterns. At Michigan Stadium you might get one or at most two games with precipitation a year, and you often get none. And, as others have said, the shade would get quite cold for half of the year, offsetting any comfort gains. 

It makes sense in Seattle because it is so rainy. Doesn't hurt that it's really fun, of course.

But, from a practical standpoint, there's not much call for it. It would look really cool, though, if done right. And a smaller awning, like what there is at Comerica Park (college football examples include one end zone at Neyland and Bryan-Denny) could make some aesthetic sense without breaking the bank. But whatever would happen would be downstream of another major renovation, such as the second-deck concept discussed in this thread. 

And, for what it's worth, while it would be an expensive way to not really gain any new seats, it's not outlandish. Michigan Stadium is the biggest facility by capacity, but if you've been to other stadiums (particularly modern NFL behemoths) you know that it's far from the largest in physical size. So if they were to build a second deck, it might lift people away from the field a bit, but they'd still be closer than, say, upper deck seats in US Bank Stadium. 

The Bog House should be the official home of the Mud Bowl.