Would you ever be in favor of reconfiguring the endzone seating at Michigan Stadium?
Went to the spring game yesterday and no matter how many times I walk into Michigan Stadium I am always amazed at the big cavernous bowl. Got me thinking though how different/neat it would be if the endzones were to ever have decks or be completely reconfigured making the stadium more loud/intimidating. The bowl is extremely shallow and that causes seat views closer to field level to be not as good and for noise to evaporate up. Included a few pictures of what some other schools and venues have done. I really like what LSU did especially. Thoughts?
Agreed. It always looks great in the Rose Bowl when they do this.
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It might work if done right ... but just jamming an appendage on each endzone -- or worse, on just one endzone -- would be an epic fail.
But a thin ring of 20 or so rows on each endzone so that the upper edge flowed nicely with the top of the new suites might work. Note emphasis on might.
A more important first question is why? Right now there's no compelling reason to do such a thing.
If this could allow them to widen the individual seats throughout the stadium, I'd be in favor.
That's the one problem I have with Michigan Stadium. People are bigger than they were when the stadium was built, but we're still cramming into seats designed for people in the 1920s. For the big games we're really packed like sardines.
I read your post, looked at the pictures, and still have no clue what you're talking about.
Reading comprehension is hard.
Instead of going full asshole, you could actually try to explain it to him rather than insulting him.
Says the guy who goes full asshole on the daily.
I'm an asshole to those who are to me.
You get mad and yell at people in your threads if they don't understand it or disagree.
Take any basketball thread ever on here for example.
That's mature.
Anyways, I don't think I do, but I'll try and be more cognizant of that in that future.
I'm not a chump, so I'm not gonna just let someone tell me to kill myself on twitter and let it slide. Yeah, that actually happened.
Anyways, that's my only problem with you. Every MBB thread seems to become a shouting match.
This thread isn't terrible. It's a trial balloon. Did you see my Michigan Yankee Candle thread? LOL
I'm not on twitter so I have no clue what you're talking about in terms of death threats. Hopefully they were bing facetious.
Definitely not trying to turn threads into a shouting match. Always just want good discussion.
You misread my post but frankly, I really didn't do a good job of wording it.
I addressed your first point in the first paragraph and then the second in the second. I wasn't implying that that was you that said that. It was some faceless troll.
Obligatory....
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Sorry, the hangover isn't helping.
Read it a third time and now I see what you're saying. What a dumb fucking idea.
No problem. Sorry if I was a bit of an ass to you.
What's so dumb about it? I think it would enhance the atmosphere greatly.
To me, it just looks cheap. Looks like a way to add more seats without having to add more real estate. Like adding a second level to a mobile home.
I went to a KSU vs TAMU game in Manhattan once and we had nosebleed seats. We were so frickin' high up I was getting vertigo.
One of the things I love most about the Big House is that there really are no bad seats. I don't want that to change.
Definitely agree with you there. I've never been to many of these stadiums with decks. Is it really that high up and that poor of seats?
I've only been to a couple, but in my opinion they're really, really bad. And so far away from the action.
And what is wrong with the 2 story mobile home....
I'd prefer to see the suite structures wrap around and close up both ends, but doing that would take a good number of cheaper seats away at the top of the stands. Putting a second deck on would be a challenge, since unless it overhung a huge part of the lower stands beneath it, it would have to project back out from the existing structure. There's not that much distance between the structure and Stadium Blvd on the north and the structure and Kipke Dr on the south.
Unless demand goes through the roof way over and above the available seating and stays there for several years, I don't envision any expansion or major changes in the foreseeable future. The financial cost/benefit to the athletic department doesn't seem to me to warrant it.
Unless Ross sells the Mets and the Dolphins and has a bunch of money lying around...
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Got my wealthy UM graduate donors mixed up. Thanks for the correction.
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Keep the bowl the way it is. If you wanna reconfigure it to make the stadium more loud/intimidating just enclose the endzones and add skyboxes at the top. The way attendance has been going down all around the country, I don't think there's a need for more cheap seats.
Lambeau Field is the perfect example....
Until they did this and ruined the south endzone....
Man, those south end zone seats have to suck. They're for people who just want to say they were there. I hope they're cheap.
But why stop there? We could absolutely make Michigan the most bad-ass stadium in the world with just a little work. I say we tear out both endzone seats and then stack one row...no TWO rows of seats in the middle of the field so everybody can sit around the 50 yard line.
Two words. Bad. Ass.
Bout time somebody thought about fixing that piece of shit place we play in now.
It is not fair that all the fat-cats get to sit on the 50. We need to have inclusion at the Big House. Everyone should sit on the 50. The end zones should be open with standing available.
Since the AD makes enough money, all seats should be free.
Bernie is that you???
/no politics...duck
Stairway to heaven, man.
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I'm not talking about adding capacity I'm simply talking about a reconfiguration of the endzones with the same number of seats.
if it meant that you could leave the game in less than 20 minutes. It takes forever to get out currently and I'm in row 50, if you're in the first few rows of the endzone it must be brutal waiting to get out of the stadium.
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Yeah, I mean stay and watch the band.
Soak in the atmosphere. Only gonna be able to do it 7-8 times a year including the spring game.
And then sit in traffic for an hour after tailgating and watching football all day?
People have families man. Anything to improve the flow in and out I'm for.
There is this device called television. You can see the game and you get entertained by these things they call commercials, don't have to walk far and wait in line for a bathroom or food and you are already parked at home so no commute. How great is that!
/jk
You're doing it wrong.
Walk up the bleachers and then funnel yourself through the section exit at the top.
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I don't particularly like the idea, but it could be interesting. If it could be done well, without losing the "cavernous bowl" feel, it might be cool. I feel like that'd be hard to do, though, so in general I'd be against it.
I like what LSU did. A "Welcome to the Big House" would be bad ass.
