OT: What's the worst big ten stadium?
Has to be either High Point Solutions Stadium, Ross Ade Stadium, or Spartan Stadium. I couldn't find a bathroom to save my life in EL or Piscataway and Ross Ade is always 40 percent full when we play there. Memorial Stadium (Champaign) and Byrd Stadium are probably up there too.
April 20th, 2017 at 12:43 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 12:45 PM ^
I disagree. It looks generic and the weird positioning of the videoboards make it look like it was slapped together. The exterior boxes look ok because they match a lot of the rest of campus, I guess.
Well, yeah... They want thier fans to feel at home.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:08 PM ^
with your kid.
It's not the stadium that is the problem and ... you can't divorce one from the other.
....agreed, any stadium with these type of inhabitants, must be at the top of the list....
Rutgers AKA 'tgers
you and wd always brighten my day with such charm and personality.
I disagree that it's as good as ours. Because of the overhangs there is obstructed view seating in what should otherwise be great seats. I'm not saying it's a bad stadium, but the bowl design is superior.
"it's not as good as ours" is an actual copy-paste quote from the post you are responding to. It has flaws, and the B-level is ridiculous. But I don't think you read my post correctly.
April 20th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
Is this referring to the Horseshoe? It's certainly not the worst - not even in the bottom half. Aesthetically it's not as nice as Michigan Stadium or Kinnick, but it's not bad and their environment is top 10 in college football.
10,000 OSU alumni and 74,000 truck drivers sounds pretty terrible to me....
I think the discussion is the toilet itself, not the shit in it.
You messed up the quote, but the sentiment is correct!
Ufer said '10,000 Meeechigan football fans, and 80,000 truck drivers.' (Or whatever the actual number was for the truck driver part...)
April 21st, 2017 at 12:22 AM ^
(short pause) and 74,000 truck drivers".
and while we're at it, what is ohio going to do when they are displaced as truck drivers by robots?
April 21st, 2017 at 10:40 AM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
April 20th, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
Well Ryan Field is easily number one, and Northwestern doesn't give a shit about it. I played in front of more people in high school than they do for most of their home games.
Second worst is Spartan Stadium. That place is a hell hole. Just a giant, cement trash pit.
April 20th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
small, but fine. i know there are bigger high school stadiums in texas.
my brother played there. i've seen a bunch of games at ryan over the years. always enjoyed it.
Just being small does not make for a bad environment. It's a more intimate feel, and can be a lot of fun (Tim B fumbles excepted).
Their wildcat sound through the PA does get a bit tiring, however.
Ageed. I saw a fair number of games there as a kid, along with hoops at Welsh/Ryan and though small, not a bad stadium.
April 20th, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
I actually like Ryan Field. The hedges they have north of the endzone are nice. Not an intimidating place at all but nice place to catch a game.
That's true, and Michigan does basically split attendance with their fans when we are there. The bleachers on the visitors' sideline just kill me - those are HS level bleachers, Northwestern. Have some pride in your facilities.
I've been to several Big Ten Stadiums, and out of all of them, Ryan Field at Northwestern was the worst. It is in kind of a cool spot, but the actual facility isn't great. We sat first row by one of the corners and there was a track/sidewalk for people to walk to other sections right in front of us, so people were constantly in your way of watching the game. Not to mention because of the giant path, even when you have seats close to the field, you are still far away viewing wise.
must not include Spartan Dump Site. Easily worst in the B1G. Parking sucks, the ramps to the upper levels suck, zero space for concessions, the seating is bolted right to the concrete and very uncomfortable. Easily worst I've been to - haven't gone to Rutgers, Maryland or Nebraska, but will be going to Camp Randall for the 1st time in November.
Go Blue!
April 20th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
not even close
April 20th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
It would be easier to list the good ones ...
MICHIGAN STADIUM
ohio stadium (sorry, true)
Happy Valley
Kinnick (atmosphere)
Camp Randall
April 20th, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
My list tho
Michigan stadium
Shoe
Camp Randall
Minnesota (its new so it's nice)
Nebraska
Happy valley
Kinnick
Illinois
Indiana
NW
Purdue
MSU it truly is a dump
Never been to Maryland or Rutgers and don't really plan on it any time soon, so they got left off
The last time Michigan played at Camp Randall, I took this to the game:
Now, this...this cart had to have spawned one hell of a tailgate, Miller notwithstanding.
As for the question the OP poses, I guess among the ones I've visited over the years, it's probably a tie between Ross-Ade and Spartan Stadium for aesthetic reasons mainly. Ryan Field, while amateur-looking is not the worst place to see a game, lack of amenities aside.
I was very disappointed in Beaver Stadium. Looks like seats were added hodge podge. The entrance I came in had exposed girders and a dirt foundation.
I agree...it is big but was expanded largely by adding pieces with disparate architecture and the pieces don't mesh terribly well, at least aesthetically. Like the rest of State College, it is also in the middle of nowhere.
PSU was considering a new stadium.
As for which stadium is worst, I'd suggest it is the one you lose in.
I do not like Beaver Stadium, at all. It's a total patchwork quilt of a stadium and very aestheticaly awkward. The environment there is undeniable, however, the stadium and people blow.
Yeah, Beaver Stadium looks like an erector set gone haywire. But the atmosphere was top notch when I went to the '97 game. This was before everyone realized what abysmal trash that schools coach turned out to be. Not to mention the 'fans' that still support him...
I always described it as Kinex (if you or your children ever played with those)! Also maybe God needed to dump a bunch of scrap metal and Happy Valley actually has a giant magnet underneath it.
I was there four years ago and, while the stadium was, indeed, ugly, the thing I found most jarring were all the signs and lights and noise from the PA system. There was aparetly a giant toilet hooked to the PA that loudly flushed several times during the game, and there was a sort of video board on the face of the upper deck that flashed the words to all the cheeers, like the people couldn't remember the words to "We are... Penn State!" unless reminded. All very weird and cheesy.
I must say that the fans around me were great. Knowledgable and respectful even when Michigan played like crap.
I've never been to a game there but I went to a hockey game at Pegula and walked by the stadium. It looks like some kind of basterdized erector set and looks structurally unsound. The exterior of the bleachers are just so steep and vertical and it looks patchwork. Ugly stadium
Ugly and unstable looking
that's the best angle and picture I've ever seen from the outside !!! If you come in on 322 you can actually see it from 5 miles away ... and it starts looking worse the closer you get ...
Go Blue!
PS - they are going to put a new facade on it soon.