How can we make The Big House a more intimidating place to play?
I don't feel like The Big House really gives us that home field advantage like it should. What do you think Michigan should do to change that (besides the obvious like have a better OL or QB)?
Do you put in more stadium suites to help hold in the sound? Do you kick out all of the fans that say "down in front"? Expand the student section?
October 9th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
Not aware of any video of this happening in the stadium yet. Maybe somebody could record it when we play Rutgers in a few weeks.
But I do think it would be a great tradition. If done the right way, over a period of 10 years or so, you would definitely get the whole stadium doing it since eventually those students would filter into the general population of the stadium--plus non-students who are pretty die hard fans would learn it too.
It's not really a cheer so much as an incantation.
And it'd work well because the length of it only works during relatively quiet periods of the game, and a TV time out would be the perfect time to do this. Plus the content of the speech is for EXACTLY when a team is down & might feel tempted to quit or to start finger-pointing or blaming each other for a bad turn of events.
Definitely would put chills up the spine of any player listening to the crowd.
October 9th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
Sacrifice a virgin before each game. In a violent, bloody fashion...
October 9th, 2017 at 3:01 PM ^
Heads impaled on spikes - starting with the next wide receiver who drops a wide open pass in the final minute, or an OC who calls a 3rd-and-6 draw play with five minutes left in the game.
October 9th, 2017 at 4:41 PM ^
Where would you find one?
October 9th, 2017 at 4:53 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 6:30 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 1:49 PM ^
All played by the UM marching band.
Also, murder all of the DJ(s).
October 9th, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^
Sabbath. Yes. I've wanted SK to spin the intro to War Pigs forever. Unfortunately we get Build Me Up, Buttercup.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
And have the other team's end zone guarded by real wolverines.
October 9th, 2017 at 1:50 PM ^
On a less sarcastic note, completing some kind of structure similar to the suites that encloses the bowl would increase the noise. That's not happening for a while.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 2:07 PM ^
Great idea. Ruin attending the game for older folks & kids so that we *might* get an advantage that maybe doesn't mean anything anyway.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:17 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 2:49 PM ^
"Children and Old People Not Allowed"
October 9th, 2017 at 3:13 PM ^
Treat it like you would any other type of harassment. Usher tells the yeller* to be quiet or risk being ejected.
*If someone is disabled, very old, etc then some the ushers can try and talk to the standing person or make some sort of other special arrangement.
October 9th, 2017 at 1:51 PM ^
Serve alcohol in the stadium. Serve, don't sell.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:16 PM ^
from a sharknado like i suggested saturday.
October 9th, 2017 at 6:38 PM ^
"Release the robotic Richard Simmons."
October 9th, 2017 at 2:52 PM ^
if we just won?
My lord, some people...?!?
October 9th, 2017 at 1:51 PM ^
we could start sacrificing animals at midfield right before kick off.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
as long as they're not dogs
October 9th, 2017 at 7:17 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
Start winning games there. That would help.
Also, outside of the student section I've always felt like the fans going to the game are largely part of the "wine and cheese" crowd. They're not there to get up on their feet and scream all game like you'd see fans at OSU doing.
October 10th, 2017 at 2:58 PM ^
Well, they are mostly college graduates and not truck drivers.
October 9th, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^
Or give them shoddy equipment like bad medical tables and no A/C? That usually works.
October 9th, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 1:54 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 2:00 PM ^
price the tickets in a way that would bring people that actually cheer the team.
Because a very large amount of the people that are season ticket holders are rich, snobby people that use their season tickets as a "dick measurement" among their other rich snobby friends who really don't give 2 shits about what the happens on that field.
They are the same people that tell me and everybody around them to sit down when watching the game. I love the big house, and I love sharing the big house experience with my 2 boys, but man there sure is a "country club" type atmosphere in there sometimes that I feel needs to be rejuvinated with some younger fans. But it has to be affordable
October 9th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
I don't have season tix this year; last time I did was 2010, and you know what a dud that year was. I got them through a special deal offered by the Alumni Association for a very reasonable price, which is just to say I ain't rich. By a long shot.
Regardless, even with the season as poor as that one was, I can assure you that the 2010 crowds were vastly louder on a more continuous basis than were the crowds back when I had regular season tickets as a student from 1971 through 1981. The atmosphere that was typical back then was nothing less than somnolent, only occasionally punctuated by cheering after a Michigan touchdown. The only crowds that were up to our current standards for continuous, loud noise were the games for OSU, to a lesser extent MSU, and the occasional non-conference game with a program like Notre Dame.
And here's the thing: those were the days where tickets were hugely more affordable to people of average means. There were no required donations to the athletic department just to be able to purchase tickets, either.
I'm not trying to dismiss your experiences with the down-in-front blue hairs; they certainly exist today and did back then as well. I'm just saying that the income level of the fans doesn't translate directly to noise and volume.
October 9th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
You were a student from 1971 to 1981? No wonder you're not rich! It either took you forever to get a BA, or you have a Ph.D. in Neofeminist Postmodern Religious Studies or something... ;-)
October 9th, 2017 at 8:24 PM ^
and yes I'm not rich... there might be a connection.
But I got to see "Touchdown Billy Taylor" and "Johnny Wangler to Anthony Carter" and 8 Big Ten Championships in person so it was all good.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:00 PM ^
Is this a joke? The Big House was rockin'.
October 9th, 2017 at 4:13 PM ^
but I was pretty amazed at how jacked up everyone appeared to be even during the monsoon
October 9th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
The stadium atmosphere, which was electric and as loud and raucous as I've ever witnessed, had nothing to do with Michigan losing on Saturday.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:17 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
The drive our defense held MSU to the four and out turnover on downs in the 2nd half was the loudest I've ever heard the big house, and I've been to all the previous night games.
The fans brought it for our defense.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:06 PM ^
Scoring more points would be a start. Preferably touchdowns.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:06 PM ^
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October 9th, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
Gargoyles on top of the suites.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:15 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
If we're trying to get the fans to be louder, we should unleash about fifty real wolverines into the stands. That'll get people off their butts in a hurry.
October 9th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
October 9th, 2017 at 2:13 PM ^