Changes/updates you'd like to see to The Big House
With the major South Competition and Performance project completed this winter that including 3 new stadiums build on the South athletic campus and the Canham and new arena projects on their way to being presented to Regents this summer, it got me thinking "what's next?".
Now this doesn't have to be a major renovation, but what changes would you like to see to The Big House?
I'd like to see them finally paint championship years on the boxes so they aren't plain Blue anymore, maybe re-start the brick program and have people buy bricks again.
Something/anything highlighting the past players on the concourse? It seems like as far as the Big 3 sports go The Big House does the least to do that.
April 30th, 2018 at 11:13 PM ^
You guys, who want to stand up all the time, and who think that everybody should be standing up most of the time; you really need to put your money where your mouths are.
In my section, I like to sit most of the time. And I get annoyed when people stand for no reason. I am perfectly able to stand; I'd rather walk 18 holes than ride in a golf cart. I don't really mind standing up during exciting games. But I get offended by douchebags who deem themselves "better fans" than the people I sit with. Because there are very few people in the Stadium who are putting more money into Michigan athletics then the highest-level PSD-payors.
So as I say; you should put your money where your mouth is. Lobby, and convince the Athletic Department to give you a kind of "standing section" that mimics the students. You will need to make it worth their while. With something like a PSD donation that would allow the University to segregate an area for you, where you won't bother anybody else, and where your "standing" ethos can be properly insured for liability, etc.
You say that you really don't want to tell anybody else what to do, but that you don't want anybody telling you what to do. But if you are standing up one row in front of me, I can't see if I don't stand up as well. And if the both of us are standing, everybody else behind us is going to have to start standing.
I pay plenty for my PSD and my tickets. I don't need anyone else telling me what sort of fan I need to be, to be supporting Michigan football. I'm in the 99th percentile of people supporting Michigan football. And I am telling you exactly how you can go about satisfying your wishes and doing more to help Michigan football, all at once. Put your money where your mouth is. Develop the idea, institute the special PSD for your group -- the Standing Section -- and then you can be happy. And not bother me.
Being fine with people sitting is not the same as being fine with people sitting yelling at other people to sit.
I don't care what you do, but you have absolutely no right to tell anyone else to sit down.
I think that it is the friendly and civil thing, to ask someone to sit if they are blocking my view for no good reason (i.e., no one else standing in front of them).
I think asking once, nicely, and then again, more insistently but in a non-threatening way is the thing to do.
The third time, what I would not do, is "make" somebody sit down. I'm a firm believer in just asking, and making myself clear.
After that, I'd let the ushers handle it; I'd let them call the police.
April 30th, 2018 at 12:19 AM ^
FWIW, if you think I have some kind of vendetta about you personally, don't give yourself too much credit. Too many people on here to recall a back-and-forth from some thread three years ago with someone who doesn't even have an avatar.
I hate last word posts
April 30th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
