How can we make The Big House a more intimidating place to play?

This is ridiculous. The crowd noise, or "intimidation" factor, had NOTHING to do with why we lost.

Never lose at home.

Intimidation isn't really a thing. In fact I loved playing away as an athlete, going to knew stadiums and having people hate you gives you confidence and can cause teams to rally around themselves more.

 

 

This team just lacks toughness and Michigan football hasnt been tough in a long time. The fans were amazing and they still lost. This is a soft bunch especially on the offense

 

Look no further than the teams Beilein has trotted out. Toughness goes a long way

Yeah dude!! Why don't we like bring in the MEGA NOISE EAR DRUM BUSTING, OSCILLATING LIGHTNING AND SMOKE TOWER OF FUCKING POWER to INTIMIDATE our opponents!!! WOOOOOOO!!!

Somehow buy a critical amount of tickets in the first few rows of each section and give them to an organized, zealous group of fans who will stand the entire time the defense is on the field and scream. Enough people do it at the bottom, the whole section usually stands and screams.

Serve alcohol

Win more often.

ITT: People who misinterperate the question as "we lost because it's quiet"

I've always thought overhangs at the top of the stadium would be feasible, but I'm not an architect. I do get tired of hearing "It's not the loudest stadium in the country even though it's the biggest..." by everyone calling every game.

114,000 people SHOULD be way way louder and intimidating but nothing seems to change or get better as far as the crowd noise goes

I thought our team looked very intimidated

the students taking on their best Spartan student section personalities and chanting "You Suck Bitch"   Awful, just awful.  You have more class than that.

Get offense that can score more than 10 points at home against an unranked opponent?

for Quidditch? I think we should investigate this thoroughly.

$10 bottled water would be pretty intimidating.

Throwing Star Appreciation Day.

How about painting the visitor locker room pink? Or removing the seating, hvac, plumbing and lights from the visitor lockerroom.

All black uniforms...

Willie the Wolverine could be an intimidating presence of the sideline. I think it would be pretty intimidating if he had mange.

Being a threat to score more than 10 points.

Win the game

The split-stadium "Go! Blue!" chant seemed louder when I was attending games in the late 90's. Especially the Bluuue part. That could be because I was lower in the bowl and in the student section, where as recently I've been in the upper part of the bowl. Regardless, I have always liked that traditional chant, and I have two suggestions that I think would dramatically improve it: 1. Split the stadium east/west instead of north/south 2. Make it a three part chant: a. East - "Let's!" b. West - "Go!" c. Full - "Blue!"

kept the noise down

One giant flame thrower going from the flag pole and goal posts across the field to the other goal posts. That will clear the field. However, I still miss the dog, who used to push the soccer ball across the field during halftime.

Some energizing music and some pom poms at the very least.  What happened to playing Sandstorm by Darude?  That to me is one of the best for a college football game.  I remember they played it at the first Under the Lights at ND and it was a terrific energizer.  SANDSTORM.

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Toys R Us Boss Dave Brandon is an alum--I'm sure he'd be happy to help.

Would get very expensive vs Rutgers though....

Lower ticket prices so that ruffians and the guys that hang at jaba’s palace can come to games.

This on the jumbotron playing on a loop

This on the jumbotron playing on a loop

This on the jumbotron playing on a loop

This on the jumbotron playing on a loop

Pretty sure whoever was on the ground on that hail Mary catches it, things would have been louder than it's ever been.

And losing to lesser teams.  We used to dominate lesser teams and always showed up against better competition.  The past few years or so, there hasn't been much home field advantage.  This is freakin Michigan!!!

Put “The 12th Man” in big, 6’ high maize letters across the face of both luxury box facades - that alone will make opponents feel they’re at a disadvantage. And stop calling it “The Big House”, call it something more intimidating like “Alcatraz” or “San Quentin” or “Death Valley” or “Death Valley North”. Oh, and play that riff from “Seven Nation Army” over the PA system at every possible opportunity, but louder than anywhere else. Maybe even make that the fight song so when our team plays somewhere else, they’ll thin “Gee that’s nice that they play our fight song so much everywhere we go!”

1. Sell booze at the games

2. Sell cowbells or some other defeaning prop that makes noise

3. Like foreign football, have dedicated hype men/women in sections to get the crowd into it. (In some places, if you dont cheer, they toss you)

4. Another idea from soccer...more chants and sing-alongs.

5. MORE BAND!

 

In the B1G:

1. Iowa
2. Illinois
3. Penn State
4. Minnesota
5. Northwestern
6. Nebraska
7. Wisconsin
8. Rutgers
9. Indiana
10. Michigan State
11. Purdue
12. Michigan
13. Maryland
14. Ohio State

Iowa I would have guessed. The rest of it I can't explain; it certainly doesn't seem to correlate to crowd noise or intimidation level. Ohio State has barely even had an HFA the last few years; they've only lost one true road game in 5 1/2 seasons.

The really strange thing is that 12 of the top 13 in all of FBS are the Pac 12 teams.