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re: Most overrated stadium you've been too?
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:02 am to Keltic Tiger
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:02 am to Keltic Tiger
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Neb. has the oldest season ticket holder fan base in the country and though an impressive sight with all that red, they literally sit on their butts and clap, absent the student section. Fla. St. at one point had the second oldest season ticket holder fan base.
Nebraska really is garbage. The fans are very nice, but the place is dead, and most of it is a dump. If you're sitting in the huge endzone stands (and a majority of the fans are), then you have to walk all they way down to the bottom for concessions or restrooms.
In the SEC, of the ones I've been to, (all West, plus USC and Florida), I'd have to give the nod to Ole Miss. Vaught-Hemingway is getting better, but it's still got a long way to go. They hype up their tailgating (which is overrated, too), and then the stadium is the definition of blah and generic.
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Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:11 am to tylerdurden24
this is really what you should be seeing from field level. Granted, these are higher than field level seats. But it’s really just sky and football.
Like you're here for four hours having to watch a football game in the sec and not having to worry about how strong your WiFi signal is.
Not that feeling you get when you’re in Winston Salem, chapel hill or Durham.
Like you're here for four hours having to watch a football game in the sec and not having to worry about how strong your WiFi signal is.
Not that feeling you get when you’re in Winston Salem, chapel hill or Durham.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:18 am to Montgomery Hill
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A lot of the noise you hear on TV is because of the channel you watch.
CBS does a great job with the SEC.
But a lot of the noise is based on Stadium designed as well.
Ultimately when you watch a game on TV you are either getting the crowd noise or you are not.
This could be true.
But, I don't think even CBS could make up for the mouse-fart quiet that is DKKKR.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:18 am to dstone12
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Not that feeling you get when you’re in Winston Salem, chapel hill or Durham.
It’s very odd that anyone who goes to a game at one of these places could think it’s similar to a game at UGA in any meaningful way. No one reasonable could think that. The environments are wildly different.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:18 am to dstone12
God forbid you can see parts of the college campus from a college football stadium. Every good stadium should be bowled in so that it looks and feels pretty much the same everywhere you go. And especially frick trees of any kind
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:39 am to tylerdurden24
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especially frick trees of any kind
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:50 am to whatkindanameiskirby
Most fanbases are pretty good at the beginning of a big game. If you want to revive the old atmospheres, sell alcohol or allow people to carry it in as long as it's not in glass.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 11:55 am to whatkindanameiskirby
I think South Carolina is very underrated. It's not a nice stadium and the town sucks, but the game atmosphere itself is extremely impressive. It gets very loud.
I've visited most of the SEC stadiums, most of them multiple times, and I would say without a doubt the crowd noise at Auburn, LSU, and South Carolina are on a whole different level. I imagine Florida is up there too though I've not been to Gainesville.
I'll be the first to admit that while Sanford Stadium is the best looking in the SEC, its not quite as loud as those other three. I still think its louder than both Neyland and Bryant-Denny however.
I've visited most of the SEC stadiums, most of them multiple times, and I would say without a doubt the crowd noise at Auburn, LSU, and South Carolina are on a whole different level. I imagine Florida is up there too though I've not been to Gainesville.
I'll be the first to admit that while Sanford Stadium is the best looking in the SEC, its not quite as loud as those other three. I still think its louder than both Neyland and Bryant-Denny however.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 12:16 pm to BHMKyle
When Auburn played USC back in the early 2000 we went out to LA. The Collesium was old and run down and wasn’t impressed at all. I had seen it on TV so many times I guess I had built it up in my head. Also the Swamp didn’t impress me either. Might have been the several drunks passed out in the men’s restroom that dulled that visit. It’s been awhile but wasn’t impressed at all with the University of Alabama campus . Expected more collegiate grandeur and got more Soviet Block architecture.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 12:28 pm to whatkindanameiskirby
Tennessee.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 12:29 pm to whatkindanameiskirby
Any of the Big 10 and ND
Posted on 6/24/19 at 12:41 pm to whatkindanameiskirby
How intimidating a stadium is has a large amount to do with the quality of defense.
Of course, SitsOnTeepee has to shitpost in response.
Of course, SitsOnTeepee has to shitpost in response.
This post was edited on 6/24/19 at 1:07 pm
Posted on 6/24/19 at 12:49 pm to whatkindanameiskirby
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I went to a Texas game back in 06 and for a stadium that seats 100k+ it was pretty quiet.
Not that I would ever take up for the sips but in 2006 that stadium only held just over 85,000 but I never want the truth to hold back a good slam on those horrible people.
Their practice is to show up late and leave at half time.
This post was edited on 6/24/19 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 6/24/19 at 12:52 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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How intimidating a stadium is has a large amount to do with the quality of defense.
I couldn't agree more.
2018 aTm "Defense"
47th in PPG allowed
32nd in YPG allowed
125th in turn overs forced
I'd rank Collie Field somewhere between the 32nd and 125th best venue to watch a college game.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 1:41 pm to TomRollTideRitter
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Every NFL stadium I’ve been to has been disappointing except the new Falcons one.
Arrowhead is great.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 1:45 pm to bawbarn
NFC title superdome was unreal. But the most overrated college stadium I have been to is Alabama
Posted on 6/24/19 at 2:12 pm to tylerdurden24
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God forbid you can see parts of the college campus from a college football stadium. Every good stadium should be bowled in so that it looks and feels pretty much the same everywhere you go. And especially frick trees of any kind
It was Stadium and not a game day experience thread.
To each his own, but a a forest is something I got enough of watching at all these acc venues.
And that’s the problem. At every tame acc environment, I saw low bowled stadiums with pines and oaks peering over, while these fans sat on their hands on a 3rd and 2 in the Third quarter. It’s just an anecdote I suppose.
Then going to BR, Tuscaloosa, Knoxville, auburn and UF all were different. There are many common denominators between these Big6 schools’ stadiums, But that is one of them.
ETA. The hedges, they are cool. That’s unique and I am not anti-horticulture.
If you can’t afford to bowl it in, have Budweiser pay $25000 to put up a banner ad so one additional fan can come in and drink.
This post was edited on 6/24/19 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 6/24/19 at 2:21 pm to whatkindanameiskirby
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I went to a Texas game back in 06 and for a stadium that seats 100k+ it was pretty quiet.
It sounds like you are basing your opinion on atmosphere, which makes it damn near impossible to judge unless you have been to an epic game in every stadium. I have been to Tiger Stadium 4-5 times over the years and wasn't that impressed with it being intimidating until the last time I went. It was totally different because LSU had a really good team and the fans were engaged.
It is the same anywhere. I have been to snoozers in the Swamp and also games that will make your head hurt from the noise.
This post was edited on 6/24/19 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 6/24/19 at 2:28 pm to dstone12
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At every tame acc environment, I saw low bowled stadiums with pines and oaks peering over, while these fans sat on their hands on a 3rd and 2 in the Third quarter. It’s just an anecdote I suppose.
Those stadiums are basically all in the 60k range or less. Sanford holds 92k. Being able to see trees is a result of the topography. As I said earlier, any full bowl tall enough to go over those trees at Sanford would be excessively big.
Posted on 6/24/19 at 2:41 pm to whatkindanameiskirby
I attended an Alabama game a few years ago on campus and I was shocked how tame most of the fans were. There were a few outrageous idiots, but overall the fans were not constantly screaming and yelling like I was expecting.
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