We purposely bought tickets in the North end of the stadium due to our experience sitting in the South end zone last year. Look, I don't like the jumbotron, I don't like the content, and I don't like the volume. And I realize that it isn't changing.
My biggest complaint with the video board is that it neuters the band. I was sitting in the North end zone and the band was noticeably quieter than I remember. Now, maybe this is just an audio illusion because your brain is comparing it to the volume of the video board, but either way, anything that has the appearance of making the band seem quieter is bad in my book.
...level, but after having been to plenty of games where it was like an outdoor version of being in the family room (i.e., very little ambient noise at all), having it sound more like a stadium is OK by me. Could it be better? Yes, but if I waited until, like Goldilocks, I determined that everything about my game experience would be just right, I wouldn't go back, either. That's not my criterion; and I appreciate yours, so this is just offered FWIW.
in her ears during the Pitt game and we were in Section 109 which is a long way from the Jumbotron
And the music they played was awful...much had explicit lyrics and a lot my wife would look at me and say "did we even listen to this song when it came out?"
I've sat in row 3 underneath the jumbotron, and this last Saturday was the first time I've ever had issues with it being too loud. That was for 1 or 2 songs I think. In a lot of ways, I think it's actually better if you're under the tron because of how the speakers are angled. I could be wrong though.
On a side note, I HATED the whole "backing up" noise that they apparently just started this last game, it was not present in the Michigan or Stanford games. It's just really tacky and stupid. How long before it becomes a "Back them up! Brought to you by UHaul!"?
to myself “There’s no way. I’m hearing things. It’s from the construction the neighbor is doing.” Sadly it seems I forgot that We Are ND. Of course we did something so cheesy.
Horrible.
I read yesterday that OSU was showing movie promotions.
It is the same story everywhere. The powers feel the need to have their fingerprints on the gameday.
For instance, the OSU band has played Hang on Sloopy between the 3rd and 4rth quarter since the early 1960s. It was the same for 40 years and it was fine. Now, there is a whole PA announcement and video montage before they actually start playing like you are about to witness something mystical.
Or do you still have to bring your own?
What are 'words that don't go together,' Alex?
I heard the beeping sound on TV too and thought it was from construction. That's embarrassing if they are actually playing that sound in the stadium.
It's like they go out and pluck the biggest dweebs on the planet to run these things.
How many schools would you say have that now? I could even hear it in the background of the WVU/ISU game listening to the game on the radio on the way home from South Bend. I was thinking that even ISU shouldn't have to stoop that low.
Band plays it not the jumbotron.
The students seem to like it.
I'm not a big fan.
Or a commercial break song (where they ask the players to vote)?
I don't mind that. That means it would happen once per year. That's different from making it a tradition, or a victory celebration.
OSU beat Michigan in 2016 in close hard fought game that went down to the final moments. The crowd rushed the field to celebrate. Rather than the students cheering and singing the fight song, the DJ cranked up Sweet Carolin to volume 100.
Talk about taking a dump on the moment.
I don’t know when things went so wrong.
No issue with the volume except for one instance. They seemed to change the volume throughout the game.
I'd prefer it loud on 3rd down or in the 4th quarter of a close game. It doesn't need to be loud at any other time.
particularly when you're dealing with obtaining a sort of competitive advantage on 3rd and 4th downs. Correct?
I believe there's a rule that you can't play music when a team is under center. Most teams cheat on that rule.
I'm not sure if Tennessee still does it, but they also use to mic the crowd and play it back through the sound system.
Playing loud music while the opposing team is under center (or at the line of scrimmage). No surprise, we do it.
They played music sometimes, but as soon as Pitt broke the huddle, they cut it off.
With those who love the away locker room setup.
Also love putting the opposing band under the Jumbotron. Yuck it up! High five!
will be shown on the LepreTron with his arms raised, than then lower them to make the "no good" signal.
The His voice will boom "Oh no you di'n't!"
but everyone else thinks you're AN ASSHOLE!"
Then He laughs.
We need a decided graphic advantage. After all, no reason to leave a mint on their pillows.
When collecting tickets
and in the North Endzone for the the Miami Redskins game last season.
I wasn't bother by it's volume.
I sat right under the scoreboard for the 2001 Purdue game (Bob Davie's last game as ND's coach). That was pretty loud, but the Purdue chant of "Davie's Fired" through most of the last quarter was far louder.
It was impossible to have a conversation with anyone when the Tron was playing between plays.
but for fans that want to have a pleasant conversation during a game, you can do that at home on your couch.
I'm all for inviting kids to games, and I admit that I have sensitive ears as a kid as well. But a football game is a place where the sensitive kiddos just need to get over it as they do in every other stadium. You don't go to a concert and then complain about the noise.
Games are supposed to be loud and fans are supposed to yell.
The tron is definitely not THAT loud.
The biggest issue with it is the broadcasting of the team prayer, which is super lame for reasons which have already been posted here, and the risk of whoring it out to corporate advertisers.
Jumbotron or not, a college football stadium is hopefully going to be loud. And if a 6 year old has sensitive ears, then they're going to often have a tough time at it.
Particularly in the first half of the game, the place was a morgue. And then the Jumbotron would kick on and it was a little startling. I was sitting in the north end zone, I can't imagine how loud it was in the South. So the only noise was artificially generated.
of conversation, rather than the "How is your golf game doing?" type of conversation.
I haven't been back since the Temple game last year...so perhaps they've turned it down some. But in the South end of the stadium for that game, I thought it was deafening.
I agree with you in terms of the loudness of the stadium...and Im the first one to be trying to get my seatmates to get up and yell. At the game I was at, in the section I was in, the Jumbotron actually had the opposite effect of getting the crowd into he game. People would just turn around and stare at the giant screen when it was blaring.
Back when the band was in the stands around the 30 yard line, we had to go down the stairs and through the gates and stand on the field behind the team as the game came to a close. This took a little bit of doing. And some of the band had to go around the far side of the field to enter that way for the post game show.
We didn't play the Alma Mater immediately after the final gun. We would march on field playing "Irish Backs" then play the opposing teams fight song. Then we would play Notre Dame Our Mother, the Clog (and the Irish guard would dance) ,The Victory March then go immediately into the Hike song and march out the tunnel.And usually about 60 to 75% of the fans would stay until we were finished.
Once the band moved to the field, and the team started coming over to the student section, the band was in a position to immediately play and then let the team leave before post game. Now, the band has to wait until all that is over to even start coming out of the stands which is probably why there's not much of a post game show.
By the way, the alumni band has traditionally massed on the field after the game to leave and march out of the tunnel following the student band. This year, they were told they would not be allowed to do that because, and I'm not making this up, the University had to start setting up for Garth Brooks next week and, apparently, the 20 minutes it would take to allow the alumni band members to do that would throw off the schedule somehow. Ridiculous.
A selection or two from halftime.
By the time we headed north to the tunnel there be a couple hundred folks left in the stadium...My parents were two of them.
I swear, it took them 45 minutes to clear us a path out of there.
it doesn't seem like they play as long as they used to, though, after the game.
But maybe just the VM. They leave in formation to march to the field behind the band building.
Of the stadium now.
My recollection was on the pre 1996 reno stadium, the locker room windows openned to the northnside as the band passed by on the way back to Washington Hall.
Just march out, over the Leahy St, and then up to the grassy area between Ricci, Rolfs and Jordan Hall of Science. They mostly do drum-line stuff on the march between the Stadium and that area.
The guy in front of us was an old trumpet player. I'm betting you guys could play those numbers in your sleep.
Great job!
I'm 25 years out, and I could play just about any of the cadences from memory.
Of course, I was there in the Faust years so we didn't play it that often.
3 years of Faust and I barely played the Victory Clog :-( Lou made up for it my Senior year. Sure enjoyed it last Saturday! Like others, I recall a much more extensive post game performance, and many fans sticking around.
The "preparing for Garth @ ND in a week" excuse for screwing us out of post game and marching out the tunnel was embarrassingly bad.
It marked the second time I've seen the jumbotron and I agree...the damn thing is way too loud.