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RallySonsOfND said:
For away games, not home games.
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No. At the end of the year (beginning of the year for freshmen), you register online for season tickets and pick your seating group. For away games, there's a lottery system. As far as season tickets, every student can get one, and 97% do. I disagree with expanding the stadium. The ticket prices obviously wouldn't decrease, meaning even more alums who don't want to stand and cheer, making the student section and cheering fans an even smaller percentage of the stadium.
 
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IndyIrishFan1 said:
I'm just curious, are students turned away that want to attend games? Is the demand larger than the supply? I've never heard/read anything about the student section and if there are students turned away that want to attend. I'm sure the IE boards could help answer...
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We don't have as many students... Pretty sure they all show up and do a great job.. The students trust me they are all about it they cheer all game long....
 
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Every student can purchase season tickets. And 97% do. I know this because I had a bet with my friend who went to Michigan and I emailed Brian Hardin. The look on my friend's face was priceless (a lot of their students can't get tickets, and those that do don't go to a lot of games). The students always show up (except for St. mary's girls, a lot of times they don't show up if the weather's bad).
 
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returnofthemack said:
No. At the end of the year (beginning of the year for freshmen), you register online for season tickets and pick your seating group. For away games, there's a lottery system. As far as season tickets, every student can get one, and 97% do. I disagree with expanding the stadium. The ticket prices obviously wouldn't decrease, meaning even more alums who don't want to stand and cheer, making the student section and cheering fans an even smaller percentage of the stadium.
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I know. That is what we were talking about. I know that any student who wants season tickets gets them. We were already saying that there is a lottery for students to go to away games.
 
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returnofthemack said:
My bad, I misunderstood you.
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No worries.


But let's not hijack this thread. I'm all for a jumbotron and a moderate expansion of the stadium. We need suites, and we could sell suites for LOTS of money. With the suites can be the removal of the yellow seats.

I think suites, jumbotron, fieldturf, and removal of the yellow seats and we'd be in business. (Plus a modest expansion, no need to add more than 10,000)
 
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100,000 seats i'm with it... Every hotel i was at had a few extra rooms and the cheaper hotels had alot of room left.... The Commons has so many extra parking spots also so we can have 20,000+ ppl at games...
More money for ND I'm al about paying more to hep the Irish...

Take the Gold seats out!!!!! that should be were the loudest fans are....
 
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as cool as it would be, the only thing i could see happening within 12 months would be field turf
 
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RallySonsOfND said:
No worries.


But let's not hijack this thread. I'm all for a jumbotron and a moderate expansion of the stadium. We need suites, and we could sell suites for LOTS of money. With the suites can be the removal of the yellow seats.

I think suites, jumbotron, fieldturf, and removal of the yellow seats and we'd be in business. (Plus a modest expansion, no need to add more than 10,000)
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I stumbled upon this thread an hour ago as I was trying to find an article I had written to the Observer in September about Notre Dame stadium's need for a Jumbotron...I'm psyched to see that ToledoGoIrish started this thread, and that it's been debated for the last seven weeks. I've enjoyed reading these posts.

I can understand the "purists" who don't want to see ND Stadium scarred by a gaudy Jumbotron. I live in the land of the enemy now (Los Angeles) and have made many trips to the Coliseum. It's an attack on the senses. Ads for Lexus, Toyota, AT&T, Muscle Milk, Lumber Liquidators....pretty much anybody who will give them money gets to advertise. They even show movie trailers on their Jumbotron at halftime. Entertainment is the predominant industry here in LA so the demographic is right, but it's horribly obnoxious.

I point all of this out because 1) it makes you appreciate the simplicity of ND Stadium and 2) it shows you how NOT to incorporate a jumbotron at ND.

What is important to keep in mind is that it can be done right and it WILL help us win football games. Isn't that what we all want?

I think the post above is spot on. I'd love to see us add an entire press box of suites on the side of the field opposite the current press box. Michigan just completed a renovation similar to this and it came out beautifully. Not only would this allow us to take out the yellow seats at field level, it would bring in more money, transplant some of the quieter/richer/older fans behind glass where they probably want to be anyway, AND it would help better trap in the noise that we do create.

As for the Jumbotrons, my vote would be for a large one at the south end zone and two smaller ones in the NW and NE corners of the stadium. This would allow TJ to see the game again...and address what might be the real reason we haven't won the last 15 years - He's Pissed!

Last thing- something I haven't read in any of these posts but something equally as important as getting a Jumbotron is who ND hires to run it. I remember returning to campus for the WSU/ND game in September of 2003. My brother went to WSU so he made his first trip to see a game at ND. I took him to the pep rally the night before in the JACC. Inexplicably the rally was being MC'ed by some 60 year old guy who kept encouraging the students to "raise the roof" while he did push ups to the sky. This was a full five years after raising the roof had run it's course. In this 60 year old MC's mind it was cool. To everyone else it was a train wreck. A Jumbotron will only be effective if we hire the right director to run it.

P.S. Mike Collins (our PA announcer) is not that guy. Why he is still employed by the university after some of the things he's said on his blog (MikeCollinsNews.com) is beyond me. He's a distraction and detracts from the enjoyment (for me anyway) of seeing a game live at Notre Dame. Also, and this is just my theory, I think his constant interjection between plays quiets the stadium as people try to hear what he's saying. Do we really need to know the name of the visiting teams receiver who just caught a pass? Or that it went for seven yards? No, we don't. Other venues don't do this. It's time for Mike to go.
 
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Did you guys hear...?

There was a semi-trailer sized box with "LG" on the side of it delivered to the stadium entrance today...
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j/k...too quiet around here and it still only wednesday
 
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Pops Freshenmeyer said:
Why do people want field turf?
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IMHO, having played on astro turf (@ Wittenberg University), field turf (@ Kenyon College), and regular grass (@ home, among others) during my college football days, I would choose field turf all day, every day. It is not like a rock in November, it is a fast surface, looks better, and feels better. I'm telling you hitting the ground on real grass in November hurts and it bangs you up, from my experience landing on the field turf was much less painful, every time.
 
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Grass is great.

Fieldturd is awesome.
 
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Pops Freshenmeyer said:
Why do people want field turf?
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I honestly think the people opposed to field turf think it is like astro turf because that's what they played on "back in their day." As some have already stated field turf much better to play on than grass and doesn't give you "road rash" or cause concussions. Only down side are those damn rubber pellets that get everywhere.
 
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I don't think field turf (like Lambeau Field) has the rubber pellets does it? Thought field turf was a combination of real grass with synthetic grass laced in with it?
 
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I played baseball on field turf and it wasn't to bad. I also have been onhe Ravens field which is field turf. One thing i did notice is it felt like it was hotter on the field turf.
 
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Field turg does get extremely hot in the summer and early part of the season, which could pose some problems. I have played on field turf and I can say it can still leave some "rug burns" but no where near the days of astroturf. It also is soft enough of a landing to not cause injury. I would say, however, I am a traditionalist in that I love seeing football played on grass.

Though I would like to see Notre Dame Stadium stay with grass, I would not be up in arms if there was a switch to field turf. All I care about is seeing that team win.
 
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I know field turf is going to end up happening at some point and is probably for the better, but there's just something cool about seeing ND players' jerseys covered with dirt and grass stains running around on a semi-torn up grass field.
 
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BurningRiver said:
I know field turf is going to end up happening at some point and is probably for the better, but there's just something cool about seeing ND players' jerseys covered with dirt and grass stains running around on a semi-torn up grass field.
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There certainly is a nostalgia associated with it. However what I really enjoy is our players running past people and cutting and not sleeping or stumbling.

In my perfect world I would like the type of grass they use in the south. The bermuda grass. Not sure South Bends climate is right for it though.
 
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Bermuda is definitely a warm region grass, goes dormant at the first frost. You'd then painting it green and it wouldn't hold up to football activities. Might could heat it, don't know how much that would cost.
 
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tadman95 said:
Bermuda is definitely a warm region grass, goes dormant at the first frost. You'd then painting it green and it wouldn't hold up to football activities. Might could heat it, don't know how much that would cost.
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Yeah not worth the trouble. I just like the look of it and it seems like the game is played fast on it (that could just be because its the SEC though haha). Let them have field turf but keep the stripes in the end zone and no logos etc to keep the purists happy (if thats even possible).
 
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