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Facilities in the SEC

These are the stadiums I've been to for college football and what I have thought about them-
Bama'- Love the student section and would never want to leave it. The stadium when we are playing good against a quality team (Oklahoma before the fake punt, all of Florida game) is by far the loudest. Nice ammentitiestoo after the addition.
Kentucky- Terrible, Terrible. Saw students playing hackey sack during the game and it was just unfun.
Tennessee- Huge stadium that can get very loud but you are sitting so close to everyone they can smell your bourbon as you are mixing it
UF- Another cool stadium to go to and the bars are real close to it. One downfall, if you are a visiting fan you are surrounded by the student section or in the sunshine seats which are named for what you get a lot of.
UGA- Another cool stadium that can get pretty loud but the 50 year old man who took my 10 years old counsin by the Bama jersey and ripped it off put a damper on the game, not to mention Brandon Avalos tripping all over himself.
Ole' Miss- the campus is beautiful, but couldnt be that much fun because I didn't see one bar anywhere and the beer was sold warm in the grocery stores. the stadium was alright, the visiting fans in the end zone were sitting on metal blleachers that you would find at most 5-A high school stadiums.
Miss St.- Terrible campus, terrible stadium. It would rival most high school stadiums in Texas. It is almost pathetic and I don't know how they can get any recruits there. I'm glad every year that it is just a day trip over from Tuscaloosa.
South Carolina- looks like a space ship coming up out of the ground and their visiting fans seats are terrible as well, we sat in the sun the WHOLE game
MTSU- Boring Boring Boring
Aloha Stadium- awesome, awesome place that sells beer and liquor at the stadium not to mention that you are in HAWAII
FSU Doak Campbell is very asthetically pleasing and cool place to watch a game. I went with my brother when he was being recruited to watch them play the U. Fun Fun Fun. TaLLY-HO is a cool place.
 
gmart74 said:
S.Car. is horrible. I went there once and it was trailer park, followed by police station, followed by flea market / county fair parking lot and then one hell of an ugly stadium. On top of that, once you get in you have to hear that garbled strangled rooster noise 1000 times. I mean seriously, that sound effect is a joke right? It might be the most annoying, yet additionally most embarassing sound effect I have ever heard at a college stadium.
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To be fair, imagine the impression our visiting fans who enter campus from 10th Ave. must get. You go directly through the hood and by a cemetary and then right up to Bryant Denny. Sad part is, that's probably one of the easiest entrances/exits on campus and tons of fans go that way.

Also, our elephant sound isn't exactly pleasant to the ears either...
 
I thought we had the 5th largest on campus stadium. When the Univ references BD they always say the 5th largest on campus stadium in the nation. This is confusing. :conf3:
 
bayoutider said:
Alabama seating capacity (92,138) is 3rd in the SEC about 360 seats less than LSU Tiger Stadium and Tenn. has just over 104,000.
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The 3 times I've ever been in Neyland, I KNOW that my rear end was covering 2 seat #'s ...and I'm not THAT fat :)

I think we could get about 120K in B-D if we used the same seating dimensions that UT uses.... ;)
 
To be fair, people have been expanding in width ever since Neyland was built. :) The most crowded I've ever been was attending a game as JessN's guest and having to sit between two guys, one of whom weighed 400 and the other about 350 (the smaller guy tells me he's lost 100 lb since then, but I haven't seen him to prove it). They were the backed seats with arms and neither of them would fit between the armrests, so they just sort of sat up on them, lapping over onto me. I spent the whole game (TV game at that) with my knees pressed together, trying to avoid contact...:eek2:
 
BamaNation said:
The 3 times I've ever been in Neyland, I KNOW that my rear end was covering 2 seat #'s ...and I'm not THAT fat :)

I think we could get about 120K in B-D if we used the same seating dimensions that UT uses.... ;)
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18" is all you get. Even if your bottom was 18" I bet the width of your shoulders is more than 18".
 
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BamaFan1961 said:
We could always do what TN did to get their capacity up. Give each ticket holder 18" of bench space in the stands. 18" may sound like a lot but measure an average persons shoulder width and it id more than 18". By the way 18" is the minimum size for a man-way into a vessel. when you enter the 18" the persons arms are usually above their head to fit.
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ok....we're talking Neyland Stadium here now. At halftime in October, 2006, my date and I were nearly killed at halftime trying to get 2 portals over from where we were in the upper deck. That hell hole is a fire hazard and the fact that the fire dept hasn't done anything about it is a real problem. I have NEVER seen anything like it. It made me so thankful for our beloved BDS>! Don't be surprised when someone dies up there for lack of medical attention or crowd problems.
 
BAMA1979 said:
As far as stadiums go, Alabama has the best in the SEC in my opinion. I've been to all of them except Kentucky and Georgia. LSU and Tennessee might have larger stadiums, but I don't think they are as nice. I've found LSU's stadium to be dirty and not well maintained. Tennessee's capacity is larger partly because they have bench seats that are extremely close together. I think our suites, press box, scoreboards, etc. are the best in the SEC. This might not be popular, but I've always thought that Aubarn has the best grass field (they should though).
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mmmmmooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!:BigA:
 
All this talk has me wanting to take a few trips next season.Ive only been to Neyland and IMO its a dump.Ive never been to BD but all I hear is how everyone sits on their hands.Was it this way back in the 60s and 70s or is it just a recent thing that has plagued our crowd?Ill be in T Town for the Tennessee game next season and will do my best to help the crowd noise.
 
I believe that the "sitting on hands" thing has been grossly exaggerated, mostly by those unlucky enough to land near some older (but not always) fans who don't want to stand or have problems with prolonged standing. At its rowdiest, BD can rock with the best (given the structural handicaps). It's definitely not Vandy or Ole Miss...
 
My understanding from my parents, who sat in the handicapped section (God Bless My Mom) was that BD used to be kinda loud... but in the last few years had gotten LOUD. Like ear drum bursting loud.

Our recruits and players seem to say the same thing... I think BD's rep comes from the Bear era, where winning was so common it was hard to get worked up. We're not exactly thin on wins, but it was just so terribly common back in those days.
 
Bamabelle in ga said:
ok....we're talking Neyland Stadium here now. At halftime in October, 2006, my date and I were nearly killed at halftime trying to get 2 portals over from where we were in the upper deck. That hell hole is a fire hazard and the fact that the fire dept hasn't done anything about it is a real problem. I have NEVER seen anything like it. It made me so thankful for our beloved BDS>! Don't be surprised when someone dies up there for lack of medical attention or crowd problems.
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They are called heads in the Marines/Navy and outhouses at Neyland Stadium but I have never heard them called portals.
 
PalmBayBama said:
I've been to games at the following places: Alabama, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, LSU, Florida

Nobody can compete with the LSU crowd. The stadium is big and imposing.

Florida has a nice stadium, and when everybody does the gator chomp it's pretty cool. Still, Florida fans seem to think it's more imposing than it really is.

Bryant Denny is a nice looking good-sized stadium. Too many old people sitting on their hands and telling other people in front of them to sit down, though. If you don't want to stand up, you have three choices: (1) Stay home and watch on TV (2) Get a skybox (3) Sit in the handicap section. Also, the new scoreboards are underutilized. I want scores, stats, and replays; not pointless adds for a monopoly utility company.

Ole Miss's is smaller than most, but it's a nice stadium.

There are high schools with better stadiums than Misssippi State.
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Reading some other posts has made me realize that I've also been to Vandy's and Auburn's stadiums.

I'd put Auburns stadium in the same class as Ole Miss. I don't really remember much about it, so it couldn't have been that good or that bad.

I went to Vandy's stadium when we played VT in the Music City Bowl. I'd put it as only slightly better than MSU's. In addition, they ran out of hot chocolate before half time when I was cold and wet.
 
TIDE-HSV said:
I believe that the "sitting on hands" thing has been grossly exaggerated, mostly by those unlucky enough to land near some older (but not always) fans who don't want to stand or have problems with prolonged standing. At its rowdiest, BD can rock with the best (given the structural handicaps). It's definitely not Vandy or Ole Miss...
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I must have very bad seating luck.

I agree that, at its rowdiest, BDS can hang with anybody. The 2005 Florida game in BDS was louder than the 2006 one in BHGS (I went to both). The difference is that LSU doesn't have to qualify it with "at its rowdiest", we do. That needs to change. Part of everybody "taking ownership".
 
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