Don, maybe I'm old school, but I don't think that fans want better wifi, interactive phone apps, locker room coverage pregame, and local food. They want a good product on the field, good access to the stadium (infrastructure that supports traffic, parking, egress etc.), reasonable lines (bathrooms, concessions), reasonable prices, and seats that aren't narrower than their butts. As far as the scoreboard goes, I'm definitely old fashioned...but I want information (other game scores, better replay, etc.), not loud, blaring ads, piped in annoying music that drowns out the band, and stupid "let's make some noise" cartoons.
My Bad Stu!!.....I saw that on HUSKERMAX....and got in a hurry to post it....didn't mean to steal your thunder!! :lol:
Here's an Omaha World Herald guy speaking his mind.... http://www.omaha.com/sports/shatel-beer-at-nu-it-s-not-out-of-the/article_d116e9d3-5e8a-5b39-94ae-ce88cb4e996a.html
Good post Stu..... I agree. And in Florida we don't want 12 noon games in September just to accomodate TV.
Beer at the CWS? I'm actually sort of surprised that it isn't already there. I'm trying to remember if beer was sold at the Final Four in Houston, which I attended. But to me it's hard to imagine that people stay away from games because they can't get a beer in the stadium. That's what tailgating is for isn't it?
I think that the rule is that if the event is in a campus facility, beer isn't sold. I attended the Motor City Bowl a few years ago and beer was for sale at Ford Field. You could get a Guinness at the ND-Navy game in Dublin. I assume that TD Ameritrade Park is not a campus facility and therefore beer might be available there.
I think it's up to the school. Univ of Houston has sold beer at it's on campus facilities for awhile now. They have a brand new on campus stadium that will open Labor Day weekend and here is the section on Alcohol from their current Game Day Guide. I guess they figure the 4th qtr is for sobering up so you can drive home.
Stu, The wifi comment in my earlier post was student directed and not for alumni and OSU fans. I could not agree with you more than what non student fans want from the athletic department.
Texas sending out this email for the OU game. Pretty shocking that they are doing this, shows how the trend is to stay home and watch on Big Screen.
Don, my note wasn't directed at your comment at all...more at that article and the kind of things that are happening so many places...I agree that being connected could be kind of cool if done the right way, and would indeed attract the younger fans. Purdue has been a pioneer in having the stadium be "connected"...starting years ago. It's been kind of a mission of the engineering school. I think it's great, but (a) it hasn't filled the stadium...good football will do that, and (b) it depends on what they do with it. If it's for better connection purposes (emergency phone calls, texts to someone else in the stadium not near you), ability to pull up game stats, other scores, replays, etc...then I see it as a positive. If it's to become more "interactive" (vote on which play you think will be called next), promotions, etc.) then I think it's kind of snarky.