Ben Hill Griffin Renovations--2023?

I remember back in 1962 when the end zone stands were like a high school stadium bleachers. Record crowd in 1964 homecoming, against usce ,of 42,000 and we had a ball. Seems like today everyone wants things to be bigger and better. Let's hope our team is bigger and better next year and forget all the bells and whistles. You're in the stands to watch the game...right?

 

the installation of those WiFi boxes under every other row in BHG over the last few years has done NOTHING for connectivity issues during the actual game

for the Utah game this year, a new problem became apparent - anyone within a mile or so radius of the stadium also lost their TV (if they were a cord-cutter and went with satellite tv/wifi - i.e., everything but Cox) - due to the mass of 100k+ people all trying to connect to the same networks near the stadium at the same time

my Mom lives 7 blocks from the stadium, and about ten minutes before kickoff she lost the TV feed. Everyone lost ALL TV and internet as well as cell service.

you can see how overwhelming the cell towers can easily become a safety issue when 100k+ people can't connect or communicate and then something happens to scare/spook this huge, disconnected and anxious crowd of humanity. add to that scenario that nobody in any of the homes/apartments within miles in any direction have the ability to connect or access media either, and it's a real problem

 

Anything to get the knees out of my back, please.

 

I have had vastly improved service inside stadium since installation of those boxes. I actually have pretty good service during games now

 

I'd love that for starters. the LA coliseum has a massive jumbo tron that is ridiculously high def. That was 8 years ago when I went to a game. Massive unit better picture than a home big screen.

Better bathrooms and concession stands. New seating might be good but the Swamp was always good as a sweaty, squished affair!

Go Gators.

 

They still have troughs?

 

Standing which I mostly do seems the most comfortable way to deal with concrete packed like sardines.

 

Not sure we ever had troughs. Have you ever been to our stadium?

 

Last time I went 2019. Swear there were troughs in early 2000s

 

Last game I attended a women vomited all over the section due to what I assume was an inability to handle her liquor at a tailgate pre-game. Makes the home big screen more enjoyable option.

 

I totally agree, and stand I whenever I can. Problem is that our seats are just above the corner orange wall halfway up the northwest corner of the stadium. So, people stay seated there until there is a big play. As people start standing from the front down below, it tends to stop at that wall.

 

Well, I haven't been to the student section since well before that, but, there are no troughs in the West or North stands, and there haven't been for decades, if ever. I think you're thinking of fsu.

 

I’m 6’3” and it’s made for short people for sure. If the sections on the 50 were like the north endzone, it would at least give more folks the option of being a bit more comfortable. At least on the 50, folks only sit for timeouts if it’s a good game.

 

I'm tall, too. I end up with my knees in someone's back, and, someone else's in mine. I don't care as much about the narrowness of the seats as I do about the leg room. I've been to a couple of UCF games, and, even if it is an erector-set stadium, you have a virtual aisle in front of you.

Maybe I should be sitting on the 50 and standing the whole game. I have sat in the 8th row there, and, it does feel like you have to stand just to see over the crown of the field there anyway.

 

I like to be about 30 rows up And somewhere between the 30s

 

Sounds like its time to call At&t and have the home phone re-installed!

 

On rows ~32 through 90 that will take the demolition of the entire upper portion of the stadium. In other words: not happening.

I know as a population we've gotten fatter and I constantly hear complaints about wanting chair-backs, but what most don't understand is that at BHG seat width is only half the issue. The other half, which they can't do anything about, is the distance between the rows and no legroom. I can possible see chairbacks from rows 1-31, but I don't believe they are feasible (other than those temp stadium seats which exacerbate the knee-room situation) above that level.

 

There were definitely troughs on the student side in the early 1980's but I believe they have been gone for decades.

 

Ten years ago, I took my ten year old grandson to the men's room at a ball game at the Rangers stadium (in Dallas). When we got inside, he asked me, "where are the urinals and where do I go"?
I replied, "go up to that wall and pee on it". I could tell that he was a little bit unsure of what was going on. However, he manned up and whizzed on the wall and he had a ball doing it. This was some old pubic bathroom technology with a modern upgrade. For the entire length of that 15' wall there water flowing gently off a ledge and down into a through on the floor. I did advise him not to do this at home.