Another, Neyland is loud thread - Brady Quinn

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govols105 said:
That's all in the past now. It will never be what it once was. Sad it is.
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Once we get enough seats removed and everyone in luxury accommodations and enclosed boxes and eliminate all the riff raff, Neyland will become a pretty sterile environment.
 
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govols105 said:
That's all in the past now. It will never be what it once was. Sad it is.
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What? I’ve attended hundreds of UT games, Ole miss this past season was absolutely deafening. I mean literally deafening ole miss fans around me were covering their ears and they’re not on the field where it is even louder
 
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give_him 6 said:
The seating capacity is being reduced. Fewer people. Less noise.
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The new seating might funnel the noise to the field better. There has always been plenty that haven’t gotten loud for various reasons already. All we have to do is get the fans that are able to get loud to go ahead and get loud. It not always about those who can’t, but those who won’t.
Whatever to level of loud that is needed to interfere with the other team, that’s a good starting point.
 
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give_him 6 said:
The seating capacity is being reduced. Fewer people. Less noise.
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War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock seats about 50K and Tim Couch still says it’s the loudest stadium he played in while at Kentucky. If we need 100K to be a loud stadium, then that’s on the fans not the ones making renovations and adding boxes
 
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give_him 6 said:
The blue hairs, right? "Sit down in front" :)
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I don’t expect the old folks to get loud or to stop coming to games. It’s all on the younger folks that can more than make up for the ones that can’t. What bugs me is the ones that won’t for why ever reason. There are plenty that just simply don’t know how to get loud for an extended time. Usually by the end of first series I can tell if I’m going to be able to be loud as needed or if someone needs to pick up my slack.

I’m working on an invention to help me and others that would really be a game changer when it comes to getting louder longer with less effort.
 
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Wasn’t sure where to post this. Merge if need be. However thought this was a great comment and shows the passion our fan base has.

“We played in Knoxville, a late afternoon game my sophomore year,” Quinn said on his radio show, Two Pros and One Cup of Joe. “I swear to God the ball was moving on the field, it was so loud. It felt like I had speakers right behind my left and right ears blaring. If I go hard of hearing, I might be suing the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee fanbase from that game.”Brady Quinn backs up SEC vs. NFL stadium debate with awesome story
 
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Berry4Heisman14 said:
What? I’ve attended hundreds of UT games, Ole miss this past season was absolutely deafening. I mean literally deafening ole miss fans around me were covering their ears and they’re not on the field where it is even louder
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Glad it was like that in your section. Mine was underwhelming.
 
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Waiting for a new ad from a law firm that states " do you or a loved one suffer from hearing loss due to attending games at UT?" :cool:
 
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The Original Fade said:
War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock seats about 50K and Tim Couch still says it’s the loudest stadium he played in while at Kentucky. If we need 100K to be a loud stadium, then that’s on the fans not the ones making renovations and adding boxes
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Mike Leach said the same thing. Here is his quote on the loudest stadium he's coached in:

Little Rock, Arkansas, that’s the loudest place I’ve ever played. Entirely concrete structure. It’s as if you had a football game in the neighbor’s basement and all the kids were yelling louder than hell. You could tell when you were starting out. You’d clap your hands and hear it five times, yell ‘Go, go, go, go. Hit, hit, hit, hit.’ (mimicking an echo) And you figure there’s 45,000, you multiply that times five and equals approximately 250,000. That’s a lot of people and there’s no stadiums that hold 250,000 people. So 250,000 people are louder than 100,000 people.

So maybe we can add more concrete to Neyland?
 
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Iam4utalways said:
The new seating might funnel the noise to the field better. There has always been plenty that haven’t gotten loud for various reasons already. All we have to do is get the fans that are able to get loud to go ahead and get loud. It not always about those who can’t, but those who won’t.
Whatever to level of loud that is needed to interfere with the other team, that’s a good starting point.
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Even aside from acoustics I bet we can reduce overall capacity and still wind up louder, if we want to. Our student seating section doesn't have anything close to the capacity of A&M's Kyle Field. I saw where they have student seats end zone to end zone, with a student section behind the visiting sideline in the upper bowl. You take away 5,000 seats but add 5,000 students? I'm betting it's a net-plus for noise. That's a revenue decision though. Have to sacrifice some paying customers now, to make sure you have more happy students who want to be season ticket holders in the future.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
I don’t expect the old folks to get loud or to stop coming to games. It’s all on the younger folks that can more than make up for the ones that can’t. What bugs me is the ones that won’t for why ever reason. There are plenty that just simply don’t know how to get loud for an extended time. Usually by the end of first series I can tell if I’m going to be able to be loud as needed or if someone needs to pick up my slack.

I’m working on an invention to help me and others that would really be a game changer when it comes to getting louder longer with less effort.
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I agree with you that a lot of old folks aren't as vocal as they once were. But don't count all of us out. I stand and yell as loudly as the next one and I'm 70. I end up being hoarse the next day or two after the big games. It bugs me that the younger people around me are not as vocal as I think they ought to be. I loved the Ole Miss game because everyone around me was yelling at the top of their lungs.

Maybe in about 10-15 years, I might need your invention so best wishes with perfecting and marketing it.
 
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give_him 6 said:
Mike Leach said the same thing. Here is his quote on the loudest stadium he's coached in:

Little Rock, Arkansas, that’s the loudest place I’ve ever played. Entirely concrete structure. It’s as if you had a football game in the neighbor’s basement and all the kids were yelling louder than hell. You could tell when you were starting out. You’d clap your hands and hear it five times, yell ‘Go, go, go, go. Hit, hit, hit, hit.’ (mimicking an echo) And you figure there’s 45,000, you multiply that times five and equals approximately 250,000. That’s a lot of people and there’s no stadiums that hold 250,000 people. So 250,000 people are louder than 100,000 people.

So maybe we can add more concrete to Neyland?
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Heh, acoustics are so complicated.

Funny thing: adding more people to that stadium would actually REDUCE the echo. Same way that an empty room in the house you're buying echoes, but once you have all your furniture and curtains moved in, it doesn't. Sound deadeners. People (fans) are sound generators, but their bodies are also sound deadeners.

So 5x echo-y stadium plus 45,000 fans does not == 225,000 fan-equivalents. Each fan you add, adds noise. But adds a little deadening. The more fans you add, the more noise, but the more deadening. At some point, the deadening starts to outweigh the added noise. There's probably some critical point, where the "added fan noise" curve and the "fan body noise deadening" curve cross, where you have the ideal population size for sound, call it a "maximum effective sound" for that stadium.

AND that probably changes based on air temperature and density, humidity, cloud cover (clouds and air temperature gradients can reflect sound energy back down), etc.

Like I said starting out, super complicated.

I'd put my money on Neyland against any of them.

Go Vols!
 
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Experts: Neyland memories

“As a coach, I've been a part of teams that traveled to LSU, Florida State, Texas and almost every other place in the country that could be considered one of the toughest places to play as a visiting team. But when I was at Notre Dame, we went down to Knoxville for a night game in 1999 and the Tennessee crowd that night was the most impressive that I ever faced. The crowd absolutely took us out of the game from a communication standpoint. Neyland Stadium was just electric. I think we heard Rocky Top about 42 times. Of course, we gave them reason to play it a few times.” - Bob Davie
 
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