I was just reading an article that touched on what we've discussed here in the past, about how Lane Stadium and the fan base has lost a lot of pep in the last couple of years (at least back to 2010/2011). So...what do you think Whit can do, within reason, to bring back some of the excitement and make Lane a force with which to be reckoned again?
Don't count the givens:
1)#ALLMAROONEVERYTHING
2)Stick it in
3)For all the former MVs: Number 6 (For everyone else, the Hey Hey Goodbye song)
4)A football team that DOESN'T struggle against Duke, or to put up a TD against UVA.
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Beer in the concession stands.
While we are not the same as Minnesota, they lost money by selling beer in their stadium. And honestly, it creates more problems than it is worth when you consider having to police how many someone has had, dealing with those that have had too many, and of course the general appearance of our fan base. Many times we have been referred to as great hosts and quality fans. Opening the stadium up to beer sales runs a risk of changing that. Just stick to sneaking in your airplane bottles instead.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/03/22/reality-check-stadium-beer-sale...
FTFY
$47,000.00 for beer security.
It's that kind of idiot costs that will keep you from making a profit.
They spent $50k for some guys to check IDs and put on wristbands. Their vendor raped them.
This is f-king hilarious.
WVU made 700,000 in profits from the addition of brew. I could get on board with that at Lane big time.
I guess I am in a minority that doesn't think you need to have alcohol to enjoy a game.
we don't need a lot of things, but what's wrong with having it available to enjoy responsibly? at $9 or more per beer, it's not like kids will be using the availability to get hammered. it won't change their behavior one bit. but for those of us who might prefer a nice beer over a 20+ oz soft drink in our stadium/collector cup, why not make it available?
yeah must be. i'm kidding, while I certainly don't need booze to enjoy a game, it does help loosen you up to jump and yell and whatnot. it's all about release for me.
Sometimes, like the Marshall Game, you're glad for the airplane bottle when you start to get cold and wet.
Yeah good ole beer blankets
Yep. Yes you are in the minority.
I'm sure there are places that get away with it, but due to Lane technically being an "On-campus" stadium, NCAA rules prohibit the sale of alcohol. AFAIK the only way to side-step that would be to have it become a multi-purpose venue (such as holding concerts open to the public).
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but I don't believe that is the case. Minnesota and WVU both sell beer at their stadium and both stadiums are on their campus. I believe it is generally a rule that is made by the states and the universities. I think the old rule used to state that alcohol could not be sold for consumption at championship game events, but never specified regular season contests. A fair number (I think less than 20) currently sell beer at their games.
Syracuse as well
Bourbon in the concession stands ... to go with the bottles in the stands.
Fan of the idea. But never gonna happen. Virginia law prohibits sale of alcoholic beverages on state property during events (games). Would have to change the law for the entire state.
just a few things off the top of my head:
Thursday games
Night games
Find a way out of contract to play ECU for the next 50 years
Star Wars music by MVs
Halftime shows where MVs form a turkey that eats the opposing mascot
More night games
Kick a field goal for tuition competitions or the ilk
More night games
MVs play the imperial march occasionally when the defense takes the field.
Really? Cool
They played it while I was at VT, but I had heard that they had to stop for some reason. I'm glad it's still being used.
Thanks +1
^You forgot to mention night games
Ban paper airplanes and beachballs.
I think this can be done by doing away with the stupid print-out tickets. Get scanners at every gate so students can scan Hokie Passports on the way in. Regular ticket stubs for everyone else
I had a similar idea, except instead of your Hokie Passport, the ticket is a remote-control helicopter. To get in, the people at the gates simply scan your helicopter and give you a controller for it. Cuts down on the wasted paper, and, no more airplanes.
We have this for basketball. Makes it real annoying to swap tickets. We get a ticket for a particular seat when we walk in the door.
In regards to the paper airplanes: All of you TKPers on twitter start hitting Whit with a request to do something about it. Everyone hates them, except for the students that throw them. They need to be taught that paper airplanes are not acceptable. Make it an ejectable offense. When the students pick up their tickets make them sign a piece of paper acknowledging that they understand that throwing paper airplanes will result in removal from the stadium. If a security guard or cop sees you throw one, you're out. Zero tolerance. Eventually, all but the dimmest bulbs will catch on and the paper airplanes will diminish significantly.
that will never happen..the security on staff is more concerned with drunkards...that won't change. Punishing students for having fun is ridiculous anyway. Just don't provide them with the tools to have fun...that's so much easier than punishing them
I agree. As much as they piss me off, you can't throw someone out of a football game for throwing a paper airplane. Don't get me wrong I like your idea, but it just needs to be a conscious effort by the students to let those people know that their efforts are much better served by screaming until they lose their voices. I don't think a lot of students realize how many games in lane stadium have been helped by fan noise. We don't win or lose games, but I've damn sure been at quite a few when we've helped.
Actually, you can.Throwing anything at sporting events isn't allowed. There's the chance it can go on the field and throwing anything on the field warrants an ejection from the game.
First game of the season this year I grabbed a paper airplane out of the hands of the guy behind as he cocked it back, and told him to be a fan and support his team. I heard him mockingly repeating what I said to others around him, but he never said a word to me, and I clearly got my point across.
And the wave. Forever ban the wave.
why, oh why, can i only give one leg for this!?
Hot wing boxes (10 and 20 count).
Hot wings the size of turkey legs.
AKA just dip turkey legs in harlicky sauce.
Hot. Turkey. Wings.
Now I'm hungry.
I know they're supposedly doing this already but I can't stress a good wifi connection enough. I realize that it could turn into instagram and facebook time for many but I love checking on other games during commercial stoppages. It's a pretty small upgrade but it would be such a huge improvement in my books
I think this is part of the project going on behind east stands currently.
Yup, huge Verizon switch station ready for this season.
I really, really miss the skydivers. the guys that would parachute in from planes and land on the field. Why arent we funding this????
I got a free meal in a local Alabama restaurant because of this happening, it needs to continue
Teach the student section to come early, stay late, be loud. I think that used to be the priority of the students. Now I think they are getting lazy. Obviously, fans everywhere like a winner, but people need to stick with the team through the ups and downs, not just wait for an ACC title to get hyped.
And the paper airplanes need to go. Maybe we can get some drones to start shooting them down, the NSA probably needs the practice and is already watching anyway.
I think we can help the 'stay late' cause by allowing people to swipe their hokie passports at the end of the game. Those people that can be verified as folks that don't leave early should be given priority in the ticket lottery.
That is, assuming there is still a ticket lottery and that your ticket it attached to your hokie passport, which you would be able to swipe on the way in.
I know we've had the student ticket discussion before, and I don't want to restart it. But wouldn't that polarize the students even more. The people that already are fans and scream their face of do stay late. The marginal fans that leave early would then be less likely to get tickets and go even less. At the end of the day I don't think the student ticket system is the problem with Lane being less crazy.
I do think this thread is a good place to discuss ideas to make things more fun and engaging for those that aren't crazy about the game itself. I'm guessing here, but I would bet students are the minority in Lane. If we want to make the entire atmosphere better it falls on the alumni too. Granted I'm still young and feel like a student, but shouldn't we work just as hard to encourage the people we sit around to get up and go bananas? If I act like a crazy person it will only make more people do the same, and it will spread.
So my idea to make Lane better is to be the model fan, whoever you are and where ever you sit, and encourage the people around you to do the same.
I think the idea has generally been that if those fans aren't going to games, it'll mean more tickets available for the fans that want to stay the entire game.
But what about the students? How do we engage the students to show up early?
At Penn State, they have students waiting to rush the stands when the gate opens, no matter what game it is. We were lucky to have 1/2 the north endzone populated at the time of kickoff. This was not an issue in the 2000's.
It was the same when I went to Ole Miss/LSU game this year at Ole Miss. They scan the students ID but the students can request paper tickets instead(how I got in). We lined up with some other students about 2 hours earlier and by the time they opened the gates we were sprinting in. It was actually really fun. We ended up on the front row and were on ESPN several times. Not sure how general admission would work for Tech but it works for Ole Miss.
I think they would have to resituate the north endzone to make it general admission. Currently you show your ticket to get into the game, then again to get into north endzone. Also, since a large amount of the student section is in the east stands, they would have to figure out how to work that as well. I'm in favor of a point system for attending sporting events that is then used for placement for season tickets. The top point getters get put in general admission north, the rest get assigned seats in the east. Complicated, but it should work in some way or the other
Fine with me. North aint that great
Someone said it, and thinking about it, that's another thing I miss.
It seems like the MVs play the same 3 songs OVER and OVER and OVER...I recall there being far more variety in their music. Any current, or recent MVs know if this is accurate? Did the "Hokie Respect" ACC thing cut back on what could be played?
Another topic that was brought up in what I had read was the implementation of many, many cops out there that cut down on fun and such to be had. I haven't had a run-in with event staff/police lately, but I almost got kicked out of the stands for STANDING UP too much when the game was being played. Why would I want to go to a game where I sat down the entire time, and didn't get to scream and jump up and down? That's what makes me not want to go.
Most of the MVs are too drunk to remember more than 3 songs. They used to smuggle 5ths into the stadium in each tuba.
This is most likely the cause. When everyone else starts playing, you just pick one of the three tunes you remember and start playing in the hope that it sounds right.
Do they still have a football fan orientation during freshman orientation? I seem to recall being in an auditorium with some folks who taught us all the cheers, fight songs, when to jingle keys, and the like.
That's a heck of an idea.
not as of 2 yrs ago when I was a freshman. they do have welcome picnic in lane before school starts where you get to run through the tunnel, the coaches introduce themselves and they have you practice jumping to enter sandman
This is weak.
Well, that might be too strong a statement. But when I came in as a freshman in 2000, we definitely did this. And it was fun.
I was a freshman in 03 and we did this as well - pretty much the reason why you became instant best friends with the people in your orientation class. A shining moment for sure for those who have grown up going to VT games!
I did neither of these things...so somewhere between when HOAT was a freshman and 06 they got rid of the fan support seminar and sometime after 06 they started letting frosh run through the tunnel... :(
This definitely was not happening circa 1995. I wish it had been though.
My orientation was a few junior/senior year students rounding up the freshman on the hall to the first home game. Showing us how to hide the booze, organizing the paint for "Go Hokies" on chests, yelling at us to stand for the entire phucking game, jumping like crazy, shaking keys, etc.
I like the idea of the orientation but really if you want better fans then make better fans in your time there. My friends and I would invite freshman every year to go with us for the first home game and do the same thing. I like to think it as your social responsibility to pay back to VT for the best 4+ years of your life.
I've been out of the MVs for 2 years now, but when I left, they were trying to simplify everything. The pace of the game has changed so they needed to have a scheduled plan for situations that occur so there's less down time trying to figure out which song to play. I believe there are 3 songs that are rotated for when the other team gets the ball (one of which being The Imperial March), the H-O-K-I-E-S HOKIES! part of VPI Victory March for when we get a 1st down, We Will Rock You/We Just Sacked You for a sack, Carry Me Back for any big play such as a large gain or a turnover, and then a few rotating songs for when we are on defense. Unfortunately, the choice has to be made and communicated to 360 people within 5 seconds of the end of the play so that there is any time at all to play a song. Seeing as how all 360 of those people are watching the game, celebrating those same plays or reacting to bad plays, it can be difficult to get everyone on the same page. That's how it works between plays, unless you are referring to full length songs that are played during timeouts and such. In that case, there really is no rhyme or reason as to which song is played. Some are just preferred by the director and drum majors so they get played more often.
Current HT, can confirm essentially the same.
I was always able to judge how close we were to going on by what song you were playing during warm ups. Caravan, the Carry on My wayward son, then Tech Triumph, the VPI Victory, then we step off!
One other thing that I can think of is to add a portion of the student section for non-students. I am no longer a student, but whenever I go to games I always sit in the student section. I don't want people angry with me for standing up or sometimes making an ass out of myself, that's why I like sitting in the student section, because compared to most of them I'm pretty tame. But compared to the older people I can be a complete a-hole.
make the north end zone bigger
had they not just put up a new jumbotron, i wondered if excavating to put the new indoor facility partially under a new north endzone structure wouldn't have been a better location than some of the other recommendations. oh well...
Not sure of the logistics, but it'd be nice to have the Effect shirts at the stadium instead of needing to buy them at the store. Raise the ticket prices (season or individual) a few dollars if they're concerned about money, but it's a great way to have the entire stadium is maroon on effect day and look awesome.
Not really Lane Stadium specific but more of a game day experience.
I would like to see an area marked off for the kids maybe with some moon bounces, Blow up field goal, and a place for them to throw the football. The Hokie Bird should be in that area along with some of the cheerleaders and if not by the cheerleaders, some group doing some face painting. Next to the kids section I would mark off a section for the MVs, Highty Tighties, and specifically mark off a place for the skipper cannon so that people can learn of our history and be a part of it. This would all go towards creating a game day experience that Whit spoke of.
I LOVE this idea. Anything to make Lane a more family friendly experience is a really good idea so not all of the pre-game activities revolve around tailgaiting...as a 25-year-old, I don't give a shit but I'm sure when I bring my kids to lane stadium 20 years from now, I'd would be appreciate of it
I think this is part of the reason for the new gameday plaza being put in between the NEZ and the practice facility, the area will be turned into essentially a giant patio for hopefully exactly that sort of purpose!
Is there an age limit to use this moon bounce? Because I'm a student but I know after a bit of tailgating I would absolutely die to go wild on one. Maybe have two? A children's one and one for the awkwardly old.
OK, if they don't let you in, don't get upset and do this:
I think we need something like this there (I know this could be figured out into a large cushion area or something):
The Hokie Mascot could launch the other team mascot before every game...
I refuse to have silly our-mascot-vs.-their-mascot games. That's loluva style. Don't sink to that.
1) bring back Stick It In
2) Increase stadium capacity, however that can be done/possible
3) better audio all around the stadium, so there is no echo from one endzone to the other
4) jumbotron on south side so students don't have to look up and strain their necks while watching replays
The next stadium increase would likely be an upper deck to the East side stands. Yes, it could be done, but it would impact the woods.
i don't think it would happen. those seats would be awful, and it would be aesthetically hideous. they also just built that Verizon LTE station back there, right? and to add on, they would have to bring the whole east side up to current code, which i think would mean tearing it down.
it won't happen any time soon, but i think if anything happens, maybe when the current jumbotron has run through it's life cycle (12 years?), they could tear down north and east sides, build a new 1/2 stadium with a smaller lower "bowl", club seats and luxury boxes down closer to the field, and then a very large upper deck above that 2nd tier. maybe they play home games around large alumni bases that year, sort of a regional tour. DC, Baltimore, Charlotte, maybe even Philly. work with the ACC to play away games in c'ville, wake and 2 in RTP that year. it wouldn't be pretty, but it could be done.
Yea I hear ya, I'm still young, so maybe I'll see it in my time :) . I also wish that when they were doing the South endzone renovation, they connected it to the east and west sides so it would be a horseshoe or half bowl look to it, def would keep more noise in IMHO
I wouldn't be opposed to that, actually that would be frickin sweet. Always wished they would rebuild/renovate the north side since it holds the lowest capacity of the 4, but that pretty much has gone out the window with the new scoreboard, unless the build around it, like on the left and right side of the scoreboard. Just imagine how much more intimidating and loud Lane would be if it had the capacity around 70-80k+..... a Hokie can wish
yeah, but we cant sell out 65k now
Yep. More seats don't mean more people. We ain't no field of dreams
well I will say its a result of the team we have fielded recently, but also the lack of big games/night games. Me personally I went to every game as a student, no way I would miss a game, big or not. Students nowadays are also lack the passion compared to in years past.
Cut WAY back on the police presence. It's like a prison. As an 8 year season ticket holder I gave that feedback directly to the athletic dept.
A girl I work with her husband works for the Montgomery Co sheriffs dept and
he has told her that they typically bring in about 100 people for drunk in public
on game days.
I have no problem with the police presence. I am there to enjoy the game and not be bothered by drunks.
Trust me, the officers don't enjoy being on traffic duty, but it's necessary for navigating around campus on gameday. At large events, there is usually a requirement regarding the amount of police/security presence is required. I highly doubt we have more than other universities. The RMC events guys in their yellow jackets can only do so much. Their responsibility is more for dealing with ticket and seating issues.
I'm all for police presence to handle certain situations. I'm against police presence threatening to kick me from the game if I don't sit down because I'm blocking other people's views. I get it, I'm a tall guy, and I try my best to accommodate, but I didn't pay my money for my ticket to simply SIT and watch the game. I came to be a fan and part of the 12th man. If I wanted to sit and watch, I'd have stayed home and watched the game on TV.
I'm all for police presence, but I don't want police to tell me that I have to clear the stands immediately after the game with the rest of the crowd when I want to wait for it to thin out a bit, and hear the band finish the game. I don't want them to tell me they'll arrest me for drunk and disorderly for enjoying myself with jumping up and down and dancing, especially when I DON'T DRINK.
This is not acceptable to me.
I have never had the police hassle me for standing on the West Side and screaming like a maniac all game long.
I have never had the police hassle me for waiting for the crowd to clear before walking to the aisle.
Everybody has a bad day. Dealing with idiots can wear on the best of us. I hope this is something that happened once and not every game you've been to. I assure you they aren't there to make your life miserable.
I understand you're wanting to stand but my little girls have problems seeing even when people sit. We make arrangements and deal with that.
If you stand, I have to put my kids on my shoulder so they can see. The people behind me can't see. Whether they stand or not.
The older guy that sat next to me all season, he has a handicap that doesn't allow him to stand for long.
Guy had a problem with me this year when he thought he successfully snuck into the seats in front of us that he didn't buy, then stood on the seat to see. Right on front of my 7 year old that came to cheer and wore her cheerleader outfit. He made it impossible for me to see when I was standing. He got kinda pissy when I insisted on seeing his ticket. He eventually got tossed for throwing his drink at someone else. 'Nother story.
But, not everyone can accommodate your standing. You gotta have some appreciation for the people behind you. If you want to stand, get seats in a section for standing. I don't buy tickets over there because I realize I'm going to need sitting, with my kids.
I stand and yell every time our defense is on the field. If I'm blocking someone I'll switch seats with them but don't expect us to not stand and cheer and enjoy ourselves. Call me selfish but I enjoy standing and cheering on my team since my ticket cost the same as yours
i agree with you, but arguments like this are exactly why i stay home more often than not these days. Lane stadium hasn't been too bad, but when we go to pro games, i try to find seats on stubhub with a wall behind them. not just for me, but for my 7 year old son. he also likes to stand (and squirm, and move around).
i understand both sides of the argument, but the argument itself has eaten into my enjoyment of live sports...
sometimes, i wish they had a sitting/handicapped section (maybe first 26 rows off the field all the way around plus the platform outside the portals on the east side) for people who want/need to sit, and then tear out the benches everywhere else. at least it would eliminate the arguments inside the stadium.
Oh, I cheer. and loudly, and do all the other silly and fun stuff too.
I just make sure I don't infringe on the people behind me that expect to see the field.
With a guy your height, I may as well stay out in the parking lot and listen to the radio, even if I did stand and never bring my kids to the game.
That's your point, because you can get a seat in front of me, to heck with anyone behind you, that's the way you want to watch the game, I should just outbid you for a closer seat?
Really?
Not at all. I usually tell people that are behind me that I'm going to be standing a lot and if they want they can switch so they won't Be bothered. My point is that there are no specific standing/sitting area so it's impossible for someone to not be blocked. Personally, I like the idea of having standing room only sections
That's actually a really good attempt.
Most of the time I check behind me, if they are trying to sit, I try and crouch a bit so they can still see over me when I am on my feet.
I understand this completely, and as I said, I accommodate best I can. What I don't want, is the police officer to come threaten to kick me out of the game if I don't sit down. It's not like the people behind me are saying, "Hey could you please sit down." and I'm telling them to eff off, so they have to go get the cops.
It's also not easy to get tickets in the "standing" section as a non-student. Also, it wasn't until the last few years that I've had issues with this and my friends. We've been in various sections where we've stood and brought excitement to the areas (we cheer and sing the songs and such) to the point we've been applauded by people around us, even those that sat and couldn't stand up. It's only been in the last couple of years (one the Clemson night game) where we've had issues. The last time it happened, though I'm in a group of my friends, I was the one person singled out to say I needed to sit down (all the friends I was with are 5'10" or shorter, I'm just shy of 6'3").
To relate it to ways to improve Lane:
There should be more than just "student section" and "everyone else". Maybe there should be more "standing" sections and "sitting" sections.
I don't mind it in the stadium, but I do mind it in the parking lots. Had two friends get citations from ABC 'cops' who dress up in regular clothes. Neither had even had a full beer both were forced to pay $500+ to attend a VASAP class. That is bullshit. If they were being drunk assholes and harassing other people, I'd understand, but they had a couple sips of beer.
Sorry for the rant.
Yeah, I agree, that's utter BS unless they were underage.
With all the alcohol on display out there, selecting someone for that type of harassment is just badgeritis.
Do this from last year's HokeVision convo (LINK), but replace Grimes with a mechanical Aaron Moorehead chopping wood.
A giant bud foster head with spotlights for eyes that focus on the opposing QB as he walks onto the field...all the while there's smoke coming out from his ears and flames from his mouth.
I think I just gave myself nightmares.
Now you know what Grayson Lambert feels like.
I said this on another board, but flames coming out of the top of the West Stand castle like structures.
For those of you that have been to Kings Dominion - kind of like the Volcano ride with the flames coming out the top.
1. Win more games
2. Stop using 'reseating' as your primary fundraising vehicle. Reseating destroys a lot of things that make the gameday experience better.
3. Figure out a way to balance the needs of the greybeards (drive down and back the same day) with the gameday experience nuts (the later the kickoff the better).
3a. Only two home nooners a year, tops.
4. Run up the score.
5. There has never been a gameday experience, IMHO, better than the '02 LSU game. Nebraska was in the same ballpark. We need to have a game of that calibre in Lane every year, or every other year.
What happened to flyovers last year? I always loved the flyovers personally
Sequestration happened
Righto I totally forgot
also, the weather cancelled the flyover scheduled for the Marshall game.
Aren't the flyovers usually paid for by rich alumni? I don't think the goverment pays for planes to fly over college football games...
at least not for entertainment purposes.
As far as I know its 50/50, the active duty aircraft are paid for by the government as part of their normal flight hours, hence why they dropped off due to the cuts.
The historical aircraft are paid in full each year by Stan Cohen, class of 49. Fun fact about them, the Avenger Torpedo bomber used was flown by an alum of the class of 42 and credited with sinking a Jap carrier during the battle of the Philippine Sea and awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.
Especially stuff by the old aircraft. The bomber on senior day was privately paid.
I'm not sure about the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve flights but, I'm sure it's not something done extra, it's probably flight hours that need to be logged to keep their license anyway.
The cost to do a standard flyover at a sports event amount to $0. It's a couple minutes in several hours involved in a flight. It comes out of training dollars that are mandatory.
Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, etc. That's different. That's a specific group which has to travel from somewhere else, stay overnight, etc.
It seems that rich alumni pay for one, maybe two flyovers a year. After that, we used to get 1 or 2 that were military units, but sequestration cut back most of those. It used to be that having 3 or 4 flyovers in a season along with a Thursday night game was typical, but times have changed.
Does anybody know how we managed to get a B-2 flyover back in the day? Always wondered who pulled those strings, not something that happens very often
It os the Corps Alumni director who coordinates them usually. The long standing one Col Rozack retired 2 years ago, but Col Larkin has been doing a heck of a job even being able to secure the flyovers weve had in the current budget environment.
Seeing a 2014 National Champions banner flying high would do it for me.
seeing a 20_ _ National Championship would do it for me.
Let's hope we see many in the future.
honestly, my life would be complete even with just one Hokie National Championship. Im also a die hard Caps, Skins, Braves, and Wizards fan, but a Hokies' National Championship would let me die happy.
I'm a huge Wizards fan as well!
Well regardless I'd really like more flyovers and something cool...I mean shit my brother got an apache gunship at his first game.. I want an apache!!!!!!!!
Join the military, you'll get all the aircraft you could possibly want.
Or join the Confederate Air Force.
I would LOVE to see more flyovers! My theory is paper airplanes are a compensation attempt--we don't get a flyover so we try to create our own. This is part of the motivation behind my remote-control-helicopter ticket idea. If we can't get a real Apache gunship, 60,000 minerature ones would certainly be the next best thing.
What we could do is have the largest flyover ever. Everyone in the stands will make their own paper airplanes and throw them before the game starts. If anyone throws a paper airplane after the game starts, they become a part of the crew that cleans the bathrooms after the game.
No dude, my first game wasn't an Apache - it was the B-2!
http://www.vt.edu/spotlight/impact/2012-10-29-football/flyovers-gallery....
Image 3
My avatar is that flyover. Love them. We need more...
Sorry to correct, but that's a B-52, not a B-2 on your avatar.
Your right. I thought he wrote B-52. I misread what he said. I know my aircraft. Just read too fast. Sorry all.
I was at the top of East Stands for that flyover...it was one of the eeriest moments I've ever experienced...I remember the stadium being dead quiet as it flew silently over our heads...and then Lane EXPLODED with cheering..it was an awesome experience
I was at the top of the north endzone looking northwest - it was awesome tracking the thing all the way to the stadium.
Given the current political/economic environment, flyovers are becoming rare, unfortunately. The old WWII warbirds aren't a government function, which is why they're available even under current conditions. I love the old planes.
Obviously some of these goals are not attainable.
The only one I disagree with is #4. Let's put all animals on treadmills. Even goldfish.
I always thought it would be cool to run with the medieval castle motif:
But that's probably not for everyone.
SO COOL. SUCH AMAZE. MUCH AWESOME.
Wow.
Making the Cassell a...castle. I like it
Then students can fight to be "archers" posted on the walls to peg opposing team players with some form of projectile that won't hurt them seriously, but would be a major distraction.
rubber bands
A section full of Archers? I know exactly what we can call it.
This needs to happen.... seriously.
I have been to that castle!...Scotland is amazing.
My absolute favorite part is at 1:33- Tweedy makes the tackle and the crowd ROARS
This game was so much fun to be at. I was so pumped at the end.
CHILL. BUMPS.
This video should be shown to all recruits, period.
Make paper airplanes and the wave mandatory [sarcastica]
Best improvement would be a crystal ball in the trophy case.
I think the college football timing rules are a big problem. It takes FOREVER to play a college football game because the clock has to stop to reset the chains after every 1st down. If college adopted the NFL's timing rules, it would cut at least 20 minutes off the total game time, which I think would help out casual fans.
Problem is, current running time average is actually shorter NOW than it was at the peak of our greatest stadiums in college football run.