It will help the atmosphere but the sound system needs upgraded too. The new lights will work so much better with a new sound system
Does Kroger Field need upgrades?
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Has the new sound system been confirmed? I have not seen that mentioned anywhere.
I've only seen lighting and ribbon boards too....$7 million upgrade to those systems, but no mention of sound
In terms of the stadium. The basics are the best in the conference. Seating, ingress, egress, width of concourses, etc... Concessions are pretty good. Suite setup is really nice now with the changes. The club level is very nice and really, nothing like it in the sec.
Video boards, lighting, technology and sound leave a lot to be desired. Lighting getting upgraded as we type.
When they did the renovation the consultant goofed up BAD in their estimate on demand for "club" seating. They could have easily doubled the club level seating and sold it out. So, I predict that they will do a new club seating/suite area in one of the endzones in the next decade similar to what Ole Miss did about 10-15 years ago.
Video boards, lighting, technology and sound leave a lot to be desired. Lighting getting upgraded as we type.
When they did the renovation the consultant goofed up BAD in their estimate on demand for "club" seating. They could have easily doubled the club level seating and sold it out. So, I predict that they will do a new club seating/suite area in one of the endzones in the next decade similar to what Ole Miss did about 10-15 years ago.
I believe the lights will be nice. Contractors are working on them right now. How long before the houses off Cooper complain about the lights? They have complained for years about the fireworks.
Yes, both in equipment and attitude.
1) Pyrotechnics. I remember hearing that the surround neighborhoods complained a few years ago about night games and fireworks. There is countless fireworks that don't have reports (the loud boom) and even newer styles that use compressed air to launch them instead of the normal gunpowder. Imagine blue and white "roman candle" style fireworks going off all around the stadium.
2) A change from Grove Street as the entrance music. The entrance music is not to get the team pumped, its to get the crowd pumped and loud. In turn, this will get the team pumped. Nothing gets a crowd going that good old rock music. Stoops hallmark has been defense. Play let the bodies hit the floor, and time the key moments in the song to vicious defensive hits on the video. The crowd chanting the countdown, the scream.....
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the... FLOOR!
Beaten... why for?
Can't take much more
Here we go... Here we go... Here we go (now)
One - Nothing wrong with me
Two - Nothing wrong with me
Three - Nothing wrong with me
Four - Nothing wrong with me
One - Something's got to give
Two - Something's got to give
Three - Something's got to give
Now!
For years UK has said.. Why not Kentucky... Well, nothing is wrong here, and something has to give!! Make it an attitude. Keep that chip on there shoulders.
3) Been a few years since I have been, So if they stopped it already great. But the stupid call to post and the horse racing BS they play. Drop the whole thing, or at least replace it with football highlights.
4) Coal Whistle. All for it. But have an actual big whistle, not something piped though the speakers. Again, you can use compressed air and a fog machine to mimic the steam whistle they would have used. Nice tradition, but its a gimmick without the real thing on the field. Maybe 2, one on each end of the UKs sideline.
1) Pyrotechnics. I remember hearing that the surround neighborhoods complained a few years ago about night games and fireworks. There is countless fireworks that don't have reports (the loud boom) and even newer styles that use compressed air to launch them instead of the normal gunpowder. Imagine blue and white "roman candle" style fireworks going off all around the stadium.
2) A change from Grove Street as the entrance music. The entrance music is not to get the team pumped, its to get the crowd pumped and loud. In turn, this will get the team pumped. Nothing gets a crowd going that good old rock music. Stoops hallmark has been defense. Play let the bodies hit the floor, and time the key moments in the song to vicious defensive hits on the video. The crowd chanting the countdown, the scream.....
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the floor
Let the bodies hit the... FLOOR!
Beaten... why for?
Can't take much more
Here we go... Here we go... Here we go (now)
One - Nothing wrong with me
Two - Nothing wrong with me
Three - Nothing wrong with me
Four - Nothing wrong with me
One - Something's got to give
Two - Something's got to give
Three - Something's got to give
Now!
For years UK has said.. Why not Kentucky... Well, nothing is wrong here, and something has to give!! Make it an attitude. Keep that chip on there shoulders.
3) Been a few years since I have been, So if they stopped it already great. But the stupid call to post and the horse racing BS they play. Drop the whole thing, or at least replace it with football highlights.
4) Coal Whistle. All for it. But have an actual big whistle, not something piped though the speakers. Again, you can use compressed air and a fog machine to mimic the steam whistle they would have used. Nice tradition, but its a gimmick without the real thing on the field. Maybe 2, one on each end of the UKs sideline.
Four SEC stadiums have capacities between 60,000 and 65,000: Mississippi State: 60,311; UK's Kroger Field 61,000; Missouri: 62,621; and Ole Miss 64,038. When Vanderbilt's expansion is complete, its capacity will be 40,350.
PSU planning $700M makeover of Beaver Stadium. NE doing $450M upgrade to theirs.
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Great suggestions I agree Grove Street should be saved for the 4th qtr. the call to the post could stay or go doesn’t matter to me either way.
A) When you change your name to Kroger Field, no football person in the SEC or elsewhere is going to take you serious. Major blunder by Barnhart
B) The turf look doesn’t fit the SEC. Go natural grass like the rest of the teams, who cares what it looks like in the cold weather, the grass look is traditional. It’s all about tradition.
C) Look at the outside of our stadium, now look at the outside of others. They’re all covered in brick, ours is covered in nothing and shows the metal skeleton underneath that looks like the back of high school bleachers. It just looks unappealing.
D) Look at the lower bowl around field level. It’s just some blue banners stapled up to a cement wall. Go look at everyone else, they have brick, they have hedges, etc. Barnhart has no feel for aesthetics. He builds his stadiums like he’s constructing a Walmart. Cold and lifeless, no personality.
PS, For goodness sake, get the Kroger logo off of the field, it’s embarrassing enough to have to call it Kroger field but we have to stick that logo with a shopping cart on an SEC football field? And we wonder why we aren’t taken seriously in this conference.
I could go on and on and on with little things like this, but it’s the little details that make a house a home, and Barnhart just doesn’t have a feel for what it means to play football in the SEC. He doesn’t understand the south or tradition in general.
B) The turf look doesn’t fit the SEC. Go natural grass like the rest of the teams, who cares what it looks like in the cold weather, the grass look is traditional. It’s all about tradition.
C) Look at the outside of our stadium, now look at the outside of others. They’re all covered in brick, ours is covered in nothing and shows the metal skeleton underneath that looks like the back of high school bleachers. It just looks unappealing.
D) Look at the lower bowl around field level. It’s just some blue banners stapled up to a cement wall. Go look at everyone else, they have brick, they have hedges, etc. Barnhart has no feel for aesthetics. He builds his stadiums like he’s constructing a Walmart. Cold and lifeless, no personality.
PS, For goodness sake, get the Kroger logo off of the field, it’s embarrassing enough to have to call it Kroger field but we have to stick that logo with a shopping cart on an SEC football field? And we wonder why we aren’t taken seriously in this conference.
I could go on and on and on with little things like this, but it’s the little details that make a house a home, and Barnhart just doesn’t have a feel for what it means to play football in the SEC. He doesn’t understand the south or tradition in general.
I would rather have the call to post play on 3rd and 4th downs. Lexington and the state is known for horse racing. Axe the coal whistle I think it's outdated and boring. Most of the players don't even know what a coal mine is. I am sure the Crafts play a role in the whistle.
I do not care how biased websites rank stadiums for clicks. Every school needs to constantly evaluate their own stadium in light of new technology and make regular upgrades. Not just football, but all the sports. If you go to KF, you know it is a modern stadium and nothing to be ashamed of. But there can always be a better scoreboard, more comfortable seats, or a new coat of paint. Kentucky has done a good job in my opinion and I am sure that will continue. Things don't stay the same.
Surprised other SEC programs aren’t adding double wide trailers on stilts in each corner of their stadium
On the name Kroger Field, I agree with the criticism, but since Ass Kicker Industries wont pay enough...Kroger it is.
I read where more SEC teams were going to add commercial logos to their fields, maybe as soon as this fall, Not only are players trying to squeeze every cent they can get, so are the schools. I have no clue what Kroger pays for naming rights and having their logo on the field, but it appears UK may have just been ahead of the game in that area.
I disagree with your first point and your comment about the logo. We will see more and more corporate sponsorships placed on stadiums and fields. This is probably the first time Barnhart has been ahead of the trend. The Arkansas AD spoke about this recently after the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel made a change to allow corporate sponsorships as midfield logos for the first time:
Arkansas athletics director Hunter Yurachek said last week he was in favor of the proposal.
“To put a logo opposite the SEC logos, that generates some additional sponsor revenue,” Yurachek said at SEC Spring Meetings in Miramar Beach, Fla. “That would be something that I would definitively support.” In addition to field-level sponsorships, Arkansas will shop this summer for a Razorback Stadium sponsorship. Naming rights for the late media mogul Donald W. Reynolds expire June 30.
Yurachek said last week that a plan is in place but no naming rights have been sold. He previously said naming rights would be shopped for $3.5 million to $4 million per year for corporations, and higher amounts for individual donors.
Greg Sankey, SEC Commissioner also commented on corporate sponsorships on stadiums recently:
"I grew up in Syracuse, New York, so I was accustomed to the Carrier Dome, which is now the JMA Wireless Dome," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said last week at the conference's spring meetings in Destin, Florida. "So this is not new within the college sports enterprise. We've had clear lines, so it hasn't been appearing on the field. I would anticipate there's going to be a continuing push of those limits."
I don't think all schools will do it, but there will be a ton that do.
I do agree with your other points. While the stadium is a huge improvement over what it used to look like, the aesthetics of it are still very cold and industrial.
I think whoever flexed on Mitch to get us beer can go a step further and get us coed cage dancers on the concourses. It's time we get that done before we are playing catchup with UT.
From 2006-2010 we averaging 69k per game. In 2007 we set a two Commonwealth Stadium attendance records of over 70k fans, the win against #1 LSU being one, The OT loss to Florida being the other, in 2006 70k saw the cats beat a highly ranked UL team when Stevie got loose. If the team can continue to improve and start beating every now and again upper echelon SEC teams you'd see the stadium packed aside from the 3 low level G5 teams we play. Those 3 games aren't attractive to a lot of fans, especially those that are single game ticket buyers. Everyone wants to go to the big time games with an electric atmosphere.....and before anyone says....we we're a bball school and that's where the fans are, guess what, Rupp isn'tisted as one of the most intimidating or electric venues either. Too many blue hairs that don't like to get rowdy. I'm a 66 yr old blue hair but I can stand and make noise with the best of them. I've a rowdy, electric stadium atmosphere....USCjr at Williams Bruce know how to make that stadium rock, it is one of the most electric atmospheres.
It needs more seating and more rowdy butts in those seats.....make that place LOUD like two seasons ago against UF and the atmosphere is at an SEC level, problem is, it's not like that for every game, to have a great home field advantage, the crowd is key to that as us a highly competitive team. New sound system would be great and a second deck in each endzone.
ESPN just rated college stadiums. Not only was KF not even in top 25, it didn't get mentioned of 40 or so.
Must we find even more ways to subjectify women and more importantly in front of children??
Ya'll complain about Drag Queens lip syncing "FULLY CLOTHED" or reading to them in the library, but its ok if a straight female dances around in a cage on a pole wearing not much more than a band-aid and a little cloth in front of children at a football game??
Ya'll are ****ed up....
It's ok as long as it fits your narrative and pushes your agenda.
Why would you take the words of one poster, and twist that as though he's speaking for everyone else. Then you tried to make it political? Last I looked, Not a single one of us hit a like button on that post. You have no clue what that posters political views are to begin with.
Hmmm... you didn't really think I was being anything other than satirical, did you?
That's what happens when you play with the BIG BOYS.
As fans we should NEVER, ever use that name. It is and will always be Commonwealth Stadium. We should refuse to call it anything else.
Yeah cosmetically this has always been a sore spot. They could dress these up somehow and now have them look so trailer with a little creativity. I always thought adding Roman Columns on top of each one with lighting or something would make a cool look out of them. Not sure what kind of support there is above those though.
I understand being at the game and being in the middle of all the excitement and experience, but watching on TV has always been better viewing. Sure you have some premium seats that give you good views of the field, but even those will put you 75 years away from the actual snap on many plays . a 70+ inch HD tv gives you a much better view of the game. But like I said, being there and experiencing the atmosphere is a big deal too.
But to the expansion deal, it's not the going thing right now, lots of stadium upgrades are now lowering capacity all over the country because people just aren't showing up because it's game day any longer. Small stadiums may be adding a few seats, but many places are removing poor seating and creating premium suits with a lot of fluff added to sell/rent at premium prices to boosters and companies at a cost of a hand full of cheap seats.
Needs upgrades to wins on the field, all the other stuff is fluff
Ive said this before and it may be old age speaking but I used to love going to games and had tickets for years since Commonwealth opened, but in the past few years I dont enjoy the game atmosphere as much and for me its because the flow of the game and excitement is killed by all the stops and breaks. They've always had commercials but just seems there are a lot more stoppages now and during those stops all they do is blair music that you cant talk over or carry on any conversation.
I'd consider myself a hip old dude too (Earth Wind and Fire my favorite band and 80's Funk still my genre) but those two things drive me nuts and take a lot away from the game experience. At least at home you can change to another game and catch that to kill the commercial breaks.
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