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Love the responses to my bored, offseason question ... but I'm not gonna lie, I was fishing for some nerdy acoustics answers. :ROFLMAO: In other words, put Purdue's home crowd in every arena in the Big Ten, how does the atmosphere change at each venue? Some things about the SFC can't really...

To shift conversation from USC ( :ROFLMAO: ) toward the appropriate hype for this upcoming season, let's note that we have made the Elite Eight and beyond (my personal, subjective cutoff for a "deep Tournament run") during the following seasons, and this is where we started the next season...

I have (next-to) zero problem with the renaming of the stadium given the donation and Gies' father being a veteran, but this is definitely the right move ... "ILLINI" is still a damn cool name within college sports, and we should highlight it in such a prominent location.

Now imagine it as a baseball version of the Horseshoe, with about 25% fewer rows going up, no green space for the batter's eye and the first row of seats starts 30 yards behind the outfield fence. :ROFLMAO:

^ It's amazing what some height on that end of the stadium can do ... granted they are set at different angles, but the scoreboard is literally 2.5 Horseshoes tall! :ROFLMAO: Again, I plead with the DIA ... if there is zero appetite for spending crazy money on the SEZ and we are hesitant to...

I’m itching for another one, it’s been too long!

While I think that plays somewhat of a role, I think it is overblown. I lived in Iowa City from the time I was about 8 until my late 20s (and have since lived in Chicago for 7 years this August). While there was no true "local" pro sports team, I didn't know a single sports fan who didn't have...

I could not find a good tool for a "1-hour drive time" radius, but I wanted to repeat that same exercise for both a 75-mile and 125-mile radius around select Big Ten campuses using this website. I'm limiting this to the 2012ish Big Ten (i.e., the traditional 10 plus PSU and Nebraska) since it...

Just a somewhat bored Illini propaganda post on this Friday afternoon, but I was just thinking how there always seem to be a lot of good Big Ten basketball programs in the 2020s, but really only a couple have been consistently players. Sure, Iowa and Maryland pop up here and there, Wisconsin is...

How much of a hit do we expect Michigan to take without Dusty? I mean, they'll still be quite good ... right?? (Hope not, lol...)

Random, non-scoreboard related question. I have always been really interested in how steep or gradual the slope of a stadium is, and my preference is DEFINITELY for the former, as it helps create a much better gameday environment! With that said, would anyone who has traveled to many Big Ten...

Just curious for some of you who are knowledgeable about this kind of thing, but is there anything that could be done to SFC to make it louder that wouldn't involve some drastic measure (e.g., having a lower ceiling, lol...)? I'll first say that I actually think SFC is plenty loud, at least...

Thanks for posting, Dan, it looks awesome! And on the note of my "anything is better than nothing" attitude when it comes to the Horseshoe, look at this screenshot from that video: The new scoreboard is literally twice or even three times as tall as the Horseshoe stands when standing at...

No, we haven't ... and I definitely agree it should be on a weekend. Where it seems like we disagree based on your tone of your posts is that it was objectively a smashing success for our program to draw nearly 18,000 fans at 8:00 pm on a weeknight in a pro sports city given that our last...

I'm genuinely skeptical that they couldn't sell seats in a(n even modestly) renovated SEZ much more easily and for more money than in the back rows of East Main hidden underneath an overhang that prevents you from seeing punts, lol. Maybe they don't discriminate by anything beyond the section...