Memorial Stadium Game Day Experience

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DeonThomas

DeonThomas
South Carolina
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blackdog said:
You can walk anywhere in any of the tailgate areas with an open container. You could go all the way down Florida from Lincoln if you want to. We regularly are out at the research park area which is across from I hotel and always have walking beers, sometimes more than one, heading to the stadium.
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Ditto. "Always" for me is just once or twice a year, however.
 
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ChiefGritty

ChiefGritty
Chicago, IL
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Konnie said:
I have seats on the east side of the stadium and I go through the portal on the Northeast side of the stadium. There was once a portal on the east side off of fourth that I used. There are now only three portals into the stadium.
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There's gotta be a way to get fans coming from the direction of campus to the East concourse without interfering with the gameday operations of the football team. I know they now use the Smith Center locker room on gameday, but there has to be a way.
 
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ChiefGritty

ChiefGritty
Chicago, IL
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blackdog said:
You can walk anywhere in any of the tailgate areas with an open container. You could go all the way down Florida from Lincoln if you want to. We regularly are out at the research park area which is across from I hotel and always have walking beers, sometimes more than one, heading to the stadium.
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I'd be serving a hundred consecutive life sentences in Leavenworth if open container laws in Champaign were meaningfully enforced.
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Ransom Stoddard said:
Elite.
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ptgrd23

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Open up 4 more entrances with ticket takers.

All 6 more water/drink vendors to open up inside stadium. Terminate the contract of any water/drink vendor who runs out of drinks 2 weeks in row.
 
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Wade9412

Wade9412
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Back to the Champaign tailgating experience... I have season tickets for the first time this year and I'm wanting to have the best tailgating experience possible when we go to the Virginia game.

We have a pass to Lot 32 and plan on bringing a cooler in the truck. Can we wheel a cooler and carry chairs to Grange Grove?
 
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chiefini

chiefini
Rockford, Illinois
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Wade9412 said:
Back to the Champaign tailgating experience... I have season tickets for the first time this year and I'm wanting to have the best tailgating experience possible when we go to the Virginia game.

We have a pass to Lot 32 and plan on bringing a cooler in the truck. Can we wheel a cooler and carry chairs to Grange Grove?
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Yes! As I said in a previous post, our crew has done that every pre-game since GG opened. Make sure you get there in time to be there for the team’s Illiniwalk!
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BRucks

BRucks
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Actual attendance figures over the past 5 (noncovid) years:

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illini80

illini80
Forgottonia
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My gawd those are depressing numbers. First you have to sell a coach on coming to a place that hasn’t been supporting the team, and then they have sell recruits on coming to play in front of empty seats. Obviously this is of our (Illinois) own making, but crawling out of Death Valley is an incredibly difficult task.

Another reason why last Saturday’s problems can never be repeated.
 
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Marshall_Lucky

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ChiefGritty said:
There's gotta be a way to get fans coming from the direction of campus to the East concourse without interfering with the gameday operations of the football team. I know they now use the Smith Center locker room on gameday, but there has to be a way.
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They just need to step up some temporary fencing or something and create a walkway that funnels the crowd where they want. Also I think the mobile tickets make for more problems than they solve given how they never want to load or scan. I keep requesting my season tickets as printed ones and I refuse to change until they make me
 
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Konnie

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Western Suburbs
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I have noticed that the ticket readers have a hard time reading the mobile tickets off my phone in the bright sunlight. When I bring people with me to a game, I transfer a ticket to each of them. This seems like a much faster way for my friends to get into the Stadium rather than having them all lining up with me and then having to scan all the tickets off my phone.
 
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Ransom Stoddard

Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
Bloomington, IL
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Dan said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1566840672841306112
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This is a step in the right direction, but there's still too much "fans need to do xyz differently". Come in to the stadium earlier, download your tickets before you get in line, bring your own water bottles. None of these are back-breakers, so to speak, but they're still off-loading the biggest issues onto the fans.

Not everyone can get to the stadium an hour ahead of time (esp those upcoming 11am kickoffs). Speaking only for myself, I have an expectation that there will be adequate cell coverage in an area as large as C-U, and I also have an expectation that something as simple as bottled water will be in ample supply.
 
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illiniguy

illiniguy
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Guest said:
Wait, exactly what was the feedback on the chicken alfredo in the Danville cafeteria? More info. please!
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You’ll have to wait for the next attendance report for that...Maybe they’ll print the recipe too.
 
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Mr. Tibbs

Mr. Tibbs
southeast DuPage
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Ransom Stoddard said:
This is a step in the right direction, but there's still too much "fans need to do xyz differently". Come in to the stadium earlier, download your tickets before you get in line, bring your own water bottles. None of these are back-breakers, so to speak, but they're still off-loading the biggest issues onto the fans.

Not everyone can get to the stadium an hour ahead of time (esp those upcoming 11am kickoffs). Speaking only for myself, I have an expectation that there will be adequate cell coverage in an area as large as C-U, and I also have an expectation that something as simple as bottled water will be in ample supply.
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from a university that is widely recognized in the top 10 in most engineering disciplines, especially electrical, computer science and computer engineering, the problems involving cell service and wifi connectivity and speed are just mind blowing.

its akin to the cobbler's kids running around with holes in their shoes
 
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IlliniKat91

IlliniKat91
Chicago, IL
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Ransom Stoddard said:
This is a step in the right direction, but there's still too much "fans need to do xyz differently". Come in to the stadium earlier, download your tickets before you get in line, bring your own water bottles. None of these are back-breakers, so to speak, but they're still off-loading the biggest issues onto the fans.

Not everyone can get to the stadium an hour ahead of time (esp those upcoming 11am kickoffs). Speaking only for myself, I have an expectation that there will be adequate cell coverage in an area as large as C-U, and I also have an expectation that something as simple as bottled water will be in ample supply.
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Honestly, after years of outdoor music festivals, I'd rather bring my own bottle/CamelBak and be able to refill as much as I like without having to pay for plastic. I know it's a personal preference, but as long as they keep those water filling stations full and flowing, I'm good with that kind of change.

I do wish they'd go back to paper tickets for some folks. Watching my parents mess with mobile tickets can be painful, even if my husband or I are there to help.
 
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