Illinois at Oregon, Saturday, October 26th, 2:30pm CT, CBS

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aaeismacgychel
skyIdub said:
But omg i'll take another packed MS doing this all year!!!


Strategically place fans in the know to shush each section!!

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100% Wouldn't change it for the world right now. I remember during my freshman year that 2001 Sugar Bowl season, as soon as it was 3rd down, loud cheering, followed by shushing and settle down arm motions, followed by a smaller percentage of people cheering, lol. But man was that great compared to the years that followed it. I'm just happy to see people filling the stadium again.
 
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aaeismacgychel
ChiefGritty said:
Our football and basketball crowds have very different personalities, I've noticed that.

Cheerful and vaguely disinterested at football, 15,000 simultaneous nervous breakdowns at basketball
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I think our fanbase in general could make the subject of many a thesis and scientific journal, haha. The longer I've been around the more I realize how crazy we truly are. I think we may all need therapy for fan PTSD.
 
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skyIdub
ChiefGritty said:
Our football and basketball crowds have very different personalities, I've noticed that.

Cheerful and vaguely disinterested at football, 15,000 simultaneous nervous breakdowns at basketball
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Yep....and for everyone that thinks just a successful football program solves the packed stadium issue (spoiler alert: duh)...I still maintain that it needs to be an event....not just a football game.

Free food for students......as they leave the stands at the end of the game......student section (and others) full every game.

Can't miss entertainment surrounding the game.....make it the place to be in central and southern IL. This 100 yr. celebration is a blueprint. Find similar strategies to create this type of atmosphere every weekend!

With this schools engineering prowess, we have to find a way to the drone show intro for night games. (did anyone see Texas' Sat?? đź‘€)

A drone Block I and a drone Galloping Ghost with a proper intro song has to find a way to our appropriate department in DIA.

Make this a spectacle every weekend.
 
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OrangeBlue98
Ramrod2010 said:
Regarding the noise... https://www.reddit.com/r/ducks/s/HY4IBHoSUa

I don't expect it to be as loud as we aren't the same draw as OSU, but for those unfamiliar Autzen gets ridiculously loud.

Pretty sure I had seen it referenced that they just straight up yell for 3 straight hours.
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Doesn’t Autzen have some sort of unique thing like a European-style roof/canopy that holds noise in? I know Autzen is a loud location despite being small-ish, and I thought something helped keep the noise in.
 
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SoCal Illini
OrangeBlue98 said:
Doesn’t Autzen have some sort of unique thing like a European-style roof/canopy that holds noise in? I know Autzen is a loud location despite being small-ish, and I thought something helped keep the noise in.
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It does have something of a roof on one side, but not a very big one like Washington. I think it’s the fact it’s essentially a bowl that’s right up on the field, doesn’t have any structures to absorb the sound although I’m not an acoustics expert. Plus the fans are just loud. Must be a Pacific Northwest thing.
Illini fans going there for the first time will like it, even though it’ll be an advantage for UO.
 
#209      
illiram
96 1/2 hours to game time. It's our time. Make the best of it fellas.

Shout out to Josh Whitman for the culture he has created. I was hard on him early on, but he had a vision some of us did not see. Whitman, Bielema and Underwood have brought excitement beyond our wildest Illini dreams.

I will be eating Duck a L'Orange Saturday night in celebration.
 
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illinibb76
GoDucks349 said:
I personally think the time zone issue (jet lag etc) is blown way out of proportion. Jet lag doesn't really happen till you travel more than 3 time zones and jet lag is one of the factors in circadian rythme. So it's a non issue. I traveled the US for 30 years and never had any issues with changing time zones. Illinois is a 2 time zone change and a 4 1/2 hour flight, that's not much at all. I'd rather be in my own bed an extra day than be in a hotel somewhere for an extra day.

Also, going west is a bit easier on the body than going east.
I use to prefer keeping the trips shorter. Example: I'd fly from PDX at about noon to NYC arriving that evening. Next day I'd have a 9 am, 11 am 1 pm and 3 pm meeting and catch a 6:30 pm flight back to PDX getting home around 9-10 pm
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Jet lag or time difference is only part of the issue. I have a friend who was an US Olympic coach in track and field and after long flights they would have the athletes go to the venues and do a light workout but that all changed after they started using the technology that came out of East Germany. They were so far ahead on understanding stress on the body and how long it takes to fully recover from workouts, competition and air travel. They were using electrodes connected to the athletes that were hooked into computers, then later laptops to measure things the rest of the world didn't yet understand. They had baseline measurements on every athlete then would measure after each session or travel and could determine whether someone was in recovery stage, fit or even if they were getting sick. I say all that to say when they landed, they went straight to the hotel and rested and hydrated which made a world of difference in their performance. They could also measure brain waves to understand an athlete's ability to focus during competition. And the last thing which was really interesting the program was loaded with many of the top athletes in the world, their various sports and events statistical measurements and they could determine whether you were in the correct event that suited your athletic skills, which include explosive power, endurance and reaction time!
 
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New Creation
Commented on a ducks video that we will win 38-35 and I think they have put out a hit on me lol

Also their TE Ferguson is out. So that is a plus for us. We have a hard time covering TE
 
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GoDucks349
OrangeBlue98 said:
Doesn’t Autzen have some sort of unique thing like a European-style roof/canopy that holds noise in? I know Autzen is a loud location despite being small-ish, and I thought something helped keep the noise in.
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There are a few things that are a little different about Autzen, first, not noise related, but the field runs East West rather than North South like most fields. Second, it's dug into the ground, I believe the playing surface is lower than the parking lot. Third, it was built for football only so the fans are much closer to the field and they are elevated so the front row is probably 8-10 feet above the playing surface. This puts the fans about 10-12 feet from the opposing bench. The East and West Endzones have large video screens and scoreboards, the North side has a wall of vertical sky boxes and on the South side you have the roof. I suspect all of these to some degree (except the East West field) impact keeping the sound inside the stadium and focused on the playing field.

Also, we don't have a lot of fans sitting on their butts during games.
 
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Illini2010-11
GoDucks349 said:
There are a few things that are a little different about Autzen, first, not noise related, but the field runs East West rather than North South like most fields. Second, it's dug into the ground, I believe the playing surface is lower than the parking lot. Third, it was built for football only so the fans are much closer to the field and they are elevated so the front row is probably 8-10 feet above the playing surface. This puts the fans about 10-12 feet from the opposing bench. The East and West Endzones have large video screens and scoreboards, the North side has a wall of vertical sky boxes and on the South side you have the roof. I suspect all of these to some degree (except the East West field) impact keeping the sound inside the stadium and focused on the playing field.

Also, we don't have a lot of fans sitting on their butts during games.
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Hopefully you will on Saturday ;)
 
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GoDucks349
New Creation said:
Commented on a ducks video that we will win 38-35 and I think they have put out a hit on me lol

Also their TE Ferguson is out. So that is a plus for us. We have a hard time covering TE
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we're definitely not short on very good tight ends. Herbert (Justin's brother) and Shadiq (perhaps the best athlete playing for Oregon this year) are the #2 & #3 TEs
 
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