Pump Guy
If Steve Spurrier was my neighbor, I would move.
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This is NOT about excuses, just a couple of weird, if not challenging game items.
First, if Ohio State did to Michigan pregame, what they did to Tennessee, then the incident after the Michigan game was totally predictable. Ohio State's locker rooms are in the same endzone, with each team on the opposite side of their sideline. During the pregame warmups, Tennessee had the opposite side of the field (from the locker rooms). This meant when Tennessee returned to the locker room before the start of the game, they had to run through the Ohio State side. Instead of just haphazardly running through however, OSU officials formed a funnel. They literally filed Tennessee into a single file line. As they did this, the almost entirety of the OSU team ran up to the line and began taunting. This meant Tennessee players had to run individually through the OSU team and OSU field personnel. This was clearly orchestrated by stadium and team officials. If this happens every game, I am stunned there are not multiple pre-game fights.
It appeared that Ohio State did not have their full band, so I am not sure what the traditional entrance is, but Saturday night, Tennessee comes out first, then about 10 seconds later, the OSU players come out. This meant the players were cris-crossing on the field, again, just a weird setup for potential incidents.
During the game, pre-snap, OSU would pipe in music and the announcer would be speaking. The rules are that it must stop at 15 seconds on the play clock, they missed that mark MANY times. It was irritating also that they would show these decibel ratings on the screen - while the guy was speaking and music was playing. They never seemed to show decibel ratings when they weren't blaring music.
However the worst, and the one that could have offered an ever so slight advantage to OSU (not trying to say this is why we lost), OSU had these two-color led boards lining the entire field. I would guestimate they were probably 5ft x 20ft (again, a guess). They also had them along the mid-level overhangs. When OSU had the ball, they would be off, or there would be something like "Go OSU". But when Tennessee had the ball, they would literally strobe these things up to the snap, and many times beyond. I will say that it was very distracting sitting at mid-level (section B), I can only guess what it was like on the field.
I will say that high intensity LED lights have dramatically changed the lighting experience at stadiums. In general, I think college football should do at least two things; stop all lighting effects while the play clock is running (or of course during a play), and two, there should be no artificial noise while the play clock is running (not including the band).
First, if Ohio State did to Michigan pregame, what they did to Tennessee, then the incident after the Michigan game was totally predictable. Ohio State's locker rooms are in the same endzone, with each team on the opposite side of their sideline. During the pregame warmups, Tennessee had the opposite side of the field (from the locker rooms). This meant when Tennessee returned to the locker room before the start of the game, they had to run through the Ohio State side. Instead of just haphazardly running through however, OSU officials formed a funnel. They literally filed Tennessee into a single file line. As they did this, the almost entirety of the OSU team ran up to the line and began taunting. This meant Tennessee players had to run individually through the OSU team and OSU field personnel. This was clearly orchestrated by stadium and team officials. If this happens every game, I am stunned there are not multiple pre-game fights.
It appeared that Ohio State did not have their full band, so I am not sure what the traditional entrance is, but Saturday night, Tennessee comes out first, then about 10 seconds later, the OSU players come out. This meant the players were cris-crossing on the field, again, just a weird setup for potential incidents.
During the game, pre-snap, OSU would pipe in music and the announcer would be speaking. The rules are that it must stop at 15 seconds on the play clock, they missed that mark MANY times. It was irritating also that they would show these decibel ratings on the screen - while the guy was speaking and music was playing. They never seemed to show decibel ratings when they weren't blaring music.
However the worst, and the one that could have offered an ever so slight advantage to OSU (not trying to say this is why we lost), OSU had these two-color led boards lining the entire field. I would guestimate they were probably 5ft x 20ft (again, a guess). They also had them along the mid-level overhangs. When OSU had the ball, they would be off, or there would be something like "Go OSU". But when Tennessee had the ball, they would literally strobe these things up to the snap, and many times beyond. I will say that it was very distracting sitting at mid-level (section B), I can only guess what it was like on the field.
I will say that high intensity LED lights have dramatically changed the lighting experience at stadiums. In general, I think college football should do at least two things; stop all lighting effects while the play clock is running (or of course during a play), and two, there should be no artificial noise while the play clock is running (not including the band).
