BTW do you know why the sound system at the stadium is so terrible this year? It basically barely works

Posted on September 15, 2026 at 08:00:44 AM by Rich

Nobody can hear the James Earl Jones video. The PA announcer is audible sometimes but at 25-50% volume. When they announced the basketball team, the video and PA were completely inaudible. The fans sitting around me are very upset and claimed to have written letters after the WMU game about it.

How can something so simple not work? Just put some old fashioned bull horn speakers on top of the press box (where they used to be) and angle them down. Did U-M get sold a bill of goods by the audio company in 2024?

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Oof, latest forecast looks pretty rainy/stormy for Saturday* - By wingedvictory September 15, 2026 at 07:53:20 AM
- There is some chance of avoiding rain if the game is moved back to noon, but 3:30 looks like it could be dreadful. But it is only Tuesday* - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 07:57:32 AM
  - There's no way they're going to move the game just to avoid rain* - By wingedvictory September 15, 2026 at 09:23:42 AM
    - I heard thunderstorms also forecast* - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 09:46:42 AM
  - moved *up* to noon, IMO* - By mjhollen September 15, 2026 at 08:35:03 AM
  - Hopefully Beck has a rainproof offensive gameplan.* - By crumbs September 15, 2026 at 08:18:45 AM
    - Would love a get right game and all and would never bet against Michigan but between offensive ineptitude and weather, if I was neutral I’d def put money on UTEP to cover.* - By toffee September 15, 2026 at 08:32:33 AM
  - BTW do you know why the sound system at the stadium is so terrible this year? It basically barely works - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 08:00:44 AM
    - I don't know what's going on with it, but I can tell it's an issue... - By wingedvictory September 15, 2026 at 09:22:45 AM
      - They need speakers in other parts of the stadium. The approach they took is a complete failure* - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 09:45:28 AM
    - it has been the subject of controversy from day one as a number of speakers didn't work - By Adamantiumblue September 15, 2026 at 09:12:38 AM
    - At risk of just being the anti-anti-modernity guy, the PA loudness issue everyone breathlessly complained about before has now been outrageously overcorrected so I can’t hear shit.* - By weebay September 15, 2026 at 08:25:18 AM
      - I don't recall a loudness issue. It just seemed fine for 30 plus years and now it sucks. After we spent millions in supposedly improving it - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 08:31:47 AM
        
        No, people were furious about how loud it was for years. Separately, I think WiFi works great in the stadium now.* - By weebay September 15, 2026 at 08:34:47 AM
        
        I sit up near the north scoreboard and the volume was skull-splitting the last few years. Like, dangerously loud.* - By wingedvictory September 15, 2026 at 09:20:55 AM
        
        Wifi pretty much as bad as ever for me on Saturday. It might have gone from 1-2 on a scale of 100 to about an 8* - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 08:56:32 AM
        
        I’ve had signal both games for the first time ever* - By MFlyer September 15, 2026 at 09:39:56 AM
        
        I got signals a couple times for about a minute or two. But most of the game I was locked up as usual* - By Rich September 15, 2026 at 09:46:23 AM

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BTW do you know why the sound system at the stadium is so terrible this year? It basically barely works