re: New Stadium Acoustics

I think much of the problem is that there appear to be no speakers anywhere but the north. Because of that, the sound shoots across the stadium and then bounces of the new south deck. This was obvious during warm-ups when Dan came on the test of the system, and you could follow his voice from north to south and then back to north as it bounced around.

I'm hoping there ARE speakers in the new deck but that they were malfunctioning. Otherwise, this is the new normal.

Yes...micing the band, while I guess was done to try and raise the volume of the band, turned out badly. It ended up being a ton of feedback and actually made the band sound like it was recorded rather than playing live...

Randomly dropping in piped in music between plays has got to stop. Makes no sense and there appears to be no rhyme or reason as to what's being played when.

Finally...and I say this as someone that does graphics for a living...I'm hoping that someone at LSU gets with whoever did all the in-stadium graphics (for instance, the stuff with current Tigers in the NFL) and explains or shows them that what looks good on their monitor in their office does not necessarily translate to a giant screen. This is billboard design 101. Most of them were unreadable in favor of having new new Tiger Head logo gigantic or various other static pieces too large making the text too small. Great idea, but poorly implemented and really took away from how spectacular the new screen look. Hopefully they go back to the drawing board on most of the designs and rearrange them in such a way as to actually allow fans to see WHICH Tigers are in the NFL by being able to read their actual names.

And for the record...the new deck is fantastic. From my seats in the EU it looks like a god damn monster. Way WAAAY bigger and more impressive in person than it EVER looked keeping up with the build on-line during the process. It'll take some getting used to because I've always looked straight out of the stadium and been able to see the horizon from my seats...so having what at times looks like landed spaceship sitting on the SEZ is really weird...but there's no denying it makes the most intimidating venue on college sports even more so.