Who Has The Best Home Field Advantage in the MAC?
by Brown and Gold on Apr 14, 2011 9:01 PM CDT
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PrintWhile sitting around this week, I've been thinking, who has the best Home-Field advantage in the MAC? Football? Basketball? Any other sport you want to include (though no bias here, but WMU's Lawson Lunatics have been hailed by coaches, players, and fans as both the best student section, and the "worst").
I want your opinions, and why. (KEY WORD: WHY?)
Personally I like the Western band at the football games to help liven the crowd to a point, but I'd like to see a mix of band and "pump-up" music at Waldo Stadium. (i.e., personally, nothing beats Hell's Bells in a late game situation to get a stadium rockin).
I can only speak for Kelly-Shorts Stadium and Waldo Stadium though, so I need your input. Oh, and try to keep it clean.
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Going with Toledo/Glass Bowl, and here's why:
1. Dread any BG-UT game at the Glass Bowl.
2. They’re one of the only schools who regularly plays games at 7 p.m. Most other schools play afternoon or twilight games.
3. Those stone towers behind the end zone make it look like archers are going to slay you down if you break away.
Don't forget to hustle.
I was going to say ...
Miami, but they haven’t had a very good advantage since:
1) Ben graduated, and
2) The MAC made Miami switch sidelines so that the visiting team is now in front of season ticket holders and not general admission (aka the student section). I think that they were afraid a visiting football player’s feelings might get hurt. During a football game.
When Yager is packed, it’s a formidable place. The only problem is getting people in the stands.
This happened in Huskie Stadium as well.
I think some student threw something and it hit/hurt someone on the visiting sideline.
Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid.
- John Wayne
This is MAC wide
I asked our athletic department about this and they said that this is a MAC rule and not up to the individual schools.
by frigganjoyce on Apr 19, 2011 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions
There are only a handful of schools that qualify.
NIU, WMU, CMU, Toledo, Ohio are pretty consistently high teens to low 20s (sadly, good attendance in the MAC).
Of those, I’ve been most impressed by NIU’s fans. Loud and into the game, and they don’t seem to leave early like everyone else (that may be because the campus sucks and there’s nothing else to do in DeKalb, but I digress).
WMU has pretty good student attendance, possibly the best in the MAC most years, but they leave early and generally most don’t actually care.
CMU is similar to WMU, although they have better tailgating for what that’s worth.
Haven’t been to Toledo or Ohio, to be fair.
I’m hopefully visiting the Glass Bowl this year along with NIU (again), EMU (lol), and Yager.
When did WMU get the nickname Lawson Lunatics?
Granted the last game I attended there was in 2001, but I never heard to the student section referred to by that name and I proudly thought we were loud and obnoxious back then (I went to WMU from 96-01).
I’m a Toledo fan so take that as it is. CMU sounds like it’s heck to play at. WMU was empty when I was there this fall for their “Black out”. EMU hah. NIU is probably crazy when they’re good, they railed us this year. BSU always has played Toledo tough in the past, so playing in Muncie isn’t easy for us Toledoins. The East has no real good home fields, AKron is nice but always empty. Dix stadium had great attendance this year so Kent may be tough. BG is really cold. Never been to Miami. We’ve won 13 straight against OU so….
1. Toledo
2. CMU
3. NIU
by Daniel Cocker Spaniel Savage on Apr 19, 2011 8:19 PM CDT reply actions
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