Article in Blade about security in MAC stadiums

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:39 am

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... /-1/SPORTS

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:20 am

"I remember a whiskey bottle flying over my head about halfway through the third quarter," Brandon said. "I tried to grab it and take a shot. I had seen enough of Ben [Roethlisberger, Miami's quarterback]. I needed a drink."

I couldn't have said it better myself. Half the group I went with left in the 3rd quarter because they couldn't take the game anymore. I stayed and it never got better. Why didn't anyone toss me a whiskey bottle??

But about the article, one place I've been to for a MAC game where the crowd comes into play is NIU. The entire seats behind the whole BG sideline are filled with their students. But if Chryst sat there and says it was fine, then it probably is. I don't know if they were yelling harsh comments or anything like that since we sit across the field. Looking at it though, you'd think there would be a lot more problems there. The only other place the crowd is a factor is Marshall. It's not just their students down there, it's everyone. They have to have the rudest, most disrespectful fans I've even encountered. I don't think you need to worry about words or bottles being thrown at you in the stadium there but you do need to worry about getting shot at when you pull into town with anything else besides Marshall colors on.

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:13 am

Western Michigan coach Gary Darnell, in his eighth season in the MAC, has noticed that some road trips have become tougher in recent seasons.

"My first couple of years here, Bowling Green was a nice place to play," he said. "Northern Illinois was a nice place to play too. They're not nice places to play now.

I wonder why.....he loses.

BGSUfanatUT · Post by **BGSUfanatUT** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:23 am

"But MAC commissioner Rick Chryst said the league takes the concept of stadium security for league games very seriously."

Do this mean we are allowed to rough up Tample and the Smurf Turf boys when they come here since its not a league game?

It's the Journey... · Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:44 am

Interesting article. I would cut the WMU coach some slack. He did talk about how a lot of that is due to not being at a teams home stadium. I had a terrible experience in our own stadium at homecoming last year. I was sitting on the West side about half way up on the 50 with my girlfriend and her parents. As I entered that stadium I saw a group of students being told to toss plastic soda bottles they were bringing into the stadium because they may have contained a little more than soda

But while sitting in the stands a few rows a way a group of people were standing, swaying, stumbling drunk drinking out of GLASS BOTTLES!! One of the people in that party walked past the usher three times holding the flass bottle in their hand. If we are a conference are serious about stadium security then policies will need to be enforced. We here at BG have a long way to go in my opinion.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:47 am

Some drunken idiot kid plowed into my wife in one of the aisles on the wes t side of the stadium last year. I was about to drill him when I saw the cop 10 ft away....

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:14 pm

Finally in 04 wrote:If we are a conference are serious about stadium security then policies will need to be enforced.

We better tell the students that we will begin enforcing the action NEXT YEAR. God forbid we begin to enforce something now when they have been doing something illegal for a long time.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:43 pm

I have always rather enjoyed taking a couple extra beers into the stadium with me. They sometimes search and take a few, but if you hide enough you will usually get through

Of course the 5 gallon bucket of Hairy Buff that some students smuggled in for the '01 UT game will always be burned in my memory. That was a great game

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:47 pm

hammb wrote:I have always rather enjoyed taking a couple extra beers into the stadium with me. They sometimes search and take a few, but if you hide enough you will usually get through

We left for the car at halftime of the UT game last year (heated seats are a godsend!) and when they said they didn't stamp hands or check tickets coming back in, we filled our pockets. Of course when we came back in and saw everyone around us drinking "pocket beers", we felt a little less sneaky!

Lord_Byron · Post by **Lord_Byron** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:01 pm

People used to roll kegs into the stadium for lacrosse.

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:36 pm

hammb wrote:I have always rather enjoyed taking a couple extra beers into the stadium with me. They sometimes search and take a few, but if you hide enough you will usually get through

Of course the 5 gallon bucket of Hairy Buff that some students smuggled in for the '01 UT game will always be burned in my memory. That was a great game

That was one of my friends -- still cannot figure out how they got that thing into the stadium.

CharlotteFalcon · Post by **CharlotteFalcon** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:17 pm

Worst part of that whole situation was is that I was 3 rows in front of the hairy buff and never knew it was there

Though that was an amazing game!!

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:42 pm

BGGrad01 wrote:
hammb wrote:I have always rather enjoyed taking a couple extra beers into the stadium with me. They sometimes search and take a few, but if you hide enough you will usually get through

Of course the 5 gallon bucket of Hairy Buff that some students smuggled in for the '01 UT game will always be burned in my memory. That was a great game
That was one of my friends -- still cannot figure out how they got that thing into the stadium.

They told me that they put the lid on the bucket and dropped it over the fence in one of the more "out of the way" areas, I'm guessing the North Endzone area probably. Then they went into the stadium and went over to pick it up.

I didn't even know who the guys were, but they were more than cordial. I drank quite a bit, and I was already feeling no pain when I got into the stadium in the first place. Those guys were true visionaries!

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:56 pm

Hammb -- that bucket was one of 2 or 3 that we had out there that day along with the normal supply of beer. That was a wonderful day for my last home game as an undergrad. A great weather day with plenty to drink/eat, a blowout win over the Rockettes, and hanging on the crossbar of the goalpost when it came down. I'll never forget carrying those goalposts down Wooster until the cops stopped us in front of Kohl. One guy said "Let's keep going to Main St. What is he going to do? Shoot us?" Thanks for bringing up a good time before the real world hit me.

The Continental · Post by **The Continental** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:44 am

This isn't a MAC problem...it's a college football problem. At LSU they've installed cameras in the student section to pick out students that are breaking the rules, and then they get a nice appoitment with the dean to discuss punisment!