Hilton has lost its luster....

Go2Guy

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Lighting doesn't bother me when I am there, can't speak to it on TV.

I think the crowds are less intense, but I'd put 60% of the blame on cell phones, 30% on the inane videoboard events, and 10% on people not being as intense about sports as they used to be (ie more families and less rabid crazies).

I can get on board with this; and I think it's a general secular trend around the country. We seem to make fun of Iowa-Carver, but I'm concerned the apathy is spreading with most arenas.
Since I live in Houston, I can only watch on TV and it seems less intense:
1. TV is killing the flow and momentum. (3) media time outs per half + (5) team TOs.
2. Starting games at 11 am; heck even 1pm is kinda a killer.
3. Hope we never do the B1G schedule with Sunday games, but they have to find TV time for all the teams.
 

tyler24

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Lighting doesn't bother me when I am there, can't speak to it on TV.

I think the crowds are less intense, but I'd put 60% of the blame on cell phones, 30% on the inane videoboard events, and 10% on people not being as intense about sports as they used to be (ie more families and less rabid crazies).
Cell phones are the biggest problem. Watch the student section. I'm sure people won't like what I have to say, but the students are awful. I know when I was a student I wanted the old people to stand and cheer, now that I'm not a student, I want the students to get off their phones and get into it.
 

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I like the way it looks on TV. I rarely go to Hilton so I cannot comment on how it's stopped our fans from cheering.
 

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I have to admit I was never a fan of the lighting. I agree the atmosphere at Hilton drops all the time, but the problem there is cell phones mainly and lack of involvement during timeouts and lack of involvement during games. I will admit I’m guilty of getting on mine at timeouts but that’s cause I have no interest in the smile cam, high five wheel, or watching CA play tic tac toe and would rather look up stats or read what’s on here. Also I just wish the rest of the crowd would get out of their seat more. It’s almost like people are afraid of making the person behind them get up.

After being in Allen Fieldhouse a couple times, there are definitely things we can improve during timeouts.
 
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and during bye weeks... 3PM tomorrow can't come soon enough.

The combination of a long bye week and stewing in a WTF loss is noxious.

TCU is a good team, but we still should have beaten them in Hilton, it basically wrecked our chances of winning the conference and making it to Des Moines for the NCAA tournament, and, while, again, they are a good team, we did not play well on Saturday.

That was probably our worst game of the season.