I wish it said Hilton Coliseum somewhere on the court where it is visible, not hidden along the near sideline where it cannot be seen on television
Dear ISU AD: Please Stop Changing Hilton
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If you went to a game, you’d know that it is t that dark inside. It just looks that way on TV.
One of the problems with increasing the intensity on the court for the best TV clarity is that the cameras adjust to that intensity and everything else then looks darker on the broadcast. I can't speak to whether the seating is actually darker since I haven't been to Hilton much for years.
I never realized so many people watched the games to see the crowd.
it is brighter in the balcony. Prefer it to be darker. The lit up surrounding seats is distracting.
Were you there? I’ve been to many games and not sure I’ve experienced that loud and intensity for a full 40 min especially when we are up 24 pts. It was unreal. My guess on the changes is that they were recommended by legal counsel or risk management. If you refuse to make changes and something happens could be a big lawsuit. Who knows though. I don’t think it really matters if we continue to pack it in the noise and intensity is good as ever. I don’t think people that watched on TV got a full sense of the environment their because ESPN was calling the game remotely.
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This video you get a full sense of how loud it was since it not the ESPN volume, live video from WHO 13.
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Of course I was there and I have heard it louder. Don’t care about the rest of the comments.
Our basketball fanbase/home court is one of our biggest selling points to recruits. Also networks like carrying games with that atmosphere, it’s why people love college sports.
But for some reason we decided to make the upper deck darker than a movie theatre removing half the crowd trying to be like staples center. Then on top of that you take the most rowdy fans move them 10 yards back off the tv/court and leave a giant empty concrete void in its place. Makes no sense.
LOL. At the rate these complaints are going (5 feet, 10 feet, 15 feet, 10 yards), pretty soon the student section will have been moved so far back they'll be sitting in Scheman watching the game on TV.
I can’t believe we moved the students a mile back from the court.
I can't believe they demolished the whole west end of Hilton.
I think we should rename it “Cyclone Valley”, since an “alley” actually implies a narrow space with the bleachers being close to the court.
@Cyclonepride, I can't remember what thread I saw recently that said your first Hilton game was in 1988 vs. Kansas. Was it this thread?
Anyway that was a good BB year! Kansas had Manning IIRC. ISU had Grayer and Rhodes. I couldn't find that game (wish I could) but I did find this. 1988 ISU vs Missou.
Anyway that was a good BB year! Kansas had Manning IIRC. ISU had Grayer and Rhodes. I couldn't find that game (wish I could) but I did find this. 1988 ISU vs Missou.
If a recruit won’t come see it for himself, he was never going to come anyway.
If you watch the games because you want to see the fans, you’re doing sports wrong.
I heard they have to watch remote from Boone and Nevada
Also I’m pretty sure anyone watching on tv last night could tell how electric the place was regardless of lighting or the distance of the students to the court.
Looks like somebody paid extra attention to the optics chapter in Physics 222....