There was much consternation in the ND Game Thread about the Blue Zone.
The UNC 3-tiered end zone stack is all limited access, club experiences. At South Carolina (official stadium capacity is 77,559), they built this on the south end.
The middle level is like the Blue Zone, and you’ll notice that people that level aren’t sitting in their seats either. One difference is that they have dark seats, and their empties don’t show up as much as light blue empties. The club level seating around the top of their lower level of the stadium was also pretty empty.
I guess the mistake UNC made was to go luxury from bottom to top on the Blue Zone. That’s the worst viewing angle for football, so they figured they might as well sell it to people who care least about the on-field action. Those people used to be on the 50, and by pulling those people to the Blue Zone, it allowed the rest of us loud die hards to ascend to 50 yard line seats.
Incidentally, UofSC copied Alabama with an impressive light show with their stadium lights. When their dance team took the field in the 3rd quarter, most of the lights went down, and colored LEDs went through many colors with white spotlighting the dancers. At the end of the song, the stadium immediately returned to normal stadium lighting. Yes, the whole thing is hyper, but from a tech standpoint, it’s pretty incredible with lights that are that bright.
The UNC 3-tiered end zone stack is all limited access, club experiences. At South Carolina (official stadium capacity is 77,559), they built this on the south end.
The middle level is like the Blue Zone, and you’ll notice that people that level aren’t sitting in their seats either. One difference is that they have dark seats, and their empties don’t show up as much as light blue empties. The club level seating around the top of their lower level of the stadium was also pretty empty.
I guess the mistake UNC made was to go luxury from bottom to top on the Blue Zone. That’s the worst viewing angle for football, so they figured they might as well sell it to people who care least about the on-field action. Those people used to be on the 50, and by pulling those people to the Blue Zone, it allowed the rest of us loud die hards to ascend to 50 yard line seats.
Incidentally, UofSC copied Alabama with an impressive light show with their stadium lights. When their dance team took the field in the 3rd quarter, most of the lights went down, and colored LEDs went through many colors with white spotlighting the dancers. At the end of the song, the stadium immediately returned to normal stadium lighting. Yes, the whole thing is hyper, but from a tech standpoint, it’s pretty incredible with lights that are that bright.
