Oh my goodness you are so correct. Why do they have to pound us with the constant "music". I went to USC to see RU a month ago, and they DID NOT pump loud music before every down.
Who is in charge of the gameday audio production?
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the boardwalk is also way too loud with the band. It is miserable there....everywhere.
The piped in volume at the Illinois game was much louder than the Washington game. The volume in the stadium doesn’t bother me as much as others but it was unbearable on Saturday.
I actually agree but he complains about everything
I have honestly thought of threatening to withhold my donation because of it. I sit in the old student section and it's loud there. Cannot imagine how bad it is elsewhere. I cannot have a conversation with the person next to me.
I gave up my season tickets because of the noise.
I go to one road game every year and it's a pleasure not
to be FVCKIN ASSAULTED by the noise you hear at a Rutgers game.
I go to one road game every year and it's a pleasure not
to be FVCKIN ASSAULTED by the noise you hear at a Rutgers game.
This is the worst part for me. It's not the volume. It's the fact that they blend together 3 different things at once to just make a deafening cacophony of stupidity. Combine this with the stupid horn, and it's unbearable.
fill out the post - game survey and say you want to be called.
prior poster noted that this week seemed to be the loudest in a long time....
.agree on the boardwalk, that it should have music but mygod its just too mush and im not even mentioning close to the band stage...
As I've said before, RU should move the cannon to under the scoreboard and highlight it as a feature "cannon time' not sure why anyone would want tickets within 5 sections of the cannon... If heard enough of Ozzzy and the Horn....
prior poster noted that this week seemed to be the loudest in a long time....
.agree on the boardwalk, that it should have music but mygod its just too mush and im not even mentioning close to the band stage...
As I've said before, RU should move the cannon to under the scoreboard and highlight it as a feature "cannon time' not sure why anyone would want tickets within 5 sections of the cannon... If heard enough of Ozzzy and the Horn....
PJ Mullen is the guy. email listed in the link below.
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PJ Mullen - Senior Associate Athletic Director of Marketing, Game Presentation & Fan Experience - Staff Directory - Rutgers University Athletics
PJ Mullen joined Rutgers Athletics in the summer of 2021 as the Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing and Game Presentation. He is the primary marketing contact
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On Saturday, my family and I had to get out in a hurry, so we moved towards the exit with a minute left. We attempted to watch the last minute from under the horn. Let me tell you, those seats should be absolutely free. No one could possibly sit there all game.
Schiano is OLD SCHOOL through and through that there’s no way in hell he’d be ok with all of that noise if he had anything to do with it.
PJ Mullen is the guy. email listed in the link below.
PJ Mullen - Senior Associate Athletic Director of Marketing, Game Presentation & Fan Experience - Staff Directory - Rutgers University Athletics
PJ Mullen joined Rutgers Athletics in the summer of 2021 as the Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing and Game Presentation. He is the primary marketing contact
The POS penn state alumn who ruined our football experience. I seriously loathe this guy
I emailed him just now and evevn linked this thread as proof that I'm not insane.
Sooo.. make sure teh students never experience the normal version of a college football game and they won't know what they are missing? How about we force everyone involved in making this choices to sit right under the scoreboard for the whole game. I'd guess the guy running the show is in a box behind glass somewhere.. and the audio tech and announcer are wearing headphones.
Put them on trial at The World Court at The Hague.
The stadium experience has gotten much better in a lot of ways and much worse in other ways.
As it relates to getting worse - the horrid and repetitive sound effects and constant and use of piped in music has absolutely ruined any semblance of college football tradition we had built up at Rutgers amongst the band, fans and students.
Its frigin sensory overload and not to mention it is blasted at unhealthy levels across most of the stadium.
If Rutgers actually cared about the health and safety of fans they would allow food / water and not blast the sound system at levels that cause hearing damage.
As it relates to getting worse - the horrid and repetitive sound effects and constant and use of piped in music has absolutely ruined any semblance of college football tradition we had built up at Rutgers amongst the band, fans and students.
Its frigin sensory overload and not to mention it is blasted at unhealthy levels across most of the stadium.
If Rutgers actually cared about the health and safety of fans they would allow food / water and not blast the sound system at levels that cause hearing damage.
I’d argue the stress of losing and anger from heart breaking losses is much more damaging to my health and well being
You expect him to have nothing to do with this operation? Nothing happens without his approval.
He manages EVERYTHING.
Pretty sure that Mullins was hired to replicate the Beaver Stadium experience at Rutgers Stadium. And that’s what he’s essentially done.
PSU is constant band and unending loud growling.
I don’t see that as similar to us
No, unfortunately I expect him to have total control
Which is the issue, as his game day coaching is still mediocre at best (and, judging by Saturday's debacle, borderline disgraceful at the end), and which may somehow be trumped by his music / nonstop arcade / dance club / rap concert type of atmosphere
He's being paid 7/mil to coach
Not direct game day atmosphere's, marching bands (or lack thereof lately) and in-game production
Come to think of it, this is actually true. I was on the field for one of those high school games couple of years ago and barely heard anything from the sidelines. I saw some videos of the game afterwards and there were a couple of horns and music. I was like, “when they did they played this???”
Now if you can’t hear it on the field like you do in the stands, then what is the point of having that stupid music with the volume up to 75???
This^^^
We like to discuss a play after it happens. Who did well, who screwed up. I should not have to yell to the guys sitting next to me and just above me to get my point across. It's not like we're right next to the speakers either. We sit on the other side of the 50 on the home side in the lower bowl. This Mullen guy from psu has been horrible.
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We got free tickets from a silent auction and brought 3 friends to the game . The tix were in SEC 114 right by the train horn . It was Guantanamo Bay torture to sit there. Could not hear a dam thing and the music was coming right at us from the other side . Our season tix are in the Young Alumni Sec and it not that bad there.
My season tickets are in the young alumni section--you're telling me it's actually WORSE elsewhere???
Mullen was probably controlled at PSU and is uncontrolled here.
Is this like the Ash hire? That is, sure, we got a DC from a Big Ten and Top Ten program.. and yet, we didn't really get THE DC of Ohio State, that was Luke Fickell who is now Wisconsin's head coach.
So we got.. A gameday experience guy from PSU.. but probably not THE gameday experience guy from PSU.
Given the physics of sound, it's very possible that the locations with the highest sound pressure levels will vary from game to game based on atmospheric conditions.
I suspect that the sound-system design is also partly at fault. A properly designed high quality sound-system will produce reasonably similar sound pressure throughout the stadium, while also canceling echo and other undesirable audio artifacts, can be adjusted for atmospheric conditions, and can be clearly and easily heard without being overpowered.
But the incredibly easy short-term fix for it all is to just lower the volume and provide some periods of relative quiet. It's an effortless resource-less one-second fix that will eliminate many people's complaints.
And, for those who don't like certain music selections or sound-effects, lowering the volume is a simple way to at least reduce the impact on them by not hammering the undesired music into their heads with amplification turned up to 11. It makes it more possible to ignore the songs one doesn't like while still being able to hear the songs one does like.
This is just so trivially simple a thing to address. I fail to understand why it hasn't happened already.
That was true once upon a time...now it's constant piped in music at an insane decibel level. Guido and PJ completely changed the in-game experience. There are some positives, but you'll hear most fans complain online about the volume, piped in music, lack of band, etc (basically, everything you see here).
The atmosphere that Guido/PJ created works for a prime-time whiteout against Ohio State or Michigan when the crowd was amped up and going crazy for 3.5 hours. It's sort of a joke when it's a noon game against Idaho in front of 80-85k fans (regardless of what they want to announce the attendance as).
That can’t be true. As the Al knowing (see what I did there) says that everyone at PSU loved what PJ did there and we should mimic their game day presentation. He says RU fans, a small subset at that, are the only ones that don’t like being bombarded with inane noise at extreme volume.
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I feel like this is a trend that was started by stadium DJs using "data" about how other stadiums are doing it. And ADs, if they're even consulted about it, have no other information to go by, so they just rubber-stamp it.
I think maybe the solution is to get the media involved. The media's bread is buttered by the fanbases, not the DJs or ADs. So it shouldn't be a hard sell to get the media to visit various sections of various stadiums and use a free app on their cell phone to record the ridiculous sound pressure levels and then do a story about it.
When the report shows the damaging levels of sound, that should get the ADs (or at least the university legal folks) more interested in addressing it.
