By the way – the compromise solution for the scoreboards is to make 100% use of the same exact scoreboard surface area we already have now. Which would mean, electrifying the whole surface, with the default view being the way the boards are now, but with the capcity to switch to a full screen as required.

Moreover, the word authentic seems misplaced. It seems old and new are being replaced with authentic and by extension inauthentic. Careful using this pretext anything new is inauthentic. Innovations of the forward pass may not have seemed authentic to the game in the 20s but imagine modern football without it. You may not like it but I would say that fact that 90 percent (or more) college football teams having Jumbotrons would be an check in the “authentic” part of the game but not certainly part of the original game of football. (much like the forward pass)

I applaud your passion. I do not care for Jumbotrons but that is just my humble opinion and I would not assume that I know the mind of a man like Rockne who is long dead. My guess is if you made a chart you’d find division along line of age. If I’m right then the older opinions will eventually die out and those of the younger generation will win out.

You cheer/make noise when the opponent is trying to line up to call their play to distract them, and you cheer/make noise whenever something good happens that benefits ND, whether on offense or defense.

Not difficult.

Only if you’re not just old, but *also* a ‘quiet-please’ type.

Basketball and hockey are completely different sports. They are both played in one continues motion back and forth without breaks. After each play in football analysis can be done with highlights shown. When a play is stopped and officially reviewed for either sport the entire game comes to a halt and that is the same for football. Stoppage of play accompanied with an official review is different. In those circumstances replays would not be reiterated, I agree. Replays of other game changing plays (which is basically every play) would be shown though, at least I would guess. David Grimes’s diving catch at Stanford in 2007 was probably shown on the video screen prior to it being officially reviewed and if it happened in SB the story would probably be the same(if we had one haha).Point is, replays are instant and when they are under further review they will then be stopped.

You don’t have to physically harm someone to get your point across. If you did something wrong and 80,000 people continued to yell at you, you’d probably blush. In effect, you would try extra hard for the calls to be right on. Repetitive public humiliation off a call/no call in front of 80,000 is the incentive you seek. I want a fair game called and aside from last season we seem to have been on the short end of the stick. When players see a missed call and it is reaffirmed/magnified, they will have extra fuel in the tank to play with. That fuel is to be used for playing harder and going the extra mile because of the refs. The extra fuel should NOT be used to harm the refs.

I would guess at some point you have missed something and went home to get a closer look at the recording. Sitting hundreds of feet away you must have missed something at least once.

Again, I DO NOT WANT ANYONE HARMED. I am NOT espousing injury upon anyone. You don’t have to spank someone for them to understand. Physical pain is not the only motivating factor.

I’m sure we can both agree on another 12-0 season :-)Thanks for the site 🙂 Let’s GO IRISH

Your example says if the crowd can watch the calls a bunch of times (assuming they’d be shown on the screen, which history at ND tells us they won’t), they’ll give the refs incentive to give ND calls, or at least not to make bad calls. What incentive is that if not the threat of harm? If they’re going to be punished by their overseers, a TV screen isn’t needed for that. They know if a call they made was bad or not — ask any referee out there — so the refs don’t need the screen to tell them that. And I don’t need a screen to tell me when a ref potentially has made a crappy call.

So given those things, how will the presence of a giant TV screen in ND Stadium benefit ND from an officiating standpoint? The crowd will yell more? Again, refs don’t give a crap about the crowd unless they feel that crowd is going to injure them. Is that what you’re espousing?

Your remark “get the crowd loud and ostracize the blue-hair quiet please crowd.”

IOW – screw the old timers – like me.

To answer Mike, No. You should let people answer the question on the boards when one is asked. There is a BIG BIG difference between a fan freaking out and screaming and killing someone. Don’t skirt the issue in question by throwing out wild accusations of someone implying the endorsement of murder 😉