Georgia football: enclose Sanford Stadium?

Enclose, be louder, win more

Ten or fifteen-thousand more fans would not make the stadium louder and help Georgia football  win. Placing those fans above the lower level and near the bridge would have little impact on the sound volume.

Enclosing the west end would not keep more sound in the stadium. Sound is not wet. It does not act like water, and Sanford Stadium is not a lake. Sound that bounces into a west enclosure would be absorbed by the fans sitting in it. It would not pour back over the field.

The argument hearkens to the failed experiment of placing the Redcoats in the west stands. It should have worked, right? The heartbeat of the Bulldog Nation nearly flat lined.

Also, enclosing the west end would not alter visitor seating. This argument ends with the SEC’s rules on placement of visiting fans, otherwise they could all be stuck up in the 600 level and the far corners of the 300 level now.

This argument of acoustics and competitive advantage is all beside the point, anyway. The reason the west side of the stadium will remain open forever is not because of what goes on inside the stadium, it’s because of what goes on outside the stadium.