Saturday afternoon, a member of the Gophers football traveling party looked around Camp Randall Stadium and asked, “How do you compete with this?”
He wasn’t talking about the Wisconsin football team, which proceeded to beat the Gophers 38-14.
He was talking about the Wisconsin football experience, which established a similar advantage over a college game at the Metrodome.
Jim Souhan: Setting just says college football
It’s so true, the atmosphere at the metrodome is just anemic. None of the fans seem to care about the game at all.
Now jump to Camp Randall and the fans are going nuts the whole game. Not to mention the vast majority stay for the 5th quarter (after the football game is over) just to watch the marching band screw around and play a bunch of songs.
Why can’t we have that atmosphere at the U? I know a lot of people say it’s the metrodome… that you just can’t get a crowd pumped up in there. But certainly Vikings games are wild and crazy.. so much for that hypothesis. It doesn’t help that the dome is so far from campus, but I think that the U tries their hardest to have enough shuttle busses to get students back and forth.
I think Minnesota fans just don’t care. And that makes me sad.
Anyway, enough directionless ranting, just read the article above. It has a slightly different view, but agrees with me in most accounts.
Brad Froehle 
I think it’s easy to blame the Metrodome, but I think that it is easy because the Metrodome is the problem. It just doesn’t have the college football feel you know? There’s just something about that crisp Novermber air that just makes you feel like football. Also, from what I’ve heard from talking to Todd, the tickets for a Gopher home game cost a fair amount because you have to pay the Metrodome overhead and students don’t like to pay much for tickets. Of course, a little bit of that badger magic doesn’t hurt 😉 .
Did you guys stay around Madison and party after the game? If was going to try and locate your phone number and see what was up but I was still recoverying from a 24 hour flu and pretty much passed out from exhaustion when I got back home after the game.