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Trying to find the list of quotes from various coaches and players about comparing Wa-Griz to other stadiums around the country to shut up a sh it talking LSU fan but I can’t find anything except Romo’s. Please help.
 
http://www.omaha.com/article/201009...knecht-highjacked-on-calls-sdsu-doesn-t-whine
South Dakota State QB Thomas O'Brien comments on playing at Nebraska last Saturday after their 17 - 3 loss in front of over 85,000 fans:

“Coming here, we thought this would be the loudest crowd we've ever faced,” quarterback Thomas O'Brien said. “But I'd say Montana was quite a bit louder.”

From the App message board:

I will end the discussion right now. I have played in Jordan Haire Stadium(Auburn:79k+) and @ Washington-Grizzly Stadium. It got loud at the end of the Auburn game when they scored the gw td with less than 1 minute to go in Tuberville's debut, but Montana was different. Those fans were right on top of you and i can tell you that is was louder in that "little" stadium than @ Auburn. We at ASU can get loud but we are all battling for second place in I-AA crowd noise. that was a great environment in the 2000 playoffs and the fans were also very nice to us visiting players. I would love to get back up there for a game, and if you havent been there I recommend it.

Joe Gardi (Hofstra Coach):

"That thing with Monte, the big-screen TV - I'm doing a time out one time and I look up and Tom Cruise is on the screen doing that dance from 'Risky Business,' and I'm watching it! I thought, 'What the heck am I doing, am I crazy?' - it's all just an unbelievable advantage for the home team." – Joe Gardi (Hofstra coach)

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=192358708234


"I have coached in stadiums all over the country in my career. Penn State, Ohio State, Tennessee, and Nebraska to name a few. All of these facilities held 80,000 to 100,000 people. None of these stadiums were as loud as the only FCS school in the country to sell more season tickets then Old Dominion, the University of Montana."

http://www.odusports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/090809aaa.html

"Dear Old Dominion Football Fans,

On behalf of our Coaches and players, I would like to thank you for a memorable first night. Words cannot describe how you made us feel running thru the tunnel for the first time, after our first touchdown, and after our first interception. Our players have talked about having goose bumps every time you stood as one and made our team play faster while our opponent played slower. A long time college Coach once told me that a great home crowd will give you the feeling that you are starting the game up 10-0. What he meant was the opponent will make so many mistakes due to the crowd noise you will gain a touchdown and a field goal from your crowd, if they are loud !!!
On Friday night at the Pep Rally I challenged our students to make a difference in this first game. I would say that causing 7 penalties due to noise in making a difference !!! I told the students that every time our opponent got a penalty that they were responsible for, I would point to them. I was thrilled to point to the student section 7 times as a salute for what they and the rest of our faithful had just caused to happen. Nothing illegal happened by our crowd. No rules of sportsmanship were broken. What we had was a true home field advantage. I have coached in stadiums all over the country in my career. Penn State, Ohio State, Tennessee, and Nebraska to name a few. All of these facilities held 80,000 to 100,000 people. None of these stadiums were as loud as the only F.C.S. school in the country to sell more season tickets then Old Dominion, The University of Montana.
What made Montana different was the fans were at their loudest when their opponent was on offense. They knew they could eliminate the offensive check system with noise. They were the 12th defender on the field by making the offense predictable. And they took great pleasure in every penalty the visiting team received. They knew that was their penalty !!! Last Saturday night, you were responsible for 7 penalties.
You were responsible for 10 points. You did your part, and we did our part. It was a true team victory. The 11 players on the field, and the 12th man in the stands.

Thank you all for a job well done last Saturday and let's all plan on doing it again this Saturday. You are a very important part of our team !!!



Bobby Wilder
Head Football Coach
Old Dominion University"
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The Continental Divide: Montana games intimate yet vital
By Steve Wieberg, USA TODAY
MISSOULA, Mont. — It was early last December that Bryan Newton gave a buddy, a Florida State alum raised on the gospel of Bobby Bowden, his introduction to Montana football. They climbed to the roof of the press box atop pristine Washington-Grizzly Stadium. The Northern Rockies' Mount Sentinel loomed to the east. A crowd of more than 18,000 thundered beneath, the din reverberating off concrete and mountainside, welcoming the Grizzlies for a playoff game against Sam Houston State.

More than 19,000 fans fill to capacity Washington Grizzly Stadium in Missoula for a 68-45 victory Oct. 19 against Southern Utah.
By John W. Liston, Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune

The awed pal soaked it all in for a moment, then spoke. "This isn't my church," he told Newton, who oversees the school's Grizzly Athletic Association. "But this will do."

By the NCAA's definition, this isn't big-time college football. It's Division I-AA, a competitive step below. But at Montana, where a state swells with pride over two national championships and promise of a third, where the faithful drive 10 hours or more through dicey weather and over the Continental Divide to see their beloved Griz play, it will do.

Quite nicely, thank you.

"I've never been to a pro game or any of the big college games, but I can't believe they'd be a heck of a lot better than we've got here," says Karl Rogge, a Miles City accountant who regularly makes the 7 1/2-hour trip from southeast Montana with his wife, Pam. "Really, I can't imagine sitting at Michigan Stadium with 110,000 people or whatever it is. I like it here with our 19,000."

Johnnie Peeples does, too. Montana's senior cornerback, a two-year starter, was a Miami (Fla.) wannabe in high school in Fort Pierce, Fla., a little more than 100 miles north of the Hurricanes' campus.

"My aspirations and my dreams were to be playing in Coral Gables," he says. "But things happen for you the way they're supposed to happen, and it's way better here. I mean, you can't ask for more than a million people in one state watching one football team. Nineteen thousand people (capacity) in the stands screaming for you. And it's not just on the football field, it's everywhere. This is football country. People just love football here."

The team really is the show here

Some 2,900 miles and a roster full of NFL players-in-waiting separate Miami football from the Montana version. But the Griz are better than a faint imitation of their big-time counterparts.

Regulars at the Big Show
Only Mount Union (Ohio) — with five Division III football titles — has more championship-game appearances in the last seven years than Montana's four. The NCAA's most successful programs in that time:
School (Division) Appearances Titles
Mount Union (III) 5 5
Montana (I-AA) 4 2
Florida State (I-A) 4 1
Rowan (N.J.) (III) 4 0
Nebraska (I-A) 3 2
Georgia Southern (I-AA) 3 2
Carson-Newman (Tenn.) (II) 3 0
Northern Colorado (II) 2 2
Northwest Missouri State (II) 2 2
Florida (I-A) 2 1
Marshall (W.Va.) (I-AA) 2 1
Youngstown State (Ohio) (I-AA) 2 1

Impressed with Miami's No. 1 ranking in Division I-A, with the Hurricanes contending for a second national championship in as many years? Montana is 8-0 after Saturday's stirring 24-21 victory at Portland State, ranked No. 1 in I-AA and similarly positioned to repeat the title it took home a year ago.

Think nobody can match the 'Canes' 29-game winning streak? True enough, it's the nation's longest. But the Griz have won their last 22, longest streak in I-AA and just two games shy of the division record set by Pennsylvania from 1992-95.

As for amenities ...

Miami plays at the Orange Bowl, a 65-year-old facility in a troubled urban setting nearly six miles off campus — hardly the classic college backdrop. The Hurricanes are drawing well this season (an average of 69,000-plus that would set a school record). But 18 of the 20 biggest crowds in their history have been for games against Florida State, Florida, other high-glitter teams or bowl appearances, and interest has been spotty when the opponent was less attractive or the 'Canes less competitive.

There, the sports and entertainment alternatives are endless. Montana home games aren't exactly the only show in the state, just the best. And they have been since Washington-Grizzly Stadium opened in 1986, at the edge of the school's 200-acre campus and at the foot of Mount Sentinel (elevation 5,158 feet).

With average attendance of 18,899 last year, the Griz outdrew a fifth of I-A programs. This season's record average of 19,567, going into Saturday's contest against Northern Arizona, is more than 500 above official capacity.

It didn't hurt that with the new stadium came winning football. Montana hasn't had a losing season since 1985, hasn't missed the I-AA playoffs since 1992, hasn't dropped out of the division's Top 10 in a remarkable 52 weeks dating to 1999. The Griz have reached the I-AA title game four times in the past seven years, winning in '95 and again last season.

"People really have ownership," says Joe Glenn, Montana's third-year head coach. "It's their Grizzlies. They identify real closely with our team, with our program. I grew up in Nebraska, and I saw it there when I was a kid. It's very similar."

Savoring the conquest of elements

Of course, the rite of an entire state packing up and hitting the road for games isn't unique to Montana. It's just that Montana — its Big Sky covering more than 147,000 square miles — is significantly more sprawling, sliced 90-some miles east of Missoula by the Continental Divide. And still they pack up and drive.

One group of regulars is from Sidney, more than 600 miles to the northeast, the equivalent of driving from Philadelphia to a game at Tennessee or from Memphis to a game at Texas. The Rogges drive 487 miles due west from Miles City. Billings, the state's largest city, is 342 miles east. All across the Divide.

"The Montana Department of Transportation takes pretty good care of mountain passes," says Karl Rogge, smiling. "I've driven 150 miles to go have dinner someplace, and then gone back. You have to go a long ways in Montana, that's just the way it is."

Griz fans get a lot for their gas money. Rural cordiality and the smaller, intimate I-AA setting foster a pregame ambiance that's more family reunion than Georgia-Florida bedlam. The school sets up live entertainment in the middle of the tailgate area.

The bedlam is reserved for inside the stadium. Michigan Stadium crowds might be 5 1/2 times bigger, but "pound for pound," Glenn says, "I'd put ours up against anybody."

Amplify their noise in the concrete bowl that's Washington-Grizzly Stadium, throw in gusts and swirls of wind out of Hellgate Canyon to the east, add a touch of Montana winter nastiness — particularly when a southern team is in for the playoffs — and it's one of the sport's more daunting venues.

The coup de grace is then having to face one of I-AA's top programs. Stephen F. Austin showed up to single-digit temperatures in 1995, 12- to 15-below wind chill readings and snow, as the Lumberjacks drew Montana and star quarterback Dave Dickenson in the I-AA semifinals. Dickenson, now with the NFL's Miami Dolphins, threw five touchdown passes, the Grizzlies' defense allowed just 52 yards on the ground, the crowd serenaded Austin's chilled players with Let it Snow and the Grizzlies rolled 70-14.

"Once you come to one of these games," says current Griz quarterback John Edwards, "why would you do anything else?"

He means it. The 6-1 senior, son of a Billings cattleman, got feelers out of high school from Washington and Colorado State, in addition to Montana, Montana State and a couple other Big Sky Conference schools in I-AA. The two I-A programs never came through with a scholarship offer, but "I don't think if I'd had one that I would have gone," Edwards says. "It's easy for me to say now, obviously. But I really, truly don't think I would have. ... I think I'm better off here. I don't feel I'm missing anything."

Montana's facilities might not be Florida- or Texas-like, but they outclass most if not all of those in I-AA. Edwards and the Griz won't land on ABC anytime soon, or even on ESPN until the playoffs, but every one of their games is beamed across the nation's fourth-largest state.

"To these people out here, " Montana athletic director Wayne Hogan says, "this is big time."

The Griz are an anomaly, "a complete freak of nature in I-AA," as Hogan puts it. The football program will make money this year: A projected $500,00-$600,000, padded by a bonus seventh home game. "This is not broken. I don't feel the need to fix anything," Hogan says.

Meanwhile, the Griz will contend with Miami their own way.

Edwards threw for a career-high 368 yards and two touchdowns, the last with 51 seconds left, to pull out last weekend's victory at Portland State and extend the winning streak to a school-record 22. Although not quite the aerial circus they were when Dickenson was triggering the offense, the Griz still are passing for 271 yards a game, and they can back that up with a stout defense that ranks 12th in I-AA against the run.

Granted, that's relative. Edwards, who has a 63% completion rate and twice as many TD passes (12) as interceptions (six) this season, watched first-hand as Miami took apart Nebraska in last season's Rose Bowl, and he and others tuned in to the Hurricanes' 28-27 thriller against Florida State three weekends ago.

"The speed is twice is fast as it is here," he marvels. "That's what's most impressive. I mean, their defensive linemen can run with anybody on our team."

But the 'Canes have a championship to defend, and so does Montana. The 'Canes have a winning streak to stretch. So do the Griz. Who'll snap first?

Edwards smiles. "Yeah, you think about it," he says. "That is one way you can compete with 'em."
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Some of the links might not work anymore had it saved on my hard drive probably taken from an old thread years ago.
 
Quote from Joe Gardi, HC Hofstra, from a game program, somewhere pre-2010:

"I coached in the NFL with the NY Jets for ten years and I know what crowd noise is. I coached at Maryland...played at Texas, Auburn, LSU, Clemson, in some of the greatest stadiums in the country. I mean, at LSU they used to prod the tiger with an electric shock to get him to roar when you came on the field. It was just unbelievable to a visiting player.
In comparison, Montana is a tougher place to play. Because it's so closed in. The noise is so confined. My granddaughter got so scared in that place, she was seven years old, she never let go of her mother the whole first quarter.
One year, I gave my pep talk, went down to the field, and they've got that rubber tunnel set up. I thought, that's nice, it's there to keep fans from throwing things on us. And I get in there, and Monte is there, the flaps are closed, and I couldn't get on the field. Monte told me I'd better back off, and I said 'No, I'm fine.' Then he started the motorcycle, and I about jumped out of my skin. They opened the flaps and the crowd went crazy.
That thing with Monte, the big screen TV, I'm doing a time out one time, and I look up and Tom Cruise is on that screen doing that dance from 'Risky Business,' and I'm watching it! I thought, 'What the heck am I doing, am I crazy? ' Its all just an unbelievable advantage for the.home team."

Stick that quote up LSU-boys ass! And the fans DON'T throw ANYTHING on the visitors!
 
"This was definitely the loudest and best crowd I've played in front of. I played at Penn State earlier in the year and it's not even close."-Ryan O'Connor, Delaware QB
 
TOP 10 LOUDEST STADIUMS
RANKED BY DECIBEL RECORDINGS


#1 WASHINGTON HUSKY STADIUM 70,083 133 dB
#2 CLEMSON MEMORIAL STADIUM 81,500 132 dB
#3 LSU TIGER STADIUM 102,321 130 dB
#4 OREGON AUTZEN STADIUM 54,000 127 dB
#5 PENN STATE BEAVER STADIUM 106,572 122 dB
#6 ARKANSAS RAZORBACK STADIUM 76,000 117 dB
#7 TEXAS A&M KYLE FIELD 102,733 117 dB
#8 FLORIDA BEN HILL GRIFFIN STADIUM 88,548 115 dB
#9 TENNESSEE NEYLAND STADIUM 102,455 114 dB
#10 MONTANA WASHINGTON GRIZZLY STADIUM 25,217 111 dB

"It’s hard making checks, it’s hard getting in the right protections. It was an amazing atmosphere. You guys tell me, is this every week? That’s insane. I think I’m a little older than Bobby, but if he retires before me, I want this job ... It was an amazing environment. I don’t ever want to come back unless I’m the head coach here."

Tony Annese Ferris State Head Coach.

“Another unsung hero for Montana is the home crowd. Holy mackerel I've never seen a football atmosphere where false starts by shell-shocked foes happened with such regularity all season long. “

Bill Speltz is Missoulian sports editor
 
If there were rankings for loudest spots in loud stadiums, I assume the NEZ would be no. 1. They are truly amazing, and consistent.
 
Have been trying to find it on X (Twitter). 2015, when Musburgers crew did the NDSU game, Maria Taylor tweeted it was a loud as any SEC stadium. They were the SEC crew so she would know.
 
putter said:
Have been trying to find it on X (Twitter). 2015, when Musburgers crew did the NDSU game, Maria Taylor tweeted it was a loud as any SEC stadium. They were the SEC crew so she would know.
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There used to be a whole list of quotes that somebody, I think Haslem, had posted but it’s like they’ve been wiped from the internet. I found em a year or 2 ago with a simple google search and now all I can find is a blurry image from a Griz fan FB page that doesn’t exist anymore.
 
Anyone who has been to a key game in WGS can attest to how loud it can get, thanks predominantly to the NEZ crazies. Decibel meter readings are a fair way to gauge the noise, and that is FAN NOISE, not cowbells, horns, drums or other artificial means. It's PEOPLE. Rabid, loyal, excited fans making more of a ruckus than they made when they came into this world. Yet those 25-26,000+ fans make more noise than those in stadiums seating 100-110,000. All open air stadiums, not some glorified tater shed.

The disappearance of those sources you mentioned is distressing. Shows how easy electronic information can be manipulated, or be made to disappear with a few strokes of a keyboard. Orwellian.

Oh, as for your LSU contact, 'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.' Same goes for a horses ass.
 
alabamagrizzly said:
putter said:
Have been trying to find it on X (Twitter). 2015, when Musburgers crew did the NDSU game, Maria Taylor tweeted it was a loud as any SEC stadium. They were the SEC crew so she would know.
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There used to be a whole list of quotes that somebody, I think Haslem, had posted but it’s like they’ve been wiped from the internet. I found em a year or 2 ago with a simple google search and now all I can find is a blurry image from a Griz fan FB page that doesn’t exist anymore.
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It isn't easy but if you know the website url containing old information, you can often locate it using the Internet Wayback Machine. The link is http://web.archive.org/.
 
I am hopeful there are not too many duplicates in this.

After a victory over the Seahawks in Seattle he was asked if he had ever experienced more noise in a stadium. His response was "Missoula Montana is way louder" - Tony Romo

"Because it's so closed in. The noise is so confined. My granddaughter got so scared in that place - she was 7 years old - she never let go of her mother for the whole first quarter." - Joe Gardi, coach

"Their atmosphere is a lot better than The Rock. Their crowd makes Michigan's 109,000 sound like mice. I promise you that there isn't another stadium in our division like Montana's stadium and fans. It was the loudest place I have ever been to in my life. Our 30K+ isn't even close to the 22,000 I heard today. The experience was awesome today." - Jerry Moore, App State Coach

" I've been to alot of places, this has gotta be tops. Reminds me of Autzen stadium in Oregon." - Todd Harris & Charles Arbuckle, ESPN announsers: App State (11-2) vs Montana (13-0) 2009

After playing at Nebraska and losing 17 - 3 loss in front of over 85,000 fans: “Coming here, we thought this would be the loudest crowd we've ever faced, but I'd say Montana was quite a bit louder.” - Thomas O'Brien, South Dakota State QB

SEC SCHOOL "I will end the discussion right now. I have played in Jordan Haire Stadium(Auburn:79k+) and @ Washington-Grizzly Stadium. It got loud at the end of the Auburn game when they scored the gw td with less than 1 minute to go in Tuberville's debut, but Montana was different. Those fans were right on top of you and i can tell you that is was louder in that "little" stadium than @ Auburn. " - App State player 2007-2010

UTENN "I have coached in stadiums all over the country in my career. Penn State, Ohio State, Tennessee, and Nebraska to name a few. All of these facilities held 80,000 to 100,000 people. None of these stadiums were as loud as the only FCS school in the country to sell more season tickets then Old Dominion, the University of Montana. What made Montana different was the fans were at their loudest when their opponent was on offense. They knew they could eliminate the offensive check system with noise. They were the 12th defender on the field by making the offense predictable. And they took great pleasure in every penalty the visiting team received. They knew that was their penalty !! " - Bobby Wilder, ODU Head Coach

"I'll give your crowd credit, it was steady. That was my concern coming in here. Once you start momentum it's hard to stop it and then recuperate and get your direction again. The crowd gives them that ability to ignite that football team, then the defense feeds off it. I think your best defense is your crowd." - Mark Farley, Northern Iowa Head Coach (2011 game vs UNI)

"Communication between our personnel was nearly impossible because of the crowd noise. It was astonishing." - Jerry Kill, SIU football coach (2006 playoff game vs SIU)

"The game - one of the truly great playoff games ever - and its aftermath convinced me that your team has the best fans in football, bar none. We had been warned that it was going to be noisy, but we had no idea. We couldn't hear ourselves think; I can't imagine what it was like for the players. I've been in stadiums that seat over 80,000 fans and they were not as loud as your 20,000." - Lee O. Hagglund, Wofford College Department of Mathematics (2007 playoff game vs Wofford)

"Everyone has always said Montana has the best crowd in Division I-AA. Well, I'm willing to go one better -- Montana has the best crowd in all of college football. Not only were there more than 23,000 people packed into the stadium, but the fans were loud -- real loud. They were also very knowledgeable. When the Grizzlies were on offense, the stadium was silent. Everyone on the sideline could hear the quarterback audible a play. When the Bearkats were on offense it was totally different. Every single person in the stadium was on their feet making as much noise as possible. It is hard to describe how loud the crowd actually was. Try to imagine standing inside an airplane engine -- it was louder." - Jason Barfield, Huntsville, TX Sports Editor.

"As an employee of EWU Football, I would agree. Montana is by far the loudest in the Big Sky. Montana State coming in second. From first hand on the field experience I can say that Montana last year was louder against us than UW was this year. And UW had 70,000 screaming at us." -Nico Phelps
 
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