Help Shape NCAA Football: Band Locations

[HWill]

University of Buffalo - UB Stadium

Name: "Thunder of the East"

EDIT: Nevermind.

[cdj]

Central Michigan - Kelly-Shorts Stadium

Section: W

[JeffHCross]

Stadium: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial
Section: Center of the Section 7 (under "New Georgia / Bougainville")



Band: THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY BAND - "The Navy's Oldest and Finest Band"







So here's the pisser on this one ... none of the seating charts I can find seem to match the pictures (and the NCAA model) of the stadium. For example, none of the seating charts have a section that begins in the 50. Yet every picture I find shows a section there, and it's clear that there's a separation between the section that's centered on the 50 and the sections on either side, so it's not a crossover issue. Unless I'm just off my rocker.

Based on the above picture, the band is quite clearly centered in the section under "New Georgia" / "Bougainville". I couldn't find any pictures of the Blue Side stands, so I hopped into NCAA to look. It looks like that's Section 7 in the stadium seating chart, but hard to say.

Just to make this more frustrating, there's no sight of the Band in this picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...al_Stadium.jpg, yet they should clear be in the lower left of the picture.

[JeffHCross]

FYI Chris, I put a feeler out to a friend of mine that was part of TBDBITL ... he might be able to tell us some band locations for bowl games.

[cdj]

UNLV - Sam Boyd Stadium

Section: Front of 122

[cdj]

Oklahoma - Gaylord Oklahoma Memorial

Section: Front of Section 29



Seating Chart (PDF)

[cdj]

Penn State - Beaver Stadium

Section: Front of Section SC

[cdj]

Outback Bowl



Home Band: Section 118 & 115





Away Band: Sections 143 & 140

[cdj]

OU-Texas (Red River Rivalry) - Cotton Bowl

Seating Chart (PDF)

Texas - Band in Bleachers on field behind Texas Endzone (In Front of Sec. 16-19)



Oklahoma - Band in Bleachers on field behind Oklahoma Endzone (In Front of Sec. 29-32)




(2001 reference shot, still relevant re: field seating)

[CLW]

EA getting some slave/free labor.

I dunno but to me this just strikes me wrong. This is something that CLEARLY the EA staff is capable of doing themselves. I presume they have computers and have access to Google.

Great work guys but I'm not entirely sure why EA needs "us"/"the community" for this project.

[NDnathan]

Looks like the student section runs from Section 29 to 35 or so, and the band has limited seating on the field just behind the north endzone in the student section corner.

Here are some better live pictures:

Actually the band is in the north endzone in the opposite corner from the student section. In the photo above, you can see the little chairs set up for the band on the right side of the tunnel.

[gschwendt]

Florida International - FIU Stadium

Section: 104

[cdj]

Miami - Sun Life Stadium

Section: Front of 156





Front of Section 156

Open Area in Pre-game:


Full Section in Post-Game:

[gschwendt]

Louisiana-Lafayette - Cajun Field

Section: Bottom 3/4 of Section N

[cdj]

ACC Championship - Bank of America Stadium



Home Band: Section 121
Away Band: Section 101



Home Band: Section 121



Away Band: Section 101

[JeffHCross]

Great work guys but I'm not entirely sure why EA needs "us"/"the community" for this project.

We've gotten something (nearly) done in about 36 hours that it would take them considerably more time to do, given their staff size. So while we're working on this, they can be doing something else ... like, I dunno, actually making the game

Realistically, when I saw the message go out from cdj and the EANCAA Twitter account, I figured you'd see things like me post about Ohio State, Texas fans post about Texas, etc. I don't think either EA itself expected the rapid response.

Besides, Chris is just free slave labor for them. That's what the job description of Game Changer is

[gschwendt]

Godaddy.com Bowl

Seating Chart

Found a shot of the MTSU band at the Godaddy.com bowl



Home Band:

Pic 21

Appears to be right side of Section D. Perhaps portion of D, all of E (similar to Away Band)?

[JeffHCross]

Stadium: Mackey Stadium
Section: Right half of Section H
Band Name: Pride of the Sierra




Official Seating Chart (PDF)



Based on the above images, you can see that H-M are clearly divided sections, and that Section I starts where what appears to be a press box(?) starts. The Facebook photo above shows that the band is to the left of Section I, but there are also fans on their left. They're also below Section 2, which puts them on the right-side of Section H.

[Paakaa10]

EA getting some slave/free labor.

I dunno but to me this just strikes me wrong. This is something that CLEARLY the EA staff is capable of doing themselves. I presume they have computers and have access to Google.

Great work guys but I'm not entirely sure why EA needs "us"/"the community" for this project.

As JeffHCross has said, anything that the developers can get help from us on frees them up to actually work on developing the game itself. Sure, they could have put somebody on the task and had them figure it out. But all of those hours would've taken away from that person's contribution to the game itself. Since cdj and myself (amongst others posting here) are part of the EA SPORTS Game Changers program anyway, I'm more than happy to give some of my time so that the team can concentrate on programming the actual game instead of doing this research.

[Paakaa10]

Toledo - Glass Bowl

Section: Front of 15

WRONG - Should be one section left of what is marked.



Updated seating chart (full section numbers) on page two of this PDF.


Section 15 = T behind the left end zone

Best image I can find so far from the stadium; the band would be sitting in the far left side of the picture but it's pretty blurry: