UCF to reduce trampoline effect on football stadium

[hightechbull]

UCF to reduce trampoline effect on football stadium

Stupid clowns built a low rent stadium, and now they are going to spend another $400,000 to reduce the bouncy seats.

UCF to reduce trampoline effect on football stadium

Luis Zaragoza | Sentinel Staff Writer

    2:52 PM EDT, August 1, 2008

UCF's football stadium may need a new nickname soon.

"The Trampoline" is being stiffened with additional steel to reduce the bouncing motion fans feel whenever enough people jump up in down at the same time during games.

UCF officials said today that the work is being done to appease fans unnerved by the motion. Bright House Networks Station is structurally safe, officials said. The stadium has an estimated 50-year lifespan that will not be affected one way or the other by the modifications, officials added.

Additional steel will be welded to support beams in the end-zone sections, which should reduce but not necessarily eliminate the trampoline effect that many students seemed to love but some fans found uncomfortable.

Work will begin this month on the $400,000 project. The school will not spend general educational funds for the work. About $100,000 will come from the $54 million stadium's building fund. The rest is being donated by the engineering and construction firms that worked on the stadium, school officials said.

Officials said they hoped most of the work would be done by Aug. 30, when the UCF Knights play their first game of the season. But officials said it was likely the work would take longer than that. The work will not affect the game schedule, officials said.

Fans discovered during the early games of the first season that they could make the upper decks bounce. The song "Kernkraft 400" by the techno band Zombie Nation typically gets fans jumping around. When enough fans jumped up and down at the same time, fans could feel the decks move up and down. Soon fans were deliberately jumping in unison to get the most loft.

UCF will not ban the playing of Zombie Nation's song during games, but it will limit the amount of time it is played to 15 to 20 seconds instead of a minute or more to discourage fans from jumping so much.

[Jamie]

Doesn't it seem like a repair that important should cost a lot more than $400,000?

[Bull Martin]

Doesn't it seem like a repair that important should cost a lot more than $400,000?

No but it makes UCF students look retarded for pushing the limits of the structures integrity.  There's a chance they could hit a harmonic frequency in the bouncing that could crumble the stadium.

They wouldn't be spending 400 grand on an unnecessary repair.

It reminds me of the episode of Myth Busters on the guy who ran into the glass in a skyscraper.

[Jamie]

By the way... they expect that thing to last 50 years?

[BleacherBull]

48 years left . . . after this season.

[crambone]

It's going to be better than Doak Campbell, don't ya know?

[Knight_Light]

It's going to be better than Doak Campbell, don't ya know?

It was the day it opened.

Here's a look at Doak Campbell Stadium on opening day. (HINT: I think you might see a few upgrades to BHNS over the next half century like FSU did too).

PS. Remember, the only reason why Doak looks like it does today...is that FSU was able to use (and abuse) a flaw on the books that allowed them to use state funds to rebuild Doak if some academic areas were attached to said structure.

That option is no longer on the books because of the way FSU abused it to get the state to help fund much of their brick facade that now surrounds their steel stadium.

[___ Eats It]

It's going to be better than Doak Campbell, don't ya know?

It was the day it opened.

Here's a look at Doak Campbell Stadium on opening day. (HINT: I think you might see a few upgrades to BHNS over the next half century like FSU did too)

If you keep posting this repeatedly in every thread about BHNS, it may come true.  The stadium fairy may land and help UCF sell more than the 25000 season tix they can't even move now, and you'll have that magic money to build.

Until then, you play in a weakly-constructed lightning rod of a stadium that may have collapsed this year if they didn't support it with some extra toothpicks.

Enjoy!

[Paisa el Toro]

____ Eats it brings up a good point. Rather than focusing on the trampolene effect of BHNS, why doesn't the media ever focus on the fact that the structure is a giant electrical conductor that has to be evacuated every time a lightning storm passes by. Why build something like that in Florida?

[Bull Martin]

____ Eats it brings up a good point. Rather than focusing on the trampolene effect of BHNS, why doesn't the media ever focus on the fact that the structure is a giant electrical conductor that has to be evacuated every time a lightning storm passes by. Why build something like that in Florida?

The original UCF engineers already designed for that by leaving out water fountains