"Hey, what's with the cell service? Trying to fantasize that's Shania Twain up there and not some hairy lumberjack with bigger jugs than Peter Griffin"......
FC/OT: Luke Combs at Beaver Stadium…
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Big jugs dude announced that he donated $100,000 to childhood cancer last night.
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Which may have been the greatest concert of all time!
They actually had 4 or 5 tractor trailers lined up on the outside concourse between gate C and D. Parked right on the concourse where people usually walk. That was a pretty cool sight.
No thanks. PSU then gets access to the following info:PSU should just accept checks and put up a new sign. That's thrifty.
a) your name
b) your address
c) the ABA routing number of your financial institution
d) your account number
Any other genius ideas, Jethro?
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Well Franklin was back stage so maybe Luke asked him about the offense.
Why wouldn't the Stones come to the Beav? I'm sure if the price is right they would play anywhere. They played Hersheypark Stadium in 2005...sure, a bigger "metro area" than State College, but it's not Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. And the stadium is more of a dump than the Beav.
BTW, that was a great day....the concert was on a Saturday night in October, 2005, the same day as the PSU/Minnesota game. Watched PSU kick *** at the "Bear's Den" in the Hershey Lodge, then over to the concert to see the Stones. Good times!
Turf is being replaced in three weeks otherwise this never would have happened!
There are entire threads about the issue of mobile phone capacity which can be referenced. However, the short version is that it is incredibly expensive and cannot be a patchwork quilt of solutions. It is being addressed as part of the $700m renovations to the Beav, but only a small portion of the cost and traffic congestion is at the stadium. Capacity has to be built throughout the network and to date nobody has been willing to pay for that for 7 weeks a year.
7 weeks a year isn't true either. Last year at freshman check in day outside BJC it was the same thing. I'm sure graduation is the same. Families from all over the world attend these events. Embarrassment.
Not willing to pay for "7 weeks a year" but will pay 50 million for an art museum? Excuses. Clown show.
My buddy has been to games at Auburn, TCU, and a few others and claims the cell service in those stadiums is far better than the service at PSU. To PSUJams point, if the stadium provides electronic tickets and a number to call for emergencies, but the service is so bad that utilization of both is sketchy, isn’t that an issue.
As far as b*tching about anything and everything, you must be new here. Every day there’s a new thread bashing the BOT (new and old), Franklin, the OC (new and old), the DC, Bill O’Brien, the Sandusky prosecutors, Brandon Short, downtown State College developers and business owners, the Statue, field naming possibilities, news media, etc, etc. This board isn’t for the optimists.
Well, I attempted to give you a Cliff’s Notes version of the problem and the solution. However, not surprisingly, your response was caustic and not knowledgeable. This is not a Penn State issue per se. Penn State can put all of the necessary investment. It wants in and around beaver stadium and around campus to carry as much traffic as they would like to carry. However, that traffic has to go someplace and that place is the landline, fiber network feeding Penn State and State College. Those networks are privately owned and heavily regulated. Thus, if the companies don’t view it as a good ROI to provide the private capital to build the necessary capacity “for seven weeks a year”, Penn state’s investment will be stranded because the choke point simply moves further downstream. I agree that it is somewhat of an embarrassment, but I also understand that this is not Penn State’s problem alone to solve.
Oh I understand. Maybe caustic but somewhat knowledgeable. As you said, part of the fix is in the stadium renovation $$$, although that's more in the vicinity of Beaver Stadium. That's cool and I'm all for it.
The elephant in the room is the fact that ATT is in bed with PSU. Hell, they have a cell phone store in the HUB. Is it a coincidence that ATT cells work fine on "7 weekends" and any other large gatherings? I agree that it's up to Verizon to step it up if they want full coverage, but is PSU even trying to pressure them in the name of safety? I doubt it, because of ATT. That's BS. I truly hope something tragic doesn't happen and someone can't call out because of this stupid nonsense. If it does, it's on PSU for not screaming about safety. Look what happened on 9/11 with cell towers getting jammed.
Fix the God damn issue before something happens. But of course that won't happen, because PSU isn't proactive.
If there is a 9/11 type situation the ATT towers have FirstNet.
https://www.firstnet.com/
Any first responder with an ATT phone will have priority (and there are priorities within FirstNet too). So, the average person will not be able to make a call or send a text, but first responders will have 5G (talk, txt, and steaming, etc).
If you want a FirstNet phone, join your local VFD, maybe you will qualify.
Yes... it is just a standard ATT phone (it has to be registered with FirstNet), but the service to that phone is given priority over the non FirstNet phones. FirstNet runs on the ATT towers/system. ATT won a contract with the US government to run the FirstNet service.Are you allowed to use such a phone for personal communications?
The low cloud cover over Beaver Stadium that evening seems to add a special element.
It’s great for the videos and was probably beneficial for the acoustics.
I hope that they hired extra hands for the cleanup. Country music fans are well known for trashing venues.
That’s not a negative stereotype. That comes from people who work in the industry.
That’s not a negative stereotype. That comes from people who work in the industry.