@@MarloSoBalJr How can it be dilapidated? It's only 25 years old. Fenway Park is 110 years old and the Red Sox think it can last until 2061. Does it still have those stupid "dream seats"? When Snyder put those in, it showed that he knows nothing about football. Field-level seats work well in baseball, because the bench doesn't block your view of the field. Apparently, Snyder didn't learn from the biggest mistake of RFK (the very first of the "cookie cutters"): the sideline seats were too low to the field, so fans sitting in the first ten rows couldn't see the entire field because the view was blocked by the football team bench. In a proper football stadium, when you sit down, your feet must be at least six feet above the field so you can get an unobstructed view. That idiot Snyder didn't know.
@@Eternal5ent You mean Redskins? I refuse to refer to the Washington Communists as the Commanders... They will forever be the Redskins. That way, I can tolerate them more.
I went to a Wyoming game as a visiting team fan once, the two tier stands seem kind of weird for the stadium given that they just sort of end abruptly and there’s no permanent seats at either end zone, but it’s not that bad overall and felt like an enjoyable game day atmosphere. A big reason why you might have had trouble finding other stadiums to judge in Wyoming is that Wyo is the only 4-year university in the whole state
@@Warsaw_PactYeah, especially because you can get really close to the benches and field with general admission, which you can’t in a lot of other stadiums.
as someone who lived in alabama, legion field ain’t the worst stadium there’s an fcs school (north alabama) that plays on a field that is owned by the city’s public middle school 😭
Funny thing about St. Thomas, since Clemson lost to South Carolina, St. Thomas currently has the longest home winning streak in college football. Last home loss was in Round 3 of the 2016 D3 playoffs to UW-Oshkosh (my current school) in late November. Edit: Wow really had to diss Oshkosh 🤣
@@bryanbyholm2803 Yeah I would think as a stadium, River Falls is slightly worse than Oshkosh due to wooden stands and lack of stadium amenities/resources, but the atmosphere on game day is a lot better than Oshkosh from my experience.
@@GreenBayPayton RF just got a new stadium like 2 years back I think? So its not so bad to be honest. I don't know what I would put on that list since all of the colleges in WI have okay facilities that I've been to at least.
@@GreenBayPayton Goerke Field in Point is probably the worst. Stevens Point Area Senior High also plays there, and it is the third best stadium in that high school conference. Carson Park is pretty bad too, but a little better.
@@sokonek1 RF got the new stadium around 2015. They got a new video board this past year. Carson Park I agree also isn’t great but I think Goerke Field is disqualified because it’s more of a high school stadium than a college stadium. Definitely the worst one used in the WIAC though.
The Citadel doesn't require serving in the military, only 40% of graduates go on to a commission in the armed services. It's a big fraternity at this point that ensures you'll always have a job somewhere in Charleston.
Memorial Stadium in Terre Haute, Indiana is horrible. Considering that what used to be a Romanesque 1920’s multi-complex hippodrome for minor league baseball and other sports was torn down and replaced with the plainest most bland football ‘stadium’ on earth with only the old arch left and attached to a giant single metal bleacher stand with the field surrounded by crappy concrete stuff.
5:35 as a Georgia resident, the mayor at the time (Kasim Reed in 2013) before the Braves moved out of Turner Field to SunTrust (Now Truist) Park, wanted to implode the stadium at first. This was from a Ballpark book that I got, and all of that happened around November of 2013. Luckily in 2016, Georgia State bought Turner Field and the adjacent parking lot across the road (The outline of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium), from what I heard is that GSU is going to give the outline of AFCS a 2nd life as a ballpark for GSU, and Hank Aaron's marker will be left alone. There is way too much history for the stadium, like you said: being the host of the 1996 Olympic Games, 19 years as the home of the Atlanta Braves, hosting a World Series game in 1999, 2000 All-Star Game, and so on. it can be a crappy stadium, but to be honest, GSU worked with what they bought.
I grew up in Europe and we had lower division soccer teams. The town i grew up in has 2, and the one I supported was right next to a cemetery. Surprisingly for its level, it actually had a stadium and not just field, but the stadium was built in 1940s and was ran down. They used to be sponsored by chocolate company that went out of business in the 60s
Every year, I try to visit a Madureira game here in Rio. Their stadium happens to be near a rather busy market, so it was actually rather common for balls to end up stuck on their roof and the club would have to routinely go there in order to bring them back.
You mentioned Jerry Rice of Rice-Totten Stadium because every football fan knows who Jerry Rice is, but you probably never heard of Willie "Satellite" Totten. He set over 50 NCAA Division 1-AA records and in 1984 threw for 58 touchdowns and 4,557 yards. His 12,711 career passing yards is 2nd all time in Division 1-AA history.
I've been to two of the stadiums on the list: UNH and Columbia. The UNH stadium, may not be great now, but it's 8000 times better than it was before the upgrades. They actually had a very good program in the early 2000's, but were never allowed to host playoff games because they didn't have lights at the stadium, and capacity was too small. The Columbia stadium is, in two words "not good".
Yeah that’s definitely an old picture of the UNH stadium. They made some significant upgrades in like 2016 The version in the video still has the row of trees that I used to smoke weed behind when I went there, lol. I was pretty salty when they tore those down
Former Valpo Football player here! Glad you’re able to help spread the word about our School and Football team! (Albeit in this context 😂) The Pioneer Football League is pretty competitive for being non-scholarship FCS. The league has even produced some NFL talent! Most recently Jamal Agnew, Donald Parham, Adam Trautman, and Michael Bandy. Back to Valpo Football - Brown Field recently got new turf in 2019 (which isn’t updated on Google maps), but it desperately needs new everything - bleachers, scoreboard, etc. Too bad the ARC (the basketball arena, play in the Missouri Valley Conference) will get money before Brown Field does. P.S. - We played against Trinity International (IL), Duquesne (PA), University of Charleston (WV) while I was in school there. St. Thomas (MN) is now also in the Pioneer Football League with Valpo. Small world!
Having lived in Pine Bluff as a kid and gone to some games there, it’s a sad setup. My family went from Pine Bluff to Stillwater, and I went to tons of Oklahoma State games. Any comparison I could make would be unfair.
Cheney huh? Not for much longer, Wyomingites hate Liz cheney with a burning passion because shes a centrist. Can't be a centrist anywhere in Wyoming. Either be a Republican or...a Republican.
As a proud citadel cadet, I can tell you that not only is our stadium awful, but they also tore down the away stands because of asbestos. Was not at all surprised we are the worst in SC. At least VMI is here too
LOL THAT'S WHY!??!? Btw I had a friend who went to the Citadel. He said the thing he learned most was how to fire a water balloon with precision accuracy across one battalion living quarters to the other using a homemade sling shot.
Hey we are the best at being the worst. I'm honestly surprised VMI hasn't decided to throw more money into the pit that is Foster Stadium. And more surprised Foster hasn't been found to contain some kind of deadly chemical.
Being a student at Montana State, I knew Bobcat Stadium would make it here but despite the stadium not being the best, the fans are great and the team plays well there, currently on a 19-game winning streak as of today
Griz got a good stadium. Gonna try and catch a game there next year. It looks nice and they got a good view of the landscape surrounding it, especially the mountain next to it.
Norhtern State University in Aberdeen, SD actually no longer plays at Clark Swisher field. When they did they shared it with the local high school. They now have a stadium of their own on campus named Dakotah Bank Stadium and is extremely nice. It actually a part of a very impressive sports complex at the school that cost roughly $33 Million. One of the nicest complexes in all of D2 athletics.
Alaska: Wanna see our only football stadium? People: Alaska's a huge state, so it's gonna be go big or go home, right? Alaska: ... People: *It's gonna be go big or go home, right?* And ah yes, a stadium next to a wastewater treatment plant and a paradise for mosquitoes...Daytona is definitely the kind of stadium Florida Man would design and see nothing wrong with
Our high school stadiums are slightly nicer than that one, which is most likely why this one made the list. It also blew my mind just how large the high school football stadiums are once I moved out of Alaska for college, as the football culture back home isn't what it is down here in the lower 48.
I live in Charleston and everytime I’m leaving my grandparents house or going to a Riverdogs game down the road I always see that terrible visitor side which was supposed to be redone but hasn’t been touched since around 2018 😭
As a proud Alumni of Idaho State University I have to say that Holt Arena deserves to be on this list. It is smaller, older, and in much worse condition than the Kibbie dome. In spite of this injustice I still enjoyed the video. Awesome video and great list!
I was pretty surprised to see Idaho was chosen instead of ISU. Most of my family lives in Pocatello (we moved to Utah when I was 2), and I’ve driven by it well over a thousand times. It’s always been an odd looking one for sure.
For Virginia, I think Virginia State's stadium deserves an honorable/dishonorable mention. There's so much distance between the home stands and the field that you could literally fit another copy of the home stands into that gap and probably still have room left over.
I'm tripping out. My college head coach coached at 3 of these schools (LB State, UMASS, and EMU). My favorite story of the LB stadium. When he was the OC there under George Allen, their quarterback would motion to quiet the crowd with just 1 arm because of the 1 sided stadium lol. And in fairness to UMASS, it was built as a D1 FCS stadium, they only went up to FBS a few years ago.
Utah Tech's Stadium has undergone some major renovations over the past few years-new press box, good sized visitors stands, upgraded turf, and I'm pretty sure they removed the track around the field
Unfortunately the track is still there, but it was redone. so it's no longer deteriorating. The renovations have made the stadium pretty great though. The only thing I still dislike about it is the track.
@@chipperw Oh okay, it’s been a while since I’ve been back, but the stadium for the most part is pretty nice, especially since they just underwent so many changes
It definitely is a lot better now. Hard to say what is the worst football stadium in utah is now, probably SUU's eccles coliseum? isnt bad but for D1 college its underwhelming
Also saying Wichita is the middle of nowhere when it's population is above about half of the cities on this list, I mean it's not big but it has a AAA baseball team so it's not NOWHERE
Wildcat Stadium in New Hampshire actually replaced the small visitors bleachers for a large home seating area with press boxes about a few years ago. Much nicer than before.
To be fair, Wichita State hasn't fielded a football team since 1986 (the plane crash was in 1970, and they played football for 16 years after that), so to call Cessna Stadium a D1 stadium is a stretch. You could have went to Lawrence and took a picture of a real crappy D1 stadium.
@@lorimello5121 Yeah, it's supposed to take them two seasons to finish all the work, and the Jayhawks are playing their home games in Kansas City for the time being (mostly in Children's Mercy Park, a MLS soccer venue for Sporting KC).
As someone who actually marched at Welcome Stadium, the turf on the field isn't even entirely turf! There's small rocks/pebbles all over the field that also managed to get into my shoes like there's no tomorrow lol
OK, I have to say something nice about Aggie Stadium in Las Cruces. The university hosts an annual marching band tournament there, and I was a band geek and played there for several years, and even before I was in high school, I went to the contest as a spectator. One of the best parts of the trip was finding cardboard sleds and going down the hill on them. This is called fun.
I'm an NMSU alum (class of 2015)...they're planning to build a new football facility and upgrade the press box at Aggie Memorial apparently. So there's hope for the future. And hey, we actually went bowling in year one under Jerry Kill!
5:06 also used to be the home of Daytona flat track motorcycle racing (hence the huge ring of grass surrounding the field) but about 8 years ago they decided flat track racing was too cool for them and the motorcycles now race at a track on the grounds of Daytona international speedway
That Long Beach stadium says a lot about society. An urban environment should NOT have that much parking in space that could be BETTER used for a pedestrian-friendly area filled with shops, restaurants, and housing. Houston for example has SO much space used for just parking...and it's sad knowing the potential if it's developed the right way
The stadium is next to the old McDonnell Douglas plant, and the stadium showed up in films of their aircraft rollouts led by a pipe band. Bette Midler's film "The Rose" used this stadium for its concert scenes.
Hey, Georgia State Center Parc is actually a great experience. GSU did for the area what Braves couldn’t do in 20 years, they turned the surrounding area into a destination for tourists and locals. Visit before you judge.
The Wichita State plane crash happened in 1970, and they dropped football after the 1986 season, so the two events are not related. And, they only lost 31 players and staff, not the entire football team. Plus, the stadium isn't even there anymore. It's been demolished and is being rebuilt as a track-only facility.
The worst thing about Houck Stadium is that the home side is actually condemned, so everybody has to sit on that small barren looking visitor side. And that's also why Johnson Hagood Stadium has that empty space on the visitors' side as well: it used to have a large visitors' stand that had the footprint of what you see on Google Earth. Then it was found to have lead paint and was replaced with the tiny temporary stand you see in this video.
7:39 As a student at Wichita State University, I can confirm, Cessna Stadium sucks. It's the skeleton of an arena; the corpse of our former presence in college football. And it's located right across the street from the dining hall, so many students have to see it every day. (Though, to be fair, Wichita is not "the middle of nowhere". We are the largest city in our state and are host to several corporations, including Koch Industries, Freddy's, and Cessna. That's why our stadium is called that. I don't appreciate you dismissing us.)
I know you were focusing on the bigger schools but shout-out Graceland University in Iowa for having the absolute worst stadium in all of NAIA Football. I was doing play by play for the visiting school and there were I kid you not 50 flies in the press box. The underside of the bleachers were also pretty much all rusted out and it was a half mile walk from the locker room to the field.
I came into this fully expecting a dig a Brett Favre when ya got to Mississippi. Imagine my pleasant surprise that you tossed in a lil bonus mention as well 🤣😂🤣
I marched a few drum & bugle corps competitions at Joe Albi in the 70s. Not a bad place for a show. I'm surprised they're on this list. Unbelievably the Cougars used to play some of their home games here. (Adam didn't do much research on this; there are a few DII and DIII stadiums around here that suck worse than Joe Albi.)
The USFL primarily uses UAB’s protective stadium. They’ve only used Legion Field for a couple games where protective stadium had had a George strait concert booked before the USFL came into existence. The AAF was the one that used Legion Field for the Birmingham Iron and UAB of course used Legion Field from 2017-2020 before we got our protective stadium in 2021.
Yeah, New Hampshire Wildcat stadium went through a massive renovation a few years ago. They added a new east stand with a new press box, a massive video board and touched up the old west stand.. a bit.
18:18 Virginia's worst stadium is in Lexington, VIRGINIA....not Lexington, KY. Lexington, KY is home to an SEC school that has made 8 consecutive bowl games and has at least an average stadium nationally. VMI, on the other hand isn't quite that! ;-)
I’ve actually seen a UMASS game. It was 3 weeks ago in college station between a 1-9 team & a 3-7 team. It was also in the 30s and raining & I drove a couple hours for it. YAY ME
UMass has a stadium that accurately reflects their program this year 😂 their running back was a bright spot but they are probably going to be rebuilding their team for a few years
The Citadel used to have a large visitors side, but it had to be knocked down in like 2016 due to having structural issues and lead paint in it from when it was built.
When I was in the marching band in high school, we got to be in the homecoming parade at UW Oshkosh. My band director always called it UW Zero, this must be why.
I go to Northern State, and we built a new football stadium a couple years ago, Dacotah Bank Stadium, and it’s much better than Swisher. Swisher is an NAIA/high school field now
The press box at Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta is still the old Braves box. For its current football configuration, that means it’s in a corner overlooking the southeast end zone
Dayton, OH folk here. I haven't been to Welcome Stadium in a few years, but I will not dispute its horribleness then, and for the last several years. However, it is currently in the middle of a long-overdue $10M+ renovation. So hopefully some of that suckiness will go away...
My brother in law plays football at Georgia state. I’ve been to a few games, including when they hosted UNC, and the atmosphere is so weak… like they have decent turnout but it’s so big it feels vacant…
As a Valpo alum I’ll agree with ya on Indiana since there’s no bathrooms or locker rooms at Brown Field, the players dress in locker rooms in the ARC (basketball arena) and that’s where fans have to go if they have to use the shitter
As a student of Samford in Birmingham, I am pleasantly surprised that our stadium was not on this list. We have our old track tarred over with asfault which leaves a massive gap between the seats and the field. Our locker room is also 5 feet from the back of our endzone, and no, it doesn't have padding like basketball courts.
as someone who grew up going to aloha stadium, it was a great stadium growing up until i realized that it was falling apart and the rust was eating it alive
I thought Illinois would be Northwestern’s stadium. Half of the stadium has rusty floor and the bleachers get freezing. There is barely any lights inside just windows
Went to a cousin's game. He was playing in for six-man football for high school in Texas. It was literally a few spotlights, white lines marked on fresh cut grass and everybody would just back their trucks up or sit on a bail of hay. It was honestly one of the coolest experiences. And this was only about 15 years ago.
Actually Washington State only played games at Joe Albi for a couple games a year from 1950’s until 1980. Those only games were the Apple Cup and maybe the occasional game against USC and a season or two when their home stadium in Pullman burned down. Also the worst stadium in Washington now is the Tacoma Dome since the renovation. It’s so bad that they actually can’t play football there anymore.
Everything on this list is designed to primarily be a football stadium. That's what the main use of them is. The Tacoma Dome isn't a damn football stadium. It's primarily for concerts and events, and there used to be some indoor soccer and hockey played there. Hard to be the worst football stadium when it isn't a football stadium in the first place. "But it's bad for football!" Duh, that's not what it's for. You know what else is a terrible football stadium? Climate Pledge Arena...
I’d love to see a Part 2 for this series. The college I went to had a pretty horrible stadium ngl. No lights (so all games had to be played at 1pm which was kinda lame), had a huge grandstand (with a small visitors section), bathrooms were under the grandstand, concessions were on both sides of the grandstand, etc. It has barely any students go to the game, except a small spirit club I was an officer for, had parking lots too big for the stadium, and always smelled like cow poop cuz of local farms. The goods? Well, he had turf, apartments that overlooked some of the stadium, the gym on campus looked out onto the field, and ROTC (which I was part of) shot off a cannon at the end of the national anthem/after every TD. I went to Shippensburg University of PA
Tbh, I can understand a little bit about the lack of lights for that stadium, although it is kinda odd that those tennis courts nearby a couple of the other athletic fields there actually had lights... Also wonder if that's just a thing with that section of D2 football programs, like not even Shepherd University's stadium has lights either, at least I don't remember there being any. Like honestly big agree with the whole issue with the smell as well, that whole town smells, along with where I'm at in Hagerstown.
Went to Pratt and Whitney Stadium for the 2021 men’s lacrosse championships. It rained, and it was full of the types of families that raise lacrosse bros. I pulled a muscle while walking around the area, and I missed out on what was a cool Champions League Final. (Okay, rant over.)
I actually played at the UNI dome for like, I wanna say 6th Grade Cedar Rapids Metro League football? I don’t remember much about the place since I was twelve, but it was real weird playing football in a mostly empty dome with just our families watching. I only played football for one year in school, but that was definitely a highlight
We don't "live" in Wyoming, we exist here. But taking in a game at the War is an incredible experience. We're like college level Bills fans since it's cold as all hell and we're drunk most of the time. Not to mention smashing tables is a tradition now since JA17 is a Bill. Highly recommend watching the Pokes play. We're a fun bunch.
UT Martin in Martin, Tennessee has two sets of bleachers, but the visitor side is blocked off because it's pretty much entirely made up of rotting wood.
13:36 honestly amazed you didn't put UB stadium for UBuffalo (NY). For a D1 FBS school it's pretty embarrassing considering how much funding the school gets for research. If this school had even a slightly better stadium, they probably would be in the Power 5 considering its funding, research, and rankings, especially when compared to the rest of their conference.
19:02 yeah you got that one right. Multiple track and field events and band events happen there. It sits so close to the interstate I worry if someone will jump off the top of it. Also the capital is 3 blocks over and they use the Laidley parking lot for parking. It will now host our state championship games for the next 3 years. Also, the actual campus for UC is 4 miles away on the other side of the river
As someone who has actually filmed High School Football in WV, I completely agree that UC Stadium is one of the more horrendous venues I have worked at. (Before anyone points it out, Capital High School plays it’s home games at UC Stadium.) It’s a nightmare for anyone to get to the press box because there is no elevators, meaning you have to walk from the bleachers up and down anytime you want to grab concessions or carrying equipment. The other “press box” is not so much a press box, but it is where UC’s coordinators/coaches go which makes about as much sense as you would think (zero). The reason the stadium is so massive for a D2 school to begin with is because UC wanted to one up Marshall University back in the 70’s and built this monument of arrogance. However, last time I checked Marshall has produced NFL level talent, and is cheaper to go to when compared to the University of Charleston. However, the stadium is not completely awful though. Having been in/atop the press box, the view is absolutely stunning and is always worth the walk in my book.
I had my graduation at Laidley Field and I have got to say that the view of the capital building from the field and especially the stands, it pretty neat.
Morris Harvey as the school was called dropped football in 1956 and didn't pick it up again until 2003 as university of Charleston. So no it wasn't built to one up Marshall, it's been there since early 1900's and was rebuilt in 1979 while owned by board of education. UC joined in funding when they brought the football program back.
To be fair to O'Shaughnessy Stadium, it was build for a D-III school. St. Thomas is so large and dominated the D-III schools in Minnesota that the NCAA forced them to go to D-IFBS.
For Wisconsin, shoulda dissed St. Norbert, a D3 College south of GB in the suburb of De Pere, it's brand new but yet it looks smaller than most high school stadiums, even the repurposed City Stadium (home to GB East High School now) looks bigger than St. Norbert College's.
I've worked camera at several games at Hillsboro Stadium. No one cares about the Portland State Vikings, and the high school games typically draw more fans. It's quite nice for a high school stadium, and logistically they have proper cam op spots, long press box rows, and they let us do whatever we need to do to put together a decent broadcast. Surprised you didn't mention that it shares amenities with Ron Tonkin Field, where the minor league baseball Hillsboro Hops play. That stadium is pretty new, within the last 10 years or so, and it shares concessions and bathrooms with the football/soccer/softball/everything stadium. The whole complex makes sense when viewed in the context of suburb municipal sportsing. D1 worthy, ehh....
9:52 I went on Tour last year and did a show at UMASS and I remember on the drive there I saw the stadium from the freeway and the headliner said something about football and the driver was so happy to tell us Victor Cruz played at UMASS. It looked somewhat big from the freeway but I never got close enough to it to look and if I did I wasn’t paying attention.
I'm from Lexington VA and fun fact the middle school I attended is just up the hill from VMIs football stadium, we ran the mile on that track in PE. I still drive past the stadium almost daily.
I grew up near Peru and went to a lot of games at the Oak Bowl. What you see is a remodel done about 7 years ago. Used to have no shelter for anyone except the press box and the original concrete bleachers from the 1920s.
As a Michigander, I thought EMU would be the pick but I propose the Superior Dome at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. It's very similar to your Arizona pick.
About Wichita State, no they did lose a team on the upswing in 1970 but what ended Shocker football was that they went decades without being competitive and they often had more band members in the stands than fans. There's actually been lots of talk in recent years of just tearing it down.
I used to play at Joe Albi stadium when I was in high school not for the football team but for the band. Got to say my football team was even worse in the stadium we consistently lost by 60 plus points. Shout out to shadle Park which by the way is where Brett Rypien came from as well as Mark rypien
As a Sun Belt Conference football fan I enjoy appreciate the Georgia State stadium...it's awesome that they just didn't allow it to decay, like the Rubber Bowl, and also they can't really have a traditional campus stadium. New Mexico State needs some much needed tlc but for the size of school and location...
I like it’s quirks and history. I’m glad they actually did something with the stadium instead of just tearing it down or letting it rot. It’s a part of Atlanta history and I’m glad that it lives on, even in an awkward state
As a Marylander and a Ravens fan, I was waiting for FedEx Field to be on this list of almost entirely college fields
Same. FedEx was a no-brainer. A dilapidated box in the middle of crappy Landover 🤮
Commanders fan here… I hate going to that place smh 🤦🏾♂️
As a Marylander, Ravens fan, and Towson alumni my first thought was Johnny Unitas Stadium before I remembered Fed-Ex Field is in Maryland too.
@@MarloSoBalJr How can it be dilapidated? It's only 25 years old. Fenway Park is 110 years old and the Red Sox think it can last until 2061. Does it still have those stupid "dream seats"? When Snyder put those in, it showed that he knows nothing about football. Field-level seats work well in baseball, because the bench doesn't block your view of the field. Apparently, Snyder didn't learn from the biggest mistake of RFK (the very first of the "cookie cutters"): the sideline seats were too low to the field, so fans sitting in the first ten rows couldn't see the entire field because the view was blocked by the football team bench. In a proper football stadium, when you sit down, your feet must be at least six feet above the field so you can get an unobstructed view. That idiot Snyder didn't know.
@@Eternal5ent You mean Redskins?
I refuse to refer to the Washington Communists as the Commanders...
They will forever be the Redskins. That way, I can tolerate them more.
I went to a Wyoming game as a visiting team fan once, the two tier stands seem kind of weird for the stadium given that they just sort of end abruptly and there’s no permanent seats at either end zone, but it’s not that bad overall and felt like an enjoyable game day atmosphere. A big reason why you might have had trouble finding other stadiums to judge in Wyoming is that Wyo is the only 4-year university in the whole state
Tbf it's a 75 year old stadium
It’s an awesome environment during most home games. Super fun
@@Warsaw_PactYeah, especially because you can get really close to the benches and field with general admission, which you can’t in a lot of other stadiums.
War Memorial is fun to see a game at. Even at 9 degrees and windy.
Try visiting Sioux City Iowa. The entire town sucks. Our airport code is SUX.
Time stamps:
1:55 Alabama (Legion Field)
2:16 Alaska (Anchorage Football Stadium)
2:40 Arizona (Walkup Skydome)
3:02 Arkansas (Simmons Bank Field)
3:23 California (Veterans Memorial Stadium)
3:46 Colorado (Nottingham Field)
4:10 Connecticut (Pratt & Whitney Stadium)
4:32 Delaware (Alumni Stadium)
4:51 Florida (Daytona Stadium)
5:14 Georgia (Center Parc Stadium)
5:46 Hawaii (Aloha Stadium)
6:07 Idaho (Kibbie Dome)
6:33 Illinois (Leslie Frazier Field)
6:58 Indiana (Brown Field)
7:18 Iowa (Uni Dome)
7:41 Kansas (Cessna Stadium)
8:10 Kentucky (Roy Stewart Stadium)
8:29 Louisiana (Harry Turpin Stadium)
8:47 Maine (Winkin Sports Complex)
9:07 Maryland (FedEx Field)
9:45 Massachusetts (Mcguirk Alumni Stadium)
10:06 Michigan (Rynearson Stadium)
10:30 Minnesota (O’Shaughnessy Stadium)
10:50 Mississippi (Rice-Totten Stadium)
11:16 Missouri (Houck Stadium)
11:41 Montana (Bobcat Stadium)
12:01 Nebraska (Oak Bowl)
12:18 Nevada (Sam Boyd Stadium)
12:45 New Hampshire (Wildcat Stadium)
13:01 New Jersey (Shi Stadium)
13:25 New Mexico (Aggie Memorial Stadium)
13:38 New York (Lawrence A. Wien Stadium)
14:00 North Carolina (O’Kelly-Riddick Stadium)
14:20 North Dakota (Jerome Berg Field)
14:46 Ohio (Welcome Stadium)
15:05 Oklahoma (H.A. Chapman Stadium)
15:22 Oregon (Hillsboro Stadium)
15:38 Pennsylvania (Rooney Athletic Field)
15:54 Rhode Island (Brown Stadium)
16:10 South Carolina (Johnson Hagood Stadium)
16:27 South Dakota (Clark Swisher Field)
16:49 Tennessee (First Bank Stadium)
17:14 Texas (Apple Stadium)
17:36 Utah (Greater Zion Stadium)
17:58 Vermont (Alumni Stadium)
18:16 Virginia (Alumni Memorial Stadium)
18:37 Washington (Joe Albi Stadium)
19:03 West Virginia (U of Charleston Stadium)
19:22 Wisconsin (Titan Stadium)
19:47 Wyoming (War Memorial Stadium)
Rutgers University stadium 🏟️ is called SHI Stadium (in capital letters), located in the Township of Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey. 👌
@@TheRoadTripChannel They forgot the “T” it sounds like
Thank you. For whatever reason these weren't in alphabetical order.
1:42 Actual start
as someone who lived in alabama, legion field ain’t the worst stadium there’s an fcs school (north alabama) that plays on a field that is owned by the city’s public middle school 😭
Finally someone who agrees with me.😮😮😮
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO KNows
Braly stadium? been there for a Div 2 championship game and yea.... it was eek
Chat as a Arkansas fan I love when somebody actually says something related to us even if it's bad
@@RealBron03 Braly ain't even that bad
Funny thing about St. Thomas, since Clemson lost to South Carolina, St. Thomas currently has the longest home winning streak in college football. Last home loss was in Round 3 of the 2016 D3 playoffs to UW-Oshkosh (my current school) in late November.
Edit: Wow really had to diss Oshkosh 🤣
Honestly St Thomas isn't so bad. If he really wanted to go in on a bad location, look no further then the Blake in Mankato.
@@bryanbyholm2803 Yeah I would think as a stadium, River Falls is slightly worse than Oshkosh due to wooden stands and lack of stadium amenities/resources, but the atmosphere on game day is a lot better than Oshkosh from my experience.
@@GreenBayPayton RF just got a new stadium like 2 years back I think? So its not so bad to be honest. I don't know what I would put on that list since all of the colleges in WI have okay facilities that I've been to at least.
@@GreenBayPayton Goerke Field in Point is probably the worst. Stevens Point Area Senior High also plays there, and it is the third best stadium in that high school conference.
Carson Park is pretty bad too, but a little better.
@@sokonek1 RF got the new stadium around 2015. They got a new video board this past year. Carson Park I agree also isn’t great but I think Goerke Field is disqualified because it’s more of a high school stadium than a college stadium. Definitely the worst one used in the WIAC though.
The Citadel doesn't require serving in the military, only 40% of graduates go on to a commission in the armed services. It's a big fraternity at this point that ensures you'll always have a job somewhere in Charleston.
18:15 - Imagine having a stadium so bad your state doesn't even want to claim you and pawns you off to Kentucky instead.
Memorial Stadium in Terre Haute, Indiana is horrible. Considering that what used to be a Romanesque 1920’s multi-complex hippodrome for minor league baseball and other sports was torn down and replaced with the plainest most bland football ‘stadium’ on earth with only the old arch left and attached to a giant single metal bleacher stand with the field surrounded by crappy concrete stuff.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed 😂
5:35 as a Georgia resident, the mayor at the time (Kasim Reed in 2013) before the Braves moved out of Turner Field to SunTrust (Now Truist) Park, wanted to implode the stadium at first. This was from a Ballpark book that I got, and all of that happened around November of 2013. Luckily in 2016, Georgia State bought Turner Field and the adjacent parking lot across the road (The outline of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium), from what I heard is that GSU is going to give the outline of AFCS a 2nd life as a ballpark for GSU, and Hank Aaron's marker will be left alone.
There is way too much history for the stadium, like you said: being the host of the 1996 Olympic Games, 19 years as the home of the Atlanta Braves, hosting a World Series game in 1999, 2000 All-Star Game, and so on. it can be a crappy stadium, but to be honest, GSU worked with what they bought.
The reason why they moved was because of traffic, and the reason why Mercedes Benz Stadium was built was because of Arthur Blank's ego.
@@joezegers At least he haves some of the cheapest food at an NFL Stadium.
@@joezegers No, the reason they moved was racial....right into a lily white surburban neighborhood
I can assure you Truist Field is NOT in a lily white neighborhood
I grew up in Europe and we had lower division soccer teams. The town i grew up in has 2, and the one I supported was right next to a cemetery. Surprisingly for its level, it actually had a stadium and not just field, but the stadium was built in 1940s and was ran down. They used to be sponsored by chocolate company that went out of business in the 60s
Every year, I try to visit a Madureira game here in Rio. Their stadium happens to be near a rather busy market, so it was actually rather common for balls to end up stuck on their roof and the club would have to routinely go there in order to bring them back.
You mentioned Jerry Rice of Rice-Totten Stadium because every football fan knows who Jerry Rice is, but you probably never heard of Willie "Satellite" Totten. He set over 50 NCAA Division 1-AA records and in 1984 threw for 58 touchdowns and 4,557 yards. His 12,711 career passing yards is 2nd all time in Division 1-AA history.
That's probably why I only know of Jerry Rice
I was shocked Totten wasn’t successful in the pros. I know it was the SWAC, but dude was a beast.
I've been to two of the stadiums on the list: UNH and Columbia. The UNH stadium, may not be great now, but it's 8000 times better than it was before the upgrades. They actually had a very good program in the early 2000's, but were never allowed to host playoff games because they didn't have lights at the stadium, and capacity was too small. The Columbia stadium is, in two words "not good".
Yeah that’s definitely an old picture of the UNH stadium. They made some significant upgrades in like 2016
The version in the video still has the row of trees that I used to smoke weed behind when I went there, lol. I was pretty salty when they tore those down
icould have gone to oklahoma vs tulsa but i didn't mabeye next season i will Oklahoma at tulsa
Former Valpo Football player here! Glad you’re able to help spread the word about our School and Football team! (Albeit in this context 😂)
The Pioneer Football League is pretty competitive for being non-scholarship FCS. The league has even produced some NFL talent! Most recently Jamal Agnew, Donald Parham, Adam Trautman, and Michael Bandy.
Back to Valpo Football - Brown Field recently got new turf in 2019 (which isn’t updated on Google maps), but it desperately needs new everything - bleachers, scoreboard, etc. Too bad the ARC (the basketball arena, play in the Missouri Valley Conference) will get money before Brown Field does.
P.S. - We played against Trinity International (IL), Duquesne (PA), University of Charleston (WV) while I was in school there. St. Thomas (MN) is now also in the Pioneer Football League with Valpo. Small world!
I played at campbellsville (ky) and we played y’all in 2001 I think at a high school field if I remember correctly
I go to Valpo and call games and I’ll just say that small high school fields around the area have a nicer press box and everything except the turf!
When did yuo graduate from VU? I was class of '19. (I was on the sportscasting team)
As a former Golden Lion, I can agree. Our stadium is pretty trash compared to every other D1 school In Arkansas.
Buy them a new one
Quite a FEW HBCU stadiums on there
I like it lol. My U New Hampshire ain't better
@@Nhoj176 I noticed that as well.
Having lived in Pine Bluff as a kid and gone to some games there, it’s a sad setup. My family went from Pine Bluff to Stillwater, and I went to tons of Oklahoma State games. Any comparison I could make would be unfair.
We will NOT tolerate any Kibbie Dome slander
For wyoming, the cowboys spring game takes place at Cheney Alumni Field in Casper so that's probably the closest you'll get to another stadium
They played the spring game at the War this last year haha
Cheney huh? Not for much longer, Wyomingites hate Liz cheney with a burning passion because shes a centrist. Can't be a centrist anywhere in Wyoming. Either be a Republican or...a Republican.
@@UnchainedAmerica You realize it's named after her dad, right?
@@Goob2787 I know. She carry the family name.
As a proud citadel cadet, I can tell you that not only is our stadium awful, but they also tore down the away stands because of asbestos. Was not at all surprised we are the worst in SC. At least VMI is here too
LOL THAT'S WHY!??!? Btw I had a friend who went to the Citadel. He said the thing he learned most was how to fire a water balloon with precision accuracy across one battalion living quarters to the other using a homemade sling shot.
Hey we are the best at being the worst. I'm honestly surprised VMI hasn't decided to throw more money into the pit that is Foster Stadium. And more surprised Foster hasn't been found to contain some kind of deadly chemical.
@@theatagamer90I honestly don't know what they could do. It is squeezed in between a cliff and Main st.
Being a student at Montana State, I knew Bobcat Stadium would make it here but despite the stadium not being the best, the fans are great and the team plays well there, currently on a 19-game winning streak as of today
If only there was a mountain next door, like there is in Mssoula.
Griz got a good stadium. Gonna try and catch a game there next year. It looks nice and they got a good view of the landscape surrounding it, especially the mountain next to it.
The problem with Bobcat stadium is it’s full of Bobcat fans. Go Griz!
Norhtern State University in Aberdeen, SD actually no longer plays at Clark Swisher field. When they did they shared it with the local high school. They now have a stadium of their own on campus named Dakotah Bank Stadium and is extremely nice. It actually a part of a very impressive sports complex at the school that cost roughly $33 Million. One of the nicest complexes in all of D2 athletics.
Alaska: Wanna see our only football stadium?
People: Alaska's a huge state, so it's gonna be go big or go home, right?
Alaska: ...
People: *It's gonna be go big or go home, right?*
And ah yes, a stadium next to a wastewater treatment plant and a paradise for mosquitoes...Daytona is definitely the kind of stadium Florida Man would design and see nothing wrong with
Our high school stadiums are slightly nicer than that one, which is most likely why this one made the list. It also blew my mind just how large the high school football stadiums are once I moved out of Alaska for college, as the football culture back home isn't what it is down here in the lower 48.
Alaska: go home
How do you have my exact interests
I see you on every single channel I watch
@@ProjectInsight44 same here. I think he's just seen every TH-cam video that exists. 🤣
I live in Charleston and everytime I’m leaving my grandparents house or going to a Riverdogs game down the road I always see that terrible visitor side which was supposed to be redone but hasn’t been touched since around 2018 😭
As a proud Alumni of Idaho State University I have to say that Holt Arena deserves to be on this list. It is smaller, older, and in much worse condition than the Kibbie dome. In spite of this injustice I still enjoyed the video. Awesome video and great list!
I was pretty surprised to see Idaho was chosen instead of ISU. Most of my family lives in Pocatello (we moved to Utah when I was 2), and I’ve driven by it well over a thousand times. It’s always been an odd looking one for sure.
Late to the party but I went to WSU and I’ve been to the Kibbie Dome… I was just surprised it could hold a regulation football field 😬
For Virginia, I think Virginia State's stadium deserves an honorable/dishonorable mention. There's so much distance between the home stands and the field that you could literally fit another copy of the home stands into that gap and probably still have room left over.
I think you can slide Virginia state in the first place because this guy thinks VMI is in Kentucky.
i love that the robert kraft-massage parlor drama happened like 4 years ago and five points still jokes about it it's amazing
I'm tripping out. My college head coach coached at 3 of these schools (LB State, UMASS, and EMU). My favorite story of the LB stadium. When he was the OC there under George Allen, their quarterback would motion to quiet the crowd with just 1 arm because of the 1 sided stadium lol. And in fairness to UMASS, it was built as a D1 FCS stadium, they only went up to FBS a few years ago.
Utah Tech's Stadium has undergone some major renovations over the past few years-new press box, good sized visitors stands, upgraded turf, and I'm pretty sure they removed the track around the field
Unfortunately the track is still there, but it was redone. so it's no longer deteriorating. The renovations have made the stadium pretty great though. The only thing I still dislike about it is the track.
St. George is a growing community (because of its warm climate and close to so many national parks) and new money is flowing in.
@@chipperw Oh okay, it’s been a while since I’ve been back, but the stadium for the most part is pretty nice, especially since they just underwent so many changes
It definitely is a lot better now. Hard to say what is the worst football stadium in utah is now, probably SUU's eccles coliseum? isnt bad but for D1 college its underwhelming
Hard to believe that the UConn Husky’s football stadium is hosting a US Men’s National Soccer team friendly against Ghana in October.
There was 16 years between the Wichita state plane crash and then discontinuing football and it wasn’t the whole team it was one of two team planes…
Also saying Wichita is the middle of nowhere when it's population is above about half of the cities on this list, I mean it's not big but it has a AAA baseball team so it's not NOWHERE
I was playing ncaa a was playing against Tulsa when you mentioned Tulsa I saw the stadium and said the same thing
Wildcat Stadium in New Hampshire actually replaced the small visitors bleachers for a large home seating area with press boxes about a few years ago. Much nicer than before.
To be fair, Wichita State hasn't fielded a football team since 1986 (the plane crash was in 1970, and they played football for 16 years after that), so to call Cessna Stadium a D1 stadium is a stretch. You could have went to Lawrence and took a picture of a real crappy D1 stadium.
Which a year later KU football stadium is getting a huge makeover
@@lorimello5121 Yeah, it's supposed to take them two seasons to finish all the work, and the Jayhawks are playing their home games in Kansas City for the time being (mostly in Children's Mercy Park, a MLS soccer venue for Sporting KC).
Fives and stadiums name a better duo In sports
Wikipedia says Cessna Stadium is slated for demolition.
As someone who actually marched at Welcome Stadium, the turf on the field isn't even entirely turf! There's small rocks/pebbles all over the field that also managed to get into my shoes like there's no tomorrow lol
Actually the turf got redone over last summer so it’s pretty nice now
@@levimoell6599 oh shoot, that’s good to hear actually
@@levimoell6599 That was part 1 of the renovation if I'm not mistaken. They're redoing everything else next.
@@levimoell6599 good to know.
p.s. 937 REPRESENT!
OK, I have to say something nice about Aggie Stadium in Las Cruces. The university hosts an annual marching band tournament there, and I was a band geek and played there for several years, and even before I was in high school, I went to the contest as a spectator. One of the best parts of the trip was finding cardboard sleds and going down the hill on them. This is called fun.
I'm an NMSU alum (class of 2015)...they're planning to build a new football facility and upgrade the press box at Aggie Memorial apparently. So there's hope for the future. And hey, we actually went bowling in year one under Jerry Kill!
Glad to see the videos about stadiums returning! These are always great.
5:06 also used to be the home of Daytona flat track motorcycle racing (hence the huge ring of grass surrounding the field) but about 8 years ago they decided flat track racing was too cool for them and the motorcycles now race at a track on the grounds of Daytona international speedway
That Long Beach stadium says a lot about society. An urban environment should NOT have that much parking in space that could be BETTER used for a pedestrian-friendly area filled with shops, restaurants, and housing. Houston for example has SO much space used for just parking...and it's sad knowing the potential if it's developed the right way
The parking lot is for the warehouse facility. Big warehouses like those employs thousands of people.
@@UnchainedAmerica Right but there are other ways to get people to work besides cars
The stadium is next to the old McDonnell Douglas plant, and the stadium showed up in films of their aircraft rollouts led by a pipe band. Bette Midler's film "The Rose" used this stadium for its concert scenes.
Hey, Georgia State Center Parc is actually a great experience. GSU did for the area what Braves couldn’t do in 20 years, they turned the surrounding area into a destination for tourists and locals. Visit before you judge.
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Love your videos dude ❤
The Wichita State plane crash happened in 1970, and they dropped football after the 1986 season, so the two events are not related. And, they only lost 31 players and staff, not the entire football team.
Plus, the stadium isn't even there anymore. It's been demolished and is being rebuilt as a track-only facility.
The guy doing this video thinks he’s hilarious, but he’s an absolute moron.
The worst thing about Houck Stadium is that the home side is actually condemned, so everybody has to sit on that small barren looking visitor side. And that's also why Johnson Hagood Stadium has that empty space on the visitors' side as well: it used to have a large visitors' stand that had the footprint of what you see on Google Earth. Then it was found to have lead paint and was replaced with the tiny temporary stand you see in this video.
That's just impressively terrible
That Houck stadium view is missing the entire right side now. Being rebuilt currently.
Yeah. The stands had so much toxic led it had to be demolished.
7:39 As a student at Wichita State University, I can confirm, Cessna Stadium sucks. It's the skeleton of an arena; the corpse of our former presence in college football. And it's located right across the street from the dining hall, so many students have to see it every day.
(Though, to be fair, Wichita is not "the middle of nowhere". We are the largest city in our state and are host to several corporations, including Koch Industries, Freddy's, and Cessna. That's why our stadium is called that. I don't appreciate you dismissing us.)
It’s always a good day when 5 point uploads a stadium video 🔥
19:01 Martin field (formerly of WV Tech) makes UC stadium look like a palace.
I know you were focusing on the bigger schools but shout-out Graceland University in Iowa for having the absolute worst stadium in all of NAIA Football.
I was doing play by play for the visiting school and there were I kid you not 50 flies in the press box.
The underside of the bleachers were also pretty much all rusted out and it was a half mile walk from the locker room to the field.
Been to graceland and can confirm. I dont understand how he can't put peru on this list though its about the best naia stadium around
Drake too. The UNIDOME is a treasure!
I came into this fully expecting a dig a Brett Favre when ya got to Mississippi. Imagine my pleasant surprise that you tossed in a lil bonus mention as well 🤣😂🤣
I played at Joe Albi in high school. We made a 20 point comeback in the state semifinal game. It felt about twice as big as it actually was.
I marched a few drum & bugle corps competitions at Joe Albi in the 70s. Not a bad place for a show. I'm surprised they're on this list. Unbelievably the Cougars used to play some of their home games here. (Adam didn't do much research on this; there are a few DII and DIII stadiums around here that suck worse than Joe Albi.)
@@flatulent-1 Pine Bowl @ Whitworth springs to mind.
@@gladfan1989 my thoughts exactly! Pine bowl is the perfect punching bag for this video.
The USFL primarily uses UAB’s protective stadium. They’ve only used Legion Field for a couple games where protective stadium had had a George strait concert booked before the USFL came into existence. The AAF was the one that used Legion Field for the Birmingham Iron and UAB of course used Legion Field from 2017-2020 before we got our protective stadium in 2021.
Yeah, New Hampshire Wildcat stadium went through a massive renovation a few years ago. They added a new east stand with a new press box, a massive video board and touched up the old west stand.. a bit.
Simply the best videos on here, commentaries are pure gold. 👍
We already know which state is gonna represent Maryland. *coughFedexFieldcough*
18:18 Virginia's worst stadium is in Lexington, VIRGINIA....not Lexington, KY. Lexington, KY is home to an SEC school that has made 8 consecutive bowl games and has at least an average stadium nationally. VMI, on the other hand isn't quite that! ;-)
not every stadium ever built is great, but FedEx Field is crazy 👀
I’ve actually seen a UMASS game. It was 3 weeks ago in college station between a 1-9 team & a 3-7 team. It was also in the 30s and raining & I drove a couple hours for it. YAY ME
UMass has a stadium that accurately reflects their program this year 😂 their running back was a bright spot but they are probably going to be rebuilding their team for a few years
The Citadel used to have a large visitors side, but it had to be knocked down in like 2016 due to having structural issues and lead paint in it from when it was built.
When I was in the marching band in high school, we got to be in the homecoming parade at UW Oshkosh. My band director always called it UW Zero, this must be why.
The Bangor Maine one is not merely dual use , but triple use with a soccer field in the outfield, as far away from the stands as possible.
An honorary alternative for Alabama is the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery. It has urinals in the women’s rooms. Those went out of favor decades ago.
Dafuq?
They're back in style now !!!
Finally some commentary that isn’t try-hard and unfunny. Genuinely got some laughs on this one, even tho you dissed my Huskers pretty good
as a Nevadan, you just made my day :)
I’ve seen worse stadiums in Wisconsin, look at the banta bowl where Lawrence eagle plays. I rolled my ankle while watching a high school game there
9:12 Hey! I went to Towson University, and Johnny Unitas Stadium is an excellent sports facility....
....for Lacrosse, that is.
I agree
I go to Northern State, and we built a new football stadium a couple years ago, Dacotah Bank Stadium, and it’s much better than Swisher. Swisher is an NAIA/high school field now
The Rice is indeed for "Jerry." IIRC, "Totten" was also quarterback when Jerry Rice played at MVSU.
The press box at Center Parc Stadium in Atlanta is still the old Braves box. For its current football configuration, that means it’s in a corner overlooking the southeast end zone
Dayton, OH folk here. I haven't been to Welcome Stadium in a few years, but I will not dispute its horribleness then, and for the last several years. However, it is currently in the middle of a long-overdue $10M+ renovation. So hopefully some of that suckiness will go away...
yeah, hopefully.
I was born in Dayton but I live in the middle of nowhere and make trips to its suburbs here and there.
I knew you were funny, but this video really made your humor shine. Great video again, keep up the good work!
My brother in law plays football at Georgia state. I’ve been to a few games, including when they hosted UNC, and the atmosphere is so weak… like they have decent turnout but it’s so big it feels vacant…
Georgia State (Old Turner Field) is a classic example of working on a shoestring budget.
Literally see VMI’s stadium every day. I had a feeling it would be on this list
As a Valpo alum I’ll agree with ya on Indiana since there’s no bathrooms or locker rooms at Brown Field, the players dress in locker rooms in the ARC (basketball arena) and that’s where fans have to go if they have to use the shitter
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As a student of Samford in Birmingham, I am pleasantly surprised that our stadium was not on this list. We have our old track tarred over with asfault which leaves a massive gap between the seats and the field. Our locker room is also 5 feet from the back of our endzone, and no, it doesn't have padding like basketball courts.
as someone who grew up going to aloha stadium, it was a great stadium growing up until i realized that it was falling apart and the rust was eating it alive
I thought Illinois would be Northwestern’s stadium. Half of the stadium has rusty floor and the bleachers get freezing. There is barely any lights inside just windows
"On account that the Air Force has drones that know my location"
Classic
Went to a cousin's game. He was playing in for six-man football for high school in Texas. It was literally a few spotlights, white lines marked on fresh cut grass and everybody would just back their trucks up or sit on a bail of hay. It was honestly one of the coolest experiences. And this was only about 15 years ago.
Actually Washington State only played games at Joe Albi for a couple games a year from 1950’s until 1980. Those only games were the Apple Cup and maybe the occasional game against USC and a season or two when their home stadium in Pullman burned down. Also the worst stadium in Washington now is the Tacoma Dome since the renovation. It’s so bad that they actually can’t play football there anymore.
Everything on this list is designed to primarily be a football stadium. That's what the main use of them is. The Tacoma Dome isn't a damn football stadium. It's primarily for concerts and events, and there used to be some indoor soccer and hockey played there. Hard to be the worst football stadium when it isn't a football stadium in the first place. "But it's bad for football!" Duh, that's not what it's for. You know what else is a terrible football stadium? Climate Pledge Arena...
@@simpleanswer8954 I mean he was right about joe albi so give him a break
I’d love to see a Part 2 for this series.
The college I went to had a pretty horrible stadium ngl. No lights (so all games had to be played at 1pm which was kinda lame), had a huge grandstand (with a small visitors section), bathrooms were under the grandstand, concessions were on both sides of the grandstand, etc. It has barely any students go to the game, except a small spirit club I was an officer for, had parking lots too big for the stadium, and always smelled like cow poop cuz of local farms.
The goods? Well, he had turf, apartments that overlooked some of the stadium, the gym on campus looked out onto the field, and ROTC (which I was part of) shot off a cannon at the end of the national anthem/after every TD.
I went to Shippensburg University of PA
Tbh, I can understand a little bit about the lack of lights for that stadium, although it is kinda odd that those tennis courts nearby a couple of the other athletic fields there actually had lights...
Also wonder if that's just a thing with that section of D2 football programs, like not even Shepherd University's stadium has lights either, at least I don't remember there being any.
Like honestly big agree with the whole issue with the smell as well, that whole town smells, along with where I'm at in Hagerstown.
Went to Pratt and Whitney Stadium for the 2021 men’s lacrosse championships. It rained, and it was full of the types of families that raise lacrosse bros. I pulled a muscle while walking around the area, and I missed out on what was a cool Champions League Final. (Okay, rant over.)
I actually played at the UNI dome for like, I wanna say 6th Grade Cedar Rapids Metro League football? I don’t remember much about the place since I was twelve, but it was real weird playing football in a mostly empty dome with just our families watching. I only played football for one year in school, but that was definitely a highlight
We don't "live" in Wyoming, we exist here. But taking in a game at the War is an incredible experience. We're like college level Bills fans since it's cold as all hell and we're drunk most of the time. Not to mention smashing tables is a tradition now since JA17 is a Bill. Highly recommend watching the Pokes play. We're a fun bunch.
UT Martin in Martin, Tennessee has two sets of bleachers, but the visitor side is blocked off because it's pretty much entirely made up of rotting wood.
13:36 honestly amazed you didn't put UB stadium for UBuffalo (NY). For a D1 FBS school it's pretty embarrassing considering how much funding the school gets for research. If this school had even a slightly better stadium, they probably would be in the Power 5 considering its funding, research, and rankings, especially when compared to the rest of their conference.
Why the fuck would a school use research grant money for a stadium? Stadium athletics funding typically comes from program boosters etc.
19:02 yeah you got that one right. Multiple track and field events and band events happen there. It sits so close to the interstate I worry if someone will jump off the top of it. Also the capital is 3 blocks over and they use the Laidley parking lot for parking. It will now host our state championship games for the next 3 years. Also, the actual campus for UC is 4 miles away on the other side of the river
As someone who has actually filmed High School Football in WV, I completely agree that UC Stadium is one of the more horrendous venues I have worked at. (Before anyone points it out, Capital High School plays it’s home games at UC Stadium.)
It’s a nightmare for anyone to get to the press box because there is no elevators, meaning you have to walk from the bleachers up and down anytime you want to grab concessions or carrying equipment. The other “press box” is not so much a press box, but it is where UC’s coordinators/coaches go which makes about as much sense as you would think (zero).
The reason the stadium is so massive for a D2 school to begin with is because UC wanted to one up Marshall University back in the 70’s and built this monument of arrogance. However, last time I checked Marshall has produced NFL level talent, and is cheaper to go to when compared to the University of Charleston.
However, the stadium is not completely awful though. Having been in/atop the press box, the view is absolutely stunning and is always worth the walk in my book.
Worst high school stadium in WV you've seen is?
I had my graduation at Laidley Field and I have got to say that the view of the capital building from the field and especially the stands, it pretty neat.
Morris Harvey as the school was called dropped football in 1956 and didn't pick it up again until 2003 as university of Charleston. So no it wasn't built to one up Marshall, it's been there since early 1900's and was rebuilt in 1979 while owned by board of education. UC joined in funding when they brought the football program back.
To be fair to O'Shaughnessy Stadium, it was build for a D-III school. St. Thomas is so large and dominated the D-III schools in Minnesota that the NCAA forced them to go to D-IFBS.
For Wisconsin, shoulda dissed St. Norbert, a D3 College south of GB in the suburb of De Pere, it's brand new but yet it looks smaller than most high school stadiums, even the repurposed City Stadium (home to GB East High School now) looks bigger than St. Norbert College's.
Love your videos. There always good and informative
I've worked camera at several games at Hillsboro Stadium. No one cares about the Portland State Vikings, and the high school games typically draw more fans. It's quite nice for a high school stadium, and logistically they have proper cam op spots, long press box rows, and they let us do whatever we need to do to put together a decent broadcast. Surprised you didn't mention that it shares amenities with Ron Tonkin Field, where the minor league baseball Hillsboro Hops play. That stadium is pretty new, within the last 10 years or so, and it shares concessions and bathrooms with the football/soccer/softball/everything stadium. The whole complex makes sense when viewed in the context of suburb municipal sportsing. D1 worthy, ehh....
9:52 I went on Tour last year and did a show at UMASS and I remember on the drive there I saw the stadium from the freeway and the headliner said something about football and the driver was so happy to tell us Victor Cruz played at UMASS. It looked somewhat big from the freeway but I never got close enough to it to look and if I did I wasn’t paying attention.
You should do best high school stadiums in each state
I'm from Lexington VA and fun fact the middle school I attended is just up the hill from VMIs football stadium, we ran the mile on that track in PE.
I still drive past the stadium almost daily.
I've marched at Center Parc Stadium (DCI), and it is truly the weirdest stadium I've been to.
It used to be Turner Field.
I grew up near Peru and went to a lot of games at the Oak Bowl. What you see is a remodel done about 7 years ago. Used to have no shelter for anyone except the press box and the original concrete bleachers from the 1920s.
As a Michigander, I thought EMU would be the pick but I propose the Superior Dome at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. It's very similar to your Arizona pick.
Superior Dome? Most misleading nsme I have ever heard.
@@razormc954It's on the edge of Lake Superior, it's a fitting name
About Wichita State, no they did lose a team on the upswing in 1970 but what ended Shocker football was that they went decades without being competitive and they often had more band members in the stands than fans. There's actually been lots of talk in recent years of just tearing it down.
I used to play at Joe Albi stadium when I was in high school not for the football team but for the band. Got to say my football team was even worse in the stadium we consistently lost by 60 plus points. Shout out to shadle Park which by the way is where Brett Rypien came from as well as Mark rypien
I didn't know Valpo had a football team, until they played their first FBS team last week against my school
As a Sun Belt Conference football fan I enjoy appreciate the Georgia State stadium...it's awesome that they just didn't allow it to decay, like the Rubber Bowl, and also they can't really have a traditional campus stadium.
New Mexico State needs some much needed tlc but for the size of school and location...
Not to mention the millions of dollars saved. It’s a solid stadium
I like it’s quirks and history. I’m glad they actually did something with the stadium instead of just tearing it down or letting it rot. It’s a part of Atlanta history and I’m glad that it lives on, even in an awkward state
My favorite "worst" stadium on this list is the Center Parc Stadium, because of how weird it looks.