Michigan Stadium is changing rapidly these days, and not necessarily for the better or the worse.
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Michigan Stadium has come a long way from the high school-style scoreboards, AstroTurf field and chain-link fence painted blue of the past. And it's evolving further faster, as the ambitious renovation-and-expansion project forever changes the face of the 'House That Yost Built'.
The stadium's new design called for huge improvements, adding, most prominently, luxury boxes and club seating. The idea was to sacrifice the traditional cramped egalitarian seating of the current stadium for comfort at the right price. Those improvements began earlier this year, and will continue all the way into the 2010 season. To some, the planned extensions (seen in renderings) seemed jarring, permanently altering the simple bowl of The Big House.
Well, the public got their first taste of what the new stadium will look like last Saturday at the season home opener. And, from this writer's point of view, the impact of the changes was less than predicted.
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