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Post by 3rdandlong on Feb 23, 2017 13:18:50 GMT -6
I'm wondering which way your endzones face in your football stadium. We are currently under construction and the football stadium will be moved. There are some people in the involvement in this process who swear up and down that the stadium needs to face east-west but I don't quite understand why. Is there a specific standard as to which direction a football field should be set?
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Post by hunhdisciple on Feb 23, 2017 13:21:28 GMT -6
Ours is North-South. And it's a pain to be on the home sideline when the sun is setting, because you can't really see much of anything. If you go N-S, I'd make sure that the home sideline isn't facing into the setting sun. Early season games have given me a headache if the sun was bright enough.
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Post by bignose on Feb 23, 2017 13:27:30 GMT -6
It may depend on the time of day that your games are played.
If most of your games are played at 7:00 p.m. on Friday evenings, the setting sun can become a big factor on a field that is oriented East-West, at least early in the season. One team will have the sun in their eyes, until it goes down. By the end of September, this becomes less of a problem.
If you play mostly day games on, say, Saturday afternoon, then later in the season, as the sun angle gets lower on the horizon in mid-to-late October, a field that is oriented in a North-South direction will have the sun in the eyes of the South facing team.
We get it both ways, our field is set diagonally Northwest to Southeast.
Of course, if you play in a large bowl like stadium, that has high sides, it may be irrelevant.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 23, 2017 13:29:40 GMT -6
Ours is north-south.
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 23, 2017 14:14:54 GMT -6
in 11 years coaching at over 50 stadiums
i have only observed 2 stadiums in person that run roughly East/West
the rest all run roughly North/South
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Post by dytmook on Feb 23, 2017 14:17:31 GMT -6
Ours is North South and the visitors face west.
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Post by fantom on Feb 23, 2017 14:26:23 GMT -6
in 11 years coaching at over 50 stadiums i have only observed 2 stadiums in person that run roughly East/West the rest all run roughly North/South I, on thee other hand, have coached for 36 years and I have no idea which direction any of them faced.
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 23, 2017 14:41:29 GMT -6
in 11 years coaching at over 50 stadiums i have only observed 2 stadiums in person that run roughly East/West the rest all run roughly North/South I, on thee other hand, have coached for 36 years and I have no idea which direction any of them faced. i never thought of it, until a few years ago when a friend and i were reminiscing about our HS and how bad the stadium was planned, the home stands/sideline faced right into the Sun... so frosh, JV, and early season var games you were staring right at the sun as it set in the West once that got brought up we started thinking about some stadiums and tried picturing in our heads every stadium we could think of in the area a few we checked out on google maps to verify them
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Post by rsmith627 on Feb 23, 2017 15:40:40 GMT -6
The vast majority run north and south. Never understood why but thinking about it is probably so that players don't have the sun in their face as talked about above.
Most in our area have the visitor sideline facing west. Sucks early in the season.
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Post by coachphillip on Feb 23, 2017 15:45:15 GMT -6
Always try to go North/South with visitors facing West.
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Post by Chris Clement on Feb 23, 2017 16:00:54 GMT -6
Last four stops: North-south, stands face west but no way around it North-south, huge stadium East-west, large hill with trees and houses to the west North-south, stands face east but no way around it.
In the rest of our league right now it's 20 N-S, 5 E-W.
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Post by blb on Feb 23, 2017 16:23:09 GMT -6
Football fields are SUPPOSED to be oriented North-South because of the sun
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Post by **** on Feb 23, 2017 16:29:12 GMT -6
New fields run North-South
A lot of the old fields run East-West
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Post by carookie on Feb 23, 2017 17:06:03 GMT -6
So I was thinking, if the visitors are facing west, then so are my players when I signal in plays and communicate with them. I don't know how much all of it matters, but to whatever extent it does wouldn't it also matter for my players to see me signaling in plays?
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Post by fantom on Feb 23, 2017 17:26:09 GMT -6
I, on thee other hand, have coached for 36 years and I have no idea which direction any of them faced. i never thought of it, until a few years ago when a friend and i were reminiscing about our HS and how bad the stadium was planned, the home stands/sideline faced right into the Sun... so frosh, JV, and early season var games you were staring right at the sun as it set in the West Why not just set up the home benches on the other side of the field for subvarsity games?
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Post by macdiiddy on Feb 23, 2017 17:48:44 GMT -6
Ours runs East/West. We have a very tall tree line so the sun is normally just an issue right at kick off at the start of the season. But even then it is 50/50 depending on which way we are receiving.
We had one team on our schedule who's home stands faced West....Film is very close to unwatchable. This is truly frustrating. Equally frustrating is how some teams have visitor press box's. That film is also quite terrible.
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Post by 3rdandlong on Feb 23, 2017 23:11:06 GMT -6
Does it effect track at all? I'm hearing something about headwinds & tailwinds.
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Post by tothehouse on Feb 23, 2017 23:46:59 GMT -6
Ours is East and West and rustic.
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Post by badtotheflexbone on Feb 24, 2017 0:30:34 GMT -6
I didn't know football fields could run! (ok bad joke, interesting thing that never crossed my mind though)
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Post by ndcoach on Feb 24, 2017 0:39:52 GMT -6
Ours runs north-south. In our league There are 2 that run North-South (Including ours) and 4 that run east-west. There are 2 other schools within 20 miles that are not in our league that have east-west fields as well. We are in CA right by Mexico and the wind always blows out of the west, make of that what you will.
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Post by TheFootballNerd on Feb 24, 2017 2:35:59 GMT -6
I didn't know football fields could run! (ok bad joke, interesting thing that never crossed my mind though) Probably runs faster then most of the players do....
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Post by mkuempel on Feb 26, 2017 20:18:58 GMT -6
Not completely relevant to the topic, but a few years ago we had a DB/Returner who struggled to just run up the field, he was always cutting and juking. In a fairly tight game, we give up a big go ahead KO return for a TD and the above mentioned player is our returner for the ensuing KO and he's all jacked up, wanting to tie it back up. One of my assistants says, "Hey, just catch it and run North and South." He immediately starts frantically looking around and says, "Which way's North, which way's South?"
Official nearby is just busting out laughing, kid is almost spinning circles looking for something to find North or South, I tell the returner to just get up field.
At film the next day or Sunday evening, he comes in and says, "Coach, sorry for being confused about the directions, I found out every field runs North and South."
All I could think at this point was, great, now we get to teach him cover 2.
We get that official at least once a year and he reminds me every single time.
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Post by John Knight on Feb 27, 2017 9:30:16 GMT -6
and always put your scoreboard on south end or it is impossible to read during day games.
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Post by runitupthemiddle on Feb 27, 2017 11:40:52 GMT -6
Place I was at , it ran north -south, we had the "worlds highest hill" yes there is such a thing. And at about 7:05 ish the sun would be behind it. Temp would drop at least 15-20 degrees from pregame.
The other 3 I have been at run east-west
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