It is. But you'd think whoever scripted it would realize how it dropped the crowd intensity down every single time...My understanding is that it is all prescripted. Each timeout (first full, second full, first 30 second, second 30 second, etc.) is scripted with a particular band song or a canned song or other announcement/crowd participation followed by band or canned music. I could be wrong, but that was my understanding.
There is nothing to say that even if they do something that takes the crowd down a notch people can't work to intentionally crank it back up before play begins again.
During the intros, Gary Wade had to start over on the ISU lineup because the players couldn't hear him over the crowd.
Iowa game sounded more like relief than anything.
Games like that OSU game were insanity at its finest.
I thought it looked pretty crazy in 2015 when ISU came back to beat OU after getting whooped in the first half.
I'm not sure how not having time for announcements and sponsor stuff proves that they aren't scripted. Are you saying you know for a fact they aren't? Because a schedule that just has a particular band song listed for a 30 second timeout is still scripted. Scripted doesn't have to mean that there is text to be read.Media (full) timeouts are scripted. :30 timeouts are not -- there's no time for announcements/sponsor stuff.
I'm not sure how not having time for announcements and sponsor stuff proves that they aren't scripted. Are you saying you know for a fact they aren't? Because a schedule that just has a particular band song listed for a 30 second timeout is still scripted. Scripted doesn't have to mean that there is text to be read.
REALLY old school fans will say 1983 when the great Barry Stevens hit his game winner versus Missouri. Arguably the moment Hilton Magic was born.
And personally, I would go with the Lafester game. That was completely bonkers the whole night.
During the intros, Gary Wade had to start over on the ISU lineup because the players couldn't hear him over the crowd.
Thank you!! I was the "Hilton Czar" for the 2015 OU game and about 10 others that year, and I cut up a couple of the "Hot Timeout" songs myself for maximum crowd friendliness.Some of my favorite moments are when the crowd takes over and the Hilton czar has to just let it happen.
Some of my least favorite moments are when the crowd is roaring into a timeout called by the other team to stop momentum and the Hilton czar helps him by playing some stupid Jock Jams song.
I love reading and watching these great Hilton moments. Sounds like a summer podcast idea for CW and Blum.
My understanding is that it is all prescripted. Each timeout (first full, second full, first 30 second, second 30 second, etc.) is scripted with a particular band song or a canned song or other announcement/crowd participation followed by band or canned music. I could be wrong, but that was my understanding.
There is nothing to say that even if they do something that takes the crowd down a notch people can't work to intentionally crank it back up before play begins again.
Truth, I (Music guy/Marketing intern) would have the game director (Up by the TV cameras) in my ear on the headset and I would be speaking to Gary on my left, I would decide on a "Hot Timeout" song out of about 3/4 we had cued up on the software and then when the hot TO came we just hit the music as soon as play was stopped.The short answer is yes.
The long answer is anything during a :30 TO is on the fly, reactionary mostly to who called the timeout. You can't say ahead of time that we will do X at the first :30 and Y at the second :30, because you don't know who is going to call those timeouts or when (or why).
Oklahoma vs Iowa State: The floors shook, the walls shook, and the ceiling shook. After a depressing first half, the fuse was lit. Within two minutes of the second half the crowd exploded. The comeback kids strike again. We all have our favorites but this one I'll remember forever.