The song the band plays 15 minutes before kickoff?
I am borrowing this post from r/CFB because I think it is relevant to Iowa State. Is music through the PA system in stadiums getting a bit excessive?
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The NFL….because obviously that’s what we want CFB to become!
No.
I made it back this season. Been away too long.
The music helped make a big time atmosphere.
I made it back this season. Been away too long.
The music helped make a big time atmosphere.
There is a time and a place for the band.
When the intro music is pumped, loud - and the crowd is clapping and screaming and yelling as the team runs out in the field, bass is popping awesome with the new speakers - nothing kills the vibe more than the volume going down 90% as the band plays the freaking fight song, cutting off the intro music almost instantly. God that freaking sucks. Drives me nuts.
For a few years, they played Stone Cold’s entrance …for literally 1.02 seconds - then CUT IT OFF to allow the fight song to play the fight song, that you cannot hear in the upper deck. The worst thing our electrics/video team does, and they continue to do it - year after year. I’m sure the band nerds would have a fit. But can’t they just play the fight song like - 30 freaking seconds later!?
When the intro music is pumped, loud - and the crowd is clapping and screaming and yelling as the team runs out in the field, bass is popping awesome with the new speakers - nothing kills the vibe more than the volume going down 90% as the band plays the freaking fight song, cutting off the intro music almost instantly. God that freaking sucks. Drives me nuts.
For a few years, they played Stone Cold’s entrance …for literally 1.02 seconds - then CUT IT OFF to allow the fight song to play the fight song, that you cannot hear in the upper deck. The worst thing our electrics/video team does, and they continue to do it - year after year. I’m sure the band nerds would have a fit. But can’t they just play the fight song like - 30 freaking seconds later!?
you know what is excessive? the lights in college stadiums every time there is a time out or touchdown,
As someone who’s been to a few Big 12 road games (Kansas twice, K-State and Oklahoma State once)….we are the only school that actively hates their alma mater.
Those schools and their fans not only know the lyrics, they love singing along to it….and guess what? All of those schools play their alma mater during pregame as well and their pregames are still good and get the fans hyped.
Why Iowa State fans/alums don’t know the lyrics, I don’t know.
Those schools and their fans not only know the lyrics, they love singing along to it….and guess what? All of those schools play their alma mater during pregame as well and their pregames are still good and get the fans hyped.
Why Iowa State fans/alums don’t know the lyrics, I don’t know.
Just wait under we get the strobe lights during touchdowns. I'm sure that is coming eventually to make it even more insufferable.
I love the band, but its role needs to be reconsidered.
My biggest concern is late in a BB game when we are on a run and the other team calls a timeout. The crowd is going nuts and there is usually music keeping the crowd pumped . . . then the band starts and the vibe cools way down.
Last year, at K-State, in such a situation, we call a timeout while they were on a run, they played Sandstorm all through a full timeout and the crowd was as riled up at the end of the timeout as at the beginning. It was impressive.
My biggest concern is late in a BB game when we are on a run and the other team calls a timeout. The crowd is going nuts and there is usually music keeping the crowd pumped . . . then the band starts and the vibe cools way down.
Last year, at K-State, in such a situation, we call a timeout while they were on a run, they played Sandstorm all through a full timeout and the crowd was as riled up at the end of the timeout as at the beginning. It was impressive.
Many fans will never know the quaint experience of going to a college football game. It's a corporate production now, just like the NFL. I get it, but it's gross.
Piped in music has kept the crowd significantly more engaged this year, especially coming out of the timeouts, IMO.
These excessive timeouts are killing the game. When you see a 3 in front of the timeout countdown it just sucks all the life out of the stadium.
I get it, but almost every school since the beginning of the marching band plays the fight song when the team comes on to the field/court. It's too bad so many people need ****** music with a big backbeat to get excited for a football game. But I guess more people want to be at a concert than a college football game.
I'm now 40, but my whole family brings and wears ear plugs for the whole game. We're in the NW corner, about the 15 yard line.
It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
Yes I am an alum and the Bells of ISU means nothing to me
