Thunderstruck

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I didn't mean that in the sense that I don't love AC/DC, I meant it in the sense that I really don't think it's going to be Thunderstruck.
 

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Why? I just don't get this. What's going to get the players more fired up: a raucous crowd or a non raucous crowd but they get to listen to a song they like for 1 minute? Thunderstruck is a song that will appeal to a larger portion of the audience and and has a slow build with a malicious/unsettling tone AND it ties to our program perfectly. The only gripe anybody seems they can come up with is that the song is old. Who cares. Play a song from prehistoric times if it works.

 
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Why? I just don't get this. What's going to get the players more fired up: a raucous crowd or a non raucous crowd but they get to listen to a song they like for 1 minute? Thunderstruck is a song that will appeal to a larger portion of the audience and and has a slow build with a malicious/unsettling tone AND it ties to our program perfectly. The only gripe anybody seems they can come up with is that the song is old. Who cares. Play a song from prehistoric times if it works.
This is just silly. You seem to forget that a song that the players would like the students would like as well. If your basing it on the crowd, who do you think is going to make more noise, a student or a middle aged man? Look up other college football entrances such as clemson, virginia tech, Auburn, hell even iowa and tell me the players dont get into it which in return, gets the crowd into it.
 

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Not us old farts' fault today's youth SUCKS at writing music. WTF is the team supposed to enter to? ****ing Kanye West? Katy Perry? **** that. Play something with adrenaline and ****ing balls. ACDC will do.
Kids these days would probably want the entrance song to be a sappy Drake song or maybe walk out to this:
 

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I'll believe it when I hear it.
Yeah I was just going off of the report by WRNL. I have no big time sources. I feel like Thunderstruck would be a solid song. Probably some others that would be better too
 
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Yeah I was just going off of the report by WRNL. I have no big time sources. I feel like Thunderstruck would be a solid song. Probably some others that would be better too

Pollard has so much antipathy toward the entrance song/uniform crowd, I'm not sure I would believe any source.

Not that he makes the decision, but I don't think they would be afraid to **** with people over the entrance song.
 

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This is just silly. You seem to forget that a song that the players would like the students would like as well. If your basing it on the crowd, who do you think is going to make more noise, a student or a middle aged man? Look up other college football entrances such as clemson, virginia tech, Auburn, hell even iowa and tell me the players dont get into it which in return, gets the crowd into it.

VT plays enter sandman -1991
Iowa plays Back in black - 1980

Interesting choice for examples.
 

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This summer they were playing something on the videoboard that seemed like it could be an entrance song . . . and it wasn't Thunderstruck . . . but something much more along the lines of what Campbell said it would be.

And yes, I'm going to be that guy and not tell you what it was. It is not mine to announce.
 

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This is just silly. You seem to forget that a song that the players would like the students would like as well. If your basing it on the crowd, who do you think is going to make more noise, a student or a middle aged man? Look up other college football entrances such as clemson, virginia tech, Auburn, hell even iowa and tell me the players dont get into it which in return, gets the crowd into it.

See below and try again. And thanks for helping to prove my point.

VT plays enter sandman -1991
Iowa plays Back in black - 1980

Interesting choice for examples.
 

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Not us old farts' fault today's youth SUCKS at writing music. WTF is the team supposed to enter to? ****ing Kanye West? Katy Perry? **** that. Play something with adrenaline and ****ing balls. ACDC will do.
VT plays enter sandman -1991
Iowa plays Back in black - 1980

Interesting choice for examples.
Yes those are traditions.
VT plays enter sandman -1991
Iowa plays Back in black - 1980

Interesting choice for examples.
Virginia tech started that tradition in 2000 when that song was still relevant