My morning after bowl notes

BigMotherTucker

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Aug 20, 2006
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1. I see that Wake fans are busy ripping State fans. I'd love to give my opinion on them but I honestly didn't see many of them. Sooooo, of the few i saw, I guess the only thing I can point out is a). Jersey wearers b). Poor travelers c). Apparently butthurt cry babies

2. Turn overs.... How did we not lose this game???

3. I'll tell you how... Chris Wilson. My only issue is never adjusting to the crossing rout they threw on us all night. Overall though, a VERY solid showing from the D.

4. (for the band ****). Take back every bad thing you have ever said about The Famous Maroon Band, the Wake band was the most embarrassing college band I've ever seen. The only thing I can compair them too would be the Meridian High or Union Highschool bands (both very good Highschool bands). If you saw them then you know what I'm talking about.

5. Although I was pleased that my stadium cup didn't have that patented **** smell I've never really become accustom too, I was a bit disappointed that it was their everyday Titans cup and not a Bowl cup.

6. How much were parking passes (preordered)? I got a Lot B pass from a scalper for $40... Screwed?

7. Traffic/game day management/confessions grade..... A- my only gripe was food price but I went in knowing it was going to be expensive.

8. Guy wearing a white jacket, dead center of section 121, standing (alone) the entire game. You sir, are living in your own world of which you are king. Allow me to describe your bizarr behavior to the rest of your humble subjects. As mentioned, you stood the entire game. You swayed nervously and rubbed your hands together 70% of the time, "pumped up the crowd" 15% of the time, squat/bounced (hard to describe) on crucial downs 15% of the time, and annoyed everyone around you 100% of the time. I know there are a faction of people on here that think "you pay for the seat, you can stand if you want. Everyone else can get the 17 over it.". I do not agree... There are times to stand. There are times to sit. This guy was defaulted to only one setting.

9. Sure I'm disappointed with 6 regular season wins but man I had a great time with this bowl game. I feel like the foundation has been laid for us to do this every year. We will be bowling regularly under Mullen and if the football gods see fit to smile upon us, we may 17 up and have a break out year soon. **disclaimer: it's easy as hell to feel all warm and fuzzy after a bowl win.

10. As mentioned, the bell WAS NOT respected last night. We are still learning.


Bonus
11. Partied with Stricklin before the game. It's nice having such an approachable AD.

12. Stood across from Nick Bells mom during Dawg Walk. I teared up a little.
 

PBRME

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Feb 12, 2004
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#8. Had one of those 2 rows in front of me sec 112. It's one thing to cheer, ring your cowbell, do something. It's another thing to stand there with your hands in your pockets doing nothing other than blocking everyone else's view.
 

The Peeper

All-American
Feb 26, 2008
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ups, bands, time outs, etc and he was on the <span style="text-decoration:underline">FRONT</span> row.
 

RocketDawg

All-Conference
Oct 21, 2011
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but by the time Ticktmaster got through with their fees (and Ticketmaster was the only way to get a parking pass) the price was up to almost $33 ... more than a 60% markup.<div>
</div><div>So paying $40 wasn't too bad, considering the poster waited til he got to the bowl to get a parking pass.</div>
 

SnakePlissken

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Feb 24, 2008
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Here are mine:

1. After a lot of worry about where I would park, we got a good place to park in a lot almost at the base of the foot bridge.

2. Downtown was a sea of maroon all day! Pep rally was pretty cool.

3. Stadium was nice, food was pretty good (especially the giant bag of cotton candy). I was also disappointed to see that the cups were just Titans cups and not bowl cups

4. Bells were loud but I was quietly wishing we would have used our 40K voices a little more than the bells. It seemed like we just rely too much on the bells to make noise.

5. Hevesy was crawling up the O lines butts after every series. I think Relf lacked a lot of confidence in them and that is one of the reasons we played so poorly on the offensive side of the ball.

6. Those two long runs by Ballard were things of beauty!!

7. Relf's TD pass to Arceto was well executed even though Arceto didn't catch it cleanly.

8. Getting out of the lot wasn't too bad but there didn't appear to be any traffic cops and control downtown. I'm sure it was much better exiting the stadium parking lots.

9. Despite the ugliness in which the offense played, the defense and the defensive coaches did a good job (except for the opening drive of the 2nd half and on that underneath route)

10. Had a nice trip home, got to B'ham about 1:30 a.m., and we are 7-6 in 2011
 

maroonmania

Senior
Feb 23, 2008
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nothing like paying $60 to watch the back of some jerk's brown leather jacket all night. Thank God for the jumbotron or I would have really been pissed. Finally some folks got him to sit some during the second half but what a pain in the *** he was.
 

Coolbone

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Aug 9, 2011
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SnakePlissken wrote:

7. Relf's TD pass to Arceto was well executed <span style="font-style: italic;">even though Arceto didn't catch it cleanly.</span>
Catch looked pretty clean to me. Caught it nicely with his hands.
 

St-Andrews-Stud

Redshirt
Dec 30, 2011
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I would have liked to see a commemerative Music City Bowl cup as well. The hotdogs and hot chocolate were well out of my price range.
 

Mjoelner

All-Conference
Sep 2, 2006
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#7:Getting out from the stadium parkingwas very easy but the cop-enforced navigation routes about 3 blocks from the stadum was terrible according to the 2 Nashville natives who were <span style="padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 14px;">chauffeuring us.
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#8: Had one in 116 too.

#10: The only time mine stopped ringing was when we were at the line of scrimmage on offense and at halftime. My voice was also gone by the 4th quarter. I never saw anything about 'respect the bell' at the bowl game. Apparently, I'm not the only one.
 

coach66

Junior
Mar 5, 2009
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Lines in the club level. Nice stadium but the parity pissers are a disaster.
 

PBRME

All-Conference
Feb 12, 2004
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I don't know why everyone chose to stand in line at the same men's room by sections 112 and 113. I saw the line about 20 deep out the door so I walked 2 sections over and went straight to a urinal. Walking back to my section the men's line had grown enough it almost blocked the entire concourse. As I was trying to make a path through it I told them about the men's room I just left. Not sure if anyone listened.
 

coach66

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Mar 5, 2009
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good result. I can't imagine how bad that situation gets in a totally packed stadium.