New SEC changes about pre-snap music

[jakldawg]

are coming this season.
Everyone here loves the piped in music, right?
(are the ** really needed here)

The rules have changed now for 2014 where we’re able to utilize songs and music up until the point when the quarterback gets over the ball. That’s a big change in the in-game atmosphere

Thoughts?

And a brief note about the article's opening sentence: does (do?) Imagine Dragons actually pump anybody up? The rock station up here followed up Seek and Destroy with one of their songs and it was like taking a swig of orange juice right after brushing your teeth.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

RADIOACTIVE RADIOACTIVE

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Declining Attendance

Oh Oh I know!

Lower ticket prices....Scott!

Too Simple...

 

[kired]

So this means I'll have an even bigger headache at the end of every game?

Pretty soon it'll be like NBA games... non-stop music. I understand why they do it, but I personally hate it. I'd rather talk to the people around me but between ads and music, you can't have a conversation.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

So if that's allowed, cowbells should be allowed during the same time, right?

 

[TheBigDA]

Great point.


All this is worthless when you have a marketing director who doesn't understand football and wants to use games as a captured audience infomercial paired with a no talent *** clown pa guy. Music was better this year but you have to have a game director who understands when to push the crowd and when to let the crowd take over.
Additionally if the pa guy can't work the crowd with the mic it kills the game as well. Ole Miss does this as well as anyone. Love or hate hank flick he made the hump awesome even during the suck years because he kept the crowd into the game. Our pa guy doesn't know football and gives us no home field advantage.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Can we play commercials during that time?

I'd really hate to waste a couple seconds of potential ad time**

 

[vhdawg]

So if that's allowed, cowbells should be allowed during the same time, right?

Since this is part of the institutional noise policy, and cowbells are now considered institutional noise, I would think you could ring between plays now.

 

[Dan Dority]

[h=2]Can we play commercials during that time?[/h] really hate to waste a couple seconds of potential ad time**

I hate to say it but this could really happen!

 

[jakldawg]

Yes, that reminds me: the whole reason I posted the link,

McGarity is on an SEC working group, chaired by Mississippi State athletic director Scott Stricklin, that looks at marketing, promotions and fan interaction and declining attendance.

 

[tenureplan]

Flick was not a great football PA guy

 

[Wicked Pissah]

I hate to say it but this could really happen!

If so, ncaa may as well be nfl

 

[EurekaDog]

Blast a track of 20,000 cowbells ringing.

An obvious loophole waiting to be jumped through.

 

[Sutterkane]

I just know that Swaggin' dragon is amazing.

 

[C Brown]

Pretty soon it'll be like NBA games... non-stop music. I understand why they do it, but I personally hate it. I'd rather talk to the people around me but between ads and music, you can't have a conversation.

Great thanks.. Now I can't... get ...the organ music.. OUT OF MY HEAD!

 

[RocketDawg]

No he wasn't. I don't remember how he was in the Hump, but he wasn't so hot at football. And all you could hear before he left was, "when's he going to leave?" Now that he has, it seems that some would like to have him back. I guess you can't please everybody.

 

[TheBigDA]

I agree. That's why I said the hump. If you knew Flick, he loved basketball not football thus the difference. You have to have a football guy to announce football. You also have to have a football guy to direct games or you end up with the **** pot we have now.

 

[DAWG61]

Pretty soon it'll be like NBA games... non-stop music. I understand why they do it, but I personally hate it. I'd rather talk to the people around me but between ads and music, you can't have a conversation.

I used to hate this in the NBA but the franchises have gotten much better with it and I prefer it over crickets at the Hump or the non-stop "ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" at places like Kansas. I love the music intros they do at SEC football stadiums and on many an occasion I've skipped back to watch the music intros and crowd right before opening kickoff. MSU, USC, Auburn are terrific here.

 

[aTotal360]

Flick was great at the Hump. He added some swagger to it. Which we desperately need. The current PA guy has zero character.

 

[jakldawg]

Attention lurking athletic directors

stop high-fiving after reading this. I'm relatively sure it's not meant as a compliment.

ncaa may as well be nfl

 

[Philly Dawg]

I generally found him mildly annoying, but did get a kick out of the way he called a couple of names. "J J Johnson" when his name was James E. Johnson, and the ultra-cheesy "All aboard, the Big Train, Horatio Webster." But I can certainly see how that could wear thin.

 

[FISHDAWG]

Great thanks.. Now I can't... get ...the organ music.. OUT OF MY HEAD!

ha - Roger Waters say "you raise the blade, you make the change, you re-arrange me till I'm sane "