Be prepared to pick your spots to have a conversation in Sanford Stadium soon.
Sound System
A new sound system has been installed to improve sound quality in all areas of the stadium.
In-Game Music
The SEC amended its bylaw related to institutionally-controlled sound systems. Under the revised policy, the SEC will permit the use of institutionally-controlled, computerized sound systems (including music), institutionally-controlled artificial noisemakers, and traditional institutional noisemakers at any time, except from the time the offensive center is over the football until the play is whistled dead. We will always respect the collegiate atmosphere and traditions in our efforts to create a great Gameday for all in attendance.
Hey, nobody said the collegiate atmosphere couldn’t be ear-splitting. Besides, with the in-stadium upgrade to telephone services, you can just text your neighbor if he or she can’t hear you. Now that’s a win-win!
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I guess I’m officially an old fart because I’m glad I live too far away to consider putting up with this crap. I can go to a Texans game if I want “atmosphere”.
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+1. By trying to create “atmosphere”, they’ve destroyed the atmosphere.
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A) congrats on your shortest post ever! 😉
B) I totally agree. They don’t get it, the people that go to these games don’t want to be blasted with fake sound, we want to hear the crowd yell and the band play. These fools think they need to market to the kids, but all they’re doing is making it miserable for the people who can afford tickets (I’m 35 and feel 90 typing this). Of course, this is an area where focus groups will give false data (I think)- Q: Do you want a better jumbotron and soundsystem? A: Of course! It’s like the Pepsi Challenge (In a one sip test, Pepsi is sweeter and people prefer it. Over a can, no.) They won’t ever figure this out, will keep paying lots of money for more improvements, raisin ticket prices, and driving folks away. It’s a gd shame.
Watch the Battered Bastards of Baseball for a movie about how to create organic fan enjoyment. It’s maybe the best documentary I’ve ever seen.
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Or a Rice game where there are only a few molecules of atmosphere except for halftime when the MOB makes it super-saturated
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“EVERYBODY DANCE NOW…”
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“except from the time the offensive center is over the football until the play is whistled dead.”
Yet another reason to run the no-huddle on the road.
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Sometimes advancements aren’t progress. I guess I’m and old timer.
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But you are a good speller and nobody will ever be able to take that away from you, not even autocorrect
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Nice catch smart guy.
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No stone will be left unturned to damage SEC football. Lord. I went to the CFA bowl to watch Johnny Football. A&M does some different stuff with the yells, but it’s tradition, something the league seems keen to do away with as it doesn’t pay enough.
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Well, now they can sell overpriced earplugs along with overpriced “food.”
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+1
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“Aramark ran out of food for prisoners on 65 occasions and served food with maggots in it on five.”
Which really is not a bad average when you think about the extra protein benefit
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Somebody sold the UGAA a bag of magic beans. An oDAS? Isn’t that like a BDA where it amplifies/distributes existing cell signal? Yeah Sanford Stadium is in a creek bed, but I’d think the bigger problem is 90k people talking/texting/twittering on one tower.
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Yes but now instead of receiving fifty messages and voice mails halfway back to Atlanta after the game we might get them while we’re still sitting in traffic on the bypass. Sweet.
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Sanford doesn’t need music to be loud. See the South Carolina and LSU games last year. I left both games with my ears ringing and a lost voice. I loved every minute of it.
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You won’t want to yell this year even in games like that if you don’t think it’ll do any good over the music. Go to a Braves game and watch when they crank that shit up… kills the crowd every time.
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I hope they find the right times for the music rather than between every play. The crowd on the USCe goal-line stand and LSU’s last possession was the loudest I’ve heard Sanford other than the aftermath of Butler’s FG against Clemson or when the team came out in the black jerseys against Auburn.
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I actually attend the home games and I dont think I will mind the music or the extra cell service that much. I know I am super pumped about the ability to get a hot bottle of coke at 4 additional locations.
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A hot bottle of coke that you can’t keep keep the lid to. In related news, I’ll be selling lids outside of sections 102, 133, 311, and 333. Gently used, good quality lids.
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There is a business model! Maybe you can sell lids that double as ear plugs?
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We must be thinking of different kinds of “lids”.
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I just bring tops in with me.
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Isn’t tops a weight loss program?
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+1 on the Coke being less than chilled. nothing worse than that syrupy mess when it’s 90+ with 90% humidity
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It’s not that bad cut with some whiskey…
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Ruining the fan experience. LSU and USC game was plenty loud if you ask me.
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And I’m not an old timer at all.
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WIll you want to cheer that loud again when they’re blaring Jock Jams on 3rd and 7 and you can’t hear anyone yelling anyway.
BUT… ATMOSPHERE! THE STUDENTS MAY OR MAY NOT JUMP UP AND DOWN!
Anyone who follows anything they do at Tech to generate crowd excitement should be fired immediately and deported forever, even if they were born in the States.
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When you’ve got a Buuuuuuuuuuud-weiser.
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we’ll need it to drown out the screamer–Pruitt— +43
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Now they’ll have to add liquor so we can stand the loud “music.”
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Yeah, but they’ll be selling Seagram’s Wine Coolers and Bud Lite. No Glenlivet, no Maker’s Mark.
You know, to appeal to the young fans.
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All you old farts will be dead soon…leaving us young folk to enjoy the new sound system. Thanks
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I had a chuckle…
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I’m sure you’ll enjoy it during the middle of the 2nd quarter till halftime when you leave. Thanks!
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Excellent.
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Enjoy the sound system.
Social Security and Medicare will have long been insolvent by the time you retire…leaving nothing to enjoy for you young folks.
Cheers!
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And enjoying the hearing loss that goes with it.
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Just as it looks like the VA is going to come through for hearing aids for me!
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Hope your experience with the VA is more positive than mine.
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I think it’s awesome that a change nobody asked for and everyone knows will be embarrassingly bad is being forced down the fans’ throats again. G-Day was ruined by the piped in music and I anticipate we will do this as cluelessly as we handle the rest of the game day atmosphere (minus the traditions of the redcoats, the trumpeter, and the Munson video).
Clemson game is not going to need any fake juice. I got a feeling the crowd will be “bringing it” that day. Just wait and see what happens if we get a 3 and out on the first possession. A turnover might yield people ripping their seats out of the foundations and throwing them down into the lower level.
Keep your crappy piped in gameday jibber jabber to a minimum, Greg. We’re trying to watch a football game here.
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Just when he was showing signs of making better decisions: Indoor Practice Facility and the ND home and home series, he comes back with piped in music like Tech and the Falcons. He does know we have a band doesn’t he?
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They’re also taking down the partitions at the top of the 100 level a free at last!!!
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Ah yes, the band. Where else am I going to hear Herb Alpert at halftime and the superspeed version of Iron Man during the fall?
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Sound like an NFL refugee; thanks, but no thanks. Tech has offered that exciting techno crud for a long time, may be more your cup of tea. The exciting sounds of big city traffic and garbage music all blended together for the Millenial Generation’s 10 second attention span and reverence of all traditions established since 2010.
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Considering that I’ve been to precisely 3 NFL games and have only missed 2 UGA home games since starting undergrad in 1994, I beg to differ.
Is your Jitterbug phone going to have better coverage now?
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“Is your Jitterbug phone going to have better coverage now?”
Who knows but this hand model needs a nail job
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I started in ’94 too. So are you saying that you are glad that the Red Coats have been diminished over the past 20 years and the in-game experienced has been enlivened by Chevy commercials and “here come’s the BOOM!”?
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+1
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Good post, Beer Money.
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Welcome to the bush league.
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I’m keeping an open mind on this one. If done right, it could be a nice addition.
I think Williams-Brice does a nice job. Sandstorm works for them, and the noise in that stadium, against us, was a factor. The students and fans have bought in – it works.
If we can do something similar, mixed in with our band, it could be a great thing. Now, if they sub out to the DJ from Toppers and fill every second between plays, then I reserve the right to take this all back.
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Take your reasonable comments and thoughtful approach and shove it up your ass. We’re angry about everything, dammit!
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Agreed
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A buddy of mine was working on the project. He said there were 15+ blown speakers in the system. I trust him when he says it will make the PA clearer. He engineered on the Neutral Milk Hotel records. What does he know?
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The volume at which they played the music at G-Day, I’m surprised they weren’t all blown.
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Do you know the actual brand of speakers they used? If they were smart, they would have spent a few more $$ and consulted with a high end speaker company like Paradigm to make this happen.
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I am an old fart, attending games for almost 40 years now. I am open to SOME use of piped in music, but not so loud that it detracts from the experience. I listen to music in my car loud, but nothing like what I heard at G Day. I can see some potential for some good here but, unfortunately, do not trust those in charge to do it the right way. I don’t think we should change all of our traditions to try to please the current student base and their ilk and to get them to come to the game on time and stay. The best way to gets asses in the seats is to schedule good teams to play. If you do that, it will be loud and crazy without ear splitting piped in fake juice.
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Sonny’s BBQ?!?!?! Thanks Obama.
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Infiltrated by gator fan Sonny’s BBQ sandwiches being sold in stands near sections 103, 118, 128, 143, 208, 228, 304, 328 and 322
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100518/ARTICLES/5181008
BO says you’re welcome
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Just absolutely brutal. They should just replace all of those great new food options (Subway, Papa John’s, etc.) with Chick-fil-A sandwiches in every one of them.
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Glad to see better concessions. But I’ve never thought Sonny’s BBQ was worth a flip.
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It is big in Florida, Yankees don’t know what is good BBQ. makes them feel southern while they pile cabbage on it.
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Posts like these always help me remember the identities of the Old Farts and the Whippersnappers. Since I’m an Old Fart, I sometimes forget. 😉
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But at least they got Lee Greenwood to play halftime. All you old guys will love that.
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Will there be dancing?
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Actually, the “old guys” like The Red Coat Band. They are those students with the funny outfits and musical instruments in their lap that sit in the Northeast corner.
They used to be part of the game day experience, before the Athletic Dept. discovered they could run recycling PSA’s and denture commercials during breaks in the action.
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I will enjoy Lee Greenwood and love the Redcoats. We stay after the games to hear them play their final songs. I also love the band and videos before the game and we are there when the gates open. Extra cell service won’t help if you can’t hear the phone.
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Not sure how well LG will be anticipated by the crowd, but he beats what will probably be coming through that speaker system. He is a nice guy, hope he doesn’t offend the faculty with his patriotism.
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Will there be flamethrowers?
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You win the internet for the day…
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I’m down with better cell service. I enjoyed being able to vent on FB on my phone at Jordan-Hare last year throughout the game.
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That I do not understand….folks staring at their “devices” while the game is going on in front of them…..
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This. I usually only go to one or two games a year, but I honestly had no idea cell service was a problem.
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Well, there are lots of long tv timeouts these days…
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Atmosphere- an electric bass guitar, drum set and James Brown- that’s whats needed.
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+1 and the Senator would agree
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I just hope they keep the shuffling French fries game on the jumbotron. Rolls eyes…..drops mic……..walks of the stage.
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I can not wait to read the in game posts on GTP.
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This, from an Arkansas writer: > http://www.sportinglifearkansas.com/kane-webb-25-reasons-sec-matters/
Since they’ve now ripped the last of the romanticism out of the CF atmosphere, and our leadership, beginning with Damon Evans, was stupid enough to go along with this the ridiculous trend, instead of staying classy and preserving the uniqueness of the college football atmosphere, this is our caveat. At least technology has given us a very viable, and intoxicating alternative.
So this last line is for you, Greg:
Touche.
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I wonder how many folks who post here got the survey asking your opinion about improving the game day experience. I wonder how many folks actually rated better recorded sound and more band width as the important needs. If that’s you, put your hand up and keep it up. I’m coming after you.
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