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[jegbomb52]

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There have been significant studies done that moments of "lullness" can actually make you get even more excited than you would have been without. Hence the "lords prayer" before football games.

[ubuntuCAT]

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I apologize if this rubs off someone the wrong way, but I am not a big fan of the band playing the Alumni song before the game. Everyone is trying to get pumped up and I feel like that song just calms everyone down. I know this is a tradition and some of you alumni may get emotional when it is played, but I feel like before the game is not the best time for it. Mabye at halftime or something. Am I the only one in the Dome who feels this way, or is this something that doesn't bother you?

totally agree!!!


I really hope we get to hear more Hells Bells next week. That should never be cut! nor should seeing the team behind the garage door waiting to come out.

[Hail Our Panthers]

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There have been significant studies done that moments of "lullness" can actually make you get even more excited than you would have been without. Hence the "lords prayer" before football games.

Interesting

[Panther-at-Arms]

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I apologize if this rubs off someone the wrong way, but I am not a big fan of the band playing the Alumni song before the game. Everyone is trying to get pumped up and I feel like that song just calms everyone down. I know this is a tradition and some of you alumni may get emotional when it is played, but I feel like before the game is not the best time for it. Mabye at halftime or something. Am I the only one in the Dome who feels this way, or is this something that doesn't bother you?

Even without the Alma Mater you would still have to quiet down for the National Anthem. I agree with jeg...it's good to have a moment's pause before unleashing The Bells.

[UNI Prof]

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And could we stop playing jock jams tunes while we're lining up on offense. That's not helping the home team.

Yeah, that really puzzled me. They played the song right up to the point of the cadence. That is really stupid, IMO.

[UNIPNTHR]

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Even without the Alma Mater you would still have to quiet down for the National Anthem. I agree with jeg...it's good to have a moment's pause before unleashing The Bells.

IMO, the problem with the Alma Mater is that no one knows the words or has any clue about its significance. We should either:

1. Lose it
2. Figure out how to make the song carry some meaning to the alumni who come back to hear it. When I go back, it's as meaningless as hearing it when I was a student.

[Panther-at-Arms]

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IMO, the problem with the Alma Mater is that no one knows the words or has any clue about its significance. We should either:

1. Lose it
2. Figure out how to make the song carry some meaning to the alumni who come back to hear it. When I go back, it's as meaningless as hearing it when I was a student.

This is a different point.

There are a scattered few who know the words and sing along, but yes, for the most part people either have no idea what the song is, or they know the words and suck at singing (like me!) I know they've done the Alma Mater ever since the invention of dirt...I wonder how many other schools play their Alma Mater before the games?

[UNIpanther99]

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IMO, the problem with the Alma Mater is that no one knows the words or has any clue about its significance. We should either:

1. Lose it
2. Figure out how to make the song carry some meaning to the alumni who come back to hear it. When I go back, it's as meaningless as hearing it when I was a student.

I think it would be best if they stopped doing the Alma Mater for every game except homecoming. That way it's not completely lost to oblivion.

[JayJ79]

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99% of the fans don't know the words to the fight song either.

[Newt99]

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I apologize if this rubs off someone the wrong way, but I am not a big fan of the band playing the Alumni song before the game. Everyone is trying to get pumped up and I feel like that song just calms everyone down. I know this is a tradition and some of you alumni may get emotional when it is played, but I feel like before the game is not the best time for it. Mabye at halftime or something. Am I the only one in the Dome who feels this way, or is this something that doesn't bother you?

I totally agree, I've been cracking on this for years. As I said to the people sitting with me on Saturday, "Oh great, now that we're all pumped up, let's put us back to sleep with the Alma Mater." It has no significance to me at all, maybe it does to some but I've never heard anyone say so. I'd be OK with it earlier in the pre-game, during a timeout, or at halftime right before the fight song at the end of their show. It just seems to dull the buzz that has been building shortly before the team comes out. It definitely needs to go if they aren't going to factor in enough time for the Hells Bells intro, that was WAY too short on Saturday.

[merkpanthers]

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IMO, the problem with the Alma Mater is that no one knows the words or has any clue about its significance. We should either:

1. Lose it
2. Figure out how to make the song carry some meaning to the alumni who come back to hear it. When I go back, it's as meaningless as hearing it when I was a student.

The words were on the jumbotron guys, so now you can sing along or at least know what the words to the song are now. I think the Alma Mater is fine, but I also know the words to it.

[Newsbreaker]

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3. The UNI-Dome has awful, awful, awful acoustics. I feel for the sound guy.

The "terrible" acoustics are more myth than reality. It's much improved over the old roof, provided the sound people know what they're doing.

I apologize if this rubs off someone the wrong way, but I am not a big fan of the band playing the Alumni song before the game. Everyone is trying to get pumped up and I feel like that song just calms everyone down. I know this is a tradition and some of you alumni may get emotional when it is played, but I feel like before the game is not the best time for it. Mabye at halftime or something. Am I the only one in the Dome who feels this way, or is this something that doesn't bother you?

Use it at Homecoming, I could lose it for the other games with ease. However, I'd dump that "pregame cheer" that nobody participates in before I'd dump the Alma Mater. IMHO, the Alma Mater provides a nice "down" moment before the National Anthem, which leads us to...

There have been significant studies done that moments of "lullness" can actually make you get even more excited than you would have been without. Hence the "lords prayer" before football games.

THIS. Very good, jeg. Conducting public events is all about controlling emotion. When you keep the whole event pegged at a "10", the emotional impact of the truly big moments is lost. It's a very simple concept, in practice. You start at a certain level, take it up a notch, then take it well back down again, so that you can climb again and achieve the impact of a "10" over and over again.

By the way, you know you're in good shape when you can spend time arguing about this crap.

[jegbomb52]

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Ozzie Osbornes Crazy Train, 3rd down. I think I complain about this every year. Crank it up to 10, play the intro to crazy train and right when drums start playing in the intro fade out, cue Billy to say its THIRD down. I mean when the second down play is over and we know it is going to be third down start the music. Start it while the coaches are still calling the play before it goes to the huddle.

[UNI Prof]

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Ozzie Osbornes Crazy Train, 3rd down. I think I complain about this every year. Crank it up to 10, play the intro to crazy train and right when drums start playing in the intro fade out, cue Billy to say its THIRD down. I mean when the second down play is over and we know it is going to be third down start the music. Start it while the coaches are still calling the play before it goes to the huddle.

I'd crank it up to 11.

[TravelingPanther]

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I'd crank it up to 11.

Because 11 is one louder