I remember being at Iowa in 1987. At halftime it was body on body to move in the outer corridors. I'm surprised They haven't done something to correct it, assuming They can do it structurally.
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Here are three possibilities off the top of my head.
1. "Let The Good Times Roll" Certainly appropriate for this Year.
2. 'Great Balls Of Fire" A toe tapper that should get people involved
3, "Life In The Fast Lane" A great refrain with reference to speed. Just don't get too involved in some of the underlying lyrics that point to the dark side of life.
I mean...if you could edit it...cut out the long ballad intros, and deliver it like this...with the alarm and without the gunshots and other stuff...
It might work for a 4th Q pump up...😄 (disclaimer - pretty violent if that bothers you).
Yep. UCLA was just as bad and they have twice as many seats as ours.
Jump Around is so lame. It's Wisconsin's thing - let them do it.
If they want a way to spend all that Big Ten money, they should build a ring of bathrooms on the outside of the concourses. Make use of the space they have. But..... NOOOOOOOOooooooooo
I vote for Hoosier Junior Walker and the All Stars.
Tell me 'Shotgun' wouldn't kill it.
I forget the guy's name, but one of the main guys in Toto is/was in Ringo Starr's All Star Band and they did Africa and it was freakin' awesome.
They also did Rosanna. Sublime.
How about "Shout" by the Isley Brothers. And do more the "Animal House" Movie version. Start out at normal sound level, bring it up a bit. take it all the way down to a whisper, and bring it back up gradually and get it to the point of blowing the roof off (Well, if the Stadium had a roof). It is the type of song that will get people involved.
And it's Oregon's thing, too. Great party song, but need something to call our own.
Our thing could be stealing everybody else’s stuff. We could do Enter Sandman as an intro and jump around before the 4th and whatever else we can steal.
I had actually considered that the ultimate dick move would be to steal the Away team's gimmick each game. Especially when you're winning, that's pretty brutal.
They did Jump Around this Saturday. I cannot properly explain how flat it fell. Students weren't into, I didn't notice anyone in the stands otherwise, not even any players. And if there were ever a time for the place to go nuts with something, that would've been it in the midst of that nationally televised beatdown.
I liked it when it first came out but it was so over-played at college parties that I turned to hating it....
I saw a few people dancing to it, but yeah it failed miserably. I didn't get into it because I know it's Wisconsin's thing.
Oh that’s right. They got Autzen in there and what was probably their old track and field stadium. I don’t know the rest of campus.
Just because someone else does it already shouldn't preclude our using something the the fans would enjoy...
If that's the standard Thunderstruck" will have to be dumped and we'll have to create a team of songwriters to create all original music because we'll be pretty limited otherwise...
How 'bout "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichel, lol.!!!
When I see critiques of the concourses or bathroom wait lines, I wonder if the complainers have ever been to any other older stadium ever? I don't think I've ever been to a sold out stadium, old or new, without those issues. We won't see improvements on any of that without a massive renovation to the stadium - certainly nothing that could be solved in the off-season.
I haven't been to a game at MS in a couple years as I live a flight away, but I was surprised the last time I went to a game that they stopped doing flags/William Tell between the 3rd and 4th. I don't think it answers the stadium song question, but I did think it was a great 3rd to 4th quarter transition that the whole stadium participated in. From this thread, it sounds like they've continued to shun that tradition, unfortunately. I have to say, I don't think I've seen a good stadium song suggestion in this thread. Most feel like suggestions from Grandpa Hoosier.
From watching on TV, I have been really disappointed in the decision to display the most bare bones version of MS. All the on field wall graphics are gone, and all the exterior banners are gone. The exterior banners did need replaced as they had faded to pink, but we should be able to put fresh graphics up everywhere each year. Really a tiny expense for a great visual impact. MS looks so institutional without it. When other schools have gone all out on the in stadium production, with light shows and dramatic presentations, it's disappointing that IU is still showing up like IU, especially considering the great year the team is having. Our production level hasn't changed since the early aughts.
I'll never let a stadium discussion pass without a critique of our matchbox press box. I know they surveyed fans this year about additional seating options. Now is the time to move. IUFB has not had this kind of momentum in our lifetimes. Hope the AD seizes it and moves IU into the current century. All around, gotta do better.
I haven't been to a game at MS in a couple years as I live a flight away, but I was surprised the last time I went to a game that they stopped doing flags/William Tell between the 3rd and 4th. I don't think it answers the stadium song question, but I did think it was a great 3rd to 4th quarter transition that the whole stadium participated in. From this thread, it sounds like they've continued to shun that tradition, unfortunately. I have to say, I don't think I've seen a good stadium song suggestion in this thread. Most feel like suggestions from Grandpa Hoosier.
From watching on TV, I have been really disappointed in the decision to display the most bare bones version of MS. All the on field wall graphics are gone, and all the exterior banners are gone. The exterior banners did need replaced as they had faded to pink, but we should be able to put fresh graphics up everywhere each year. Really a tiny expense for a great visual impact. MS looks so institutional without it. When other schools have gone all out on the in stadium production, with light shows and dramatic presentations, it's disappointing that IU is still showing up like IU, especially considering the great year the team is having. Our production level hasn't changed since the early aughts.
I'll never let a stadium discussion pass without a critique of our matchbox press box. I know they surveyed fans this year about additional seating options. Now is the time to move. IUFB has not had this kind of momentum in our lifetimes. Hope the AD seizes it and moves IU into the current century. All around, gotta do better.
Maybe we should pay someone to do a football version of This is Indiana. Those kids did pretty well and that song is still played at celebrations and weddings all the time.
Played at my daughter's wedding in 2015 and most recently at my nephew's this year.
Pretty sure the lyrics could be adapted. It really is a great tune.
But don't take out my favorite lyrics:
Unlike you other schools, we got history
Kinda like your girl does when she visits uh, me
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Who you calling grandpa? Lol
You make a lot of good points. I've been to hundreds of college football games and the best way to avoid a bathroom line is to be quick and go right as your team is about to punt the ball. You will most certainly be back in your seat by the time they get the ball back assuming you are able bodied.
One short-term option would be to haul in some port-o-potties. Not ideal, but Northwestern had some really nice ones set up in their temporary stadium. Very clean too.
As far as the other cosmetic issues, I absolutely agree, they should be refreshed annually. That is a small expense relatively speaking. Marketing is huge, we are on huge stage and this is a great opportunity to promote the program. Don't f it up.
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They've got to playing it the football games too. I'm not a fan, but to each his own.
Just saw the tail end of the movie "This Means War" and heard this:
Seems like it has enough energy and is current enough to appeal to a decent cross section of fans... Should be able to fit it in somewhere...
We've had at least two full threads over the years on here regarding this stuff but I looked for them and couldn't dig them up...
My general take is that the best approach for the guys who actually make decisions on our playlist is for them to look at movie soundtracks from the past 30 years and find music that's already been shown to be big hits with the general public and go from there...
In many cases they could take time and situation specific snippets of movie music and use it to our best advantage...
This is good and appropriate too:
Would love be to hear that if we're up big in the 4th against Michigan...
Seems like it has enough energy and is current enough to appeal to a decent cross section of fans... Should be able to fit it in somewhere...
We've had at least two full threads over the years on here regarding this stuff but I looked for them and couldn't dig them up...
My general take is that the best approach for the guys who actually make decisions on our playlist is for them to look at movie soundtracks from the past 30 years and find music that's already been shown to be big hits with the general public and go from there...
In many cases they could take time and situation specific snippets of movie music and use it to our best advantage...
This is good and appropriate too:
Would love be to hear that if we're up big in the 4th against Michigan...
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Remember when PU tried to copy and did an absolutely horrible one. This one really was pretty great.
Jimmy Buffet: why don’t we get drunk and screw,
It checks all of the boxes.
It checks all of the boxes.
I am doubling down on Jimmy Buffet. The song is an anthem of my my college years. It is still timeless. Look at the all the beaming faces as they enthusiastically join in with Jimmy. Better than any songs on the Memorial Stadium playlist. Everybody would sing it even if they had to wear a Covid mask for plausible deniability.
Living in California with my wife and children kind of makes it difficult. Can't really abandon the kids' sporting events and wife for the weekend to fly across country to watch football.
I remember sitting in West Lafayette for 62-10. Remember standing in the rain with maybe 5000 people for the UConn game. Remember losing to Central Mich, Ball State and Southern Illinois at home. Remember flying to Tempe for us to be non-competitive against Okla St.
Not sure how any of that is relevant to what I said...but glad you are a true fan.
