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Link: Pressure is On Notre Dame Football With New Jumbotron
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You nailed it Frank
Id be curious as to who will program the tron.
Would they ever take suggestions from the public as to music…videos etc.
embarrassing,
EVERY stadium in the country plays that song.
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Who DOESN'T play all these same songs? Let's get original.
We are N.D. We are Notre Dame....
forgot about that dude.
They could get the whole stadium doing the wave. Then again, the septo and octogenarian alums would ask that everyone participating be thrown out of the stadium for blocking their views.
band screws us up more by taking the crowd out of the game. They start playing their insturments only on third down and basically taking the natural loudness of the stadium that would occur on third down out because our crowd gets hung up on the orchestrated noise of the band rather than creating a loud, natural sound on critical downs. Let the band do their half time thing and enjoy them for that and then let the natural emotion of a crowd on critical downs take over.
tell the band to put a sock in it and Notre Dame Stadium will become a viper's nest again.
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I don't believe that one has ever been played at a stadium before.
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but I'm sure someone would object to the lyrics even if they weren't used.
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the fans who pay ridiculous prices for a seat in the stadium are provided a view of every play. Regardless of where you sit, it is impossible to see and understand more than about 40-60% of the play on the field. Replay by jumbotron will allow (not necessarily provided though unless every play is shown as is custom in some stadiums) every fan to see and understand what happened, or did not happen, on every play. We purposely tried to get seats in the top three rows in order to provide a better view which is not possible from rows 12 or less (just too many things in the way). But having a view of every play on jumbotron can provide tremendous value to the ticket IMHO. Ignoring that fact for decades while raising ticket prices exponentially in my mind is incriminating not to mention greedy. My take....its about time and a necessity. There is no credibility to the argument of trying to remain unique if in doing so, it requires providing a very sorry product. Providing an extremely poor game viewing experience may also be unique but harbors no virtue. But providing replay while forgoing advertising will be admirable and unique...and what we all hope will happen,
Let's be serious. If the ND football team was kicking some serious ass year in and year out, most fans would not give a flying turd about any jumbo tron additions to the stadium. Since the team has perpetually let us down the last oh 20+ years, it becomes very easy to bitch and moan about every little change that is made to ND football tradition. I just want to see the dudes in the plain gold helmets eviscerate opponents on a weekly basis. That is it. Nothing more, nothing less. Kick some ass. Now please.
the football program has, nonetheless, achieved a remarkable level of apathy among its fans.
Conclusion?
In the end, you have to get results, or none of the other stuff matters.
become Ivy League. If our school was made up of all the kids that got rejected initially but loved the place so much and transferred in, we would have the loudest stadium in the country.
Put a solid product on the field and the place would be rocking
You realize that less than 10% of the people in the stands are students right? Maybe right at 10%....8500 students but not all go to the games....
Yeah if all else fails blame it on the students
Vice say University of Georgia....45000 students......likely 30000 of them go to the game....
hmmmmmm, slight difference
Our students get into it pretty darn well but the"down in front crowd" would rather golf clap than cheer at critical times.
And, thought your kid(s) went to ND.
Our Class of '16 had a pretty good run from 12-0 through 2015 season.