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Thanks - I'm looking for a lights out performance.

Bringing blue. Haven't heard anything

Decision at game time.

Red to honor our opponent

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No specific color this week. Wear your SMU red or SMU blue!

Side note - Color-outs evoke such mixed responses. When we announce one, some fans don't participate or even rip us for trying. When we don't announce one, we get calls and emails asking "What's the color this week?" Other than the traditional Whiteout (which is here to stay), would welcome your thoughts on color-out efforts...

Hey SID,

For the most part half the fans have no idea when there is a "color out". The students might know from on campus notices, but the alums for the most part have no clue. One way to better advertise the "color of the day" is to print it on the tickets like they do at TCU. It seems to work pretty well.

I'm not a big fan of color outs because of the fact it usually doesn't work too well due to the lack of notice to the fans. However, if the opposing team wears red, we should wear our blue. If they wear blue we should wear our red. If they wear some color other than red or blue, we should wear our blue. That's my two cents worth.

I've seen a lot of schools now print the preferred color of the week on the game ticket. I'd be in favor of a little direction like that instead of a press release style announcement.(I guess this is how they do the 'stripe' effect, too) I personally don't care for color outs unless we will fill 90% of the seats.

We should have everyone in the red seats wear red and blue seats wear blue. It would be a good look and the empty seats would meld in with the colors worn.

SMU SID wrote:No specific color this week. Wear your SMU red or SMU blue!

Side note - Color-outs evoke such mixed responses. When we announce one, some fans don't participate or even rip us for trying. When we don't announce one, we get calls and emails asking "What's the color this week?" Other than the traditional Whiteout (which is here to stay), would welcome your thoughts on color-out efforts...

After careful thought, the specified/recommended color for each of the 6/7 home games should be included on the printed schedule. This has been done for years with colleges with big numbers of fans. If we ever gained a true following, you could say, for instance, 100s sections wear blue and 200s sections wear red. Just inform everybody before the season starts what the plan is. Then a heads-up reminder the week of the game would not be a revelation. Also, give info as to the location(s) you can purchase your BEAT TCU t-shirt or you official "White Out" shirt, etc. If people want to participate they will. If they don't, then SMU will remain the dufuses of school spirit.
We'd never make it in the SEC... pompons, towels, standing, yelling, color-outs... gross.

mrydel wrote:We should have everyone in the red seats wear red and blue seats wear blue. It would be a good look and the empty seats would meld in with the colors worn.

Yes. If you aren't going to sell the game out (which we generally aren't) you need to take advantage of the stadium configuration. Also I second the above idea of printing it on the tickets. Emails/twitter/whatever are fine for students but won't reach many of the fans.

My points:

1. You shouldn't do this more than once or twice per season. By game 3 when we are expected to have a third different color people just start rolling their eyes.
2. The color should be consistent from season to season. If you want to do white for the first game and red/blue for the last, fine. But be consistent, it helps people remember.
3. If the stadium is less than 75% full the effect doesn't work.
4. Info needs to be available well in advance and through many outlets. A&M has a permanent website for theirs with game info, when and where to buy the official shirts, etc.
5. Consider giving season ticket holders the official white out shirt for free. Ship it with the tickets, with a note that says "wear this to the first game".

1. Plan far in advance, and that doesn't just mean announce it far in advance (though obviously that is important too). But make sure well in advance that vendors at local stores have plenty of choices in those colors in week(s) before game.
2. Make sure vendors on Boulevard and in stadium have plenty of choices in the color on gameday. Or better yet, give away tshirts in the selected color to EVERY fan (this works better and is more affordable at basketball games, but this is really how those great color outs and "stripe outs" work so well.)
3. Team and fans should be wearing the same color. If you tell the fans to wear red, team should be wearing red.
4. Pick the opposite color from the team colors of the team we're playing.
5. Don't overuse the color out.

I'm personally not a fan of the white out. White is not our color. Most of my SMU stuff comes in red or blue -- I rarely buy white shirts. I realize it's a student section thing for the first home game, and they're going to to it anyway, so since we can't beat them join them. But again, you must either give everyone a white shirt, or make sure that there are vendors selling plenty of choices in white -- not just a crappy white shirt with block SMU letters.

It should definitely be chosen far enough in advance to put on the schedule on the site and also on the tickets.

Also, if enough in advance and on the tickets we could so a stripe out sometime.

malonish wrote:Attend-Out

Ha! Nice one.

-CoS

DiamondM wrote:1. Plan far in advance, and that doesn't just mean announce it far in advance (though obviously that is important too). But make sure well in advance that vendors at local stores have plenty of choices in those colors in week(s) before game.
2. Make sure vendors on Boulevard and in stadium have plenty of choices in the color on gameday. Or better yet, give away tshirts in the selected color to EVERY fan (this works better and is more affordable at basketball games, but this is really how those great color outs and "stripe outs" work so well.)
3. Team and fans should be wearing the same color. If you tell the fans to wear red, team should be wearing red.
4. Pick the opposite color from the team colors of the team we're playing.
5. Don't overuse the color out.

I'm personally not a fan of the white out. White is not our color. Most of my SMU stuff comes in red or blue -- I rarely buy white shirts. I realize it's a student section thing for the first home game, and they're going to to it anyway, so since we can't beat them join them. But again, you must either give everyone a white shirt, or make sure that there are vendors selling plenty of choices in white -- not just a crappy white shirt with block SMU letters.

So true. White is NOT one of our colors. White is also not appropriate after Labor Day, and if you spill every time you eat or drink (like most of my friends), you either buy a lot of bleach or a lot of new white shirts.