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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby PonyPlayer4 » Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:31 pm

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Mexmustang wrote:The introductions were terrible in quality and substance. They were done better in the sixties! Spot lights, long introduction of the team, the starters and the head coach coming to mid-court.


Very true statement. However, I think that part of the problem is just the aweful attendance. Lowering the lights, pumping up the music and shining spotlights seems pretty silly when 300 people are in the stands and if I was a coach or a player I would not want a flashy introduction with that poor of a crowd.

When Brown gets this thing rolling and we get in the Big East and have much better attendance, I imagine the starting lineup presentation will be much more dynamic.


300 people in the stands.... that poor of a crowd?

Were you at the game? I know the stands weren't packed but the crowd was a relatively good one and they were loud. 3500 in the stands the largest crowd I can remember besides maybe a Memphis game when they were #2 in the country 5 years ago.
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby Grant Carter » Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:12 pm

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shadowman wrote:
Mexmustang wrote:The introductions were terrible in quality and substance. They were done better in the sixties! Spot lights, long introduction of the team, the starters and the head coach coming to mid-court.


Very true statement. However, I think that part of the problem is just the aweful attendance. Lowering the lights, pumping up the music and shining spotlights seems pretty silly when 300 people are in the stands and if I was a coach or a player I would not want a flashy introduction with that poor of a crowd.

When Brown gets this thing rolling and we get in the Big East and have much better attendance, I imagine the starting lineup presentation will be much more dynamic.


300 people in the stands.... that poor of a crowd?

Were you at the game? I know the stands weren't packed but the crowd was a relatively good one and they were loud. 3500 in the stands the largest crowd I can remember besides maybe a Memphis game when they were #2 in the country 5 years ago.


He is saying that in years past we had 300 people in the stands so the flashy introduction would have felt silly with a poor crowd. He did not say that we had 300 people at the LMU game.
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby Pony ^ » Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:30 pm

If the Moody lights don't go off during the starting lineups AFTER the renovation, I am going to lose my mind. We have the worst introduction in the NCAA. :evil:
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby Pony ^ » Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:34 pm

Get rid of the 1920's lights that take 10 minutes to heat up and add some lights that go on and off with a flick of the switch. Add colored spotlights and lights on the jumbotron that move around and create images on the floor. It's that simple.
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby GiddyUp » Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:39 pm

Not sure why this is being discussed - we have a new arena on the way
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby Pony ^ » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:20 pm

GiddyUp wrote:Not sure why this is being discussed - we have a new arena on the way


Doesn't mean they will fix the minor issues...SMU usually fails at the execution part
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby gostangs » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:40 pm

not with new buildings we dont - we have been close to perfect on new buildings.
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby couch 'em » Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:01 am

Will the renovated moody be covered in cliche generic gold topped towers?
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby PonyKai » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:43 am

couch 'em wrote:Will the renovated moody be covered in cliche generic gold topped towers?


Only if it gets a fountain in front- and in back.
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby Digetydog » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:53 am

gostangs wrote:not with new buildings we dont - we have been close to perfect on new buildings.


WRONG.

While Ford Stadium is certainly not a dump, it's design leaves a lot to be desired from a revenue and from a how does it look on TV perspective.
1) There are entirely too many endzone seats;
2) There are not enough sideline seats (which we can actually sell);
3) The pitch of the stadium is too flat making it feel empty;
4) The TV cameras stations should have been built on the visitor's sideline so they point at the reasonably full home side instead of the constantly empty visitor sidelines;
5) Apparently, June had a problem with the positioning of the lights;
6) Building a building (say an IPF) in the South Endzone would have given the stadium a better feel b/c it will NEVER EVER need 80K seats.
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby GiddyUp » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:54 am

Pony ^ wrote:
GiddyUp wrote:Not sure why this is being discussed - we have a new arena on the way


Doesn't mean they will fix the minor issues...SMU usually fails at the execution part

Well, if they spend $40M and dont change the lights, we have a big problem
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby GiddyUp » Wed Nov 14, 2012 8:58 am

Agreed, in terms of fairly new building Ford has a lot to be desired, lots of issues. Apparently the tennis courts were messed up too
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby Pony ^ » Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:22 am

A real intro should look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxaTunKyDE

I took Duke/Cameron Indoor as an example because it is the most similar to us. The sheets would be a little overboard for SMU, but you get the point
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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby Digetydog » Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:01 am

Pony ^ wrote:A real intro should look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxaTunKyDE

I took Duke/Cameron Indoor as an example because it is the most similar to us. The sheets would be a little overboard for SMU, but you get the point


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Re: Questions About Last Night

Postby DiamondM » Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:07 pm

Pony ^ wrote:A real intro should look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxaTunKyDE

I took Duke/Cameron Indoor as an example because it is the most similar to us. The sheets would be a little overboard for SMU, but you get the point



Actually that is the "Midnight Madness" intro. Duke does NOT do a lights out spotlight intro for the games during the season. The intro during the season is actually a lot more like our current one. If we want to emulate Duke (and I think that would be great), then what we are doing now is closer than what has been suggested here (although our execution generally sucks).

The team runs in to the strains of Blues Brothers. And unless things have changed a lot since I was last there (which is possible), player intros are not done with piped in music, but with the band.

Oh, and no smoke at Duke either.
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