BOT Chair comments about the game

[AppSnareDrummer]

What’s he going to say when the stands are half empty. How is that experience going to be?

Exactly. The game experience is fun because the team wins most of the time. Yes, it’s a social as well as sporting event, but more people show up, stay for the whole game, and in turn spend more money when the game is good.
App doesn’t want to become the G5 equivalent of Ole Miss who for years claimed to have “never lost a party” because the tailgating was more fun than watching the game.

I got to be honest and am sure I'll get roasted for this, but the game day experience at Kidd Brewer really is lacking. Anyone who has attended an ACC or SEC game for the most part will find it hard to disagree. I get that these are not peer schools, but if we have the expectations that we want to compete with the big boys, the experience should match. I walked across thw campus before the ETSU game with a friend and his son (an App recruit mind you) only to watch a bunch of staggering drunk Frat kids falling all over themselves and yelling profanities. Very little if any police presence was there and
I'm pretty sure several were underage. It was embarrassing. That is an aside. The stadium itsself is the most uncomfortable thing to sit in, no coordinated chants other than App-State, bathroom situations sucks, kids have more fun rolling in mud than cheering on the home team, the band is very hard to hear and I'm not an old guy, the amount of vaping allowed in the stands is ridiculous, especially when it smells like weed, etc, etc. I love this school and have been proud to bring people up the mountain to show it off, but they have been underwhelmed, especially as of late. I will still be in the stands to cheer them on, but just feel as if we are missing an opportunity. Before you roast me, I will offer solutions. Enforce the vaping restrictions in the stands, find another spot other than the heart of campus for the drunk kids, hold something equivalent to the midnight yell that Texas A&M does (didn't work out for them against App a few years ago) to coordinate cheers, bring back Bugler's Dream, and change the intro back to Hells Bells/Back in Black. There's my gripes and my solutions. As for the bathroom situation, it's going to take a new stadium upgrade for that. Roast away.

P.S. the jet fly over Thursday night was very cool.

From someone in the band, I get the hard to hear thing. With Bugler's dream, we actually do play it when the dj isn't playing over us. We would have played it more often on Thursday if we actually had kickoffs haha. I definetely think us being in the endzone is helping with volume and projection. I definitely agree on a bunch of the other points having grown up an LSU fan my whole life

[AppState89]

What’s he going to say when the stands are half empty. How is that experience going to be?

Exactly. The game experience is fun because the team wins most of the time. Yes, it’s a social as well as sporting event, but more people show up, stay for the whole game, and in turn spend more money when the game is good.
App doesn’t want to become the G5 equivalent of Ole Miss who for years claimed to have “never lost a party” because the tailgating was more fun than watching the game.

I got to be honest and am sure I'll get roasted for this, but the game day experience at Kidd Brewer really is lacking. Anyone who has attended an ACC or SEC game for the most part will find it hard to disagree. I get that these are not peer schools, but if we have the expectations that we want to compete with the big boys, the experience should match. I walked across thw campus before the ETSU game with a friend and his son (an App recruit mind you) only to watch a bunch of staggering drunk Frat kids falling all over themselves and yelling profanities. Very little if any police presence was there and
I'm pretty sure several were underage. It was embarrassing. That is an aside. The stadium itsself is the most uncomfortable thing to sit in, no coordinated chants other than App-State, bathroom situations sucks, kids have more fun rolling in mud than cheering on the home team, the band is very hard to hear and I'm not an old guy, the amount of vaping allowed in the stands is ridiculous, especially when it smells like weed, etc, etc. I love this school and have been proud to bring people up the mountain to show it off, but they have been underwhelmed, especially as of late. I will still be in the stands to cheer them on, but just feel as if we are missing an opportunity. Before you roast me, I will offer solutions. Enforce the vaping restrictions in the stands, find another spot other than the heart of campus for the drunk kids, hold something equivalent to the midnight yell that Texas A&M does (didn't work out for them against App a few years ago) to coordinate cheers, bring back Bugler's Dream, and change the intro back to Hells Bells/Back in Black. There's my gripes and my solutions. As for the bathroom situation, it's going to take a new stadium upgrade for that. Roast away.

P.S. the jet fly over Thursday night was very cool.

From someone in the band, I get the hard to hear thing. With Bugler's dream, we actually do play it when the dj isn't playing over us. We would have played it more often on Thursday if we actually had kickoffs haha. I definetely think us being in the endzone is helping with volume and projection. I definitely agree on a bunch of the other points having grown up an LSU fan my whole life

I too, like that the band has been moved to the endzone. We can now hear you guys loud and clear when the music isn't playing. Very smart move by someone. Go App!!