Put the Band in charge of the scoreboard music.

[Rekdiver]

I don't care what kind of music they play...just don't do it to full 20 seconds between plays except for the bell on 3rd down. Timeouts I say let it rip but give more time to the band. Also seems we've lost our kickoff crowd participation

[Yosef10]

I agree again AppAlum1, I know almost every fan I talk to agree with us. And I talk to many.
It is a stupid topic because the admin is doing the wrong thing aka cups with ice.

You and others may agree with AppAlum about the timing of the music being played and thats a somewhat reasonable point but it's pretty obvious AppAlum just simply doesn't like rap music. I am curious what criteria he uses to identify the people who like rap music in the crowd as he referenced in the OP. Kinda funny hearing rap music is such an issue though. It's played at every single stadium nationwide.

[PhillyApp1]

I don't care what music, it's how much and when.
Let the crowd and band in the game , darn gum it!!

[Gonzo]

Nothing was as annoying as the heckler in the 5th row of 111 yesterday. That guy yelled from the beginning of the 1st until the end of the 4th quarter and not one of his hundreds of lines were funny.

[Seattleapp]

This. Is. A. Non. Issue.

I promise you the players love the music, so the statement about how no one in the stadium wants to hear it is just ridiculous because the players and students love the rap music. It gets them amped up and excited. They're not playing music for you, they are playing it for the players. The team is winning a lot right now, shut up about the music please

Actually you are wrong. The atmosphere was dead yesterday. There was not one APP- STATE chant. The 4 second canned blurbs of music comptletely take the crowd out of the games.

[hapapp]

I have no problem with the pregame music if it is what the players want. I'm less concerned if the fans don't like the genre. As a 65 year old man, I have no love for rap music but I can deal with it pregame. My complaint is playing any canned music regardless of the genre between plays. It just seems bush league to me.

[hapapp]

This. Is. A. Non. Issue.

I promise you the players love the music, so the statement about how no one in the stadium wants to hear it is just ridiculous because the players and students love the rap music. It gets them amped up and excited. They're not playing music for you, they are playing it for the players. The team is winning a lot right now, shut up about the music please

Actually you are wrong. The atmosphere was dead yesterday. There was not one APP- STATE chant. The 4 second canned blurbs of music comptletely take the crowd out of the games.

Not to challenge your main point but the APP--STATE chant was employed several times.

[AppAlum1]

I agree again AppAlum1, I know almost every fan I talk to agree with us. And I talk to many.
It is a stupid topic because the admin is doing the wrong thing aka cups with ice.

You and others may agree with AppAlum about the timing of the music being played and thats a somewhat reasonable point but it's pretty obvious AppAlum just simply doesn't like rap music. I am curious what criteria he uses to identify the people who like rap music in the crowd as he referenced in the OP. Kinda funny hearing rap music is such an issue though. It's played at every single stadium nationwide.

Ah, the lemming argument. FTR, I care not one whit what any other stadium is doing. The only college football stadium I have season tickets for is KBS. The only alumni club I give money to is the Yosef Club. My loyalty is to ASU.

Whether I personally like rap is irrelevant. It is appsolutely clear to me that the noise emanating from the speakers is NOT resonating with those Mountaineers who have ears inside KBS. (Not sure that includes Yosef10.)

The criteria I used was my eyeballs. I was in my seat one hour prior to kickoff, so I could see the band enter. And, I could see the lack of positive response from the crowd while the rap was being piped in.

NO ONE that I saw in the stands, no student, no alum, and only a few players, looked like they were listening, moving, or jamming to the rap before kickoff.

My real beef here is the complete insensitivity by the scoreboard operator of the ASU offense's need to hear themselves, which they cannot if there is noise coming from the scoreboard. And, SECOND, this canned music, regardless of genre, is DETRACTING from the crowd's participation. Shut the whole damn thing off, and you will find the crowd CAN be loud, and the crowd will be more intense, and the players will be more likely to feed off the excitement (which won't have to be piped in through the speakers).

Again, I call for putting the ASU Music Dept. in charge of the scoreboard speakers.

[T-Dog]

Okay, I'm going to bring this up since I haven't.

After the Georgia State game, I sent an e-mail to Gillin about the music and other things such as student attendance at basketball games. He responded back and after some correspondence, we set up a meeting for Thursday the 6th with the head of promotions and Brian Tracy.

I met with them and we talked about an hour. Tracy brought up that they have continual correspondence with the band about when they play and when they play canned music. They believe in having no dead air and want something playing when there's no action. I don't agree with them on that, but that's their opinion. They also feel like the band isn't heard well by the entire stadium and are looking into speakers on the sidelines just for the band like Tennessee does.

I did tell them about playing Mountain Music and that has been remedied. The guy doing the canned music is in his first season here and didn't know about it.

They do want to listen to the fans. They will listen.

[T-Dog]

Actually you are wrong. The atmosphere was dead yesterday. There was not one APP- STATE chant. The 4 second canned blurbs of music comptletely take the crowd out of the games.

There were at least two.

[AppAlum1]

Not to challenge your main point but the APP--STATE chant was employed several times.

I heard it exactly once. Maybe that is another casualty from the overuse of the scoreboard speakers.

[AppAlum1]

Actually you are wrong. The atmosphere was dead yesterday. There was not one APP- STATE chant. The 4 second canned blurbs of music comptletely take the crowd out of the games.

There were at least two.

OK, I'll buy that. Maybe there were two.

[AppAlum1]

Okay, I'm going to bring this up since I haven't.

After the Georgia State game, I sent an e-mail to Gillin about the music and other things such as student attendance at basketball games. He responded back and after some correspondence, we set up a meeting for Thursday the 6th with the head of promotions and Brian Tracy.

I met with them and we talked about an hour. Tracy brought up that they have continual correspondence with the band about when they play and when they play canned music. They believe in having no dead air and want something playing when there's no action. I don't agree with them on that, but that's their opinion. They also feel like the band isn't heard well by the entire stadium and are looking into speakers on the sidelines just for the band like Tennessee does.

I did tell them about playing Mountain Music and that has been remedied. The guy doing the canned music is in his first season here and didn't know about it.

They do want to listen to the fans. They will listen.

Thank you for posting this. I totally agree with you that A.D. Doug Gillin will listen. I know that personally.

I disagree with the need to fill up every second with some manufactured noise. How about filling it up with ONLY fan noise? APP - STATE, 3rd down noise, etc. We used to be able to do that with far fewer butts in the seats.

[wncapp78]

A few random observations. I sat on the State side yesterday. I Watched a few App players get really amped up over some of the rap music that i thought was really bland, so i have a better tolerance now. I could also hear the band much better on the State side than i can on the App side, and i sat appx same place, about the 25 on the video board end.
I thought like many others the timing of the canned music was really bad, and i wish the band could and would play more.

[AppinVA]

I continue to be impressed by DG, and how much he values fan feedback.

[AppinATL]

This. Is. A. Non. Issue.

I promise you the players love the music, so the statement about how no one in the stadium wants to hear it is just ridiculous because the players and students love the rap music. It gets them amped up and excited. They're not playing music for you, they are playing it for the players. The team is winning a lot right now, shut up about the music please

Actually you are wrong. The atmosphere was dead yesterday. There was not one APP- STATE chant. The 4 second canned blurbs of music comptletely take the crowd out of the games.

If you are going to tell someone they are wrong, better be sure to be correct yourself. There were indeed App-State chants yesterday. At least three times. However I'm with you on the rest of it, I've said before, play whatever the players want as much as they want during pre-game warm-ups. If it helps them get going, I'm all for it. Once the game starts though, they shouldn't be listening to music anyway. They need to be focused on the game so can the canned music at that point. Timeouts? OK throw some in if you have to. In between plays? NEVER. There's not enough time to make it worth it and the person doing this does not have a knack for it, plain and simple. They played a piece for about two seconds yesterday where the rapper yelled three unintelligible words and that was it. Stupid.

[hapapp]

Okay, I'm going to bring this up since I haven't.

After the Georgia State game, I sent an e-mail to Gillin about the music and other things such as student attendance at basketball games. He responded back and after some correspondence, we set up a meeting for Thursday the 6th with the head of promotions and Brian Tracy.

I met with them and we talked about an hour. Tracy brought up that they have continual correspondence with the band about when they play and when they play canned music. They believe in having no dead air and want something playing when there's no action. I don't agree with them on that, but that's their opinion. They also feel like the band isn't heard well by the entire stadium and are looking into speakers on the sidelines just for the band like Tennessee does.

I did tell them about playing Mountain Music and that has been remedied. The guy doing the canned music is in his first season here and didn't know about it.

They do want to listen to the fans. They will listen.

Thank you for posting this. I totally agree with you that A.D. Doug Gillin will listen. I know that personally.

I disagree with the need to fill up every second with some manufactured noise. How about filling it up with ONLY fan noise? APP - STATE, 3rd down noise, etc. We used to be able to do that with far fewer butts in the seats.

While I can live with the pregame music, I'm in total agreement about the canned music presnap.

[bcoach]

They believe in having no dead air and want something playing when there's no action. I don't agree with them on that, but that's their opinion. They also feel like the band isn't heard well by the entire stadium
It shouldn't matter what they want it should matter what WE want.

[97grad]

At one point Saturday they were literally playing the music over the referee announcing a penalty. I'm glad DG is listening but I have to agree with most of the folks here - it's just too much. I don't have an issue with what is played as much as with the frequency, timing, and frankly volume.

[Rekdiver]

This. Is. A. Non. Issue.

I promise you the players love the music, so the statement about how no one in the stadium wants to hear it is just ridiculous because the players and students love the rap music. It gets them amped up and excited. They're not playing music for you, they are playing it for the players. The team is winning a lot right now, shut up about the music please

Actually you are wrong. The atmosphere was dead yesterday. There was not one APP- STATE chant. The 4 second canned blurbs of music comptletely take the crowd out of the games.