Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
It started in the world of Soccer. A few years ago MLS had to intervene to get fans to stop doing it on place kicks. I don't think it's that big of an issue as a lot of folks make it out to be, but I also am not a huge fan either. There are a lot more offensive chants in the world of sports.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Wait, there were people booing our players during the video intros? I thought people were just talking about during the game, after a bad play. Holy smoke...
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
This is a bad look and "sound" as you can hear it on TV as well. Hell, even Georgia Southern says "One more time" during kickoffs. Don't know how this got started but it needs to be squashed.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Our kicker got it during intros, clearly heard on East side, assuming student section west. Of course again on the missed FGEastHallApp wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2017 9:57 amWait, there were people booing our players during the video intros? I thought people were just talking about during the game, after a bad play. Holy smoke...
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
How about our Student Newspaper making a plea from our Coach and AD???????????????????//
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Classless to boo our own players! Rubino misses a 46 yard field goal and gets the business, as if a 46 yard field goal is a gimme.
Florida loses to LSU on a missed XP by guy who had never missed one. It happens.
Florida loses to LSU on a missed XP by guy who had never missed one. It happens.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Happy to say I don’t take part in that chant but telling students not to do something will probably just make it worse
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Speak up, speak out, speak loud to ASU administration by starting with Doug Gillin (gillindp@appstate.edu). Nothing will change until mature fans raise the issue again and again. We are loosing our Mountineer pride with the spitting incident and the hostile fan environment for visiting teams. There are consequences to these actions and it is the Appalachian State University reputation. It needs to stop and stop now!
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
LSU stopped playing that song after this video got out.
The best way to combat this is to come up with something new for the students to chant on kickoffs. It can be "Go App State!" or even "Kick their ass!" or "Give em hell!"
It's grown pervasive enough that you can't stop this quietly IMO. You need to tackle it head-on. Put this on every medium so students can't miss it.
Have a rule saying that any students caught chanting it are ejected. You don't need to eject a hundred students, but enough so those who stay get the message.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Have an appropriate chant displayed on the video board at kickoffs to get the rest of the crowd in sync. That should drown out these idiots.
Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
There you go AppSt91!
Mission accomplished...I'm actually going to message this idea to a few people in the Yosef Club and athletics.
Mission accomplished...I'm actually going to message this idea to a few people in the Yosef Club and athletics.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
I’d rather have them chant this every game than to have a single student thrown out for doing so. They don’t even bleep out “ass” on tv.
Y’all need to chill out.
Y’all need to chill out.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Organized cursing at a ballgame is classless.
How about BOOM goes the dynamite or something clever instead.
How about BOOM goes the dynamite or something clever instead.
Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
I think there's a big difference between "@ss" and "@ssholes"
Maybe they flash up "BOOM, LET'S GO APP STATE!" and if that turns into Boom, let's go kick ass, I'm okay with that...
I just think calling the other team @ssholes in a coordinated chant is classless/"something-GSU-would-do
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Admittedly I am bit fast and loose with my use of colorful language, especially around my inner circle of friends, and I tend to agree with Gonzo on this one. Is calling the other team a group of asshole suckers, or assholes that suck depending on your use of a comma, classy? No, but is it reprehensible? Probably not that far either. As with most things in this life, the truth of the matter lies somewhere in the middle. In spite of my own personal, and I think at times artful, applications of what many would consider offensive language, I do agree it would be preferable for the student section to find another chant. However ejection seems an extreme reaction, as does increasing the cost of student tickets (gentrification much?).
Gillen or Satterfield could take a page from Coach K's playbook in this case. K embraces what many consider the most raucous fanbase in college basketball and speaks directly to the Cameron Crazies regularly before games, especially big rivalry games like Chapel Hill. He will pump up the crowd, but also remind them of certain behavior expectations that Duke has for it's students and of the national audience that will be scrutinizing them. I believe is Satt were to do something similar, it could go a long way.
Gillen or Satterfield could take a page from Coach K's playbook in this case. K embraces what many consider the most raucous fanbase in college basketball and speaks directly to the Cameron Crazies regularly before games, especially big rivalry games like Chapel Hill. He will pump up the crowd, but also remind them of certain behavior expectations that Duke has for it's students and of the national audience that will be scrutinizing them. I believe is Satt were to do something similar, it could go a long way.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
Completely irrelevant, but Asshole is most certainly bleeped out.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
It's classless. Crank up "Buglers Dream" and drown them out .I hope we are better than this.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
If you're saying this is NBD now, then next time you're complaining about empty seats in KBS remember that you were fine with the student section making it a hostile environment for families with young kids.
If you want to pack the stadium when we aren't playing P5s - let alone think about expanding it - you have to make it a good experience for people at all stages of life.
But more than that, it's just stupid. I don't clutch my pearls over curse words, but I'm part of this fan base and they're making us look like morons.
If you want to pack the stadium when we aren't playing P5s - let alone think about expanding it - you have to make it a good experience for people at all stages of life.
But more than that, it's just stupid. I don't clutch my pearls over curse words, but I'm part of this fan base and they're making us look like morons.
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Re: Student section Yelling "You Suck @ssholes" on kickoffs - PLEASE STOP
I sent a lengthy email to Doug about it after the Wake game. How you stop it: go campus wide with newspaper articles, flyers, student athlete meet and greets, and mass emails requesting it stop.
DG is pretty good about paying attention to what the fans want. Email him and request the same thing.
gillindp@appstate.edu
DG is pretty good about paying attention to what the fans want. Email him and request the same thing.
gillindp@appstate.edu