Hello my fellow Hokies,
I was just wondering what the general consensus was on VT adding smoke to accompany the Enter Sandman entrance? It's something I've thought would be really cool for years, but is it just not "how we roll"? I'm really interested to see what everyone's thoughts are!!
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No. We aren't Miami, we are Virginia Tech. To that extent, we shouldn't be playing Jump Around in Lane Stadium at any time ever.
Beat me to it. I logged in just to say no we are not the Hurricanes.
^^^^ Times a thousand
PERIOD.
Only comment this thread needs.
Or Sandstorm.
GET OUTTA HERE! Jump Around gets the student section so hype! PS I guarantee the football players feed off the energy from the student section far more than they feed off the energy from the west side stands.
Jump Around is Wisconsin's, just like Enter Sandman is Tech's.
It seems subjective to claim the football players can feed off of different energy levels. Situationally, sure, but in general, no. And no person in Lane, student section or otherwise, should need a song to get hype.
^^^This. Get rid of the damn EDM and bring back the "Let's Go Hokies" cheer led by the cheerleaders during timeouts.
Also, get off my damn lawn!!!
Dude, we can't have a LET'S GO HOKIES every damn timeout lol. That chant is incredible and special, but would lose that if it was done like 15 times a game. The marching band does a great job of playing fun songs and the songs over the loud speakers get the players and students hype as shit.
*See Florida State*
Watching their games is unbearable
I'm not talking about doing it every timeout. All I want is the frequency to go back to what it was a few years ago. They do it like once a game now, and it's fucking sad because I always thought that was one of the things that helped keep the crowd in the game.
The students get it going a few times by themselves, but it is definitely easier when the cheerleaders start it.
What can I say? I just love it when every Hokie in Lane is together. I think it keeps the crowd louder for big defensive series. I definitely don't want it every time out, but for the love bring it back before those important defensive series.
yea I agree with KoastalKings, how many more times do you want us to do "lets go hokies" cheer? lol... Some games we are on the verge of overkill
I really think that picking the right song/band is for a situation is an art. There are times (most recently, We Ready during the OSU game) when the music is just right. There are other times when it feels commercialized. Conversely, there are times when the band plays and I'm like "JUST PLAY SOMETHING A LITTLE LESS LAME!!!" And then there are times when the band plays and it's perfect.
I think we make a compromise. No more music, but only if they bring back Stick it in.
Meh, while we're getting rid of things like Jump Around, because Wisky does it better, we might as well get rid of the MV's and HT's, because Ohio State does it better.
*ducks*
agreed to an extent, i do think the music has brought a little energy back to lane. I love the old cheers and stuff and dont think we should try to force jump around to be a "thing" but that doesnt mean we cant play it. In that sense no school in the country should play enter sandman because it was our thing, and we shouldnt have even gone after it because mariano rivera had it before we did. I think sandstorm, jump around, and seven nation army gets our fans and young college kids pumped so why not play it?
We also should never use fireworks because that is China's thing
whether you like it or not, it helps a lot of students/fans get hyped and emotionally back into the game. Shoot, they might already be hyped, let them get more hyped with the song.
I have a question for you though. If/when Jump around is played in Lane, you are in the stadium and fans start jumping around you (pun intended) to that song, are you one to join in, or are you going to say in the lines of "oh that belongs to Wisconsin, I'm not jumping to it"
It happened at the Ohio State game. I did not jump and wondered out loud why we were playing Wisconsin's song.
Were you in the student section? Because we were losing our minds when fun songs like that were played. Football games are about fun, and when you start analyzing the songs being played, you are doing that wrong haha.
As I am not a student, I was not in the student section.
I am as loud and as hype as I was when I was a student, and I didn't / don't need pump up music to get me going.
Obligatory get off my lawn: get off my lawn.
Have you tried a fence?
He's gotta rip off something worth selling first.
Well, then as I said before, the students are priority numero uno, so some of y'all are just gonna have to put up with the way things are done now. I'm sure when I graduate and visit, I'll see things that make my head shake as well.
You (students) don't matter nearly as much as you think you do. You will eventually learn that. The most prioritized people in Lane are the folks indoors (or whatever the most expensive seat is) who spent a butt-ton of money to watch the game.
Also, you're misinterpreting my point. I don't think Tech should stop playing all the music because I don't like it. My point simply is, I don't like it.
Lane has felt more like a bastard of a dance club and pro stadium to me, than a unique college football venue. Adopting the generic practices of every other stadium in America for a cheap pop has taken away from its charm.
The most expensive seats are the boxes in the end zone between the lower and upper tier seats and the boxes in the west stands(not the indoor club seats).
Boxes are indoors...
Obviously but there is a difference between indoor club seats and box seats.
Obviously and I'm sure Joe knows which seats are more expensive, but he never said that they were the indoor club seats. He just said the folks indoors. That would encompass the boxes and club seats.
I'm just specify which seats are the most expensive. I don't know why you even bothered commenting.
The piece at the end about "not the indoor club seats" made it read as a correction, not a clarification. Calm yourself down. No need to act all macho or anything...
Students who think they are the most prioritized people in Lane also think that undergraduate education is a high priority for the board of directors, too.
Hahahahaha. This.
None of this would matter if we could win football games.
Babcock has said numerous times that he wants VT to have the best atmosphere in college football. He isn't going to get that from the people watching in the boxes. He gets that from the students.
He also likes to keep the lights on and pay coaches and fund new things. He isn't going to get that from the students.
Students are very important to the gameday experience, donors are very important to....everything.
Well, yeah, haha. And that is why he goes out and asks donors for more money. Those are two separate things accomplished in separate ways.
Joe just went all Soda Pop and fillin' stations on 'em.
I love Virginia Tech students. When I visit Blacksburg, I make it a point to randomly buy a student a RAIL when I am TOTS, or pickup a sandwich for a student in front or behind me in line at SSII. The students are part of what makes the home field advantage at Lane so special. On the other hand, it's asinine to say or believe they are the No. 1 priority of Lane Stadium.
Calcknowledge Redman and Deuce Riley agree that buying random students stuff is a great idea!
Thats too bad, your missing out .... I wouldn't tag it "Wisconsin's song" since I'm sure it has been played in many different sport stadiums before they did. Did/do they do it to the great extent and excellence that Wisconsin does? No, not at all.... but I also don't mind other teams/schools playing Enter Sandman just because I know they will never do it like we do.
Next question, did you tag Enter Sandman "Virginia Tech's song" even when Mariano Rivera was still pitching? since the Yankees starting playing that for him and made it popular before VT even did it
like to throw this in here, flat out playing jump around is nowhere near what wisconsin does. Theres an entire like 5 minute buildup to it just like we do to enter sandman, in no way shape or form are we stealing their thunder by using that song, but that doesnt mean its not a fun song to play. Shit my sister's neighbors crashed through their apartment floor because so many people were jumping to jump around at once. its just for fun
agreed 100%... Im sure they don't mind us or other schools, football or not, using it because they know everybody else knows Wisconsin does it the best.
What are you talking about? They play Jump Around at the end of the third quarter. That's it. At least for every game when I had Wisconsin season tickets that's all they did (which, granted, was 3 years ago).
Well, songs do get people hype, so..yeah. Students love them, and so do a lot of older people.
There's a reason Enter Sandman makes the stadium go crazy, same with Seven Nation Army and Sandstorm. Music brings out emotion in people. It's unfair to expect everyone to maintain the same level of hype the whole game, and music definitely brings out the superhype at appropriate times.
Admittedly I have not experienced the recent musical changes to game atmosphere but I don't see anything wrong with music either. Definitely can see it getting crowd hyped, or more hyped. But, I don't see why we need to play "jump around". It may not be that Whiskey has a hold on it, but in the world of college football they are know for it as much as we are with Enter Sandman. Plus there are hundreds of pump up songs that could be used, so why use that one? I don't care if others use Enter Sandman, but why jump off that same bridge. let's be unique. Do our thing and keep our thing ours.
#BringbackSTICKITIN
And more skipper. because you know, touchdowns are fun.
At the same time though, yes Enter Sandman is ours, but I have been to Florida's and Michigan State's stadiums over the past two years and they both played Sandman during the game to get people hyped up.
When we first started playing Zombie Nation frequently a couple years ago, a few of my friends and I were disappointed, since it was almost like we were trying to misappropriate another school's thing (in this case Penn State). After a few games, though, a friend of mine in the band started having some fun with it and got a bunch of people to start saying "We're Not Penn State" where PSU says "We Are Penn State", which seems like it's starting to catch on in certain areas of the stadium.
I'm not saying you're not entitled to your own opinion about the quality or whatever of the music played in Lane, but please just try to have some fun with it. It's all done in the name of trying to make Lane stadium as exciting for as many people as possible, which is becoming more difficult in the days of UDTV and 9.2 surround sound.
So this is how that started?
Hey, it was our way of coping, starting a sarcastic chant about how we "stole" the song from PSU.
If it makes you feel any better, it started with the pep band at basketball games and didn't spread over to Lane until about two years later.
Haven't noticed it in Lane yet, perhaps because it's so loud. But can hear it in Cassell from the pep band. No offense against the band because I'm all for the fight song, just certain things that I've never understood. I've always thought Cassell needs a little more music over the sound system instead of the band playing Poker Face by Lady GaGa.
No.
Because Miami does it.
And this
I was hoping that clanga picture would be in this thread. Well done.
That last picture reminds of this, with the smoke and all....
HA! Case closed.
smoke? hell no, this is Enter Sandman
Gimmie Sand?
And all the players run out with pillows in their hands?
Can we also make a big banner and have our players run through it? Maybe the Hokie Bird could ride out on some motorized vehicle? Or what about having a trained turkey fly around the stadium? (Okay the last one kinda sounds neat I suppose)
fixed it
Yeah because with our luck, this would happen (also, I don't know why I can't stop laughing at this, but I seriously can't stop laughing at
the end of itwhat happens around 10 seconds)This is one of the funniest moments in TV history. I remember seeing this when it was originally broadcast, and my entire family was laughing so hard tears were flowing. Hadn't seen it in years, so leg for digging this up.
And to this day there are people IN THE POULTRY INDUSTRY that believe that turkeys can't fly!
I thought the funny part was supposed to be the guy asking "why are these turkeys flying?", which was legitimately funny...
And then that happened. I love how he asks "Are you OK?"
Hokie Bird rides in on a horse and falls off!!!
Never gets old, does it?
FTFY
Nah, he plays for LOLUVA
Well I got a pretty emphatic answer from that one haha. I'm gonna go back to
doing something productiveeating cookies and enjoying my fall break.last I checked, Miami wasn't the only one to use smoke. Same thing with Jump around and Wisconsin. If it gets the fans hyped, Im all for it.
I noticed a lot of stadiums chanting to seven-nation army, too. I had thought it was just a Michigan thing.
It's almost become a mandatory B1G thing these days. An annoying one at that.
I think it's the fact that one of our rivals does it. What if UVA came out to enter sandman?
Someone posted this a while back, but this is the only version they would be allowed to use.
Would make it better if Dave Matthews was guest vocalist and there was a wine tasting event at kickoff with light hors d'oeuvres.
Is that what they play on their elevators?
The LOLUVA students wouldn't know what to do with it. They most certainly would NOT #startjumping, as they might soil their freshly starched shirts. Plus, who wants to jump at a Hoo's game?? No one?? Thought so...
The risk of falling down that dumb hill and spilling their zima is way to high for those types of shenanigans
college football knows enter sandman is vintage Virginia Tech. Sure other teams play it during the game, but no one is jumping like our fans do, especially during the entrance and use it perfectly they way we do. It can't be copied. So many teams, from high school to NFL use smoke to run out onto the field. It looks cool so thats why I'm for adding it.
Meh, I don't think it adds anything for the fans or players, so why bother.
To me...
Annnnnndddd I just chanted that in the middle of class to see how it sounded
You should also try out "fuuuuuckk the Seminoles, Seminoles fuck animmmallllsss." I can never decide which one is best. Any input is appreciated.
Can report that the first one about sucking genitals makes for a much better sounding chant
For what it's worth, the band chants "WE'RE NOT PENN STATE", especially the pep band at basketball games.
And the Tomahawk chant also belongs to any team that beats the Seminoles, from the time the game is put away until the fans have left the stadium.
if the smoke didn't do anything for fans or players, no one would do it. thats why teams/school bother
I only want to see Skipper's smoke.
I have often thought it would be amazing if there was a way to drop the lights at Lane when Enter Sandman starts for a night game and frame the tunnel in a spotlight.. But I understand industrial halogen lighting is not instant-on, and there would be safety concerns for bathing a stadium in darkness without warning just as blaring music starts.
how long before stadiums start using LED lighting?
they already do
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2014/10/02/sports-sta...
AND WHY HAVE WE NOT INVENTED THIS FUTURE?????
The mental imagery is fantastic, though. I thought about this a while back. Even if it's not instant-off/instant-on, can you imagine how cool it would be to slowly fade the lights off at the start of the "Let's go...Hokies!" chant, reaching pitch black as Sandman starts? Oh, but a dream...because it would be incredibly unsafe.
Then Sting would be standing at the 50-yard line with a baseball bat when the lights come back on.
They fixed this at some arenas by having a mechanical cover on the lights that opens and closes so we don't have to wait for the lights to warm back up.
Genius! But wait, what if we just threw a bunch of paper airplanes before the game started *ducks*
Our paper airplanes will block out the sun.
Then we will jump in the shade!
Short answer: No.
Long answer: No.
TL;DR
No to the smoke, but I don't get the whole thing with not playing other songs. Yeah, we claim Enter Sandman, but other schools are still going to play that at times, and whatever. I don't care if we play Sandstorm, Jump Around, Wild Wild West or MC Hammer, whatever gets people going.
I agree. I dont get the whole "no playing any song that has ever been played at another stadium" thing. If it pumps up the crowd and increases the fan experience, who cares who else plays the song
Because it is lame.
It might just be that you aren't the target demographic. I dont like EDM but it seems to boost the noise from the student section more than country, rock or another ad
It's lame and it's overused.
in your opinion...
Of course.
FWIW I think a lot of EDM sucks, I like a little of it, but whatever makes the fans/students yell that much louder, who cares what we play
The EDM doesn't make me yell louder. It makes me stop yelling because music does not have that impact on me and no one could hear me yelling over those speakers anyway.
It's the same EDM every week. It does not get me excited.
maybe not you, but it does for thousands of others. thats the world we live in now.
No offense, but when it comes to songs being played, the students are all that matter. The majority love jumping around and dancing with their friends as the lose their minds.
I disagree, they can't ignore 50k non-students. Whit is all about fan experience so using these songs must be placed with things geared towards the older than 22 crowd too. But using traditions from other teams is cool with me in situations
You non-nihilist you.
no
That would be no, we are Virginia Tech not Da U.
I wouldn't mind seeing it with orange and maroon smoke at least once to see how It looks.. I always liked the purple smoke at ECU
I'll take the same fireworks display we did for OSU
it is a good thing other teams don't use enter sandman ever /s a little smoke would be interesting to see, sorry guys but I would be willing to give it a shot. But we usually have the VTCC make the tunnel and I fear for those young kids...
How about we just start adding wins to the entrance?
Aren't those typically awarded during the exit though?
I would like it if they just played the song a little longer as the team came out.
The second half opening last week was nuts and it shined on the tv. The fans kept singing was just surreal!
That was pretty cool on TV
Pretty cool in the stadium too
maybe bags of paper airplanes can be dropped or released over the tunnel, showering the team as they run out
DORK MAGIC > SMOKE
I don't usually post, but when I do... It's usually about dork magic
Fans could throw small Domino's Pizza boxes down onto the field as the team enters.
There were enough megaphones being thrown by the students last week.
I was really enjoying my megaphone. The Pack fans in front of me were not. When Travon scored on that long run those things were flying around everywhere.