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I was in Austin this weekend and went to the Texas vs. Baylor football game. Quite frankly, I think that we do gameday pretty well. They do have a few things going that we don't. I have no desire to make our gameday a little Texas style of game day, but they do have some neat traditions.
I refused to make the sign of the Longhorn (extending my index finger and pinkie) but it is a tremendous show of unity within their stadium. I was trying to think of what we could do. I can't figure out a real dignified way to do rabbit ears.
Some here have mentioned a cannon. They have one in Texas. It's loud "boom" is actually made by simultaneously firing two 10 gauge shotgun shell blanks.
Their band is every bit as good as the Pride, but a little bigger. They did an interesting little thing with their halftime show last night. It might be something for the Pride to consider trying sometime. They featured their video board as part of the halftime show. I think everyone here is at least somewhat familiar with their big screen. They made it a karaoke machine for the crowd to sing along. It was a dismal failure on the first song they attempted because not enough people knew the song. Their second song, Sweet Caroline, worked much better. They also did Journey's Can't Stop Believin' and that worked pretty well too. Once the crowd knew the song, they really got into it.
They did something with their team intro video before the game that I think South Dakota State could proudly do. The University of Texas is the flagship university in Texas just as SDSU is South Dakota's flagship university. They included scenes from around Texas and the strength that the place pictured represented, for example, a picture of the Alamo to signify bravery. Perhaps some of us could come up with things to put in SDSU's video to signify some of the characteristics of SDSU. We probably should avoid a thundering herd of bison in Custer State Park, but then again, one of the most famous scenes each year is the rounding up of the bison into corrals. That seems to represent what has happened on the football field these last three years.
What are other universities doing that we could adapt, but not copy, into gameday at South Dakota State to strengthen our gameday traditions?
I refused to make the sign of the Longhorn (extending my index finger and pinkie) but it is a tremendous show of unity within their stadium. I was trying to think of what we could do. I can't figure out a real dignified way to do rabbit ears.
Some here have mentioned a cannon. They have one in Texas. It's loud "boom" is actually made by simultaneously firing two 10 gauge shotgun shell blanks.
Their band is every bit as good as the Pride, but a little bigger. They did an interesting little thing with their halftime show last night. It might be something for the Pride to consider trying sometime. They featured their video board as part of the halftime show. I think everyone here is at least somewhat familiar with their big screen. They made it a karaoke machine for the crowd to sing along. It was a dismal failure on the first song they attempted because not enough people knew the song. Their second song, Sweet Caroline, worked much better. They also did Journey's Can't Stop Believin' and that worked pretty well too. Once the crowd knew the song, they really got into it.
They did something with their team intro video before the game that I think South Dakota State could proudly do. The University of Texas is the flagship university in Texas just as SDSU is South Dakota's flagship university. They included scenes from around Texas and the strength that the place pictured represented, for example, a picture of the Alamo to signify bravery. Perhaps some of us could come up with things to put in SDSU's video to signify some of the characteristics of SDSU. We probably should avoid a thundering herd of bison in Custer State Park, but then again, one of the most famous scenes each year is the rounding up of the bison into corrals. That seems to represent what has happened on the football field these last three years.
What are other universities doing that we could adapt, but not copy, into gameday at South Dakota State to strengthen our gameday traditions?
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