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The GA Tech Stadium Experience

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They gave away orange and white bucket hats for Miami Nights. And here's my game thread comment last night about the dj
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There was no energy from the start. A women in front of me was reading on her kindle. Just weird. The DJ and other BS just makes it even worse.
 
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Until they get that cleaned up they will never fill it up. This is all pro football corporate BS. Feels nothing like college and it Sucks with a capital S. They could be 11-0 and I would bite my tongue and go but would be dreading what I'm about to go to. UM needs to get this **** fixed.
 
Getting in and out of the stadium is a a nightmare every game. Everything you said was spot on. That will be the last um game my family and I attend
 
Decided not to attend last night and grateful for having made that choice, but I was at the first couple home games and it just gets worse every year. They try so hard to make it a glitzy event with a DJ, light shows, pyrotechnics, close-ups of ugly fans in the stands between plays instead of replays. I was at the Temple game and would take that experience over ours any day. Moving to Hard Rock also birthed an annoying tailgating culture where fans are more concerned about what time the gates open than they are about being in their seat for kickoff.
 
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The whole operation on Gameday feels and comes off as tone deaf. Not even talking about the team.

Everyone should read your post...its all true...its not a great Gameday Experience. The DJ should be the first person out the door. He's ******* terrible, objectively and subjectively. If there is a single person that thinks this guy is good, please show yourselves.
 
Real ? b/c I keep hearing complaints about the DJ; is this DJ an employee of The U or HRS?
 
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SFbayCane said:
If you weren't at the stadium last night then you likely don't realize just how bad attending a Miami Hurricanes game has become. The stadium experience for UM games remains to be one of the worst in all of sport.

* Last night was perhaps the most subdued night game Ive ever attended. The crowd was late coming in as usual. By mid first quarter there were more people in the stadium than I saw at the Texas A & M game, yet they made way less noise.

* Games on the ACC network are the worst sporting events to attend. Every single game stoppage is met with a 3 minute timeout break. The crowd can never generate any energy. I've posted about this previously.

* EVERY - SINGLE - TV - TIMEOUT is filled with some stupid, non-football related nonsense. It's either a game on the big screen or media wannabe person saluting some random first responder or community activist or youth league team or other. It is a constant distraction from the game. I went to the TAMU game last season and there was none of this. Every TV timeout at A & M had the entire stadium talking about down & distance, what they're seeing in the game, expected play calls, players, etc.... You know, FOOTBALL TALK. That never occurs at a UM game unless you want to scream over the planned distractions.


* The DJ. If you read nothing else, read this. The DJ completely destroyed the game last night. He was out of ******* control. What's worse is that no one in stadium management seemed to know or care. He kept getting worse and worse throughout the game.

He consistently played music while the ball was in play. Many people in our section were getting ****ed and yelling for him to turn the music off. He was regularly playing music until the play clock got below 15 seconds. Twice during the game he did not turn the music off until the ball was snapped. (once during UM's offense & once during Ga Tech's offense). I kept hoping the referee would throw a flag on the DJ, simply because the UM Athletic Department is filled with drooling idiots who know nothing about sports. If it would have happened, I guarantee you the fans would have cheered that penalty against UM.

Some folks will take offense to my next point but this needs to be said:

* INSANELY DEPRESSING CANCER VIDEO. Late first quarter they played a 90 second video that was subdued, it had loud ominous, depressing theme music playing and went on and on about people having cancer, getting their lives destroyed, etc. I watched 45K+ people all fall into absolute silence. Cheering for a football game became extremely difficult for a good ten minutes. This was completely inappropriate for a sporting event. Just pathetic.


The stadium experience is so bad that I often wonder if UM is doing it on purpose. I refuse to believe people running an athletic department can be this incompetent.
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ITS THE SAME FOR A DOLPHINS GAME...minusall the tv timeouts.

SAME DJ.....SAME SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDERS....CANCER VIDEO....ALL OF IT....

EXCEPT DOLPHINS FANS ARE OLDER AND MORE DIE HARD SO THEY KIND OF KEEP THEMSELVES CRANKED UP THROUGHOUT THE GAME...

IVE BEEN CLAMORING ABOUT THE DJ FOR A FEW YEARS NOW SINCE I GO TO DOLPHINS GAMES TO..AT SOME POINT THEY SHOULD ASK TO HAVE THEIR OWN GUY
 
I am glad I'm not alone. Curiously, I've usually argued against this type of sentiment, simply because of changing demographics and the fact that all teams want to have broader appeal, and not just to the diehards. I don't know if last night I was irritable because of the game, but I kept thinking about how awful the experience was. Mario and this program takes itself a little too seriously. The stadium experience however is entirely unserious. I was thinking last night about how these important recruits that were at the game must've been wondering whether they were at a football game or a house party off Calle Ocho celebrating Abuela's 75th birthday. It's over the top. You are left wondering repeatedly whether this is a football game or an entertainment venue. And to top it off, the music choices were really bad. I'm Cuban. The Spanish music was too much. None of the kids can relate to that. At least play music that the team can vibe to.

And I totally agree that the music played up until the snap was unserious and unbecoming of a football team. It shouldn't even be done to our opponent.

I'll leave you all with a funny story. So, me and a couple other middle-aged dudes work out at the Wellness Center. I had the bright idea to use the ramp of the parking garage behind Greentree to ruck and get a little cardio in after workouts. A couple weeks ago, I had a staffer jump the fence (seriously) to ask me how much longer I was going to be. The next time my friends went out, staffers were awaiting at the top of the ramp and they didn't let my friends ruck up and down the ramp. And mind you, we're all in workout gear with 45 lb + weight vests on and no phones. We ain't ******** around. We're not carrying camcorders and hanging out. I'm dying of how silly this is because I think that whoever has instructed us to be removed is taking this way too seriously. Yet we have a stadium experience that is literally the complete opposite. It's like fiesta time. Someone needs to intervene.
 
Katzenboyer said:
the DJ is awful. I’m all for home firld advantage but if I was GT I would have been ****ed - they were playing music right up until the snap.

The “games” they play are super cringe.
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Well, the DJ played loud music while Miami had the ball too.
 
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