Gameday Experience

[MasonSAE4]

To defend them a little bit they did pick a somewhat quirky instrumental version of the National Anthem to play. Don't throw elementary schools kids any curve balls. Keep it simple, very simple.

Let the band play some kickass instrumental version. We have the best band in the nation, use them for everything.

 

[psyclone]

To defend them a little bit they did pick a somewhat quirky instrumental version of the National Anthem to play. Don't throw elementary schools kids any curve balls. Keep it simple, very simple.

I was surprised that they were so far off tempo. Surely it was what they had been using to practice with. I can't believe that they didn't pick their own music which should have been familiar to them.

 

[GMU92]

I was surprised that they were so far off tempo. Surely it was what they had been using to practice with. I can't believe that they didn't pick their own music which should have been familiar to them.

If so then their teacher/chorus leader/whoever over-complicated this. Shouldn't have picked an instrumental version with extended intro, revised arrangement, different tempo, etc. It just seemed to thrown them all off from the get-go.(remember they are probably nervous in a big arena) Just forget the music, let them sing it and we can sing along with them. Sounds like a case of an arty-farty type making it way too difficult.

 

[Vurbel]

To defend them a little bit they did pick a somewhat quirky instrumental version of the National Anthem to play. Don't throw elementary schools kids any curve balls. Keep it simple, very simple.

Just do it acapella like um, most everybody else! Problem solved!

 

[Vurbel]

Let the band play some kickass instrumental version. We have the best band in the nation, use them for everything.

Get the guitarists to do this. Come on Doc!

 

[GMUgemini]

I prefer Jimi's version:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAwPA14Ni4

 

[Vurbel]

Note: Inappropriate joke, so if you're easily offended please ignore.

At this point I think getting Metallica to come to the EBA is more likely than Jimi Hendrix.

 

[Jack Strop]

The idea of singing to an instrumental background was fine. The problem was that when you're singing along in a large group, the interior members are unable to hear the music. There are usually a greater number of interior singers than there are along the perimeter, so the interior singers will dominate and set the pace.

The group needed speaker monitors placed nearby (or earpieces, but those are a bit too elaborate for a middle-school chorus) to allow them to hear the music in order to maintain timing. Otherwise, you get a cluster-f**k like what Wednesday's audience witnessed.

 

[psyclone]

Didn't most of the other grade school choruses also have their own recorded accompaniment? I'm not remembering this all that well, but I don't think more than one group used the Green Machine.

Why was this group so much further off?

 

[Jack Strop]

Didn't most of the other grade school choruses also have their own recorded accompaniment? I'm not remembering this all that well, but I don't think more than one group used the Green Machine.

Why was this group so much further off?

I don't recall any national anthem performances at EBA that combined vocals to an instrumental accompaniment until this past game.

 

[gmubrian]

The idea of singing to an instrumental background was fine. The problem was that when you're singing along in a large group, the interior members are unable to hear the music. There are usually a greater number of interior singers than there are along the perimeter, so the interior singers will dominate and set the pace.

The group needed speaker monitors placed nearby (or earpieces, but those are a bit too elaborate for a middle-school chorus) to allow them to hear the music in order to maintain timing. Otherwise, you get a cluster-f**k like what Wednesday's audience witnessed.

Well, I just learned something new! I probably had never heard it before because people pay me to NOT sing...

 

[GMUSig03]

Is there really this long/in depth of a discussion about a group of elementary schoolers singing the national anthem?!

 

[Vurbel]

I didn't know where to put this, but these are interesting numbers. I wonder what percentage of our athletic budget goes to men's basketball.

 

[Five Two]

One thing Gonzaga, Butler and Xavier have in common- they each offer the minimum # of sports to stay at D-1: 16. We offer 20. Its difficult to cut sports and JMU and Maryland took heat for doing so. But I've been posting here for years that the money and resources we spend on those extra 4 sports we offer do not return an ROI that is worthwhile to keep them around. We know our athletics budget needs every penny so why not focus those resources more efficiently? D-1 sports is a business; we should start acting like we understand that fact.

 

[gmubrian]

One thing Gonzaga, Butler and Xavier have in common- they each offer the minimum # of sports to stay at D-1: 16. We offer 20. Its difficult to cut sports and JMU and Maryland took heat for doing so. But I've been posting here for years that the money and resources we spend on those extra 4 sports we offer do not return an ROI that is worthwhile to keep them around. We know our athletics budget needs every penny so why not focus those resources more efficiently? D-1 sports is a business; we should start acting like we understand that fact.

Oh, but what will the poor, underprivileged golf team members do when you cut their sport...

I couldn't agree with you more. The AD needs to stop worrying about the small, short term discomfort and cut sports to the minimum. One of many ways where our whole athletic department is still not run to maximize the ROI.

 

[GSII]

If we do cut 6 sports, which I agree we should do, what, if any, would the Title IX implications be?

And, how much money would cutting those sports equal.

 

[GMUgemini]

If we do cut 6 sports, which I agree we should do, what, if any, would the Title IX implications be?

And, how much money would cutting those sports equal.

Oh it would mostly be men's sports we cut.

I don't know that we have to cut 6. Why not just eliminate golf and tennis on both sides, men's and women's? Get down to 16. The others on the chopping block would be men's volleyball and swimming and diving (but eliminating swimming and diving would make the aquatic and fitness center investment seem silly.)


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[KAOriginal]

Men's Golf and Wrestling. Definitely.

Tennis-both..most likely.

However..what do they really cost? I agree with making a bigger slice of pie for hoops...but what does those 3 to 4 teams eat up budget wise?

Swimming and Diving---nope. Too popular and too big especially with the Aquatics Ctr. But they need to do more like win...and do calendars.....

 

[GMUgemini]

Men's Golf and Wrestling. Definitely.

Tennis-both..most likely.

However..what do they really cost? I agree with making a bigger slice of pie for hoops...but what does those 3 to 4 teams eat up budget wise?

Swimming and Diving---nope. Too popular and too big especially with the Aquatics Ctr. But they need to do more like win...and do calendars.....

Wrestling is self-sufficient the last I heard and costs us nothing.

It's also a really good question of how much they really cost. Both URI and Dayton play football and even Dayton scholarship-less football is probably more expensive than all the sorts we are talking about cutting.


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[Vurbel]

What about keeping all the sports and upping the budget for basketball by, I don't know, not building an 83rd parking garage on campus?