Please add to your communication to the athletic department that they have taken a very wrong turn in the game day experience. Blaring and deafening music between almost every play and before the game? Announcers that are shouting into too-loud microphones to get the crowd excited? It doesn't. My wife had to put her fingers in her ears the sound was so loud. This is a football experience, not a rock concert for 15 year olds. Cal is quickly alienating the fans that have supported the program for decades. I implore you to help change this damaging trend. Dr. Thomas Parry.
My understanding is this is done for players, recruits, and younger fans, who really love the in-game noise. The acoustics and sound production could be improved though.
I can't imagine that young people would stop coming to the games without blaring music (not without music, just not blaring music) or without announcers shouting into the microphone. But I know too many alums that are fed up with it and wonder if the athletic department cares about them and their perspective. And without their support (both financial and attendance) the program would be in worse shape than it already is. The athletic department needs to get a clue. I didn't see too many students at the last game. So maybe the deafening music really isn't all that important.
The answer is the athletic department really could not care less about alumni. I consider the aggressive, piped in music to be an active тАЬscrew youтАЭ to all of us that value the pageantry of the band, and the DJ to be an active тАЬscrew youтАЭ to the mic men. You could mix the band and the mic men stadium wide, but you refuse to because you are genuinely telling us you do not want us as part of the program.
We will try and think of ways to provide better feedback to the university in the offseason.
Please add to your communication to the athletic department that they have taken a very wrong turn in the game day experience. Blaring and deafening music between almost every play and before the game? Announcers that are shouting into too-loud microphones to get the crowd excited? It doesn't. My wife had to put her fingers in her ears the sound was so loud. This is a football experience, not a rock concert for 15 year olds. Cal is quickly alienating the fans that have supported the program for decades. I implore you to help change this damaging trend. Dr. Thomas Parry.
My understanding is this is done for players, recruits, and younger fans, who really love the in-game noise. The acoustics and sound production could be improved though.
I can't imagine that young people would stop coming to the games without blaring music (not without music, just not blaring music) or without announcers shouting into the microphone. But I know too many alums that are fed up with it and wonder if the athletic department cares about them and their perspective. And without their support (both financial and attendance) the program would be in worse shape than it already is. The athletic department needs to get a clue. I didn't see too many students at the last game. So maybe the deafening music really isn't all that important.
The answer is the athletic department really could not care less about alumni. I consider the aggressive, piped in music to be an active тАЬscrew youтАЭ to all of us that value the pageantry of the band, and the DJ to be an active тАЬscrew youтАЭ to the mic men. You could mix the band and the mic men stadium wide, but you refuse to because you are genuinely telling us you do not want us as part of the program.
I'm not saying that's wrong, but I think it's better so fill the stadium than to blast noise in an empty stadium.