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Post by zoneblitz on Dec 7, 2007 6:36:18 GMT -6
Anybody doing anything different or unique, or just want to share how your team takes the field before kickoff. I am interested in reading about some different methods. (Ex: OSU Arm and Arm, UM with the Booster Banner)
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Post by realdawg on Dec 7, 2007 7:42:22 GMT -6
Nothing cool here, we just run through the banner while the fight song plays, heck for the biggest game of the year, for the conference championship, the cheerleaders didnt even have a banner, we still won though.
On a side not we played a team nicknamed the Trojans and our banner that week said Go Dawgs, bust a Trojan
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Dec 7, 2007 7:58:56 GMT -6
Wow that's horrible
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Post by longball on Dec 7, 2007 8:14:59 GMT -6
That's funny we have Trojans in our league to so that week everyone wants to se the run through.
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Post by Coach Goodnight on Dec 7, 2007 8:51:53 GMT -6
I think that it would be cool to have an entrance with lights down low, Iron man playing over the speakers, and about 20 harleys revving their engines lined up to make the tunnel in which the team ran through out onto the field. Somehow I think something like that could get the players pumped up especially if you have helped them instill the attitude of being bada$$es!!!
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Post by coachd5085 on Dec 7, 2007 8:56:49 GMT -6
I would change staffs if I was ever stuck on a stafff who had the slightest concern with theatrics.
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Post by brophy on Dec 7, 2007 9:13:52 GMT -6
this is a question I've wondered for a while now.
DO ANY OF YOU COORDINATE WITH OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE FACULTY FOR GAME NIGHT?
Not if it is "right" or "wrong", but at MANY places, the BAND (color guard, dance team, etc) may have a bigger draw than the actual football (like it or not).
And like we "work with" the basketball program for team-building and self-preservation, do any of you extend that olive branch of unity to the band, JROTC, cheerleaders, pep band, etc?
Like it or not, and maybe its different for some, but it IS a School function (not just a football function) and including as many branches as possible (I would assume) would be a good thing.
and "image", as they say, is EVERYTHING.
IMO, what the other elements do is all a part of BRANDING your program. Do any of you control that psychological dynamic (for the fans) to accentuate what you do on the field?
I mean, lets face it......those things are going to happen whether or not we like it, so why not be a part of it?
(Head) Coaching is about control, you're either taking it or you're giving it up (to someone else).
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Dec 7, 2007 9:27:27 GMT -6
Not for football but...
My first year coaching Lacrosse-
I knew some bagpipers who were a father/son combo- volunteered to do it becuase they knew I loved the pipes.
We got the entire team huddled in the showers pregame and the pipers cranked up the bags...my skin crawls to this day.
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Post by coachorr on Dec 7, 2007 9:37:18 GMT -6
My idea of the perfect pre game is to go out onto the field and stretch, not making a sound.
Do a kick team session, individuals, team...then back into the locker room for a PRAYER. Then a quick motivational talk and run onto the field and play football.
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Post by cmow5 on Dec 7, 2007 10:06:49 GMT -6
OK picture this. Helicopters hovering over the stadium, soljah boy playing "crank dat, superman" and the lights go out as the team repels from the helicopters or we just run onto the field and play.
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Post by superpower on Dec 7, 2007 10:27:39 GMT -6
Once we take the field for warm-ups, we don't even bother going back into the lockerroom. We do our motivation before warm-ups, and then it is all business.
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Post by spos21ram on Dec 7, 2007 10:33:36 GMT -6
I like the air raid horn goin off for a minute then the team comes out running onto the field
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Post by 7384729737 on Dec 7, 2007 10:52:15 GMT -6
Not arguing it here but I think this can be a big part of the game, you have to get them in the right state of mind. When I played we did the Va. Tech entrance with Enter Sandman.
(If this doesn't give you chills and just want to rip someones head off then I don't know what to tell you.)
My idea of how it would go:
We go out for warm ups, we stay calm and just focus at getting ready.
We go in for pre-game speech and our prayer.
Everyone goes out together, when we get close to the field the bells start ringing from Hells Bells and they just keep repeating. We walk into our helmet tunnel that we have now and the bells stop, then Enter Sandman starts. We come running out into the L that our band forms that leads to our sidelines and then our fight song plays.
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Post by knighter on Dec 7, 2007 11:02:50 GMT -6
We are like you Greg. We do not go back to the lockeroom at all. We leave the field, and let opposing team come out, and than we re-take the field and go about our business.
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Post by wingman on Dec 7, 2007 11:48:57 GMT -6
We do the usual run through the banner but we have played " Ride of the Valkyries" from the Apocalypse Now helicopter attack since the early 80s as we do it.
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Post by tackle on Dec 7, 2007 11:52:11 GMT -6
We try to create an exciting atmosphere for a game. We want our stands packed and fans rowdy for the game. We have tried to get our band and cheer leaders involved in gameday traditions but they feel that they are going to prepare for their own competitions and that their time slot at our game is guarantied. I tried to fire the cheer leaders but, that didn't go over to well.
I found this info on the USC website. I like how the band has its own tradition and is also tied into the traditions of football. Other Songs 'Tribute To Troy,' the incessant stanza of pounding drums and blaring horns, is played after every defensive stop. 'Fanfare' is the introduction to 'Tribute To Troy' and is played when the band takes the field. 'All Right Now' is played after USC gets a turnover. 'Another One Bites the Dust' is played after USC gets a sack. The 'William Tell Overture' is played at the start of the fourth quarter. "The Emperor's Theme" from Star Wars is played when USC is flagged for a major penalty.
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Post by lsrood on Dec 7, 2007 12:00:02 GMT -6
We walk into the stadium in pairs for our warm-ups and do a silent warm-up. At the end of our dynamic portion of the warm-up (which we do in our original lines from sideline to the far hash) the team walks back out between the hashes and has our psyche session ( the only noise we make). At home our pre-game music kicks in as the team walks back out between the hashes starting with "Sirius". Once the psyche session is over we continue our pre-game warmups in silence and after we run our last play the whole team follows up into the endzone where we reform into pairs and walk down our sideline back to our locker room to pad up (we warm-up without shoulder pads). Coming onto the field for the game the team just runs through the cheerleaders banner to the fight song. Our philosophy has always been nobody wins the game in warm-ups so conserve you energy for the game.
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Post by brophy on Dec 7, 2007 12:26:40 GMT -6
We have tried to get our band and cheer leaders involved in gameday traditions but they feel that they are going to prepare for their own competitions thanks - I wasn't sure how that worked / what was involved. I wouldn't know how difficult it would be to coordinate the activities of the band, cheer, pom, JROTC, MS athletics, etc.....on game night. Great points on building tradition. The symbolism, tradition, & fanfare can (like it or not) turn a brawl into a prize fight, just by dressing it up a little. It isn't about 4 quarters, it is about selling the program and school to the community and generations of kids in the system.
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Post by captain31 on Dec 7, 2007 12:57:21 GMT -6
One time when the opposing team was late for a JV game we were joking about them doing the "bunch" kickoff right off the bus.
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Post by theprez98 on Dec 7, 2007 13:23:24 GMT -6
If you watch the documentary "Go Tigers!" about Massillon, Ohio, the band seems to be a huge part of the overall program.
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Post by mrigg on Dec 7, 2007 13:41:47 GMT -6
We played a team in the play offs that ran out of the woods, trough a smoke machine and a human tunnel while fire works went off, fire truck sirens wailed and lights flashed. They did it ever home game during the season. It was supposed to intimidate out kids, it didn’t work at all. Our kids where out on the field hoping around to the music and watching the fireworks. We lost the game but the 5 and a half hour bus ride had more to do with that then the pregame.
We talked about doing something like that but our field is surrounded buy the school, a junk yard, and abandoned factor, low income housing and train tracks a block south. That’s our home field advantage right there.
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Post by mrigg on Dec 7, 2007 13:45:59 GMT -6
If you watch the documentary "Go Tigers!" about Massillon, Ohio, the band seems to be a huge part of the overall program. The greatest part of that documentary is when the kid does a keg stand then throws up into the cooler. Then he reaches in the cooler and grabs himself a beer and walks off.
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Post by jonnyboy on Dec 7, 2007 14:36:01 GMT -6
We line up in 6 lines between the goalposts (we do not announce starters, the whole team comes out as one unit)...we wait for the theme music from "300" to start and then we walk to midfield for some hoorah! Pretty chilling...music is awesome.
Also, whenever we have military personnel present the flag at midfield our kids are lined up on the sideline with their right hand across their chest, helmet in left hand, right foot on the sideline, and they do not move a muscle until the flag has left the field and been retired (lowered). Kids wait for a command (coach says "buckle up") and they put their helmets on and go nuts cuz they finally get to play. Captains run with HC to shake the hands of military personnel. Our program has received so much positive feedback from honoring the flag...our kids are absolutely stoic when the flag is being walked off the field and often times the other team is jumping around and hooting/hollering and our kids are motionless. By the second game our parents and student body followed our example and stayed motionless as well. Eerily silent when your side of the field is silent and motionless waiting for the flag to retire. At one school the PA announcer announced our team to run onto the field and our kids were still on the sideline because the flag hadn't been lowered yet.
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Post by bigcroz on Dec 7, 2007 22:05:03 GMT -6
We come out to "Enter Sandman" like Va Tech. Kids bouncingin the endzone as the song plays , fans bouncing in the stands, then whole team sprints to mid field and capt.'s do a breakdown...GAMETIME!!! Always introduced as a team, even at away games.....no individual introductions
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Post by saintrad on Dec 7, 2007 22:28:49 GMT -6
the seniors this year wanted the POD song "BOOM" and had it coordinated with the fireworks the fire dept sets off everytime we score (etc)... wasnt too bad, but just like 5085 I would rather skip the theatrics and focus on football
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Post by Coach Huey on Dec 7, 2007 22:52:13 GMT -6
as for getting the band involved ... try getting them to play music when you are on defense. get the "timing' of the game down... i.e. when THEY have the ball we want to be loud, disrupt, etc. when WE have the ball, we want to make sure our kids can focus. once band directors feel they are "directing a symphony" during the game then they will do a great job of not only providing good music for fans, but doing it a good times for your team. let them know you WANT them to be a part of the team's win... that the energy they create for the players on the field and for your fans is critical and you need them to play certain types of music at certain times. they, typically, get into it as they feel empowered as they are now a "musical production" rather than just playing random songs. have the players embrace the band ... after the game they should go to the band for the school song, do their "celebration stuff" (the simple, emotional stuff that happens - fist pump, etc.) to the band if they are to do it. make a bond between the band and the players. gay and corny at first but it makes for a good marriage once established
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Post by goldenbear76 on Dec 7, 2007 23:08:34 GMT -6
Lol you might be asking a lot of the band Huey..most of em I have seen have a hard enough time playing the song using the same notes lol.
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Post by brophy on Dec 7, 2007 23:17:37 GMT -6
as for getting the band involved ... try getting them to play music when you are on defense. get the "timing' of the game down... i.e. when THEY have the ball we want to be loud, disrupt, etc. when WE have the ball, we want to make sure our kids can focus. once band directors feel they are "directing a symphony" during the game then they will do a great job of not only providing good music for fans, but doing it a good times for your team. let them know you WANT them to be a part of the team's win... that the energy they create for the players on the field and for your fans is critical and you need them to play certain types of music at certain times. they, typically, get into it as they feel empowered as they are now a "musical production" rather than just playing random songs. have the players embrace the band ... after the game they should go to the band for the school song, do their "celebration stuff" (the simple, emotional stuff that happens - fist pump, etc.) to the band if they are to do it. make a bond between the band and the players. gay and corny at first but it makes for a good marriage once established I tell you, one thing I noticed at games I attended this year, THAT was one thing that was impressive...... many of the team bands (inner-city programs with little or no band-prep.....lots of kids in uniform pants and T-shirts), on cue.....erupting in "Party Like A Rockstar", and "Soujaboy" from the stands when the other team was on offense......really gets the crowd involved. Other places I've been at, the band only came out at halftime.
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Post by coachorr on Dec 8, 2007 1:56:02 GMT -6
My pefect pregame. Ricky Martin's "Cup of Life" blaring in the loud speakers. And we all take the field wearing pink spats.
Yeah, these are just a few examples of why I do not coach socccer, these and the given fact that it is a communist sport.
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Post by coachorr on Dec 8, 2007 2:00:59 GMT -6
Coach Huey, we used to have our drumline lead our linemen out of the locker room. The specialties players were on the field warming up and when we could come to the end zone after the drumline marched us out. We would all rally and take the field into out warmups.
Nothing gets me more pumped than the drumline.
What pumped me up the most about the Virginia Tech deal, is the American flag. Putting that first and recognizing of what it is that allows us to be who we are and play games on Fridays Saturdays and Sundays is awesome.
I should be fired, but this is just the reason that I think prayer before a game is the right thing to do.
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