Next game- Missouri State at Bradley, Wed. 2/6 7:05 pm

[dogsrus]

The new intro is an absolute disgrace. I have a bad feeling that because of the weather that the crowd will be weak, but the student section will be rowdy.

Agree...the new intro is awful but it only lasts a minute or so. Once that is over we need to get in to it. The crowds have been awful this year. I don't understand. You want quiet go to the library.

[mike radigan]

Agree...the new intro is awful but it only lasts a minute or so. Once that is over we need to get in to it. The crowds have been awful this year. I don't understand. You want quiet go to the library.

Awful is an understatement!

[ER3]

Agreed the new intro is terrible. That song (using the term very loosely) is like nails on a chalk board to me. Nothing catchy about it, completely un-musical, no melody to speak of, no consistent rhythmic element that the crowd could connect with (clapping to the rhythm, tapping their feet, nodding their heads, something...anything...)...
I sure hope the players like it because it completely disconnects the crowd from being involved during that intro...
The song that played over last year's intro wasn't the greatest thing either, IMO...but at least there was a consistent rhythmic, melodic aspect to it that allowed everyone in the crowd to connect to it a little bit and it all built toward the final image with Ruff...
This year's version has no flow, no build up to the end, nothing in the music that anyone could casually connect with (unless you had that CD in your car and knew the song intimately)...It's just an incoherent, thuggish ramble that goes on for a minute or so, ends awkwardly, and then stumbles into the starting lineup...and because people are so disconnected to what is happening in the arena during the intro video, it tends to really slow and subdue everyone's reaction to the much more familiar song that accompanies the starting lineup introduction...

Just my opinion...

[dogsrus]

Agreed the new intro is terrible. That song (using the term very loosely) is like nails on a chalk board to me. Nothing catchy about it, completely un-musical, no melody to speak of, no consistent rhythmic element that the crowd couls connect with (clapping to the rhythm, tapping their feet, nodding their heads, something...anything...)...
I sure hope the players like it because it completely disconnects the crowd from being involved during that intro...
The song that played over last year's intro wasn't the greatest thing either, IMO...but at least there was a consistent rhythmic, melodic aspect to it that allowed everyone in the crowd to connect to it a little bit and it all built toward the final image with Ruff...
This year's version has no flow, no build up to the end, nothing in the music that anyone could casually connect with (unless you had that CD in your car and knew the song intimately)...It's just an incoherent, thuggish ramble that goes on for a minute or so, ends awkwardly, and then stumbles into the starting lineup...and because people are so disconnected to what is happening in the arena during the intro video, it tends to really slow and subdue everyone's reaction to the much more familiar song that accompanies the starting lineup introduction...

Just my opinion...

And a good one at that......I admit I'm not the biggest rap fan but that ain't even rap...its cr@p. Good description of the "song" ER. I mean it is unfair to a song to call it a song or even music. Its simply noise. And like you stated its not even GOOD noise.

BU CHANGE the intro......hmmmmm good idea for a thread.

[Guinness]

Definitely a must win for us. We need to keep in 3rd place with Creighton and SIU.

[ER3]

And a good one at that......I admit I'm not the biggest rap fan but that ain't even rap...its cr@p. Good description of the "song" ER. I mean it is unfair to a song to call it a song or even music. Its simply noise. And like you stated its not even GOOD noise.

BU CHANGE the intro......hmmmmm good idea for a thread.

Yeah...I'm not the biggest rap fan, either...but there are a million other rap songs out there that have some melodic or rhythmic aspect that would at least allow the crowd to get familiar enough with the song after a few plays to feel like they could connect with it a little bit...
This mess that they currently play has absolutely no hook in it that anyone can get familiar with...
The whole intro song just reminds me of some awful Under Armor commercial where a middle linebacker is running around in a compression shirt and eye black screaming..."Not in my house!!!...We must defend this house!!!...we must defend this house!!!"...umm, OK, lighten up, Francis.

[Da Coach]

Travel problems for the Bears. They are stuck in Springfield, waiting for a bus ride up to Peoria. Their team plane was diverted there because of the weather.

http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/BLOGS0701/80206034

[Da Coach]

Unfortunately, for the people who attended the Gameday luncheon that was scheduled at the East Peoria Embassy Suites, they didn't get to hear Barry speak.

If anyone here was at that luncheon, what was said? Who spoke?

[ser_solace]

Listening to the WMBD broadcast, and apparently, some of the players filled-in to entertain the crowd for the gameday luncehon,