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Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 9:27 AM
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The music at Tiger games maybe appeals to the players and students who make up 20% of the crowd. Cannot say as a 1984 alum. There's a real generational divide in musical tastes - unsure how that can be addressed, but it's a buzz kill for most fans that reduces fan participation.
A second thing, every spare second of stadium time is filled with recognition of everything from deserving military heroes, to scholarship students, to girl scout cookie standouts. It's too much because it minimizes the real standouts and serves as another buzz kill for 75,000 of 85,000 fans most of who do not even hear what the announcer is stating. Instead of ORANGE-WHITE or C-L-E-M-S-O-N at key game moments, it's polite clapping for Suzy Lancaster who sold the most cookies in the Upstate.
The big board has been cited, but used the right way, it could be a positive. Mainly saying the organic all-for-one feel of Tiger games has been diluted by hundreds of competing advertisements and distractions.
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But a beer or two to keep your buzz! Works for me.***
Oct 6, 2025, 9:29 AM
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Video board speakers way too loud***
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Oct 6, 2025, 9:59 AM
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Were heading for cardboard cutouts
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Oct 7, 2025, 8:24 PM
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of fans in the seats. There’s no point to anyone making noise. Stadium could be empty and it would be just as loud as it is now, because the jumbotron never stops screaming. People just stand around waiting for it to stop.
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I attend a lot of HS football games in the upstate.
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Oct 7, 2025, 8:29 PM
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I always bring my noise cancelling earbuds now to one school in particular. It's as if the SOB is screaming in my face like a drill sergeant for four quarters while I we sit on metal bleachers just trying to stop the motivation to drop acid.
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110%er [3844]
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Do the acid
Oct 7, 2025, 9:04 PM
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Somewhere else though
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:01 AM
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I totally agree with you!
I think pregame we need to do the CLEMSON / TIGERS stadium chant and or the C L E M S O N stadium chant as the buses make their way to the hill. The long video is just not good and does the opposite of getting the crowd excited and loud. Have a former player come back and lead the stadium chant.
The new athletic department extension arm called "fan engagement" is just more videos and recognitions.
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:08 AM
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The issue is our student section is tiny for how much the school has grown. We need to either add more seats for the student section or start kicking out folks who only buy tickets to sell them. 11,000 tickets for 23,000 undergrads is pitiful. A&M has 40,000 student tickets for 52,000 undergrads at college station. Proportionally we Need to bump it up to 16-17k. Our contemporaries have massive student sections. Although our undergrad population isn't massive, it's big enough to warrant more seats in the stadium.
Also agreed with all the weird announcements. Other schools do them occasionally but not nearly to the rate that we do. It's unbearable.
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Dynasty Maker [3491]
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True . . . although I agree that
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:13 AM
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our student section is too small, I do think that's only part of the problem. There's just a general dense-ness about what real "fan engagement" and a fun atmosphere is. More is not always better. More videos and announcement and constant piping in of sounds is not always better. The unified crowd experience isn't the same with it. It's water on the fire of what otherwise could be an electric atmosphere.
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Perfectly said***
Oct 7, 2025, 9:09 PM
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:22 AM
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For better or worse, our students get "free" tickets (insofar as paying a $150 athletic fee per semester gets you access to a lottery for up to four(?) games per year), so the more of those that are ring fenced for students going forward, the less money the school is able to make on seat sales.
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Head Coach [983]
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:29 AM
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Thats thinking far too short term. You keep a young pipeline of fans donating to the school years down the line by getting a good chunk of them in the door while they're here.
The fact we even make all students pay an athletics fee means they should all get free tickets or at least a vast majority. Not this less than half of undergrads number we have right now.
Not to mention to guarantee tickets as a student you have to go out and actually buy them (albeit at a very reduced rate)
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CU Guru [1502]
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:47 AM
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Oh, I agree with you, getting the students in the door with "free" tickets is a great way to get them involved early in their Clemson careers and hopefully engaged and donating for long after graduation (as well as enhancing the game experience when the student section is rocking and rolling). My concern is that this new and exciting world of NIL in which we live means that loss leaders of ten to twenty years may not be in the cards unless the right people are making the decisions.
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Clemson Conqueror [11910]
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:41 AM
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Most of the students are only there to post pictures to social media and to be seen on the video board. They act like they’ve won the lotto if they are shown on the big screen.
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Head Coach [983]
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 11:40 AM
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Other schools have massive score boards and it's not an issue. Our atmosphere was declining well before the new Dabotron was installed.
Saying its young people and their phones is like youngins saying the problem is old people and the fact that they don't cheer, leave early, and just bicker about the "good ol days". In some ways they're both right. Also this isn't 2005 anymore, even my grandfolks and use social media and have smart phones.
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Clemson Conqueror [11910]
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 12:06 PM
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In other stadiums that’s not the main focal point of the stadium. The video board is too big and too close too the field for the venue and overpowers everything else.
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Head Coach [983]
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 7, 2025, 4:34 PM
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it's absolutely front and center at auburn, south carolina, and to a lesser extent VT.
That doesn't stop those schools from having rowdier crowds these days than us.
Also every major stadium these days has one. This beaten horse of "well people just want to be on it!" might have legs 20 years ago but not now.
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Clemsons unique nature
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Oct 6, 2025, 10:14 AM
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Clemson’s unique nature fades as the scoreboard dominates and the cheering/band diminish.
I wore earplugs at Alabama and at Nebraska … such was the decibel level from the scoreboard.
But back to Clemson. Established to provide and inspire education, everything we do and own should aline with that. The scoreboard could. Rather than broadcast unpleasant anything it could send out date-appropriate messages or music … or oration … poetry. Rap and hip hop is poetry … more on that at some later date.
Date appropriate. On John Coltrane’s birthday (when, once every 20 years or so that game day falls on his birthday) some of his music could be presented. Similarly on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Similarly the Marine Corps Hymn on November 10th. It goes on and on … the offensive aspects of the scoreboard can and should be changed into something unique, something that projects the special reality that is Clemson.
There is nothing special about choosing to be common. Aloha …
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 6, 2025, 11:47 AM
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Death Valley has become sterile.
And it's pretty poor for Clemson to not include more students in the ticket allotment. We aren't even that large of an undergrad enrollment relatively speaking.
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I don't care what type of music they play, I'd just like it to be less often AND
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Oct 6, 2025, 12:39 PM
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they need to let the actual band play during game moments rather than a tape replay of the band or piping in some other music over the speakers. ESPECIALLY during the hill tradition. Our games feel like NFL games now, which sucks.
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 7, 2025, 4:21 PM
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I get your point and understand. If you go to the games in person as I do then you will get an email from Clemson that you can submit feedback. I have submitted feedback before about traffic issues.
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Head Coach [977]
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
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Oct 7, 2025, 8:13 PM
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My gosh I agree. It is Sensory Overload from start to finish. More like an NFL game now between plays. It’s like the young generation needs constant lights, music, noise, or something going on, or they are not interested.
Beam me back to a 1:00 game in DV, 1987, and let me just soak it in. Balloons, Band, Mic Man, old hill entrance…..
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Re: Music & Game Atmosphere at Clemson Memorial Stadium
Oct 7, 2025, 9:44 PM
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I agree that Death Valley has lost some of its luster. I miss the balloons, the fast wave, the slow wave, the CLEMSON wave, Orange and White, Clemson and Tigers, and the band playing. Most of these were crowd or student section generated even thought I thought our cheerleaders could have done more with a megaphone. It was easy to make Death Valley loud!
I don't mind some of the recognitions during time outs especially military. I enjoy when we focus on people in the crowd. At Wake, they had a Symba cam with people holding up their babies or little ones, which I thought was great.
We have video screens stationed around the stadium, so it is easy to follow the game no matter where you are sitting. I've been to many away games, and screens are limited or hard to find the play clock. I enjoy our live stats and scores from other games. I like the focus on the drum line in the third quarter which is unique to us.
After being at UNC this past Saturday, I will still take our atmosphere even with some decline. UNC is one of the worst environments that I've seen. It felt like a spring game or less. I remember when we were 3-8, but still the atmosphere was Clemson.
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