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Hall of Famer [8290]
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Hill Entrance
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:35 PM
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Anybody else feel like it’s not as exciting anymore?
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Game Changer [1770]
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Yep, I agree
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:39 PM
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it used to be about the players and the team, now it’s all a bout the coach! Very sad!
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Clemson Sports Icon [54722]
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I think he retires after this year.***
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:40 PM
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National Champion [7157]
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it was all Jeff Scott and Brent Venables
Sep 18, 2023, 7:05 AM
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i think if it happens now is a fine time and Riley can have the keys
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Standout [341]
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Your beyond delusional***
Sep 18, 2023, 9:04 AM
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Standout [341]
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Youre***
Sep 18, 2023, 9:20 AM
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Clemson Sports Icon [58865]
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Re: I think he retires after this year.***
Sep 18, 2023, 1:29 PM
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Maybe he will decide to adapt to this version of college football. Don't you think he would want to leave on a good note?
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Playmaker [365]
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Re: Yep, I agree
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Sep 18, 2023, 8:29 AM
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Some of y'all just sitting around looking for shyatt to cry about. Whaaaaa,no balloons,whaaaa. Music too loud,whaaaaaaaaaa. Pissies. We got the best coach in the country, if he wants to run down the hill and you don't like it f"off.
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Clemson Sports Icon [54722]
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Sure isn't. Coincides with the limits put on The Hill
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:40 PM
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in terms of fan #s. The crowd overall hasn't been as loud, either. Even last years USuC game, we weren't as loud as 2017 and before. It seems that in 2018 everything turned corporate, the loud rowdy fans have since been priced out.
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Hall of Famer [8290]
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Re: Sure isn't. Coincides with the limits put on The Hill
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:46 PM
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I feel like the timing is off. Too much standing around awkwardly. I also think the balloons made it a better experience and when they used to run down all together instead of skipping down 2 at a time.
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Clemson Sports Icon [54722]
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Gotta be safe. They're using the buddy system***
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:52 PM
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110%er [3673]
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Re: Sure isn't. Coincides with the limits put on The Hill
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Sep 18, 2023, 6:50 AM
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The timing is definitely off. Nothing against "We Will Rock You" but it is not part of our traditional entrance. Tiger Band should not have to wait around on the audio crew to finish playing a generic rock song.
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Dynasty Maker [3272]
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"Generic rock song"
Sep 18, 2023, 10:44 AM
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Excatly. That's why I do have something against it. I've always thought the song was pretty overdone and corny. Maybe it wasn't considered so in it's time, but it seems to overt and I think it clashes with the school spirit of Tiger Rag and isn't nearly as exciting as Tiger Rag. Annoyingly generic.
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Dynasty Maker [3272]
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correction: "too overt" ***
Sep 18, 2023, 11:10 AM
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Athletic Dir [1161]
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Re: Sure isn't. Coincides with the limits put on The Hill
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Sep 18, 2023, 8:55 AM
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The main part that I miss from years back was the way they came down. They rushed down as a team. DABO would need a good head start if that were the case now. It’s still exciting to see the busses( from our view) pulling up to the gate as the band is preparing to form the corridor for the team. Who cares what others think. It’s our entrance and it’s still the best. Still gets on plenty of advertisements and videos. Go Tigers!!!
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Campus Hero [13485]
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Honestly I think the whole sound system blaring
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Sep 17, 2023, 1:13 PM
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through the speakers has had an effect of making the crowd less engaged. They seem much more in sync with the band to me.
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Game Changer [2080]
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Re: Honestly I think the whole sound system blaring
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Sep 17, 2023, 9:28 PM
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ABSOLUTELY
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Dynasty Maker [3272]
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Standout [341]
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Dynasty Maker [3272]
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I don't know what you mean about 2018 in particular . . .
Sep 18, 2023, 10:55 AM
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but I do agree that things have become more and more corporate, and as a result, less unique per each school and less and authentic and exciting. I actually think this trend applies to the college football world generally, not just Clemson/The Hill. I'm not sure I could pinpoint it to a particular year, but over time I've noticed this too.
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Top TigerNet [28710]
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Dunno...
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:41 PM
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Hearing Weapon X on the hill intro video made me want to run through a wall!!!!!
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Paw Warrior [4601]
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Re: Hill Entrance
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:42 PM
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Too much happy skipping and prancing down the hill, not enough storming the field like angry warriors. Also the limited hill fan numbers is still lame.
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Rival Killer [3058]
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Re: Hill Entrance
Sep 18, 2023, 7:24 AM
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The hill was packed Saturday night
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Clemson Icon [27801]
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The timing of it seems disjointed now
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Sep 17, 2023, 12:48 PM
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Also too much focus on the bus part of it. That was never a real part of the experience until espn showed it on TV before the Georgia game. It’s just meant to be how the team gets to the hill and then everything is focused there.
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110%er [5330]
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Re: The timing of it seems disjointed now
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Sep 17, 2023, 10:47 PM
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What's wrong with the timing though? The band starts playing the Orange Bowl March when the team arrives at the top of the hill. About a minute later, they fire the cannon. It's been this way for a long time. Other than removing the balloons and playing We Will Rock You before they arrive, there's literally nothing that's different than it was 10 years ago.
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Solid Orange [1392]
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I think it at least seems off because...
Sep 18, 2023, 9:04 AM
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we go from the video (which I'm not a fan of this year), to "We Will Rock You", and then it just seems like an awkward transition back to the band. I think if they left out either the hype video or "We Will Rock You" that things would be better.
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Re: Hill Entrance
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Sep 17, 2023, 1:06 PM
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It was way more exciting when a team like SCAR runs all the way to the bottom of the hill , runs into a couple of band members, taunts our Tigers and starts a brawl. LOL.
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Clemson Icon [27801]
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that was a classic***
Sep 17, 2023, 9:10 PM
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Dynasty Maker [3347]
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Re: Hill Entrance
Sep 18, 2023, 7:25 AM
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^^^^^ I happened to be sitting right behind the Carolina players at the bottom of the hill in the North lower deck at that game. We normally didn’t sit there.
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110%er [5330]
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Re: Hill Entrance
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Sep 17, 2023, 10:47 PM
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No. Maybe it's because you aren't a kid watching anymore. Other than removing the balloons or adding We Will Rock You, it's literally the same as it was ten years ago, or ten before that.
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Varsity [100]
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Im getting to old for games i think
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Sep 18, 2023, 12:08 AM
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That Im a Longhorn who'd rather be at DKR on Saturdays but who lives here and has access to a bazillion seats to all games makes this sound blasphemous but:
A. The Hill's never been exciting. And logistically it makes no sense. warmup, leave field, climb on bus, suck bus fumes, ride to other end of field, get off bus, run down hill back onto field. It's a career-ending injury waiting to happen is what it is.
2. Too much going on on the field before and during game. Band, dancers, hangers on, lights, pyro, jumbotron. Endless hype.
Z. Players celebrating every routinr tackle, catch, first down ... just go back to the huddle and shaddup.
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Standout [341]
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You havent had a day of fun in your life***
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Sep 18, 2023, 4:00 AM
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110%er [3722]
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Re: Im getting to old for games i think
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Sep 18, 2023, 6:26 AM
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The only thing exciting to come out of Austin and their Big Drum and Cow tradition was when Bevo got after UGA!!
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Standout [341]
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Uh I think he means he is old fuddy dud by longhorn***
Sep 18, 2023, 9:09 AM
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Dynasty Maker [3272]
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What?
Sep 18, 2023, 11:11 AM
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A moose? LOL, what did I miss?
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Dynasty Maker [3347]
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Dynasty Maker [3272]
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"A" is dim and misses the point. 2 & Z are spot on . . .
Sep 18, 2023, 10:51 AM
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The logistical inconvenience only highlights the point of it all. They go through the logistical inconvenience precisely b/c it IS exciting. They've been doing it for almost 60 years. I'm pretty sure it isn't that high risk (which isn't to say no-risk).
Playing football, on the other hand, IS a career-ending injury waiting to happen.
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Legend [6681]
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Re: Hill Entrance
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Sep 18, 2023, 12:56 AM
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Here’s the thing about the hill entrance: if the game time is just right and the team gets there at just the right time and the game has just the right amount of meaning/emotion and you yourself are in just the right mood and seat and you can hear the band and the cannon clearly it can send chills down your spine. It was never meant to be an earth shattering event 7 times a year. It’s a tradition and is performed a certain way by tradition.
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Legend [6874]
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Re: Hill Entrance
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Sep 18, 2023, 6:59 AM
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They need to run down together as a team. It has become individualized. To spread out to have the effect it used to have.
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Clemson Sports Icon [58794]
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Balloons!!!
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Sep 18, 2023, 7:29 AM
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It is missing the balloons!!! Seriously missing the balloons.
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Re: Hill Entrance
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Sep 18, 2023, 7:36 AM
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ONCE YOU THINK YOU HAVE READ THE STUPIDEST SH!T EVER ON THIS SITE, SOMEONE COMES THROUGH. CONGRATS, THIS SITE NEVER FAILS TO DISSAPOINT WITH MORONIC DRIVEL.
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Orange Blooded [2208]
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Re: Hill Entrance
Sep 18, 2023, 9:02 AM
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It's a great entrance. I think one thing that has effected my excitement is that I feel like we're supposed to dominate the team we're playing now 95 percent of the time. I'm disappointed if we don't play very well and we usually don't.
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Standout [341]
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What are you talking about weve only had two home losses since 2014
Sep 18, 2023, 9:19 AM
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The facts contradict your assertion
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Rival Killer [2790]
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Re: Hill Entrance
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Sep 18, 2023, 10:52 AM
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Not me - it's as great as ever - best entrance in CFB and all of sports I'd say!
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Heisman Winner [83899]
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COOT***
Sep 18, 2023, 11:12 AM
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Starter [260]
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Re: COOT***
Sep 18, 2023, 2:40 PM
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Hey let’s put the tiger behind a shower curtain and blow some smoke and fire and then pull the curtain back…wouldn’t that be exciting?
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