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OT: Great column about nonstop noise at arenas

I honestly don't have any issue with the basketball game experience, and the music is one of the major reasons my son loves coming to the games.

My initial thought was "this guy sounds old"... Then I looked him up, and sure enough. It's like an Andy Rooney gripe piece.
 
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His premise is flawed in that those reads help pay the bills for the program - not just the game day promo staff. Many of those folks (not the leads) are interns or entry level and don’t make a ton anyway.
 
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Penn State for many years had a “gameday experience” director at the Bryce Jordan Center. He was a local radio personality who caught on with PSU and followed in the footsteps of the innovative Guido d’Elia after he semi-retired.
Except the new kid had no feel for the games or the sports. He just filled every second of non-playing time with prefab noise at deafening levels.
The guy finally moved on a couple of years ago and now at least the decibels are down a smidge. But there still is not a moment when you can speak to the person next to you.

Wasn’t the complaint here that RU hired a guy from PSU? Is this the same guy referenced in the article?
 
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RU205 said:
From the article:

Penn State for many years had a “gameday experience” director at the Bryce Jordan Center. He was a local radio personality who caught on with PSU and followed in the footsteps of the innovative Guido d’Elia after he semi-retired.
Except the new kid had no feel for the games or the sports. He just filled every second of non-playing time with prefab noise at deafening levels.
The guy finally moved on a couple of years ago and now at least the decibels are down a smidge. But there still is not a moment when you can speak to the person next to you.

Wasn’t the complaint here that RU hired a guy from PSU? Is this the same guy referenced in the article?
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yep.

To his credit though, he is the one who came up with the Boardwalk at the football games.

PJ Mullen - Senior Associate Athletic Director of Marketing, Game Presentation & Fan Experience - Staff Directory - Rutgers University Athletics

PJ Mullen joined Rutgers Athletics in the summer of 2021 as the Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing and Game Presentation. He is the primary marketing contact
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MrsScrew said:
yep.

To his credit though, he is the one who came up with the Boardwalk at the football games.

PJ Mullen - Senior Associate Athletic Director of Marketing, Game Presentation & Fan Experience - Staff Directory - Rutgers University Athletics

PJ Mullen joined Rutgers Athletics in the summer of 2021 as the Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing and Game Presentation. He is the primary marketing contact
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I believe PJ handles things at a “macro” level for us, however, not a “micro” level. I mentioned something to him while discussing the bowl game party. Will talk to him more about it, leading up to and at the party, I promise!
 
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RU205 said:
From the article:

Penn State for many years had a “gameday experience” director at the Bryce Jordan Center. He was a local radio personality who caught on with PSU and followed in the footsteps of the innovative Guido d’Elia after he semi-retired.
Except the new kid had no feel for the games or the sports. He just filled every second of non-playing time with prefab noise at deafening levels.
The guy finally moved on a couple of years ago and now at least the decibels are down a smidge. But there still is not a moment when you can speak to the person next to you.

Wasn’t the complaint here that RU hired a guy from PSU? Is this the same guy referenced in the article?
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He’s a clown
 
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Football is pretty bad. Just to hold a conversation with your seatmates about the play that just happened, it has to elevate to a screaming match. Play whatever the fvck you want, I don't care, I'm not going to pay attention. But at least lower the decibels so I can have a civil conversation with the person sitting next to me.
 
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This is up there with not being able to hear or watch anything sports related without a betting line, parlay, + this - that, bonus bets, etc being mentioned or on the screen.

It’s sickening to be honest. I don’t give two sh*TS about betting. I just want to see competition for the love of the game and/or team.

Sometimes I feel like I’m in the minority with regards to the world of betting on sporting events.

GO RU
 
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AreYouNUTS said:
I believe PJ handles things at a “macro” level for us, however, not a “micro” level. I mentioned something to him while discussing the bowl game party. Will talk to him more about it, leading up to and at the party, I promise!
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Tell him we can't "make some noise!!!" if the damn horn is blowing during football games!
#TheHornMustGo
 
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koleszar said:
Football is pretty bad. Just to hold a conversation with your seatmates about the play that just happened, it has to elevate to a screaming match. Play whatever the fvck you want, I don't care, I'm not going to pay attention. But at least lower the decibels so I can have a civil conversation with the person sitting next to me.
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Football volume is terrible. I don’t mind basketball. For basketball games I think the band plays more and thr crowd is into it more throughout the game.
 
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Its reflecting the real world especially among the young who need constant stimulation whether on their phone or in their buds

The older folk know how it use to be and its never going to return. In fact asking for tge a happy medium on music and noise is futile. This is the new normal
 
My ears can handle the RAC at its loudest. Concerts like Tool or Rage ATM? No problem.

But this past Saturday at the Rock, the goddamn PA announcer's voice was splitting my eardrums. They had it turned up past 11. Brutal and unnecessary.
 
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bac2therac said:
bac2therac said:
Its reflecting the real world especially among the young who need constant stimulation whether on their phone or in their buds

The older folk know how it use to be and its never going to return. In fact asking for tge a happy medium on music and noise is futile. This is the new normal
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Maybe, but don’t discount the power of the industry behind this. A company has success selling the “game day experience” concept to one school, then another, and so on and soon enough the AD can’t risk being left out of what everyone else is doing. And Hobbs has certainly been sucked in. But I have spoken to millennials and younger about the mechanized, constant blast of sound and they hate it too. At least those I have spoken too.
 
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Scarlet Shack said:
i miss the pep band playing Linus and Lucy …yea , I guess im old
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When that was good, if I remember correctly, we had a keyboard and bass player. Made a big difference. When the current pep band plays they are damn good, just need more of them.
 
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This shit is unbearable. All these ad dollars spent and no actual tangible benefit to those spending it.
 
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bac2therac said:
Its reflecting the real world especially among the young who need constant stimulation whether on their phone or in their buds

The older folk know how it use to be and its never going to return. In fact asking for tge a happy medium on music and noise is futile. This is the new normal
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Younger people hate this too. This is how it is because of older out of touch people (the ones running marketing departments) thinking they know what younger people want.
 
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I haven’t been to a game at the RAC in a while but didn’t notice what this article is saying in basketball.

I just went to a Pitt basketball game this past Saturday. Felt very college in a good way. None of the excess annoyance. Lot of band and cheerleaders and their student section called the zoo doing their thing. My kids loved it.

Football is a different story.
 
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If agreeing with this makes me an old man, so be it.

"It’s a plague of gibberish inflicted by an entire industry of marketing schmucks who’ve infested the arenas and stadia and won’t go away. And it’s killing everything that used to be great about going to a college game."
 
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Organizations fatten then atrophy so staffers are encouraged to create more tasks.

This comes in the form of a corporate person imagining new reports to impose on subordinates so the person can brag about the new work in a performance review. A college football coach who needs 88 assistants (Schiano) is the same. A college sports experience person who measures performance based on volume of noise and distraction created during the event.

When I am driving kids around all weekend and listening to Rutgers football on the radio, the number of times I can't hear the commentators due to the horn is too high.

If Hobbs is smart, he was silence these noise makers, tell them STFU, and let the players and crowd lead the game experience.
 
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