Honest question: for what? To feel more like you? we? belong to some kind of neat club?
Let me ask this another way: if the team ran the table and won the natty next year and there was no change in fan support, would you care? If you were at the game with 300 fans while Washington bent over Alabama in a sea of crimson would you enjoy the game any less?
You know where I'm going: Miami won 5 natties and were within a hair of at least two more while playing in a leased rust bucket of stadium in a bad location with fans who would show up for big name and consequential games only. Their fans also don't travel very well, and never did.
So I assume you're not saying that UW fans need to "step it up" to win the natty. Because I don't believe that to be the case.
That's literally why people follow college football instead of the NFL. If we're bashing pageantry and traditions I'm actually out
And yet, for reasons I don't really appreciate, the NFL dominates over cfb. You may not be saying that it isn't; your comment was a little ambiguous on that point.
In my travels, there are segments of some fan bases that really consume that part of it that you call "pageantry and traditions", and others that don't, and yet still things change anyway. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate tradition, but I certainly don't eat and breath it the way a lot of people do around here. I don't hate all things past ... if it were up to me, I'd go back to the traditional bowls and vote system because it was more interesting. But here we are anyway with NIL and the rest of it.
So, how do you connect "stepping up the fanbase" and the club to which some want to be initiated and pageantry and tradition? Does that mean that because Michigan's fan base is perceived as being, what, more fanatic, that they have better tradition and pageantry?
Well I'm not gonna write a book but trying to beat Michigan by running the ball was never UWs path to victory. You with me? If you want a good product then doing the exact same thing as another league but worse is not going to do it. CFB needs to be erratic, crazy and mysterious or you become the G league.
Oh I probably agree with you. I think you meant that for another post though. I was just talking about the fanbase comment.
Honest question: for what? To feel more like you? we? belong to some kind of neat club?
Let me ask this another way: if the team ran the table and won the natty next year and there was no change in fan support, would you care? If you were at the game with 300 fans while Washington bent over Alabama in a sea of crimson would you enjoy the game any less?
You know where I'm going: Miami won 5 natties and were within a hair of at least two more while playing in a leased rust bucket of stadium in a bad location with fans who would show up for big name and consequential games only. Their fans also don't travel very well, and never did.
So I assume you're not saying that UW fans need to "step it up" to win the natty. Because I don't believe that to be the case.
Has nothing to do with winning. I'm talking about a representation of the level of fan engagement. I don't want a shitty Miami fan base that only shows up during Natty runs. The AD needs to create more of a culture where people show up win or lose. Might not be possible in an urban city, but that's my point.
Totally agree with an above poster who said that there's a lost generation, too.
I get it, honestly, I do. And I wouldn't score UW's fanbase as thus. I just started the question with why it matters. Maybe it just matters because you and others like it that way, which is fine.
I tend to agree with your supposition that it's a lot harder to do in an urban environment with multitudes of distractions.
UW’s effort resulting in the fans and team sleeping by using Purple Reign to drum up excitement
Purple reign should not ever be played unless it is a victory celebration. Why is this so hard to understand for ppl.
Been to various environments. Uw crowds usually understand defense and situations better than most. Kick offs are as cool as anything anyone else does. Other than that you're right. The band and crowd could do a better job of being in sync for some stuff.
The purple reign shit Is so weird. Not even close to a pump-up song. From Minnesota, not Washington. Purple haze is right there, too, and from a Seattle artist. Send me my check @ramming
Prince died and so a lot of gen z and millennials pretended to like his music for a few months so leopard print’s marketing machine decided to capitalize and invent a tradition.
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I tend to agree with your supposition that it's a lot harder to do in an urban environment with multitudes of distractions.