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Leveling up the fanbase
BleachedAnusDawg
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The on the field stuff has been beaten to death. We? need better depth along the defensive line, more speed at linebacker, more RB depth, blah blah.
Being at the game, UW has a lot of ground to make up with regards to the fan traditions of the blue blood B1G schools. I hate saying that the day after the game because the UW fans were loud and proud, but that's the first big game I've attended against a blue blood and it was a different environment. Not sure how the AD can grow that stuff when they run corporate ads and blast music during timeouts instead of letting the band play. Road games next few years are going to be wild for those who can go to them.
Being at the game, UW has a lot of ground to make up with regards to the fan traditions of the blue blood B1G schools. I hate saying that the day after the game because the UW fans were loud and proud, but that's the first big game I've attended against a blue blood and it was a different environment. Not sure how the AD can grow that stuff when they run corporate ads and blast music during timeouts instead of letting the band play. Road games next few years are going to be wild for those who can go to them.
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Late teen to 30’s I would guess
UW’s effort resulting in the fans and team sleeping by using Purple Reign to drum up excitement
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.
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.
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?
Totally agree with an above poster who said that there's a lost generation, too.