What's Needed At The Alerus?

[Und Princess]

Just now, F'n Hawks said:

Looking ahead to our home games this season, I wonder if they will switch anything up. New 3rd down or touchdown song?

I know the helmet isn’t usable anymore but they could improve the intro compared to the last couple of years. Would be nice to have a dedicated song to run out to, and actually show on the Jumbotron the opening of the locker room doors with Schmidt leading the boys out.

I wonder if they can get a more updated inflatable helmet with the Hawk logo?

[UND-FB-FAN]

1 hour ago, F'n Hawks said:

Would be nice to have a dedicated song to run out to, and actually show on the Jumbotron the opening of the locker room doors with Schmidt leading the boys out.

It is a must. I’m optimistic…

[Sioux94]

The first 30 seconds of this would be cool for the hallway walk....might have to be mashed into something else then when they run out onto the field as the apex.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wxm0POHBE&si=ZhHipTPrMPn_niRs&feature=xapp_share

[SIOUXFAN97]

but please don't have the coaches lead the team on the field anymore...nohting is more intimiadating than a 60 year old man with a bum hip trying to look tough for the camera...captains with the flags lead em on.

[Und Princess]

5 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

but please don't have the coaches lead the team on the field anymore...nohting is more intimiadating than a 60 year old man with a bum hip trying to look tough for the camera...captains with the flags lead em on.

Or we should have Fighting Hawk and the Cheerleaders lead them onto the field.  Fighting Hawk doesn't  need to stand on a Ranger plus that can be dangerous. Plus we should have Fighting Hawk carry the flag onto the field.

[F'n Hawks]

32 minutes ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

but please don't have the coaches lead the team on the field anymore...nohting is more intimiadating than a 60 year old man with a bum hip trying to look tough for the camera...captains with the flags lead em on.

Have Schmidt lead them in the hallway, captains can lead them once they are at the entrance to get on to the field 

[FSSD]

701 - lead them onto the field.

[F'n Hawks]

I have some friends that are coming to the first game. Would it be best to recommend buying day of to avoid Ticketmaster fees? What time on game day is the box office open for walk ups?

[SIOUXFAN97]

they still using the metal detectors?

[F'n Hawks]

Intro still sucks 

[fightingsioux4life]

Half the speakers don't work.

[wheelsup]

I’m always amazed by how bad the sound system at the alerus sucks.. total bush league.  Davies high school has a better sound system. 
 

if only the alerus admin had a few months to prepare for the season opener 😀

[Big Green]

Anyone else notice the out of town scoreboard showed North Dakota vs Tennessee st and South Dakota vs Montana st, rather than NDSU and SDSU.  I think they finally fixed it in the 2nd half.  Need to do better.  

[LH Golfer]

Will the parking situation improve? Is there an overflow lot? 

[UND-FB-FAN]

13 hours ago, F'n Hawks said:

Intro still sucks 

Team is hungrier than ever and looks good. Need to improve the kicking game and the overall depth of the team, but Schmidt and coaches are doing their job well thus far. 

As for the Alerus Center and UND marketing/in-game production…. this needs to improve. I suspect the Alerus will figure out the sound system as this was game #1, but come on, get the intro and the “701 tunnel walk” figured the f*ck out. The geriatric unit in the Alerus is half sleeping by the time the team hits the field…. No juice at all. It’s one thing to get the butts in the seats, but then you’ve got to be able to juice up and entertain those butts in the seats to keep them in the game. Not to mention, f*ck those people that don’t want to stand and get into the game. They can watch the game at home on their TV in their wheelchair if they want to try suppress excitement around them. 

[F'n Hawks]

5 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Team is hungrier than ever and looks good. Need to improve the kicking game and the overall depth of the team, but Schmidt and coaches are doing their job well thus far. 

As for the Alerus Center and UND marketing/in-game production…. this needs to improve. I suspect the Alerus will figure out the sound system as this was game #1, but come on, get the intro and the “701 tunnel walk” figured the f*ck out. The geriatric unit in the Alerus is half sleeping by the time the team hits the field…. No juice at all. It’s one thing to get the butts in the seats, but then you’ve got to be able to juice up and entertain those butts in the seats to keep them in the game. Not to mention, f*ck those people that don’t want to stand and get into the game. They can watch the game at home on their TV in their wheelchair if they want to try suppress excitement around them. 

Great crowd last night. I’ve been saying this for the last couple of years, how do you not have a camera showing the tunnel walk and a dedicated song to run out to?

[UND-FB-FAN]

3 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said:

Great crowd last night. I’ve been saying this for the last couple of years, how do you not have a camera showing the tunnel walk and a dedicated song to run out to?

Absolutely unacceptable. Alerus Center and UND need to continue to hear about this until there is change. It would ONLY improve the product so foolish not to do it. Only barrier is it requires “work”, but they need to do their damn job … or find somebody else who will get the job done. 

[F'n Hawks]

4 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Absolutely unacceptable. Alerus Center and UND need to continue to hear about this until there is change. It would ONLY improve the product so foolish not to do it. Only barrier is it requires “work”, but they need to do their damn job … or find somebody else who will get the job done. 

Every school that is worth a damn gets this right. As much as I hate NDSU, running out to Thunderstruck is really cool

[wheelsup]

Pretty much every school that knows what they are doing figures this out.. NDSu clearly has. This would be unacceptable at UND hockey.. I’m not sure why we mail it in for UND football and allow this significantly below average audio and intro.  It’s really pretty embarrassing. 

[Nodak1883]

3 hours ago, wheelsup said:

Pretty much every school that knows what they are doing figures this out.. NDSu clearly has. This would be unacceptable at UND hockey.. I’m not sure why we mail it in for UND football and allow this significantly below average audio and intro.  It’s really pretty embarrassing. 

Honestly the whole pre-game sequence from when the band goes onto the field to the team coming out could use a whole rebuild. It feels dated and just doesn't get the crowd hyped the way it should. 

I remember going to a game back in 2016/2017 when the hockey team had the Hall of Fame game, since some of the band didn't travel, they just had them line up to create a channel for the team to run through (i.e. Minnesota, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Michigan, etc.) and obviously didn't play any music. For music they played "Enter Sandman" I think which the team came out late on because nobody told the team, yeah listening to "Enter Sandman" by Metallica until the very end when the team ran out while in the dark was an interesting experience and then immediately going into a recording of "Stand Up and Cheer". 

While it had promise, the downside to it was that the team was just awful back then and games required at minimum 5 cups of coffee to get to half time and leave because it was blowout in favor of the opponent which nobody knew because we were in the in Big Sky conference, and nobody fan wise really showed up back then. 

At minimum we should at least get a camera of the hallway walk with either "Enter Sandman" or "Welcome to the Jungle" next season. It says something when High School football teams can get an intro song and UND is like "best we got is something" 

[SIOUXFAN97]

how about the team goes up to the concourse level and each section gets 20 players and they all enter the field from the stands getting high fives on the way down the ailes to the field?

[GoodGood]

I remember at the SDSU game last year, a couple of high schoolers who were SDSU fans were laughing at our whole pre game thing. Hard reset is needed 

[Und Princess]

1 minute ago, SIOUXFAN97 said:

how about the team goes up to the concourse level and each section gets 20 players and they all enter the field from the stands getting high fives on the way down the ailes to the field?

I'm a Huge fan of your idea!!! @SIOUXFAN97 It's would be pretty AWESOME!!!

[UND-FB-FAN]

2 hours ago, GoodGood said:

I remember at the SDSU game last year, a couple of high schoolers who were SDSU fans were laughing at our whole pre game thing. Hard reset is needed 

The truth can hurt. Need a hard reset. Template to follow is pretty straightforward, and I’m afraid it’s not players walking down the stands …….. holy

[Kab]

9 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Team is hungrier than ever and looks good. Need to improve the kicking game and the overall depth of the team, but Schmidt and coaches are doing their job well thus far. 

As for the Alerus Center and UND marketing/in-game production…. this needs to improve. I suspect the Alerus will figure out the sound system as this was game #1, but come on, get the intro and the “701 tunnel walk” figured the f*ck out. The geriatric unit in the Alerus is half sleeping by the time the team hits the field…. No juice at all. It’s one thing to get the butts in the seats, but then you’ve got to be able to juice up and entertain those butts in the seats to keep them in the game. Not to mention, f*ck those people that don’t want to stand and get into the game. They can watch the game at home on their TV in their wheelchair if they want to try suppress excitement around them. 

Take out the geriatrics and half the crowd is gone.

the oldies in our section stand and yell as much as anyone.

at least most won’t have hangovers the next day