- April 27th, 2006, 8:23 pm
#13618
This deserved to be stated in its own thread. Football season is going to be amazing. You guys are the most spirited fans of anyone so you deserve to know:
1) New uniforms - First we were just going to get new away uniforms and wear the red ones at home. However, Barber said that we're starting something new with a new building, new turf, new coach, new attitude, why wear last year's uniforms. Rocco is a traditionalist so, while I don't know what they're going to look like, I have the feeling it'll be in the Penn St "basic/bland" mold. The uniforms will be Nike, however, I'm 99% sure we won't hafta worry about the mismatched sleeves.
2) Bus trips - These seem to be a go. That makes me extremely happy.
3) Concessions - They are working on improving the current concessions or maybe adding more. They're also talking about tile in the bathrooms and little things like that to make it nicer.
4) Field - We are getting top of the line FieldTurf. Only something like 4 other places in the country have this type of turf, that's how new it is. UNC is currently putting some down. It'll go in this summer and is gonna run us a pretty penny.
5) Replica jerseys - They're in the process of getting replica jerseys made. They want to have jerseys that students/alumni can wear along with kids' jerseys.
6) Scoreboard - The current message thing will be fixed this year. However, they are looking very seriously into a new scoreboard. The current one is a light bulb board (or something like that) and they want one of the newer, higher quality scoreboards. This won't happen this year but look for it in the coming years.
7) Opening night - This is freaking awesome. They are currently trying to get someone to parachute from a plane into the stadium on opening night to the 50yd line to bring in the game ball. It'll then be used in the kickoff, and after the game be given to Coach Rocco to commemorate his first win and the new era.
Yell practice - This is my baby. I love it. We're going to try to do some type of "yell practice" deal on Fridays before games at 12:30am (curfew). We'll go over different cheers and other things (there were a lot of ideas for new chants, cheers, etc tonight). This would be our time to work things out between the students and the band and the cheerleaders so that on Saturday, all of the students are doing the same thing, and not 14 different cheers at once.
9) Closing campus - The idea was brought up about shutting down intramurals and LaHaye and other things around campus during games. This way the 300 kids working out in LaHaye won't be able to and will probably come to the game.
10) LUnatics - Everyone seemed to like this. That makes me extremely happy. It's not official but I'm pretty confident that this'll be the "nickname" o fthe group.
11) Pom Poms - They're in the process of getting something like 12,000 pom poms for football season.
12) Tailgating - They want it to be huge. They're going to work with that food people at LU to help with student tailgating but they also want fan/alumni tailgating as well.
13) Concerts - We want to have campus bands to play during tailgating before the games, kind of to create a party atmosphere. Then there's the possibility of getting up and coming Christian bands to come in and play after the games. This will keep students there to the end of the game and will draw in more people.
14) Advertisement - They're working on a ton of different things around campus to get the word out of when games are. Not only are they going to put the schedules in the dorms, but things around campus as well. There's also talk of working things with Facebook and the club's own website.
Overall, this will be the greatest thing to ever happen to Liberty sports in terms of student involvement. This will be amazing. Every game will be exciting. I just thought I'd pass the word along.
1) New uniforms - First we were just going to get new away uniforms and wear the red ones at home. However, Barber said that we're starting something new with a new building, new turf, new coach, new attitude, why wear last year's uniforms. Rocco is a traditionalist so, while I don't know what they're going to look like, I have the feeling it'll be in the Penn St "basic/bland" mold. The uniforms will be Nike, however, I'm 99% sure we won't hafta worry about the mismatched sleeves.
2) Bus trips - These seem to be a go. That makes me extremely happy.
3) Concessions - They are working on improving the current concessions or maybe adding more. They're also talking about tile in the bathrooms and little things like that to make it nicer.
4) Field - We are getting top of the line FieldTurf. Only something like 4 other places in the country have this type of turf, that's how new it is. UNC is currently putting some down. It'll go in this summer and is gonna run us a pretty penny.
5) Replica jerseys - They're in the process of getting replica jerseys made. They want to have jerseys that students/alumni can wear along with kids' jerseys.
6) Scoreboard - The current message thing will be fixed this year. However, they are looking very seriously into a new scoreboard. The current one is a light bulb board (or something like that) and they want one of the newer, higher quality scoreboards. This won't happen this year but look for it in the coming years.
7) Opening night - This is freaking awesome. They are currently trying to get someone to parachute from a plane into the stadium on opening night to the 50yd line to bring in the game ball. It'll then be used in the kickoff, and after the game be given to Coach Rocco to commemorate his first win and the new era.
Yell practice - This is my baby. I love it. We're going to try to do some type of "yell practice" deal on Fridays before games at 12:30am (curfew). We'll go over different cheers and other things (there were a lot of ideas for new chants, cheers, etc tonight). This would be our time to work things out between the students and the band and the cheerleaders so that on Saturday, all of the students are doing the same thing, and not 14 different cheers at once.9) Closing campus - The idea was brought up about shutting down intramurals and LaHaye and other things around campus during games. This way the 300 kids working out in LaHaye won't be able to and will probably come to the game.
10) LUnatics - Everyone seemed to like this. That makes me extremely happy. It's not official but I'm pretty confident that this'll be the "nickname" o fthe group.
11) Pom Poms - They're in the process of getting something like 12,000 pom poms for football season.
12) Tailgating - They want it to be huge. They're going to work with that food people at LU to help with student tailgating but they also want fan/alumni tailgating as well.
13) Concerts - We want to have campus bands to play during tailgating before the games, kind of to create a party atmosphere. Then there's the possibility of getting up and coming Christian bands to come in and play after the games. This will keep students there to the end of the game and will draw in more people.
14) Advertisement - They're working on a ton of different things around campus to get the word out of when games are. Not only are they going to put the schedules in the dorms, but things around campus as well. There's also talk of working things with Facebook and the club's own website.
Overall, this will be the greatest thing to ever happen to Liberty sports in terms of student involvement. This will be amazing. Every game will be exciting. I just thought I'd pass the word along.
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