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I am a proud Iowa alumnus and rabid Hawk fan who just started grad school at Boston College this semester. As a preferred way of associating with my new institution, I attended the BC-Florida State game last night. The game was an awful drubbing; I certainly won't get accused of bandwagon-jumping. There was, though, one thing I really liked about the game atmosphere at BC:
During most TV timeouts, instead of blaring recorded music over the PA, the BC marching band played. I know this issue (as it pertains to Kinnick) has been talked about before on the board a little bit, but BC has a little twist. The band here is mic'd up and itself played through the PA. The increased amplitude, I feel, gave the band's music an edge (esp. in percussion) that really filled the stadium more than the Hawkeye Marching Band, and it just had a better CFB feel than having having the actual radio versions of the songs played.
If feasible, and workable in Kinnick as a matter of acoustics, would you like to see/hear the Hawkeye Marching Band get mic'd up and play more at Iowa home games?
During most TV timeouts, instead of blaring recorded music over the PA, the BC marching band played. I know this issue (as it pertains to Kinnick) has been talked about before on the board a little bit, but BC has a little twist. The band here is mic'd up and itself played through the PA. The increased amplitude, I feel, gave the band's music an edge (esp. in percussion) that really filled the stadium more than the Hawkeye Marching Band, and it just had a better CFB feel than having having the actual radio versions of the songs played.
If feasible, and workable in Kinnick as a matter of acoustics, would you like to see/hear the Hawkeye Marching Band get mic'd up and play more at Iowa home games?
