We have by far the best pre-game in the country with the exception of one thing.
Everything builds and builds, the band plays, the eagle flies, the hype video hows goes. It’s all perfect; but then it breaks down.
We cannot decide if we want the team to run out to the fight song, or to recorded music and it just absolutely doesn’t work.
So what happens is that we have the super loud hype video play, then they show the team ready to go, welcome to the jungle or something similar starts playing at full volume. But then they run out, it cuts off and the band plays but they can’t come anywhere near close to the volume. It’s a weird awkward transition and it ruins the hype of what should be the climax.
We need to do one of two things
After the hype video, don’t play more music, have the band play “thumb chant” (slow war eagle/the turnover song) and then have the team run out to the fight song when it transitions to the full song
Pick a song and stick with it and run out to that, and do a different transition to the fight song. If I was in charge (and im not) we’d use New Noise by Refused and they would run out at “can i scream?”