Shea said we are getting new sound system and LED lights for 2024 season

Gonna be a lot of old men yelling at crowds in this thread.

I think both are long overdue and you have to keep up with what others are doing.

They are marketing to a different crowd. You could see it in BDS on Saturday. The crowd that buys tickets, especially the cheap seats next to the visiting sections in the upper levels is not your traditional SEC football crowd. With attendance dropping across the board, schools are marketing to different groups. Not a good thing. Saw more problems in one trip to BDS than I've seen 4 previous trips combined.

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Gonna be a lot of old men yelling at crowds

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The phrase is old me yelling at CLOWDS bro

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Gonna be a lot of old men yelling at crowds in this thread.

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I am an old man, 55. I am sort of indifferent on the LED lights. I guess it will be a nice addition, my main thing is the sound system. It has been lacking forever and was outdated when they put it in this is way over due

I’m not a huge advocate for the lights, BUT if we do get lights I hope we get black lights.
Black lights look purple and I think it’d be sick to see our white jerseys glow.

How about getting a gotdamn defense.

As long as we use the technology to make it as difficult for the visiting team as possible. Visiting team called a timeout? Great, start the crimson light show and Dixie Land Delight and get it as loud as we can to prevent that team from even being to do any actual coaching during that timeout.

Can we get a good defense as well?

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Is the traditional SEC football crowd the blue hairs in the sideline seats that all leave in the second quarter for bed time?

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Not necessarily, but it's certainly not guys running around with shirt off yelling F you to literally every opposing fan that walks by. I've been a lot of SEC games in nearly every stadium in the conference. The behavior at BDS on Saturday was by far the worst I've ever seen.

There has been a slow trend of behavior getting more and more aggressive. Saturday seemed to take a huge leap.

ETA. It's not the blue hairs leaving. Look around at the North and South Endzone where a lot of your lifelong season ticket holders sit. Those folks stay. The ones leaving are the socialites who came to tailgate, get a selfie and then head home or go out. The other group are those that are sitting between the 20's in corporate tickets. They got them as a perk or marketing expense and don't mind ducking out early.