Official "I can do it better" thread

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

* Do a black out w/ t-shirts for the playoffs (A&M started doing a white out last year at their big home games, an idea that was made famous by Miami last year in the playoffs)

* Get rid of the current PA guy. Duel was great.

* Log into the sound system. Find the track called 'Y'all Ready for this?'. Delete it. If anyone ever brings it back, fire them. Same thing for 'If You're Happy and You Know It' and all the other crap they have been playing for the last 15-20 years at games.

* Intro music needs to have more of an edge. Think ACDC. Or the one a couple of years ago (1999 maybe?) that had the Linkin Parkish rap metal band that were sporting commercials in their vids. At least I think it was the 1999 playoffs, but the song had an edge to it and fired up the crowd.

* Get some of the guys on the team to challenge the fans. "No one comes into this house and gets a win with this crowd" type thing. I don't know the wording, it'd be one of those kickass fire up the world and make the fans want to run through a brick wall type speeches. Get someone stoic like Tim to deliver it, and it would have even more of an impact.

* Go Spurs Go flags? Weak. Get some noise makers. Thundersticks, or to be more SA, the mariachis a couple years back were great.

* Set it up so that the Baseline Bums or whoever can get to the games early, come down low, and talk trash at the end of the court where the visitors are warming up.

[SA210]

-Spurschick, I absolutely love your idea of a man and woman duo, that's great, but yea, they have to be loud and energetic, and she has to be hot! Awesome idea!

1) Get rid of Stan Kelly
(Insert Spurschick's male/female duo (but female must be hott! and they gotta be loud!)

2) Get rid of "Ya'll Ready For This"
(And not only get rid of the song "Ya'll ready for This" at the games, but please tell me who is responsible for playing this crap every damn year. Who the loves this frickin' song over there, I want a name!)

3) Keep all the Rocky stuff, anything Rocky is great!

4) Blackout! Blackout! Blackout!
For the Playoffs a sponsor needs to step up and hand out over 18,000 black shirts.
(And sooner or later, SA needs to start showing up to games in all black, we need to get in that habit where it's the norm, promote it thru commercials or something to make it a normal thing at Spurs games. Like a black dress code. That would set us apart from other arenas, where eventually we don't need sponsors, we normally come like that to games)

5) Hire a badass DJ for the music.
Enough of this soft crap, cowboy melodies, "if your happy and you know it, clap your hands" Ton Loc, etc.
Play some hard stuff.

6) Spurschick "Ring of Rowdies" idea, Great!


I love my Spurs, but the marketing team has sucked many years now. I remember I was bugging the FO once to get those plastic bangers for a Timberwolves game, I told her our crowd needed to be very loud, louder than any NBA arena.

The lady on the phone sounded very excited and told me not to worry. She said they would be handing out pink pom poms that night.

I went to the game, and sure enough it was PINK pom poms.


And it fit Stan Kelly's voice, and it fit the soft music, and it fit right along with "Ya'll Ready for This" and it fit the "soft" label.

Change is NEEDED!

[kris]

My ideas cost money, but I'll go ahead and write some down.

1. Pay for the rights to some new music. This has been said, but can't be said enough. There are only about 4 songs I'd keep (I can't explain them by typing, but you get the idea).

2. New games with more cash. F the prizes and show me the money. I miss the days when people used to miss half court shots for $50k.

3. The Luby's toy scramble is an incredibly cruel game if you think about it. The Coyote is sitting there throwing every toy he can get his hands on to the kids corner and the remaining toys all go to the Christus Rosa Children Hospital. It's a good ploy for a tie in to marketing, but leave it just to the kids. Or maybe keep it, what the do I know... LJ and I seem to be the only ones that notice.

<slightly off topic but I wanted to throw that in>

4. I actually say keep Stan Kelly. As annoying as he is and for as many times as he says or said "Get the bike," the guy has been solid through the years and probably gets paid peanuts by the Spurs. He's loyal, comes to the game no matter how sick he is, and he's actually a big fan of the spurs. Plus, he knows everything inside and out. I'd give him a full endorsement, but his new thing of calling Francisco Elson "cisco" is really gay.

5. No SBC coyote crew or whatever they call them. The only thing I really like about them is pointing out how much of a square that one guy is. He's like 5'6'' 280 and I really don't think he's all that strong as much as he is built with short extensions reinforced with power weight.

6. Black out, White out, Silver out - whatever. Pay the money one game and just do it. Don't rely on the radio to try to get people to wear their Spurs shirts they already bought. If it's going to work, you have to give them out.

7. Sell alcohol cheaper. This sounds like a losing proposition at first glance, but maybe you have a $1 off sale on beer and everybody thinks it a really great deal and they get drunk and cheer louder. Then, you can save money on any other promotions.

Drunk people cheer loud. Bottomline.

[SAtown]

No more thundersticks, as it's made people lazy as . Whatever happened to standing up and yelling? Now we have a bunch of old ass people looking at me like I'm a maniac when I yell.

Every game I get told to sit down and shut up (in the nosebleeds).

[KEDA]

7. Sell alcohol cheaper. This sounds like a losing proposition at first glance, but maybe you have a $1 off sale on beer and everybody thinks it a really great deal and they get drunk and cheer louder. Then, you can save money on any other promotions.

Drunk people cheer loud. Bottomline.

See, Im not the only one that thought of this. Kris, my friend, you are one smart dude!

[SpursWoman]

Drunk people cheer loud. Bottomline.

No doubt. That's exactly how the Baseline Bums originated ... like on $.50 beer night or something.

I know I am a lot more impervious to people around me telling me to STFU & sit down when I've had a few.

And stopping beer sales at the end of the 3rd quarter is for ... it takes fans totally out of the 4th quarter, when they are likely to be needed most.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Oh, and the Spurs need a new rabble rouser. The current guy is lame.

Duel > Crazy Lou > new guy

I'm very biased, but I like Kevin Brock.

[kris]

No more thundersticks, as it's made people lazy as . Whatever happened to standing up and yelling? Now we have a bunch of old ass people looking at me like I'm a maniac when I yell.

Every game I get told to sit down and shut up (in the nosebleeds).

Yeah, REAL basketball fans have been outlawed. You can't yell or standup without getting hushed or told to sit down and the ushers will back this up because you're not timing your yelling or standing up appropriately to where everybody else is loud or on their feet.

It will be sad for my kid when I take him to a modern day sporting event and everything will be assimilated to the point where "disorderly" people are reprimanded. Drunken slobs, yelling, some cursing (not too bad), chanting, taunting, ref barbs, etc. should be a part of the game. That's part of the experience.

Real fans such as these are a dying breed. Maybe they still have some at the Red Sox game.

[kris]

I'm very biased, but I like Kevin Brock.

I'm unbiased and I like Crazy Lou. That guy had an awesome thing going where he'd say something (I forgot what) to get everybody into the game right before tip off.

Chris Duel is good for everything else.

Crazy Lou wore armbands which I never understood and had really bad hair until he cut it.

I think, and this is just a guess, but I think the previous guys left because they asked for more money after the season and the Spurs sent them packing.

I heard some rumor the SilverStars only make $100/game. Is that true?

Oh yeah on the topic of frugality, saw Peter Holt at Big Lots and he asked me for a lift to the dollar tree

[cherylsteele]

Stan Kelly is terrible. The music is terrible...

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.....

Next thing you know we'll be singing B-I-N-G-O...and bingo was his name-o.

[cherylsteele]

4) Blackout! Blackout! Blackout!
For the Playoffs a sponsor needs to step up and hand out over 18,000 black shirts.
(And sooner or later, SA needs to start showing up to games in all black, we need to get in that habit where it's the norm, promote it thru commercials or something to make it a normal thing at Spurs games. Like a black dress code. That would set us apart from other arenas, where eventually we don't need sponsors, we normally come like that to games)

Maybe play "Blackout" by the Scorpions before the game.

[exstatic]

I'm unbiased and I like Crazy Lou. That guy had an awesome thing going where he'd say something (I forgot what) to get everybody into the game right before tip off.

Chris Duel is good for everything else.

Crazy Lou wore armbands which I never understood and had really bad hair until he cut it.

I think, and this is just a guess, but I think the previous guys left because they asked for more money after the season and the Spurs sent them packing.

I heard some rumor the SilverStars only make $100/game. Is that true?

Oh yeah on the topic of frugality, saw Peter Holt at Big Lots and he asked me for a lift to the dollar tree

Kris, your Mouse imitation is getting old, and frankly pales next to the original.

[exstatic]

How about two tone T-shirts? Black/Silver, and you switch them at the half?

[Spurminator]

"Y'all Ready for This" has to go. The song used for the beginning of the second half would be a great intro song, and original because no one uses it.

Also, all concessions stands should accept credit cards.

Otherwise, I thought the presentation at the one game I've been to at AT&T was pretty good. That said, this is coming from someone who is used to watching games at the AAC.

[ca®lo]

when the spurs are bringing up the ball up court.. quit saying "HERE COMES THE SPURS!!"

hey even if im all the way here n the philippines.. im getting tired of that. i agree the announcer is ok but he really has to go.

[FromWayDowntown]

3. The Luby's toy scramble is an incredibly cruel game if you think about it. The Coyote is sitting there throwing every toy he can get his hands on to the kids corner and the remaining toys all go to the Christus Rosa Children Hospital. It's a good ploy for a tie in to marketing, but leave it just to the kids. Or maybe keep it, what the do I know... LJ and I seem to be the only ones that notice.

<slightly off topic but I wanted to throw that in>

You're not alone. I've had very much the same thought. It seems a shame that the kids at the hospital only get what the kids who got to go to the game didn't take. And as much as Stan might tell the kids to take the bike, I think it's interesting to imagine the rationale of the kids playing the game, who I always imagine are thinking "I already have a bike and I don't need another one." There's some sort of egalitarianism that at least some kids tend to show in those situations.

[ducks]

a car dealership or a t-shirt company would make millions if they bought t-shirts one night
once they bought them for them
they would only have to hand out new ones to people who did not go to the game they handed them out

if I am a t-shirt company and someone wants thousands of shirts I make a of a deal for them

[themvp]

For the intro music instead of "Ya'll Ready For This" there should be AC/DC - The Razors Edge or Nightwish - Planet

What do you think?

[ducks]

Ya'll Ready For This"

is in alot of basketball games
not just spurs

[FromWayDowntown]

I think the one problem with replacing "Ya'll Ready for This" is similar to the problem of giving Manu jersey #6 when he came to San Antonio.

Spurs fans are rabid about certain things, and I think, by and large, that Spurs fans have a number of supers ions. I can remember that before one game -- in 1999, I think -- in a First Round series against Minnesota, the Spurs actually used a new intro song. They lost that game. I can only imagine how many phone calls they got from distressed fans who blamed the loss on the changed song. And, lo and behold, at the next home game, "Ya'll Ready for This?" was back and hasn't left since.

When Spurs fans feel passionately about something, they let the front office know and the front office usually responds -- except to my annual rant for out-of-town scoreboards in the arena and more statistical information.

Had they picked a badass song long ago (they've used it forever, but there's still something about the Bulls intro, "Sirius," that makes it a great intro tune) I don't think the problem would be as pronounced. But "Ya'll Ready for This" reminds me of a pink and turquoise floor and a Fast Breakin' Fiesta. I think it is time to move on.

[phyzik]

how about setting aside the "ring of roudies" section, cant buy tickets for it, and a desginated person/people go to each section and pick out the loudest people/group from that section. Dont announce anything, just do it randomly throughout the game.

People eventually catch on to this and want to be upgraded for free, thus more people cheer hoping to be picked.

[SAtown]

how about setting aside the "ring of roudies" section, cant buy tickets for it, and a desginated person/people go to each section and pick out the loudest people/group from that section. Dont announce anything, just do it randomly throughout the game.

People eventually catch on to this and want to be upgraded for free, thus more people cheer hoping to be picked.

People shouldn't be rewarded for cheering at the games.

[Phenomanul]

Among some of the other serious suggestions....

1) Have a sound engineer come in to fix the accoustics of the arena. I want the place loud with cheers, and with the yelling that comes along after a made basket, but I don't want to be blasted out by the 130 decible music that is currently being used as a subs ute for 'loudness'.

2) Have someone develop original cheers for the Spurs. Maybe some personalized ones for key Spurs players.

3) We need a traditional wave at the start of every fourth quarter coupled with better sound effects.

4) Someone seriously needs to show fans sitting behind the free-throw line that the only effective free-throw distraction method is a syncronized swaying. The cheerleaders or the Coyote need to take accountability for this one - especially in critical late game situations.

5) We need more international flavor to some of our sound bites. Especially considering that we have several international players who could be motivated by such considerations to their heritage.

[LaMarcus Bryant]

"Earth People" by Doctor Octagon would be the absolute best intro theme for the Spurs, I swear we'd go undefeated at home if we had it. Download it and you'll see what I mean. We'll only hear the first minute or so of the track but with some good bass speakers it would sound amazing.

[DubMcDub]

4) Someone seriously needs to show fans sitting behind the free-throw line that the only effective free-throw distraction method is a syncronized swaying. The cheerleaders or the Coyote need to take accountability for this one - especially in critical late game situations.

That's a pretty in Aggy idea. Maybe they could get Dennis Franchione in there to teach everyone how to do it.