Tweaking a cheer or chant

meangreenbob · August 15, 2011

Hear me out. Read it and then let it sink in for a while before you turn all negative.

We have a new stadium. Yeah, I know you know. But not all of you truely know whats in store for you. This is truely a professional stadium. You will freak out when you hear the acoustics in this place.

As many of you well know now for 50 years the student's and the alumni sides have been seperated by a very wide divide. Fouts Field.

Not any more!

So, here is what i humbly suggest. When the student side starts the NORTH...............and the Alumni side yells back TEXAS.................then we "all" at the same time together AS ONE yell....FIGHT..............NORTH(students).... TEXAS(alumni) then all together........FIGHT!

Thats what's missing with that chant. A sense of unity. We have always been too far apart. Hit them with both sides at the same time.

IMOP

Edited August 15, 2011 by meangreenbob

PlummMeanGreen · August 15, 2011

Accoustics will be a most welcome new friend at Apogee Stadium at the Mean Green Village.

michagb · August 15, 2011

Hear me out. Read it and then let it sink in for a while before you turn all negative.

We have a new stadium. Yeah, I know you know. But not all of you truely know whats in store for you. This is truely a professional stadium. You will freak out when you hear the acoustics in this place.

As many of you well know now for 50 years the student's and the alumni sides have been seperated by a very wide divide. Fouts Field.

Not any more!

So, here is what i humbly suggest. When the student side starts the NORTH...............and the Alumni side yells back TEXAS.................then we "all" at the same time together AS ONE yell....FIGHT..............NORTH(students).... TEXAS(alumni) then all together........FIGHT!

Thats what's missing with that chant. A sense of unity. We have always been too far apart. Hit them with both sides at the same time.
IMOP

I like this idea... if you can get the band on board, I bet it would take off. If this seems to be something everyone agrees would be cool, I could approach Nick about it.

ColoradoEagle · August 15, 2011

I'd rather do North Texas back and forth 3 or 4 times and then end with everyone yelling "Go Mean Green". Leave Fight to the longhorns.

GrayEagle · August 15, 2011

I'd rather do North Texas back and forth 3 or 4 times and then end with everyone yelling "Go Mean Green". Leave Fight to the longhorns.

'Go Mean Green' is too much to try to get in there on this chant. Try to develop another chant with that as the basis. Besides, we've often had FIGHT in our yells because it rhymes with white. Maybe we should use WIN instead of FIGHT in that chant; wins are what we need.

Also, make the NORTH...TEXAS a stated number of times. Too often, one side or the other fades out. May I suggest four, the number of quarters. I also like increasing the volume with each successive yell.

Edited August 15, 2011 by GrayEagle

Cowtown · August 15, 2011

its easy

as we have done, sides alternate one time with

North - Texas - Mean - Green

then in unison the whole crowd yells

North Texas Mean Green Fight Fight Fight

word

emmitt01 · August 15, 2011

its easy

as we have done, sides alternate one time with
North - Texas - Mean - Green

then in unison the whole crowd yells

North Texas Mean Green Fight Fight Fight

word

I kinda miss uniform talk.

TIgreen01 · August 15, 2011

Hear me out. Read it and then let it sink in for a while before you turn all negative.

We have a new stadium. Yeah, I know you know. But not all of you truely know whats in store for you. This is truely a professional stadium. You will freak out when you hear the acoustics in this place.

As many of you well know now for 50 years the student's and the alumni sides have been seperated by a very wide divide. Fouts Field.

Not any more!

So, here is what i humbly suggest. When the student side starts the NORTH...............and the Alumni side yells back TEXAS.................then we "all" at the same time together AS ONE yell....FIGHT..............NORTH(students).... TEXAS(alumni) then all together........FIGHT!

Thats what's missing with that chant. A sense of unity. We have always been too far apart. Hit them with both sides at the same time.
IMOP

Freaking Genius. Better/simpler than every other chant/yell I've seen on here....

UNTflyer · August 15, 2011

The athletic department is already trying to change this chant. Let's not confuse it further by adding another version.

Rudy · August 15, 2011

I like the idea of doing a unified chat. Whatever we choose, we should do it after a score and in between the break, after the band plays the fight song and before the kickoff. I think the piggys from Arkansas do something similar.

TIgreen01 · August 15, 2011

The athletic department is already trying to change this chant. Let's not confuse it further by adding another version.

Is this one not better than what they are working on?? (I really have no idea what they are doing) Not trying to be an @ss, but we've still got a month to go before the first game...so there's still time to tweak, right?

meaniegreenie · August 15, 2011

Well, I'll throw in my $.02...

I HATE the "North...Texas" and I think most of the alumni

don't participate because of the 2 syllable "Tex-as" part. I think it just loses steam. I realize it works at UT, but that's a whole different animal.

Moreover, since UT already does "Texas...Fight", it seems more important that we have something unique. I think we should do a "Mean...Green" chant. It's unique and it doesn't suffer from the 2 syllable momentum loss.

BTW - I'm not a UT hater.

forevereagle · August 15, 2011

Accoustics will be a most welcome new friend at Apogee Stadium at the Mean Green Village.

Personal record for brevity?

GoMeanGreen1999 · August 16, 2011

I like the idea of doing a unified chat. Whatever we choose, we should do it after a score and in between the break, after the band plays the fight song and before the kickoff. I think the piggys from Arkansas do something similar.

Hog call throughout the game. A Pig Sooie right after a kickoff and various "Arkansas" "Razorbacks" from side to side, as well as a few others. I think the "Go Mean Green" in unison would work.

Rudy · August 16, 2011

I think "North Texas" or "Go Mean Green" in that new stadium when full would sound pretty menacing.

NM Green · August 16, 2011

No need to recreate this one:

Just everybody ramp up the

Go North Texas Go North Texas Go Go

It involves the band it involves the students. Its got rhythm.

jdennis82 · August 16, 2011

We already have it on our helmets, why further advertise our school name by yelling it back and forth across the stadium?

JRock · August 16, 2011

I think the chants will certainly be a good thing to master in the new stadium. Honestly the fan that sits there like he/she's watching golf needs a little excitement during the game.

JRock

MeanGreenTexan · August 16, 2011

We already have it on our helmets, why further advertise our school name by yelling it back and forth across the stadium?

I see where you're going here...

How 'bout this:

Student side starts with, "SON!"

Alumni side responds with, "OF!"

Then, in unison, "WORM!"

Repeat 3-5 times, then let it die slowly and miserably.

That will certainly confuse the opposition and let Rick V. know we want the SOW all over the uniforms, helmets, & tattoo'd on each player's arm and/or face.

JRock · August 16, 2011

I see where you're going here...
How 'bout this:
Student side starts with, "SON!"
Alumni side responds with, "OF!"
Then, in unison, "WORM!"
Repeat 3-5 times, then let it die slowly and miserably.

That will certainly confuse the opposition and let Rick V. know we want the SOW all over the uniforms, helmets, & tattoo'd on each player's arm and/or face.

Pure greatness. Lol. Couldn't agree more.

JRock