The Dawgpack for both football and basketball really needs to be figured out. Crazy student sections set the tone for the atmosphere inside. Just put some effort into it. Get a group of hardcore crazy students who aren't fair weather fans who show up when the team wins. It shouldn't be that hard to find a fanatical core. When the AD speaks of competing with big screen HD TV's and the comforts of home, you have to create an atmosphere inside the stadium. The Dawgpack is a good place to start
I still remember my crazy-fun days in the mid-1960's UW student section at Husky Stadium and so does my son who was there in the 1980's. The marching band was great at the center of it with stuff like "Louie Louie" ("Tequila" was my son's time), but it was the football on the field that got us charged up standing in line waiting to get in hours before kickoff. Too much of the fun went away when Bitch Hedges cracked down on the....... craziness.
Whatever atmosphere is enjoyed by the Dawgpack and students inside the stadium
cannot be manufactured, no matter how loud Kimberly and Bleener preach about ambiance, concessions, open concourses, luxury suits, fieldturf, blah blah fucking blah. It's not science and it's surely not high school. College kids for the most part beat their brains out during the week and want to let off steam on football Saturdays and there once was no better place to do that than Husky Stadium.
First, the losing to the likes of Oregon, USC, UCLA, ASU, and Stanford......
has to stop, then we'll see how UW students react. Unlike alums and the non-affiliated, students have a narrow 2 to 5 year window in their young lives to catch the FEVER and get truly hooked on Husky Football. It's been a long uphill battle of futility, but we're getting back our game. Unlike cooglosers, we expect excellence where there isn't any real reason to not have it.
