White Out for SMU Game?
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Froglaw
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Our company's intern showed me an email he received today from TCU indicating that Saturday is apparently supposed to be a white out game.
What a disaster this will be. Besides this email to students today, TCU has done zero formal announcement of this supposed whiteout through email or social media posts. IMO, a white out is something you make sure to do well or don't do at all. Considering this hasn't been communicated to season ticket holders at all yet, I think it's reasonable to assume this will be a very half assed attempt at a white out. Not to mention all the parents coming into town later this week that may not get the memo.
Horrible, Maniac has an intern.
East Coast
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Only time I can recall TCU pulling off a truly successful whiteout was an away game. At Utah in 2010 But in reality, I don't care
tcumaniac
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Lol. Guess Gary hasn’t gotten the supposed memo either.
BrewingFrog
Was I supposed to type something here?
Probably because Utah had announced a "Blackout" and because the Alumni Association handed out white shirts to all Frogs just before the game. Looked damned good on TV!
Eight
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WhatTheFrog
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Resellers just have the tu and bu games to make their investment back.
tcumaniac
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Starting to wonder if TCU decided to drop the whole whiteout thing but forgot to update the What2Do@TCU email they sent out to students yesterday.
Would be weird to make the above social media post with Avila in all purple telling fans to be there and be loud without making any reference to the white out they were planning.
Would be weird to make the above social media post with Avila in all purple telling fans to be there and be loud without making any reference to the white out they were planning.
It is shocking how bad the pre game atmosphere has gotten. Before I get the usual replies of "I am there to watch football", I am too but they gave me Frog Alley and now they are taking it a way. I guess they don't want anything to interfere with the sterile atmosphere that is Tail Gate Guys.
Pharm Frog
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I like the Happy Hour pre-game prices
Dutch
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It’s for the students. They will do it.Our company's intern showed me an email he received today from TCU indicating that Saturday is apparently supposed to be a white out game.
What a disaster this will be. Besides this email to students today, TCU has done zero formal announcement of this supposed whiteout through email or social media posts. IMO, a white out is something you make sure to do well or don't do at all. Considering this hasn't been communicated to season ticket holders at all yet, I think it's reasonable to assume this will be a very half assed attempt at a white out. Not to mention all the parents coming into town later this week that may not get the memo.
Yea weird email from your intern. Nothing else suggests it's a white out, nor should it be. I will be the "young" guy yelling at clouds and beat this drum one more time, but why was that written anywhere if it wasn't supposed to be a white out? Maybe copy and paste from another promotion? Which brings me back - nothing is unique about TCU's promotion strategy, in game experience, or the tailgate experience. Maybe our in-game is actually unique in the sense that it is all over the place?
Probably the most stale tailgating atmosphere of any P5 in the country. Hell even Baylor can claim they sailgate and setup tents wherever they want. Tailgating wouldn't bother me so much if I didn't have to hear an inorganic and orchestrated Go Frogs chant in games, or Sandstorm and other dated songs on repeat at level 3000, or 50 xylophones in our band. Maybe I don't blame TCU for piping in music constantly like an NBA game because of the lack of brass in the band. Everyone who thinks what TCU is doing for tailgating and in-game atmosphere is good, has never been to another college football game outside of AGCS and it shows.
Go Frogs! Pack the Carter!
Eight
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maybe, hopefully, do i know i am glad the frogs weren't playing 11 am games back when i was in school.
there was more than one saturday when the simple walk to the couch was tough enough do to self-inflicted wounds from the prior night
CountryFrog
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Don't give a [ Finebaum ] about the crowd, what color their shirt is, how hot it will be, etc personally. I really really really care about seeing a competent defense take the field this week as opposed to the last game. I don't want to see scheissing SMU putting 30 or 40 points up on us again.
SuperTFrog
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So if it was only intended for the students (which they will do really well), will all you negative Nelly’s come back and say how dumb you were for complaining about something you were completely wrong about?
Big Frog II
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Whiteouts have been effective. Go back and look at past games where we have done this and on TV it looks great. Should the marketing department have gotten this word out earlier, yes. However, with email it's easy to spread the word, and it's easy to change the color of your shirt.
tcumaniac
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No, because doing just a whiteout for students seems pretty dumb and pointless.
