FSU Football adding modern touches to in-game experience in 2018

FSU football, like most of the major programs in the game, are working to do more things to get butts in the seats more during the 2018 season.

We may be biased here, but there is no better place to be on a college football Saturday than inside Doak Campbell Stadium, watching the FSU football team do their thing against some of the best teams from the ACC, around the country and a rivalry game against either Miami or Florida each and every season.

In recent seasons, it has been noticeable that games – even those against some of the bigger name teams on the schedule – have had more empty seats than normal. You can chalk that up to a variety of reasons – last season’s woes as well as the issues that came with storms terrorizing the state as well as the high prices of the new Champions Club, where some fans would rather sit inside to eat and drink as opposed to sitting in their seats.

Now, with attendance at college football games seeing their largest drop in over three and a half decades, FSU football is attempting to do more things to improve the atmosphere inside Doak and around it for fans.

The program announced during Saturday’s very productive recruiting event that the in-house DJ employed by the school during games would be moving down to the field in an effort to work better with the Marching Chiefs when it comes to the music performed inside the stadium.

"FSU Associate Athletics Director for Marketing Jason Dennard told the Tallahassee Democrat “It allows for better coordination with the Marching Chiefs. They’re in the south end zone, he’ll be in the south end zone. You don’t have 100 yards of air space between one source and where the other one is so you can coordinate it better.”"

The Seminoles announced earlier plans for a legacy walk where fans can greet the team as they enter the stadium as well as other advanced tailgating chances – while adding to that a new place called the Back Porch located outside Gate K, where FSU football fans can get concessions and enjoy them in the shadow of the stadium.

The newspaper also reported that the program will be hosting another post-game concert after last season’s event and the one that took place after the spring game this April.

For those saying that this is only being done because nobody came to games last season since FSU football was just 7-6, let us point out the schools like Clemson have a DJ for their games and do plenty of the same things the Seminoles are going to debut come September 3rd.

As far as the music issue goes – and I know this will get some to ask for my FSU degree to be revoked – I am in the group that wold like to either more of the modern hype music as opposed to the Chiefs continuously playing the Green Bay Packers fight song or one about the great Chicago fire of 1896.

I love the Chiefs – having once had a roommate in the band and many friends in it as well – and will defend their place as the best college band in the country, but they need to get more modern than just playing the Game of Thrones theme a dozen times a day. Both them and DJ SPEEDRACER can work together to keep Doak as the best atmosphere in the country.