FSU Football: Old school concert at spring game an unneeded sequel

FSU football is once again going old school with their post game concert for the spring game, which is not a good look when you’re trying to move forward.

When the FSU football team took the field for the first official time in an organized game under head coach Willie Taggart, over 60,000 people showed up inside Doak Campbell Stadium for the annual spring game – a group filled with hope and promise after Taggart promised to bring back the swagger and winning from the dynasty era.

For that game, the Seminoles brought back hundreds of former players, painted the end zones like they used to look and even had a post game concert that made it feel like 1991 all over again with acts like Salt N Pepa, Vanilla Ice and Rob Base (it was also depressing having to explain to several current students who those acts were since they weren’t alive when any were popular).

Well, after a 5-7 season that was the first losing campaign since “Silly Love Songs” by Wings was the top song that year (1976 for those keeping track), one would think that the Noles would want to focus on the future and making it better – and while that may be true on the field (we hope), it doesn’t seem that way with the events around it.

This year’s post game show after the spring game on April 6th will be…wait for it…MC Hammer, Tone Loc and Color Me Badd. Yes, you read that right – FSU football is back to going old school with their post game show.

Now, in the interest of full disclosure I thought last year’s concert was awesome and there is a decent chance I will stick around for this one since these were the artists popular when I first got into music – the problem is it does nothing to help any perceptions that the Seminoles continue to live in the past.

Some of you will say ‘Why does it matter’ and the truth be told it isn’t the end of the world – but when we chastise fans of Miami or Notre Dame for living in the past, we can’t come back and only market the program based off of an era that none of the current roster was alive for.

People tend to forget that when FSU football plays their spring game, they will have won a national title just 75 months ago to the day – we have recent history that is pretty darn good and doesn’t make us look like those other programs that haven’t done anything for much of this century.

Heck, the 2013 top artists were Macklemore, Robin Thicke (along with T.I. and Pharell) and Imagine Dragons – that post game concert (or even just one of them) would be a better option.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go dig out some garnet and gold Zubaz pants and rehearse the words to “Funky Cold Medina” before April 6th rolls around.