At the visiting team's entrance. Hopefully, it will be ready for Texass...
Gameday environment idea
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For what it's worth, I have heard rumblings that the switch to LED lighting will be happening at Jack Trice sooner rather than later, as they cost much less to operate.
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I dunno, I keep saying that Thunderstruck would be such a great song to use if we got the crowd to
replace the “Thunder!” chants with “Cyclones!”
but now that Nebby has co-opted that song’s use it seem a little more lame now.
We had a Chicago area student at Iowa State some ago that was obsessed with meteorology, and he had built a giant tornado simulator in his garage with the use of dry ice and fans. It was featured on the Chicago local news. The simulator actually seemed pretty portable. I always thought it would be cool to fire up a simulator like that at mid field or center court as the team runs out of the locker room before the game. With some special red lighting, it would look pretty neat.
On a somewhat related note, the infamous weather beacon in downtown Des Moines was taken out of commission a number of years ago. If you're from central Iowa, you might remember "weather beacon white, colder weather in sight", "weather beacon red, warmer weather ahead", "weather beacon green, no change foreseen". Anyway, because Iowa State has one of the top ranked meteorology departments in the nation, I always thought the university should purchase the weather beacon (I think it was for sale one time for well less than $100,000) and use it to continue this tradition and to flash cardinal and gold on certain occasions like football victories.
On a somewhat related note, the infamous weather beacon in downtown Des Moines was taken out of commission a number of years ago. If you're from central Iowa, you might remember "weather beacon white, colder weather in sight", "weather beacon red, warmer weather ahead", "weather beacon green, no change foreseen". Anyway, because Iowa State has one of the top ranked meteorology departments in the nation, I always thought the university should purchase the weather beacon (I think it was for sale one time for well less than $100,000) and use it to continue this tradition and to flash cardinal and gold on certain occasions like football victories.
Isn't that crazy? I remember those trucks parked at the top of the hills with a big beam with lights extended over the upper decks.
Fortune to install, next to nothing to operate. Costs are coming down all the time though...
Musco is headquartered in Oskaloosa, think they did the LED'S at Hilton. They do have a plant in Muscatine, Think they have a lot of ISU engineers working there, and are owned by Joe Crookham and others.
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Oh god, we don’t need another thread debating what we chant.
I agree thunderstruck makes sense but it’s really been used to much everywhere already.
Also, Huck the fuskers
this would be cool, but not sure if we would fry some fans in seats up there lol
Respect the Wind.
Overall might be a little mellow but there are parts that could be used and transition into something else:
Overall might be a little mellow but there are parts that could be used and transition into something else:
