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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5004677, member: 173"]
It’s really hard to find the right song with broad enough appeal to work.  No way a song that a huge percentage of the crowd has no familiarity with works - regardless if it’s hip-hop or something like Born to Run (which, possibly to the surprise of many here, most students have probably never heard).  It’s probably hardest in football as well since that sport has a broader appeal than basketball, baseball, or hockey.

I think often it’s just timing and luck, and teams blunder into the answer - IIRC USC played Sandstorm right near the end of a huge upset of a top 5 Florida team - before a defensive stop which effectively clinched the win.  From there it took off fairly organically.  “Jump Around” at Wisconsin should have been a one year thing, but the school didn’t play it for one game due to concerns the stadium couldn’t handle people…uh - jumping around.  That enraged the students so much it led them down a path where it’s iconic and linked to the school now.

The problem for Syracuse isn’t that the school has struggled to come up with good ideas for fan engagement things like an entrance song - no school or sports team does that well.  It not the kind of thing you can “workshop”.  The problem is anything which starts to develop organically either doesn’t get support to grow from the school, or they squash it like a bug and kill it.
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