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[QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 5166869, member: 39"]
I think a large part of the in-game experience problem is the bolded part above. I'm not sure who runs the video boards, music, etc., but in my experience at other D1 institutions it is overseen by the marketing department.

At NFL venues, there are probably 30 people working in a production room just focused on the game-day experience, and it shows. My guess is at SU it's 2-3 at most, and a bunch of interns/students. Syracuse doesn't have an NFL team, doesn't have a MLB team, a NHL team, or a NBA team. There are no freelancers who do those games that can help out at SU on off nights. There's not a big pool of people who do this at a high level for a living. While you'd think SU has a great pool to draw from in terms of students -- and they probably do... they're still just that. Students. And they don't move the needle much.

This is an area within intercollegiate athletics that has a lot of turnover due to low pay and/or the hours involved. A lot of nights and weekends to run boards/marketing duties at soccers, field hockey, volleyball, not to mention football, men's basketball, and women's basketball, lacrosses, ice hockey. All of these sports want to feel like a high D1 team, and it isn't as simple as just show up and play music.

Right now there are 3 people who are running the marketing department in SU's athletic department. You get what you staff for, ultimately. There are other non-P5 schools -- and not very good ones, at that -- that have more full-time people in marketing than SU.
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