Ski U Mah 55
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If Ski U Mah is to work, it needs to be done every game, several times a game. You need to pound it into the fans here.
Blasphemy!
Using the scoreboard can help, but only if the scoreboard is in sync. With spelling out MINNESOTA in the rouser, the scorboard always seemed to be out of sync, although it seemed to get better. Ski-U-Mah is simple and traditional. But you have to get everyone on the same page. Maybe a mailing to all the season ticket holders. Work with the student organizations. Figure out when you're going to use it, and let everyone know. And keep with it. It is much easier to keep a tradition going than to create a new one.
I hate organized cheers. I like disorganized cheers.
We just need to get rid of the PA guy. The Ski U Mah chant will work, but NOT when led from the booth. This is college football, let the students, cheerleaders, and band lead the cheers. In fact, if he could just generally stop talking that would be fantastic. Just who were the players involved on the plays, and the down and distance. Please. I'm really begging you.
True enough. No PA, big ass flags (I mean so big you can't miss them), have the band yell their part really loudly to get attention, and most importantly persistence. Do the cheer at every game, several times a game. I guarantee that by the end of the season it will have caught on. Let's say the organization for the cheer was home sideline "Ski", Students "U", away sideline "Mah" the hardest part will be getting the old people to start it on the home side.
The Ski U Mah chant will work, but NOT when led from the booth.
If I remember correctly, this was done with big flags, but it was only done before the game started. The times I remember them doing it I had just entered the stadium and the place was maybe 25% full. I don't ever remember them trying it during a game and I was always disappointed in that.
Except for the ANNOYING cheer leader dude with the loudspeaker who talked the whole game, the only negative to the USC game-day atmosphere when we played them last year.
Grass-roots efforts too. Every time you see someone in Gopher gear, just say Ski-U-Mah to them.
The SKI-U-Mah when tried before was only during times when nobody was into the game. (before the game, during halftime.) This needs to be done after the rouser. Shouldnt be that hard. And dont have the announcer lead it. Just sounds cheesy.
And never get rid of the RAH at the end of the rouser. That is my favorite part.
HEY HEY WE'RE THE GOPHERS
PEOPLE SAY WE GOPHER TOUCHDOWNS
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Now we're talk'in!
HERE WE COME
DRIVING DOWN THE FIELD
GETT'IN THE WEARIEST LOOKS FROM
ALL THE TEAMS THAT YIELD
HEY HEY WE'RE THE GOPHERS
AND LATER WE'LL ALL GOPHER A ROUND
BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE TOO BUSY
MARCHING TOWARD ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN
with apologies to Micky, Peter, David and Michael
And we could also tell all of the people around us that there is going to be a Ski-U-Mah chant at a certain time, so they can get involved right away too