Surprisingly, this email includes no cursing at the UVA Football coaching staff (or at you!), but since you enjoy digging into the athletic department’s deeper secrets, I would like to ask a few questions about the football ‘game day experience.’
We thought the music being played at the play stoppage for the 12-minute mark in the third quarter of the UNC game included the curse phrase ‘motherf*#%ing.’
It was at a lower volume than much of the pregame music and meant to be background noise during play stoppage, so I don’t know who else noticed. But good grief, if ever appropriate it was Family Day!
Are you able to confirm what we heard and find out who approves the music selections?
I don’t care for the music, but rarely does one generation like the music of the younger group. That’s not the point. I am not asking for a different style, only a ‘clean track.’
– Rick
So, yes, I made the ask, despite not hearing this particular track myself. I think I was trying to talk Scott German off a ledge at that point in the action, or lack thereof.
I have heard plenty of questionable music selections in the pregame this UVA Football season, and I’m not talking there about background noise.
The pregame music is played at concert level, to the point that you can’t hear yourself think.
I hear from fans who tell me they wait to go into the stadium until the last minute because they can’t take it, it’s so loud, and sometimes offensive.
Me personally, I mean, I listen to music with explicit lyrics, so I’m not pointing a finger here.
My running playlist for my six-mile neighborhood distance runs is NSFW.
But I have earbuds in, is one key difference.
Back to, I made the ask, to try to find out who is responsible for the music, and what the guidance is for that person or group of people.
This is what I got back from my contact with UVA Athletics:
It is not the intention to play any music with explicit lyrics at any UVA sporting event. If the incident your reader is describes occurred, it was a mistake. After each game, a survey is sent out to fans that had a ticket to the game, you can encourage your readers to voice their concerns through that medium as a way alert athletics directly of their gameday experience.
I think that’s fair.
We didn’t get a hard answer on who is in charge of the playlist, but I imagine it’s someone a generation or two younger than me, and I can appreciate the difficulty in vetting songs.
Fill out your survey, is the answer, and they’ll try to make sure they don’t motherf*#% us at the SMU game.
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Chris Graham
