![]() That's some of the decline there - betting on nostalgia acts to bring in families and students. I definitely can't imagine very many undergrads in 2011 wanting to kill an evening watching that. While I certainly know people my age who'd love to get hammered and reminisce over some teenage romance to "Iris," I can' imagine there are enough of the to put a dent in BHG. I sure as hell didn't want to see them in the twilight of their careers when they were a cheap get. I hated Sister Hazel and the Goo Goo Dolls when I was in high school and college. I never went when I was there from 2010-2014. Hard to find people these days that are a draw for people from 18-50. When you look at those legendary GGs back in the 80s, someone like Robin Williams is pulling students and families. Tracy Morgan left parents clutching their pearls, but unless you're a student from the Panhandle or Plant City, you probably don't give much of a damn about Lynyrd Skynyrd. But really the biggest problem in later years with talent might have been trying to balance family-friendly with acts students wanted to see and figuring out which to appeal to. Aside from students generally losing interest, taking it out of the Swamp definitely made it feel like less of a big deal. I think a lot of the issue was just an identity crisis. It looks like these days, they mostly pick people who are popular but on the back end of their careers. If you were into comedy, you knew who they were, but they were no where near as huge as they would become. Chappelle was a GG in 1998 and still five years away from Chappelle's Show. Seinfeld started in 1989 but really didn't start becoming huge until around the third or fourth season. Seinfeld and Chappelle were both a couple of years out from becoming household names. Aside from the 80s, if anything, you might argue that spotting up-and-comers is really what has gotten worse. But that was before I was there, so I only know of the Spurrier/Meyer years through the nostalgia tinted glasses of older Gators. ![]() I can't imagine that the general decline in wins and the kind of hallowed image The Swamp developed had to have something to do with it. There was at time where Gator Growl was about the only way you could take your family to a football-related event at BHG. ![]() First, the decline in the football program from 2008 has to be a giant part of this. ![]()
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