I'm actually just so surprised. ASU is soo different. Yes we have girls who partake in meeting new football recruits. They 'help' them settle in to college life. I don't know their names though, something with 'devil' in it considering the mascot is the 'sun devil'.

As for games, lord no, we so don't dress up. Then again, it's still around 95 degrees right now in arizona. I went to the USC/ASU game and I was dieing in pants and shirt. Our standard of dressing up in the student section is wearing a gold shirt. We too also stand for the entire game. But we don't dress up. I've been the homecoming games before, it's still the same gold shirts and jeans for the students. Hell the same goes for the non students. Unfortunately it's just too hot to be dressed up. I mean the last game of the season is our famous U of A/ASU match up, I'll be wearing my gold shirt, jeans, flip flops and bring a jacket just in case I get cold, but even in November during the day, Arizona high is about 70-75.

I guess we're just a little different here in Arizona.

Brianna

Wow, Silver... I had no clue. Amazing what I'm still learning about my school. :)

at LSU it seems that a lot of people dress up for football games, but it's mostly just greek pledges, actually. greek pledges have to dress up, but only if they are going to the game with a date who is another pledge. the guys all have their shirts and ties...and i just feel so bad for them, because it's so hot and crowded in tiger stadium!!!

At W&L you wear a sundress to football games. The guys wear coat and tie.

When i was ay Valdosta State the greeks always got dressed up for the game.

Well my extremely liberal campus would never have a program like that but I do wish my school had spirit like that .. ( or even HAD a football team at all) It sounds very cool... although I must say I have drinken from glass glasses at a fraternity party...

Back In The Day...
 

Well, I was one of the original football recruiting hostesses at Troy State University in L.A. ( Lower Alabama) exactly 20 years ago. I remember we were each given a little booklet to read on NCAA recruiting rules. We were known as the TROJAN HOSTESSES.

To this day, I am still ribbed about that name by everyone I tell it to. LOL

On a side note, I also had a bumper sticker that read " I love the TROJANS" ! My mother thought it was awful when I put it on my car. :D

To add to what Cluey posted earlier, the Georgia Girls at UGa are now the Georgia Girls and Guys...Read on...



Not just a girl thing
College football recruiting corps adds guys
By Kristen Wyatt
Associated Press

ATHENS - The Georgia Girls have a new weapon in their fight against those who say college football hostesses are just flirts to lure top recruits:

Men.

The University of Georgia football ambassadors who volunteer to show recruits and their families around campus are now the Georgia Girls & Guys. For the first time this fall, khaki-wearing men will join the ladies in high heels escorting high school football stars to Sanford Stadium.

And there are other changes for the 90-member group, once called the most exclusive sorority on campus. Gone are the tight black dresses, replaced by sporty sweaters and pants, even an athletic-looking warm-up suit.

The host group has also started volunteer projects, all to get the word out they're not just there to twirl their hair and smile at recruits.

Adding men gives the Georgia Girls an air of respect that all the new outfits and hospital visits in the world may not bring, adviser Connie Connelly says.

"If it can help their image as far as their peers, it's a good thing," Connelly says. "That would be wonderful."

Georgia is the latest school to overhaul its recruiting volunteer program in the wake of unflattering news reports about using pretty coeds to persuade high school athletes to sign with a school.

Decades after Alabama coach Bear Bryant enlisted campus beauties to visit high school stars considering the Crimson Tide, hostess programs nationwide are adding men and changing their image. Clemson's Bengal Babes are now called the Tiger P.A.W.S, and Miami's Hurricane Honeys are the Cane Connection.

The days of eye-candy-only hostessing are long gone - the ambassadors work long hours arranging game day visits and now are expected to answer questions like what defensive scheme a school is running or how the conditioning program works.

But the stigma remains, and no one knows that better than 19-year-old Blake Varner, one of five men who signed on to this first year of coed hosting.

For one, Varner's friends insist on calling him a Georgia Girl.

"I tell them I'm a recruiting ambassador and they say, 'Naw. You're a Georgia Girl.' They ask how the recruits like me," Varner says, laughing.

"That perception is still there. People think we're just there for the recruits to show 'em pretty girls and show 'em a good time," he says. "That's not what it is."

At Auburn University, where the Tigerettes were joined by male Tiger Hosts in 1992, adviser Sue Locklar says their reputation improved, and so did their recruiting.

"We realized there were a lot of places these young ladies cannot go, the locker rooms and so on," Locklar says, adding that some recruits are flustered by the women and would rather talk to a guy.

Male recruiting hosts also stop the biggest problem facing football hostesses - unwanted advances from recruits. Tigerettes are never left alone with the athletes, Locklar says.

"I don't want it to have any semblance of a date or anything like that," she says.

At Georgia Tech, men have been invited to join the hostess group, called Solid Gold. But so far, no takers.

"We've just never had any guys express any interest," says adviser Shanny Burge.

Georgia is hoping that after this first mixed-sex year - 86 women and just five men - more males will want to join. The sales pitch includes preparation for a future sports marketing or management career.

Or, in the case of senior Michael Thomas, a chance to meet the players and coaches he's been watching for years from the student section in a stadium of 90,000 people.

"I'm a sports fanatic," Thomas says. "I'm looking forward to being on the field, meeting all the players, just the experience of it."

And the original Georgia Girls are hoping for fewer raised eyebrows when they tell their friends why they're not in the stands at home games.

Regarding the hostess topic: I know for a fact that on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (Withholding all comments here) a few months back they had a piece that discussed the hostesses at University of Washington I believe...so it's not just a southern thing. One of the ex-hostesses was saying that they purposely only picked good looking women to encourage the young recruits to believe that there were tons of good looking women who would be interested in them when they arrive at the university. Other past disgruntled ex-hostesses were mentioning the fact that they recruits were overly affectionate towards them.

Long Beach has the President's Ambassadors, but l have never heard anything about having hostesses simply because we don't have a football team...If anything my university's sports program is big for Women's Volleyball and Baseball.


Anyhow...off to get ready for work.

GPhiBLtColonel, the Greek store had tons of stuff for Helenes, the same stuff you would find for any GLO such as shorts, cups, keychains, shirts, and etc. I thought it was pretty cool that they had all of that paraphernalia for the Helenes; it showed that these girls were really proud of their association with the organization. You should check it out next time you are in LA.


On the subject of game attire...
I can't imagine wearing anything but jeans and maybe a jean skirt to a game. Most people go really casual to the games... some people don't even wear UCLA paraphenalia to the games. Many get to the games at the end of the first quarter sh*t-faced and leave in the third quarter. I'm definitely NOT one of these fans (I forced my sisters to stay until the end of USC game last year when we got beat by a ton and then proceeded to berate USC fans on the way out) but the majority of fans just go to the games to get wasted. Not that there is anything wrong with that... ;)

This doesn't surprise me at all. I attended the University of Maryland, and I remember being approached at the gym about joining the Football Boosters (I can't remember what the official name was). It sounded interesting, and I was planning on joining, until a friend of mine told me that they look for pretty, thin/fit girls (I guess why they were recruiting at the gym) to be "groupies" for the football team and the incoming players. Our football players act like they should be getting NFL-type status and recognition on campus, esp from girls, and they didn't even start winning games until the past couple of years. When I realized that "Football Boosters" was the p.c. term for getting pretty groupies for the recruits, I definitely started deleting every email they sent to me about meetings, etc.

U of Alabama does indeed have official hostesses. In fact, we have separate athletic hostesses for different sports. Sometime I'll have to post all the differences between SEC football and other areas. Such as...elsewhere, college stadium seats 30,000. The South, high school stadiums seat 30,000. Elsewhere, ladies carry a $20 bill, car key and ID in their jeans pocket. In the South, ladies carry a large Gucci carryall with hair spray, make-up, cell phone, and enough room for your date's flask. No money, honey, that's what DATES are for!!

MY ATTIRE FOR FOOTBALL GAMES.....
 

...was the Trojan marching Band uniform --- Yee haW!

FIGHT ON!

[http://www.usc.edu/dept/band/images/splashpage_03.jpg

Re: MY ATTIRE FOR FOOTBALL GAMES.....
 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GPhiBLtColonel
[B]...was the Trojan marching Band uniform --- Yee haW!

How right you are! There are a LOT of advantage to being in the band...you always have something to wear...your seat is reserved...no parking problems...admission to the top games is guaranteed...you usually get to go to the bowl games...
I'd post a picture but don't know how! :D :D :D