Butler grad will be ‘pretty cool’ with Penn State football fans booing his SMU intro video
When SMU roams the sideline before Saturday afternoon’s College Football Playoff first-round matchup against Penn State, all of Beaver Stadium will be heckling Butler graduate Carter Stanton.
Well, in a way.
“In all intents and purposes, it’s basically a Penn State home game,” said Stanton, the Director of Creatives for the Mustangs’ football program. “But the one kind of caveat that the CFP has built in is that they have to play our intro video — like our team run-out video — on the video board during pre-game.
“Really, I was kind of the director and the editor for that, so to have that play in front of some 100,000 people and to hear them all boo, that is going to be a pretty cool experience.”
Stanton attended the Nittany Lions’ Helmet Stripe game against West Virginia last season, with the majority of those in the crowd wearing white.
“I basically tell people, it’s basically just an excuse to have a second White Out,” Stanton said. “It was basically the same atmosphere. It was crazy. ... It’s so weird and full-circle to think I’m going to be back. I would’ve never thought.”
This time, for another, bigger excuse to have another White Out. The No. 12 Mustangs enter as underdogs against fifth-ranked Penn State, in the first season of the expanded CFP.
“I think the guys are embracing it,” Stanton said. “By no means are they oblivious to the fact that it’s going to be a white-out. It’s going to be loud. It’s going to be cold. That’s the questions that our guys and our coaching staff have been getting all week.
“Like, ‘Are you preparing for the cold? Are you playing Mo Bamba at practice to get ready?’ ... I don’t think it’ll be a distraction for them. I think they’ll use it as energy.”
