Saturday...Night Game..Big East basketball...BIG postseason implications. Honestly, it doesn't get much better (maybe if we were playing a natural rival). I know Dominque said ND was a tough place to play last week, but he better not underestimate what the atmosphere will be like tomorrow night @ the BC. My guess is that USF has not played in too many meaningful games on the road where the home team's fans have been out in full force (both physically and mentally from start to finish). Should be fun.
I hope you are right. I'm down here in North Carolina so the only thing I have to go by are the televised games. Maybe it's how ESPN has the mics mixed on the broadcasts, but game in and game out, Marquette's crowds are the quietest I've heard for any college games all season. It's more like a NBA mid-season game noise level.
Squad 6 has been louder than the MU student section this year.
EDIT: I have no idea how loud Squad 6 has been.
i think tomorrow night will be pretty big. We haven't really had a big game with the whole student body here. the big games that were televised on espn were ones where a lot of students were on xmas break (nova & gtown).
edit: actually i don't think the gtown game was on espn.
Worst student section I've seen in years.
Quote from: mu89 on February 12, 2010, 07:19:45 PM
i think tomorrow night will be pretty big. We haven't really had a big game with the whole student body here. the big games that were televised on espn were ones where a lot of students were on xmas break (nova & gtown).
The problem with that thinking is you need the casual fan who bought Fanatics tickets "just because" to think that this game is a big game. I don't know if casual fans are going to think South Florida is a big deal.
Buzz sent an email to all fanatic ticket holders yesterday saying how important this game was.
I for one think its going to be packed and rowdy. Yes, the students have been lackadaisical attending the games this year but I think they will really show up for this one. Its a Saturday night game, giving everyone ample time to day drink and get prepared. Everyone I have talked to yesterday were saving themselves for today. Hell, I should not be awake right now, but I came home early just so I can get ready for a days worth of drinking.
As for me and my "crew", we organized a mini-parents weekend, with about 13 of my good friends parents coming into town. Add in a keg of Schlitz, a couple bottles, and father v. son flip cup; I think its safe to say we will be prepared.
Lets get it MU!
Quote from: in_lazar_we_trust on February 13, 2010, 09:01:00 AM
Buzz sent an email to all fanatic ticket holders yesterday saying how important this game was.
Can you post it?
Quote from: AnotherMU84 on February 13, 2010, 09:05:00 AM
Can you post it?
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg50/DKowalsky2/Screenshot2010-02-13at92551AM.png?t=1266074818)
I didn't screen shot the bottom... just a link to the Spirit Shop and how to follow MU Basketball on Facebook and Twitter.
I'll be there in MU Gold....upper tank, middle of the floor, but I'll be there.....GO WARRIORS!
QuoteAs for me and my "crew", we organized a mini-parents weekend, with about 13 of my good friends parents coming into town. Add in a keg of Schlitz, a couple bottles, and father v. son flip cup; I think its safe to say we will be prepared.
Lets get it MU!
AWESOME.
I'm sure it will be a really big crowd but it's hard for casual fans to get "jacked up" for South Florida. They're a mediocre team (not bad but not that good, either). And it's just been such a strange season for MU with so many close losses/chokes that demoralized the fan base and yet they've now won a few in a row and now can be in contention to still make the tourney. I think the fans will be much more energized for Louisville and ND, if they are meaningful games.
Anyone who says you can't get jacked for this game is crazy. No, South Florida isn't a household name, but these are two teams squarely on the bubble. Win this game and MU is looking good for the tourney, something I never would have guessed (or I wouldn't have bought tickets to the NCAA tourney at the Bradley Center). Lose this game and South Florida passes MU on the bubble watch. Besides it's Saturday night. Also, while I agree that the student section has been mediocre, the students aren't the only acting like they're in the library at games this year. The lower bowl has looked like an NBA crowd all season long, with the biggest cheers coming for the kiss cam. It's time for the whole crowd to have a few frosty beverages and get loud.
I have had season tickets for about 20 years now. The lower bowl, aside from the student section, has been lame and lethargic for years. The students need to set the tone, and they rarely do. Oh and BTW, if it takes alcohol to get "jacked up", you probably shouldn't be at the game in the first place. Wisconsinites have a strange obsession with, "it's not fun unless you drink." Is there anything people care about without booze?
Quote from: Rocco on February 13, 2010, 11:39:04 AM
I have had season tickets for about 20 years now. The lower bowl, aside from the student section, has been lame and lethargic for years. The students need to set the tone, and they rarely do. Oh and BTW, if it takes alcohol to get "jacked up", you probably shouldn't be at the game in the first place. Wisconsinites have a strange obsession with, "it's not fun unless you drink." Is there anything people care about without booze?
Rocco, I don't care what it takes to get "jacked up." Maybe you should do less judging and more cheering in the lower bowl and set the tone yourself.
Quote from: Rocco on February 13, 2010, 11:39:04 AM
I have had season tickets for about 20 years now. The lower bowl, aside from the student section, has been lame and lethargic for years. The students need to set the tone, and they rarely do. Oh and BTW, if it takes alcohol to get "jacked up", you probably shouldn't be at the game in the first place. Wisconsinites have a strange obsession with, "it's not fun unless you drink." Is there anything people care about without booze?
Thanks for the lecture Mom...I've been in the lower bowl for 5 years now and I don't need the students to get me jacked up. Saying the students need to set the tone is the weakest excuse I have ever heard.
I think tonights' crowd will be good. It should be a fast paced, entertaining game, which will contribute to the noise level. Really looking forward to it - RING OUT AHOYA!!
Quote from: gumbyandpokey on February 13, 2010, 11:16:50 AM
I'm sure it will be a really big crowd but it's hard for casual fans to get "jacked up" for South Florida. They're a mediocre team (not bad but not that good, either). And it's just been such a strange season for MU with so many close losses/chokes that demoralized the fan base and yet they've now won a few in a row and now can be in contention to still make the tourney. I think the fans will be much more energized for Louisville and ND, if they are meaningful games.
Wow. Suprised by your comments. If they are "mediocre" what does that make us? Funny, both teams are 15-8. We lose and both teams are 6-6 in the BE. Sems like an awfully important game to me. Perhaps you should think before you write.
Quote from: sroirraw on February 13, 2010, 11:26:01 AM
Anyone who says you can't get jacked for this game is crazy.
I'm not saying "can't," I'm saying that if you're not paying attention to bracket predictions or standings, it might be hard to realize why the game's important.
Quote from: scowwarrior on February 13, 2010, 11:43:26 AM
Rocco, I don't care what it takes to get "jacked up." Maybe you should do less judging and more cheering in the lower bowl and set the tone yourself.
I moved upstairs, by the student section, so I don't get yelled at for standing and cheering anymore. Get a clue. I wasn't lecturing anyone, Im stating a fact. I sat in the lower bowl, section 203, for years. I would get told to sit down, every game. Eventually I got sick of it so I now sit in the first couple of rows, of the upper level, by the student section. It is great. The sweater vests are lame and ruin the atmosphere. It is up to the students to set the tone.
Im jacked up to go to tonights game, and drinking beforehand will get me even more jacked up. In other words I cheer w/o
limitation after a lil pregaming.
Quote from: Rocco on February 13, 2010, 11:54:41 AM
I moved upstairs, by the student section, so I don't get yelled at for standing and cheering anymore. Get a clue. I wasn't lecturing anyone, Im stating a fact. I sat in the lower bowl, section 203, for years. I would get told to sit down, every game.
This is why I sit in the last row of the lower bowl. :D
There have been complaints about the enthusiasm in the lower bowl for years and years. But whenever there's been a big game involving a highly ranked team or a rivalry game like UW or ND, the fans have been appropriately fired up and ready to go, imo. But tonight is USF, a team that is below .500 in the conference and MU is a 9 pt favorite. It's a big game, but it's a game that MU should win and win by a decent margin if they play well.
I just talked to Wes Matthews last night at the Madison Memorial game and said "Good job on getting Vander to MU and now you got to work on getting Junior Lomomba to continue that pipeline"---he loved my MU gear on and said he honestly wasn't sure yet on Junior.
Quote from: 79Warrior on February 13, 2010, 11:53:35 AM
Wow. Suprised by your comments. If they are "mediocre" what does that make us? Funny, both teams are 15-8. We lose and both teams are 6-6 in the BE. Sems like an awfully important game to me. Perhaps you should think before you write.
A few days ago, Gottleib referred to MU as "average" and that seems about right to me. They have two bad losses with NC State and De Paul and one good win vs Georgetown.
And it's certainly an important game, but that alone won't get the fans as fired up as they would be playing a bigger name. Fans will be much more pumped up for Pitt, Louisville and ND (if MU keeps winning).
i hope to be chanting "guraaaanntteeeeeeeeed" (to the same tune as ooooverrated) as the final seconds tick off.
Aside from Villanova, there really have not been any great home games yet. And Nova was over break.
The students who bought their season tickets have 4 treats ahead of them with USF on a Sat, Pitt on a Thurs, and Louisville/ND. I loved Thursday, Friday, or Saturday games because of the drinking you could do before and after the game. Also, on a Monday or Tuesday night, everyone would have to rush to the game from class and it was tough to save seats for your buds in later classes.
I was at MU for what was then the two loudest moments at a MU game: Dameon Mason's and-1 shot against Louisville in 04 and Novak's three against ND in 06. Let's see some of that kind of noise to finish out the season! No reason why we can't win these games.
Quote from: HoopsMalone on February 13, 2010, 12:12:15 PM
Aside from Villanova, there really have not been any great home games yet. And Nova was over break.
The students who bought their season tickets have 4 treats ahead of them with USF on a Sat, Pitt on a Thurs, and Louisville/ND. I loved Thursday, Friday, or Saturday games because of the drinking you could do before and after the game. Also, on a Monday or Tuesday night, everyone would have to rush to the game from class and it was tough to save seats for your buds in later classes.
I was at MU for what was then the two loudest moments at a MU game: Dameon Mason's and-1 shot against Louisville in 04 and Novak's three against ND in 06. Let's see some of that kind of noise to finish out the season! No reason why we can't win these games.
I was both of those games as well and the Novak shot (a 2-pointer actually, the refs reviewed it and it was a 2) brought an incredible level of noise. In fact, the next day's newspaper compared the decible level to that of a jet plane. I thought the noise was going to lift the roof off the BC.
the noise level when we played georgetown in 08 was pretty intense. especially when that guy had to hit those 3 free throws to send it into OT when DJ fouled him. that was loud as ****.
Quote from: mu89 on February 13, 2010, 02:19:24 PM
the noise level when we played georgetown in 08 was pretty intense. especially when that guy had to hit those 3 free throws to send it into OT when DJ fouled him. that was loud as ****.
I will agree that this year has been really down though. I know the crowds showed up with the big three around over the last two years, but campus isn't buzzing about this team like it should be. They work hard and they are steadily being rewarded for it. It's time the student body shows them some love.
I mean, I know of at least five people NOT going tonight... one of which has an entirely valid excuse in having to coach a volleyball tournament in Chicago, but a few others skipping because they have homework/projects/tests coming up. Really? It's two hours of our lives that we won't get back, and it's a BIG game. At least they all ensured that the tickets made it into the hands of MU supporters, so the seats will be filled.
In any case, I'll be at the BC by 5-5:30 and ready to go.
Quote from: PXILibero2 on February 13, 2010, 03:35:20 PM
I will agree that this year has been really down though. I know the crowds showed up with the big three around over the last two years, but campus isn't buzzing about this team like it should be.
What kind of buzz do you really expect for a team that's either barely in or barely out of the NCAA tournament depending on the previous day's results?
Quote from: Brewtown Andy on February 13, 2010, 03:37:55 PM
What kind of buzz do you really expect for a team that's either barely in or barely out of the NCAA tournament depending on the previous day's results?
If we consider ourselves anything close to a top flight student fan base, then I'd say at least a little buzz. We were projected to be 12th in the BE, and during what was to be a "rebuilding" year we're above .500 in a tough conference with our NCAA hopes alive and well currently. I know it's not like last year or the year before and we're not top 25 or a lock for the Dance, but if THAT'S your expectation to get people to show up, then we're a poorer student section than I thought.
Heck, if we were 2-9 in conference and playing sloppy ball, I'm sure I'd be less likely to be at every game. But as long as we're competitive and the team is working as hard as they seem to be right now, they've earned my support. And I don't think Buzz will accept anything less than that work ethic.
They better be bumping "Party in the USA" during all critical TV timeouts...
Quote from: Brewtown Andy on February 13, 2010, 03:37:55 PM
What kind of buzz do you really expect for a team that's either barely in or barely out of the NCAA tournament depending on the previous day's results?
Wow, that's quite the level of entitlement there. I came to MU in Crean's first year, those were some lean times in a wretched conference. Other vets put up with Dukiet in today's Horizon League.
Quote from: PXILibero2 on February 13, 2010, 03:46:40 PM
If we consider ourselves anything close to a top flight student fan base, then I'd say at least a little buzz. We were projected to be 12th in the BE, and during what was to be a "rebuilding" year we're above .500 in a tough conference with our NCAA hopes alive and well currently. I know it's not like last year or the year before and we're not top 25 or a lock for the Dance, but if THAT'S your expectation to get people to show up, then we're a poorer student section than I thought.
Heck, if we were 2-9 in conference and playing sloppy ball, I'm sure I'd be less likely to be at every game. But as long as we're competitive and the team is working as hard as they seem to be right now, they've earned my support. And I don't think Buzz will accept anything less than that work ethic.
See, I thought you meant campus in general, not in the people who laid out money to see every game.
Quote from: Husker4MU on February 13, 2010, 04:33:23 PM
Wow, that's quite the level of entitlement there. I came to MU in Crean's first year, those were some lean times in a wretched conference. Other vets put up with Dukiet in today's Horizon League.
See above.
Considering the appearances by alums, now NBA players at Wisconsin and UNC among others today, I gotta wonder if the wunderkinds Matthews, diener, novak show up for USF! I hope so!
Quote from: MrRivals150 on February 13, 2010, 12:06:52 PM
I just talked to Wes Matthews last night at the Madison Memorial game and said "Good job on getting Vander to MU and now you got to work on getting Junior Lomomba to continue that pipeline"---he loved my MU gear on and said he honestly wasn't sure yet on Junior.
You're kidding, right? Isn't it against NCAA rules for an non-coaching alumnus to recruit a prospectto his alma mater?
Quote from: MrRivals150 on February 13, 2010, 12:06:52 PM
I just talked to Wes Matthews last night at the Madison Memorial game and said "Good job on getting Vander to MU and now you got to work on getting Junior Lomomba to continue that pipeline"---he loved my MU gear on and said he honestly wasn't sure yet on Junior.
Again...why do you constantly bring stuff like this up? Be smart, christ.
Quote from: GOMU1104 on February 13, 2010, 08:24:51 PM
Again...why do you constantly bring stuff like this up? Be smart, christ.
Sounds like he's a Bucky Mole.