With so many looking toward next season, I'd like to ask for one small change. I've muttered it on the way to the car after too, too many final home games.
The Senior Night recognition should precede the Senior Night game. Everyone can cheer and be cheered, and the visitors can be just a bit more shaken by our spirit and the big room. Somebody in Athletics can surely figure out how to fit the commentary and unveiling of jerseys between the shoot-around and tip-off without slighting the alma mater and the national anthem.
The coach, the captain, and the seniors will have a focused few minutes for planned remarks. We applaud and we're all set to go. It's another reason to be early for the home wrap-up.
If such a game ends in favor of the visitors, we'll be spared the sorry spectacle of eighty per cent of the audience fleeing, and can keep the coach and players feeling compelled to apologize.
Winning every Senior Night game might avoid the low feeling that a post-loss "celebration" brings, but starting with the highlights is a happier option.
The reason for it being post-game is so that the Seniors can speak and have their time in the sun without being limited by a tipoff in 10 minutes. That, and far fewer people would show up if it was two hours (or even one hour) before the game started.
I know what you mean, but I doubt it will change.
If you're thinking they will do it in the 15 minutes before the tip ... they cannot. Rules say the other team can warm up on the court (with the lights on so no spotlight) while our guys are not and we get out of their pregame routine.
So, unless you want to cut down the entire ceremony to to 3 minutes and cut out the personal speeches and take away the personality like most teams do, either it happens an hour before (in front of an even smaller crowd as Brew noted) or as is.
Plus I really doubt that it would shaken anyone. I actually think it could cause our guys to lose focus. Honestly I think the whole thing is a little overblown anyway.
Quote from: The Sultan of South Wayne on March 08, 2011, 07:18:34 AM
Plus I really doubt that it would shaken anyone. I actually think it could cause our guys to lose focus. Honestly I think the whole thing is a little overblown anyway.
You really think it's overblown?
Yes. I think they have gotten a little over the top. I don't recall a single ceremony when I was in school back in the late 80s. And I think many feel the same way as evidenced by the fact that they leave right after the game.
I vaguely remember senior night for Dean 'the dream' Meminger before the game. His standing O lasted so long and was so loud that after the game the opposing coach commented that they could hear it from their locker room, and all they could do was sit and listen in silence.
Wish my memory were better- salient details here would be opponent and year.
However, the arena was easier to rock, and believe me..., it rocked.
Seton Hall did it right before the game and it didn't seem to be a problem. MU went into the locker room, I think.
Quote from: augoman on March 08, 2011, 10:55:15 AM
I vaguely remember senior night for Dean 'the dream' Meminger before the game. His standing O lasted so long and was so loud that after the game the opposing coach commented that they could hear it from their locker room, and all they could do was sit and listen in silence.
Wish my memory were better- salient details here would be opponent and year.
However, the arena was easier to rock, and believe me..., it rocked.
Absolutely it rocked. Capacity was 10,748, as my memory serves me, and it sold out for like 100 straight games.
Quote from: willie warrior on March 08, 2011, 11:50:17 AM
Absolutely it rocked. Capacity was 10,748, as my memory serves me, and it sold out for like 100 straight games.
Meminger's senior night (great article)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SREWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-RAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3238%2C96984
He was 78-9 in his career at MU and 46-0 at the arena.
Hey, from the standings in the article, the NBA only had 17 teams at the time. That was the year the Bucks won it.
Quote from: The Sultan of South Wayne on March 08, 2011, 01:41:25 PM
Hey, from the standings in the article, the NBA only had 17 teams at the time. That was the year the Bucks won it.
Yeah, just noticed that. Wow, they had a 60-11 record, 14 1/2 game lead for best record in the league at the time. Domination.
the 46-0 record at the arena for dean the dream is pretty amazing