OK -- anyone who witnessed this "thing" with the 3 ISU Students standing in front of the cheerleaders and actually getting in their way while they (BU) were leading cheering -- here's my take on it.
I actually got into a minor verbal skirmish with one of the ISU Students involved in this. Maybe I shouldn't have but here's my reasoning -- it really has to do with respect of others.
the BU Cheerleaders work hard the entire game to get the crowd into it. These "ISU students" worked ONLY very hard drinking what appeared to be too much beer. IMO, They can sit wherever they want and cheer, scream, all they want...heck they could even have the landing to cheer if they wanted -- but they only came down there when the BU Cheerleaders were there.
I think someone needs to stand up for those BU Cheerleaders or anyone for that matter who is being "bumped" intimidated, etc. That section of the arena doesn't have a lot of "younger folks" so the BU people that are there probably don't want to get involved. Once I spoke up several others also spoke up -- but not sure had any effect on the students (alcohol has a way of making one invulnerable to criticism).
It was very "nice" to hear the student tell me several times that "Jesus Loves Me" -- I need all that I can get!!! One of the people in my party is a ISU fan and I asked him/her to not encourage this behavior from the ISU students. I actually think more people should try to get involved when they see behavior like this -- we would need fewer security and police if that was the case.
To me -- if this goes on -- the cheerleaders won't come up -- it's one of the things that makes college basketball unique. By the way, I do have season tickets to both ISU and Bradley -- the BU Cheering squad does a lot more than the ISU squad does - but I would also try to defend the ISU squad if I ever saw this interaction in reverse.
OK -- so that's my story as the bradley fan that "got into it" with an ISU fan -- if I offended anyone around me--I apologize.