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Red Sea Cheers

Kudos to who started the wave? Wow. I think next to the "Applause-O-Meter" on scoreboards, that is the absolute dumbest cheer in all of sports. I would have booed every second of it and stayed planted to my seat.

How's about just organizing cheers for your team and not resulting to stupid gimmicks like the wave and 'requested' applause.

The best cheers are just when the crowd gets really loud, the "ohhhhhhhhh" thing where the students bounce up and down like Duke fans, "B-U B-U B-U," "Let's Go - BRADLEY - Clap clap - clapclapclap."

The whole point of rooting for your team is making some noise to get them pumped up to play even harder.

Whoever started the wave is probably one of the same fools that gets too drunk and starts it at Wrigley Field bleachers.

The wave represents fairweather fans who aren't all that interested in the game from San Diego. I'll take the stance of Cricket Australia:

Cricket Australia has banned the wave from all international grounds due to objects being, either unintentionally or deliberately, thrown into the air at the same time. These include plastic cups containing beer, hot food items, or even urine, which affects the other spectators around the person who threw it. Anyone who attempts to start a wave will be ejected from the ground.[8][9] The banning of the Mexican Wave has been met with a mostly negative response from Australia's sports-going public, especially in Melbourne as the result of the much higher popularity of the wave at the MCG. This charge has been led by Matthew Newton, 22, of Springvale, who was one of the first to suffer eviction while promoting his "Save the Mexican Wave" campaign. While gaining large amounts of attention within the Australian media, it did not affect the position of Cricket Australia.
 
braves12 said:
Maybe the student section could make up 100s of the "faces on sticks" with the new Prez's face on it as a show of support for her enthusiasm. She took the 1st step to show her support, maybe it should be returned. I think it would be appreciated by her and maybe the students could use the Prez sticks to motivate the crowd. When the Prez's face goes up, the crowd gets up. It would need to be used inteligently, and sparingly, but it might work. Just a thought. Let me drink a few sodas and I might have more ideas. Of course the quality might go down!!!!!!
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I like this idea! I also like what Dogsrus posted about the student section a couple of posts back. Just keep up the good work, make noise and have fun.
 
BUBraves2006 said:
Kudos to who started the wave? Wow. I think next to the "Applause-O-Meter" on scoreboards, that is the absolute dumbest cheer in all of sports. I would have booed every second of it and stayed planted to my seat.

How's about just organizing cheers for your team and not resulting to stupid gimmicks like the wave and 'requested' applause.

The best cheers are just when the crowd gets really loud, the "ohhhhhhhhh" thing where the students bounce up and down like Duke fans, "B-U B-U B-U," "Let's Go - BRADLEY - Clap clap - clapclapclap."

The whole point of rooting for your team is making some noise to get them pumped up to play even harder.

Whoever started the wave is probably one of the same fools that gets too drunk and starts it at Wrigley Field bleachers.

The wave represents fairweather fans who aren't all that interested in the game from San Diego. I'll take the stance of Cricket Australia:

Cricket Australia has banned the wave from all international grounds due to objects being, either unintentionally or deliberately, thrown into the air at the same time. These include plastic cups containing beer, hot food items, or even urine, which affects the other spectators around the person who threw it. Anyone who attempts to start a wave will be ejected from the ground.[8][9] The banning of the Mexican Wave has been met with a mostly negative response from Australia's sports-going public, especially in Melbourne as the result of the much higher popularity of the wave at the MCG. This charge has been led by Matthew Newton, 22, of Springvale, who was one of the first to suffer eviction while promoting his "Save the Mexican Wave" campaign. While gaining large amounts of attention within the Australian media, it did not affect the position of Cricket Australia.
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I do go to Wrigley Field bleachers...but i don't drink there. I do that stuff cuz its fun and it gets everyone excited.

Did you notice how bradley started sucking it up for about 15 minutes. Not that UMES was even close to BU, but it was stupid having the entire stadium sitting there like they were watching a tennis match.

and as for the wave being lame...
whoa whoa whoa...let's not say things we can't take back..haha
 
BUconnorD said:
yea that was me
and I was sober as a judge
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Well, you mighta looked like a drunk on Tuesday morning.

Just kidding. ;)

I thought it was funny... after like 8 missed FT's... instead of shooting another miss.... went after to stop the other guy from getting to 'base' with pizza box in hand. ;)
 
"Did you notice how bradley started sucking it up for about 15 minutes. Not that UMES was even close to BU, but it was stupid having the entire stadium sitting there like they were watching a tennis match."

If you are referring to the second half when we benched Ruffin, Crouch, Salley, and Wilson, then its my belief that you're wrong. I think a lot of avid Bradley fans were perhaps more excited, because the opportunity to see a lineup of Maniscalco, TCS, Warren, Egolf, and Collins isn't going to happen much more this year, especially after getting into conference play. I enjoy getting enormous leads and then watching the game play out when the reserves are in, and I usually find myself more engaged in a game when little-used players get the playing time. It's an interesting thing for many fans to watch freshmen and newcomers get minutes, and it's an opportunity to gauge a players strengths and weaknesses and personally it gets me excited for whats instore for the future.

I'm not against the wave or anything, it can be fun when the whole arena does it and kids seem to get a bit of a kick out of it. It's more of your reasoning for starting the wave that bothers me. Saying that our freshmen, transfers, and walk-ons "sucked it up" for 15 minutes seems pretty harsh. Rather than start the wave and distract our audience from the team "sucking it up," I think it would be a lot more beneficial to the audience AND the team to just yell and cheer them on. Maybe start chanting Let's go Maniscalco or Let's go Egolf, and help boost a young players confidence, or get everyone to stand up and yell. There's nothing like an entire arena standing and cheering for you, especially when you are young and developing. Just my two cents.
 
Students - I can't say how much I love the giant heads. In that regard, I think that the name of the student section needs to be changed. Instead of the 'Red Sea', to which several people seem to be disappointed in (especially the shirts), why not change it to the 'Red Heads'? It's original, and opens up several possibilities with people wearing red hair, shirts that say 'Red Heads have more fun', etc. It also plays to the them the students have started with the giant heads, which I think is just awesome. Rename the students the 'Red Heads'!
 
Alright to get this back on topic, lets stop tearing things down and actually come up with ideas. Just ripping on what people are trying is worthless. We need a change to take our student section to the next level so let's actually suggest ideas rather than being afraid to change the status quo...
 
FYI--Those big heads were produced by the athletic department and cost about $60 a piece--not cheap--so a hundred would be a little much. A "Glasser Head" was made as well and ready to be used but before the game she said it didn't make her look good so the athletic department couldn't pass it out.
 
amckillip said:
Alright to get this back on topic, lets stop tearing things down and actually come up with ideas. Just ripping on what people are trying is worthless. We need a change to take our student section to the next level so let's actually suggest ideas rather than being afraid to change the status quo...
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our ideas are to stop doing certain dumb things like the wave, the "we are bradley" chant excessively, and not keeping a beat with our normal chants. these are our ideas!
 
BUConnorD for school mascot LOL. Whole crowd was laughin at ya while at the free throw line dude LOL. You might not of noticed while you were out there. Just go get a brave feather hat, put on a sleaveless brown leather throwover and run on the court with the cheerleaders LOL. It's not an official school mascot so the NCAA can't do anything about it. Your just an average joe dressed up for the game.

Jason
 
audacious_aficionado said:
our ideas are to stop doing certain dumb things like the wave, the "we are bradley" chant excessively, and not keeping a beat with our normal chants. these are our ideas!
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Give us ONE idea, anything, anything not stolen from another school, or not just shooting down an idea. It's unbelievably easy to rip and tear down what others are doing. Now grow a pair and throw an idea out there. I can't believe how difficult it is just to try to make something better. Wow! Maybe we should just use the same generic tired chants, Continue to make fun of opposing teams because of their ethnicity, and just let everything stay exactly the same...
 
I thought the students were great. A tremendous student turnout for a Sunday game.
Anything the students do that gets the crowd into games, and is good clean fun is OK with me. How could anyone criticize what they do when there hasn't been this much energy and involvement by the students for many years.
Thanks to BUconnerD for the cheerleading!
 
I just want to say how awesome I think it is that so many students are coming to bradleyfans.com to participate. Keep recruiting friends to come here to talk BU hoops with us!

To add the the discussion. Keep it simple and stay together. That will make for a loud and intimidating student section. Forget about trying too hard to be "cool" or "witty" Trying too hard is neither cool nor witty.
 
I realize the big heads cost $60 and that is too much for 100s. I am just thinking of an appropriate color picture, copy 100s on a copy machine, tape to some cardboard, attach to some paint stir sticks and go with it. 100s of small faces will certainly make up for the large size. If you need me to fund the cost of copying off 100s, let me know. I will be happy to, just make sure the Prez is OK with everyhthing. I would want it to be done with class and respect.

If the Prez is cool with it, it can be accomplished, noooooooo problem!
 
amckillip said:
Give us ONE idea, anything, anything not stolen from another school, or not just shooting down an idea. It's unbelievably easy to rip and tear down what others are doing. Now grow a pair and throw an idea out there. I can't believe how difficult it is just to try to make something better. Wow! Maybe we should just use the same generic tired chants, Continue to make fun of opposing teams because of their ethnicity, and just let everything stay exactly the same...
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Whoa easy there. I am in the first row ever game and there is never a word said about another team's ethnicity. Are you serious?
 
Since it looks like there's a bunch of students on this thread, I figured I'd throw some thoughts out there, see if anybody's interested.

Officially, I was the President of the Red Zone my last year at BU, 2001, in truth, the job was primarily a liasion between the Athletic Department and the student section. I used to meet with Dennis Kalina (not sure who's taken his post since he went to Gonzaga, I believe) and at least brainstorm some ideas for things to do, promotions, etc. Now, those were the lean years as far as the student section went, when I got to BU in 97, it was fairly big numbers wise, but "membership" declined as the years went on. As common logic goes, the argument was that as the team did poorly, so did the student section. Now, it appears that the student section has had a revival, which is awesome to hear, apparently, it's up to the folks in here to keep that going, so I'll try to help as much as I can, being 700 miles away......

Anyways, I'm pretty sure I've got files of the Student Section Game Notes I put together for the last couple years I was there. They were essentially a little synopsis of the matchup, along with bios and pictures of the main players and coaches (boy I wish I coulda made some for the Eustachy game last year!!!!) on the opposing squad. Now, it's going to take a little bit of work and research (i.e. googling, which is probably even better than when I had to use it!) to find dirt on the opponents/players, or in the absence of any good info you just make up funny stuff about the guy's name or hometown or stupid tattoo or ugliness or whatever info you can find. Sometimes we'd have "organized" cheers for a specific player or against the team on the sheet. The athletic dept. used to let us runoff the game notes in the office there, I believe we got some money from the Braves Club, formerly known as the Chiefs Club, for that. The notes were good for getting everybody on the same page and giving out info on the other team that probably 90% of the people in the section didn't know. It at least gave them a chance to come up with something on their own about the fella on the other team and have it with 'em so they could ID the guys when ringing the court on warmups.

Now here's a couple of observations about the experiences I had:

#1 People are sheep and will follow the herd......but
#2 You can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink.

If you get a good cheer/smack talk/etc. you'll get the support, but if it stinks, don't expect mass participation. Once you find something that everybody buys into, keep it up. Of course you're at the stage where you're still trying to find that....so once you find something that works, run with it as long as you can.

Of course I'm at work right now, but when I get home, I'll dig out my old laptop, I'm pretty sure I've still got those files. I've got no problems if you guys want to use those as templates to come up with your own. Shoot me an email address and I'll try and get those out to ya.

By the way, I know it's early, but if you guys don't get a "DUI!, DUI!" (pronounced: Dewey! or spelling out the ol' D.U.I.! D.U.I.! would work or a "Don't DrinkandDrive! Don't DrinkandDrive!) cheer for the IlSU game, I'm gonna be real disappointed in you guys and gals.....
 
J Money BU said:
Whoa easy there. I am in the first row ever game and there is never a word said about another team's ethnicity. Are you serious?
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Yesterday several people were yelling at an opposing player because he was Serbian, enough that a couple of people I know who are Serbian and go to BU overheard and were very taken a back.
 
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