Stand up BU, Stand up!

[catpkt]

From today's journal star.....

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/050306/KIR_B9N41853.073.shtml

It will be interesting to see if this happens. I usually end up sitting upper bowl so I can stand and have no one complain.

[lefty]

Re: Stand up BU, Stand up!

From today's journal star.....

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/050306/KIR_B9N41853.073.shtml

It will be interesting to see if this happens. I usually end up sitting upper bowl so I can stand and have no one complain.

I'm a little tired of the whole stand up thing. I stand when I feel like standing and cheering. If someone stands up in front of me that's ok. Older people really don't care what KW thinks.

[Da Coach]

Lefty is right!

If you have ever attended any Chief's Club functions or just look around the lower bowl at games, it is quite impressive how many of Bradley's staunchest fans and ticketholders are senior citizens. They are not going to stand up much during a regular season game. A few even get annoyed if others stand, most are indifferent. As enthusiastic as I might be about Bradley, I will say that this does not make these folks any less of a Bradley fans. And there is no way Bradley will take their seats away from them and move them out of the lower bowl just because they don't stand up or go as crazy as the students. Nor should they. Many of these people have forked out a lot of money over the years to support Bradley, and BU wouldn't be where it is without them.

If someone like KW thinks other people should sit in my seats because they yell louder than me, then let them pay a share of the ticket prices and the huge maintenance fee. Otherwise, come up with another solution.

[Fetz86]

It was just so annoying when we would be making a run during a game, and than the other team would hit a shot and all the "old people" would sit down and get real quite. I loved the games in St. Louis because when the students would get loud, the other BU fans got up and cheered too, not like at the Civic Center, where most of the people are dead. Although I also loved the MVC tourny games because all of us students that went were the ones that actually stand and cheer the whole game, so it seemed louder because there wasnt a pocket of the lame people who go just to say they were there.

I like the proposal for people who want to stand and cheer to come join us, I dont like when people come sit in the student section early taking the good seats in the first few rows, and than complain when we are standing around them (yes that happened at a few games).

[BUBraves06]

It was just so annoying when we would be making a run during a game, and than the other team would hit a shot and all the "old people" would sit down and get real quite. I loved the games in St. Louis because when the students would get loud, the other BU fans got up and cheered too, not like at the Civic Center, where most of the people are dead. Although I also loved the MVC tourny games because all of us students that went were the ones that actually stand and cheer the whole game, so it seemed louder because there wasnt a pocket of the lame people who go just to say they were there.

I like the proposal for people who want to stand and cheer to come join us, I dont like when people come sit in the student section early taking the good seats in the first few rows, and than complain when we are standing around them (yes that happened at a few games).

I agree with a lot of what you say Fetz, but as much as it sux that a lot of the time it seems like most of the fans are barley paying attention to the game, it's their right to sit and not cheer if they want. I mean a good number of them have been around since the NIT title years and are pretty set in their ways. I loved being in STL too because even though we were outnumbered we were loud, and I was quite impressed with the fans who made it down to the Savvis, hopefully something can be worked out so everyone is happy. I know that I sit in the front row of the student section for every game with my face all painted and everything and I'm as obnoxious and loud as possible and I don't think putting people who are older then the average students among us is a good idea at all (Just because some of the language used, and some of the things that are said). I duno what can be done ...

[Fetz86]

well, i know there wouldnt be a lot of older people we would want, i guess i was more envisioning people who had recently graduated or drunk (both?) that would be loud and cheer along with us, i have seen some of them at games.

which guy on Willy 4 are you any way? (i am in 415)

[BUBraves06]

well, i know there wouldnt be a lot of older people we would want, i guess i was more envisioning people who had recently graduated or drunk (both?) that would be loud and cheer along with us, i have seen some of them at games.

which guy on Willy 4 are you any way? (i am in 415)

Ya there definately some very passionate fans that are non-students, I'm just worried about Kavanagh (sp?) making a bunch of pain-in-the-ass rules for us to follow if there are alumni or boosters among the student section.

I'm in 408.

[thefish7]

I'm recently graduated and frequently drunk (though mostly after the games). I was also Molinarmy/Red Zone during my BU days and love making noise. I'd love to be able to get into/near the student section, but I don't know if it's allowed/possible. I love a sporting crowd atmosphere, if I wanted to relax I'd be at home... so I think I occasionally bother some of the other fans out in the regular seats because I stand up a lot and yell a lot. I also want to stay standing after the opposition makes a shot, but you know, 100 people sitting down nearby is hard to ignore.

Actually, at a soccer game, someone actually asked me to sit down while the ball was being driven down the flank. It really made me mad, but I didn't want to just go off on the guy. I didn't even really know I was standing, I just stood because something good for Bradley was happening.

[tornado]

I know what you mean Fish,
I sorta am one of the "old guys" as I graduated in the 70's but still go to all the basketball and most of the home soccer games.
I stand most of the time but people commonly holler from behind "sit down"
At the BU home game vs. Creighton last year, one of the CU fans behind us called one of the Shea Stadium personnell to MAKE us sit down, but he acknowledged we should just try to work it out ourselves, as he couldn't possibly enforce a no-stand rule, since he'd then have to do it for everyone in front of me, too, and that was impossible.
So I plan to keep standing as much as I want, but I have no problem with people who stay sitting. Anyway, some of them are drunker than you and need to sit or they'll fall.

[MacabreMob]

I remember as a kid in the 70's going to the Fieldhouse. My P's season tickets were about 10 rows behind the scoreer's table. Many times I would go to the student section to watch and cheer. few of the students would take me 'under their wing' and watch out for me (and cover my ears for the B.S. chants).

Believe it or not... the seats and section I would go to would be the very top row.



That's right. Can you believe that? Students had the upperlevel seats all the way at the top!

I don't know where all their seats were located, but I know they had those.

So all this whining over the students deserving the lower bowl seats in the middle sections at Carver make me chuckle.

[GoBraves]

I think it is hard to understand this article if you were not in Michigan and/or California. The Bradley fans at these events were fabulous. If you were at these games, I believe you would agree that is the environment we would all love to have at Carver.

[SFP]

This all could change if Bradley builds a new arena with suites and give the students the first few rows around the court. The current configuration is a hard one to change. It has always been that way and due to the the boosters having the best seats our home court advantage is minamized. Right now there are no easy answers.

[MacabreMob]

This all could change if Bradley builds a new arena with suites and give the students the first few rows around the court. The current configuration is a hard one to change. It has always been that way and due to the the boosters having the best seats our home court advantage is minamized. Right now there are no easy answers.

Maybe Tornado could confirm this... but I swear back at the Fieldhouse, the students didn't have any lower level seats on the 'theater' side, none under the baskets, and 1/2 of the bench side. I think they lined up the 1/2 behind the band and filled in the upper area on the bench side.

So how is it people think Carver is the only place the students are getting hosed?

Give me some help here Tornado. I was just a kid in the 70's, you were a student - so you know where the student section was.

[tornado]

Absolutely right.
The students only got the seats nobody else had bought, and the process was to get your student ID card punched sometime the day or so before the game, then they knew how many students were coming, and they tried to sell all the rest of the tickets, leaving only the right number of seats high in the south end of the Fieldhouse, often up against the rafters.

No students ever got the seats on the theater side or on the end, nor anywhere near the court on the south end.

I even recall one time sitting in the highest row on the absolute end of the bleachers with a ceiling beam right above my head so that I couldn't stand up or even sit up straight. I had to lean to my left into the next fan's "space" in order to see the game. When I tried to stand in the aisle, the usher told me to sit down, and I had no choice.

[Braves4Life]

Loved it!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........those were the days!

I, too, was a kid going to games in the 70's. My dad was a ticket-taker so I snuck in and sat (stood) wherever I could find a place. You had the boring side (theatre seats) and the happenin' side (behind benches).

I also believe the students were up high and some behind baskets. But hey, it didn't matter because that place really rocked with noise!

I hated it when they moved downtown. Talk about a BIG change in environment. That Civic Center was like a tomb. I remember one game at the Fieldhouse where we led NM State 28-0 and all the fans would stand and clap until the other team scored (of course, we lost that game).

Another game we led Drake by 11 with 33 seconds left and, you guessed it, we lost. Upsets of Louisville and Dr. Dunkenstein, great game with UNLV and Reggie Theus, World B. Free (still Lloyd), Larry Bird, 8 OT's with Big Mike and Cincinatti, and I could go on and on.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............those were the days!