Is it time for the clapping until first bucket to die?

[orangefog]

I can't believe this is as close as it is. This team is going to freaking score and also play defense. Stand up, clap, and cheer, because these guys are going to thrive off of the energy we give.

 

[OrangeDW]

I can't believe this is as close as it is. This team is going to freaking score and also play defense. Stand up, clap, and cheer, because these guys are going to thrive off of the energy we give.

Agreed. I do think the “everybody immediately sits down as soon as we score” create a weird dynamic though.

Would love to see the place stay up and try to help the team jump on somebody early, sometimes.

 

[orangefog]

Agreed. I do think the “everybody immediately sits down as soon as we score” create a weird dynamic though.

Would love to see the place stay up and try to help the team jump on somebody early, sometimes.

sit down, stand up, who cares, just be loud. If you want to make a difference, then be loud. Show recruits what it is like to play in the dome for the ORANGE!!!

 

[cliftonparksufan]

I would amend it to first bucket OR first defensive stop.

It actually hurts the energy when it goes on too long. Makes slow starts a worse experience.

Get a big turnover, block a shot, snag a board and the crowd goes nuts, that works. Win the tip right away, get a nice bucket, crowd goes nuts, that works.

Tell me I'm wrong that this wouldn't be better.

You can't.

YOU CAN'T

Hopefully with 7'4", we win all the tips and go right down and score.

 

[orangefog]

Hopefully with 7'4", we win all the tips and go right down and score.

Attack attack attack

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Attack attack attack

Forty minutes of Orange Crush.

 

[MadNY3]

With new leadership comes new opportunities to create new traditions. Are we ready?

What?!

Stand and clap and cheer for the first score.

It’s so cool. We’ve been doing it across five decades.

Geezus.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

The crowd that wants to ditch a 40+ year old tradition is obsessed with switching back to uniforms we wore 40 years ago.

 

[OrangeDW]

Keep:
-stand and clap

Bring back:
-alley-oops
-outlet passes
-pressure defense
-hey! You suck!
-Dome Ranger
-Original Dome Nachos
-Amen song in closing seconds of a victory
-who cares? So what? Who’s he? Big deal? Big sh%*?
-Script unis
-Blue curtain(not the poster though)

 

[CU44SE]

IMHO, we have few traditions. We should be looking to create more, not throw away the ones that are still around...

This. Is the tradition a great one? No, probably not. But for a program that does not have a lot of traditions and for a program that is always brainstorming ways of creating new traditions, I dont think we are in a position to throw away the traditions that we do have.

 

[Day2]

Wait, what?!

It wasn’t Seton Hall. May have been Providence.

 

[elimunelson]

Keep:
-stand and clap

Bring back:
-alley-oops
-outlet passes
-pressure defense
-hey! You suck!
-Dome Ranger
-Original Dome Nachos
-Amen song in closing seconds of a victory
-who cares? So what? Who’s he? Big deal? Big sh%*?
-Script unis
-Blue curtain(not the poster though)

The dome ranger must be knee less at this point

Last time I saw him he had two knee braces on.

 

[UpstateSM]

I say keep the tradition but you’re required to use any part of your body except your hands to clap.

I vote yes as long as the m ilf in my section is still there this winter

 

[Lukeyloo]

I say keep the tradition but you’re required to use any part of your body except your hands to clap.

 

[Janner]

I like the idea of the clap and the tradition to me is a good and important thing. If it had more energy I think it could be great. How that is done is a creative question I do not have an answer to, but maybe the student section can come up with something. They seem to be a creative bunch. People seem to really like the Minnesota Vikings clap (not the same I know and was probably stolen from soccer but..), I think a little tweek or two could make it cool. JMHO

 

[jncuse]

I would reverse things.

Everybody stands and claps loud every time Syracuse is on defence until the other team scores their first field goal

Instead of it being more half-hearted as it drags out longer and longer fans would get more into it and even louder as teams get to 0-2, 0-3, 0-4.

The extended clapping would actually be a reward for our team's effort, and actually put some pressure on the opponents... instead of putting pressure on our own team.

(EDIT - I see this was already discussed at post #21)

 

[DoctahLexus]

Back in the old days, Sour Sitrus would play “Land of 1000 Dances” before the opening tip, and everyone clapped along.

Then the Dome insisted on using canned music and it all went askew.

In recent years it was at its best when Welcome to the Jungle was the lead off song and set the clapping tempo.

 

[Bulldog04]

The only reason it was deflating was bc it would take 20 mins to score some games. Never get rid of this. It’s something I look forward to seeing on tv or in person. Wish the wave came back for football games. Great childhood memories then with that

 

[HOFCeluck]

The crowd that wants to ditch a 40+ year old tradition is obsessed with switching back to uniforms we wore 40 years ago.

OX I’m not against old traditions. I’m against bad traditions.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

OX I’m not against old traditions. I’m against bad traditions.

And stolen traditions

 

[HOFCeluck]

And stolen traditions

@&& I don’t even mind stolen ones. We stole “Hey You Suck” and that awesome!

 

[dollarbill44]

I say keep the tradition but you’re required to use any part of your body except your hands to clap.

I can make my butt cheeks clap, but I have to have my pants down.

 

[dollarbill44]

With new leadership comes new opportunities to create new traditions. Are we ready?

 

[SUFaninNJ]

It wasn’t Seton Hall. May have been Providence.

“Coach, why did you lose the game? Was it a lack of rebounding? Foul trouble? Shots just weren’t falling?”

“No, none of those. It was the clapping of the crowd.”

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Keep:
-stand and clap

Bring back:
-alley-oops
-outlet passes
-pressure defense
-hey! You suck!
-Dome Ranger
-Original Dome Nachos
-Amen song in closing seconds of a victory
-who cares? So what? Who’s he? Big deal? Big sh%*?
-Script unis
-Blue curtain(not the poster though)

Sadly, neither the Dome Knitter nor Dome Eddie made the cut.