Absolutely fair. Also hilariousI wish there was a C. I don't care. Because, at this point in my life, I really don't care if people stand waiting on the first field goal of a basketball game. Traditions are great, beer is good and people are crazy.
Btw, I don't blame you for asking the question, it is a great question. It provokes an interesting discussion. Some people remain passionate about the little things, and "little things" is subjective, I understand that. I consider this tradition as a little thing, when compared to the current state of college athletics, let alone the state of our country. As a young man, I thought things would always work themselves out, but I have since lost faith in general public and their ability to reason. So, I try to add humor and with it sometimes direction. Although, whether I am suitable to provide the later...or former...is debatable.Absolutely fair. Also hilarious
There’s only one tradition I care about and feel we should keep: Winning.It should absolutely NOT be gotten rid of. Every year, there are posts lamenting our lack of traditions. So we should get rid of one of the very few...maybe the ONLY one we have? Sure, we stole it from New Mexico. But that was long ago and it is now ours.
We once had the "Who's He?" cheer, but that was defanged so as to not offend the masses.
We once had the Manley Zoo. In an effort to appear more sporting, SU neutered The Zoo by moving it to the other end of Manley and calling it The Kennel Club. It was OK but by the time we moved to The Dome, it was no more. Perhaps even prior to that, I no longer recall.
For football, we have the keys thing, but many schools had that before us. I seem to recall Purdue doing it many years ago when Leroy Keyes was there. It isn't even a tradition.
When I was a student, the freshmen had placard cheering at football games. We stole that too, probably from a southern California school where the cheerleaders didn't wear woolen uniforms and brush the occasional snowflake from their hair. By the end of my freshman year, I think it was gone.
Contrary to what people post annually, traditions cannot be "created". They develop organically. The stand and clap thing may be hokie to some and boring to some, but it is ours. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. It's a free country. But it should not be officially ended. We have so little else.
I had the best take in this thread tho, imho.The people have spoken. Glad to see the participation we had.
Theyre wrong of course, but they have spoken.
Also, I should have required you to input your age when voting.
The "Who's He" cheer was lame, glad that went awayIt should absolutely NOT be gotten rid of. Every year, there are posts lamenting our lack of traditions. So we should get rid of one of the very few...maybe the ONLY one we have? Sure, we stole it from New Mexico. But that was long ago and it is now ours.
We once had the "Who's He?" cheer, but that was defanged so as to not offend the masses.
We once had the Manley Zoo. In an effort to appear more sporting, SU neutered The Zoo by moving it to the other end of Manley and calling it The Kennel Club. It was OK but by the time we moved to The Dome, it was no more. Perhaps even prior to that, I no longer recall.
For football, we have the keys thing, but many schools had that before us. I seem to recall Purdue doing it many years ago when Leroy Keyes was there. It isn't even a tradition.
When I was a student, the freshmen had placard cheering at football games. We stole that too, probably from a southern California school where the cheerleaders didn't wear woolen uniforms and brush the occasional snowflake from their hair. By the end of my freshman year, I think it was gone.
Contrary to what people post annually, traditions cannot be "created". They develop organically. The stand and clap thing may be hokie to some and boring to some, but it is ours. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. It's a free country. But it should not be officially ended. We have so little else.
The people have spoken. Glad to see the participation we had.
Theyre wrong of course, but they have spoken.
Also, I should have required you to input your age when voting.
Opponents didn't dare try that stuff during the DC years. Georgetown became a rival then because we finally beat them, and had someone they were afraid of.As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to hate the home crowd more and more haha.
I don’t hate the standing and clapping as much as I hate the ‘oh, phew, we scored. I can sit down now and move as little as possible.’
Tangentially related, I cannot stand when the crowd lets an opposing player silence them. It’s maddening when the crowd is into it and loud just to groan and shut up because some dude hit a 3 or did a neat dunk. You can keep cheering through that. If the crowd can actually affect players, I’d imagine continuing to clap and shout after some dude tea-bags our big man, as if it’s no big deal, would work better than giving them the satisfaction of shutting up. “You did a 360 windmill from the foul line on our 7 footer’s head? Yawn; couldn’t care less, bro.”
I wish I could like this 100x because that's about what it looks and sounds like...it's pretty pathetic. But by all means...carry onAt the dome...
Contrary to what people post annually, traditions cannot be "created". They develop organically. The stand and clap thing may be hokie to some and boring to some, but it is ours. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. It's a free country. But it should not be officially ended. We have so little else.
It should absolutely NOT be gotten rid of. Every year, there are posts lamenting our lack of traditions. So we should get rid of one of the very few...maybe the ONLY one we have? Sure, we stole it from New Mexico. But that was long ago and it is now ours.
We once had the "Who's He?" cheer, but that was defanged so as to not offend the masses.
We once had the Manley Zoo. In an effort to appear more sporting, SU neutered The Zoo by moving it to the other end of Manley and calling it The Kennel Club. It was OK but by the time we moved to The Dome, it was no more. Perhaps even prior to that, I no longer recall.
For football, we have the keys thing, but many schools had that before us. I seem to recall Purdue doing it many years ago when Leroy Keyes was there. It isn't even a tradition.
When I was a student, the freshmen had placard cheering at football games. We stole that too, probably from a southern California school where the cheerleaders didn't wear woolen uniforms and brush the occasional snowflake from their hair. By the end of my freshman year, I think it was gone.
Contrary to what people post annually, traditions cannot be "created". They develop organically. The stand and clap thing may be hokie to some and boring to some, but it is ours. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. It's a free country. But it should not be officially ended. We have so little else.
The best was the person that said Miami messed up being a palindrome.I just miss the "Hey...You should feel bad" threads...
The longer it goes on, the worse the energy gets because everyone just wants us to score.
Isn’t that the case whether there is clapping or not?
Like a damn good song that has a recognizable rhythm!Keep it and add a cue so everyone is on the same page. It's half-hearted because there's no cadence.
SO WHAT?!!!??The "Who's He" cheer was lame, glad that went away
I’m just trying to help ‘be the change I want to see in the world’I’m going to write about this in the alumni game thread, but people stood up and clapped very rapidly. It gave a very different vibe to beginning of each half. I wondered whether they had been reading this board?