Hilton Coliseum vs Allen Fieldhouse

[DistrictCyclone]

I remember a game in our day where a rotund gentleman (we're talking more than a beergut here) who was just obliterated at some conference game.

Shortly following a bad call, he ripped his shirt off, jumped into the aisle, started slapping his shirt on the ground like some kind of whip and screaming "I WANT HOLYFIELD!", in reference to the classic SNL skit with Chris Farley playing Norman Schwarzkopf.

What happened to that?

I moved out of town, man. Sorry.

[cyclonedave25]

Still, I think it would be good to try some things before the game to encourage fans to get there earlier. For instance, we maybe Coach Rhoads could do something every few games. Or have a free throw shooting contest with Knott, Klein, and George. Help me out here. What would get you to arrive earlier?

Will never happen, but the 1 guaranteed way to get people to show up earlier is the make the entire arena General Admission. Can you imagine the length of the lines waiting to get in?!

[bringmagicback]

Has anyone noticed our student section is extra "dorky" during bball? If you go to fball games you see normal guys that dress normal and hot chicks that party. Bball student section looks like the library had a field trip and there was a sale on wallmart jeans and new balances. Great u made a clever sign using an internet meme. What happened to getting hammered and screaming threats at the opposing team. Youre the same age as the players, its ok to get into a fistfight w them if they come at you. What happened to students tailgating bball games?

[Cycsk]

I don't know why Ames has this problem but it took us 22 minutes to get from s duff to the parking lot on Saturday. It takes less time to get out of target center than that in a crowded downtown. My job involves some transportation engineering and know adding more lanes doesn't always make traffic go faster.

When we leave we go south on university past 30 and flip a u next to the gas station. So much faster than turning left onto 30. Need a roundabout at that intersection.

Admittedly, we didn't get there as early as we should. Saw lots of people trying to change lanes, even when it meant sitting there in traffic with a turn signal on while the traffic backed up behind them. The first one was on University just off the US 30 exit ramp. Saw it happening the whole way to the Mortenson light. And then also on the road by the practice facility. The left lane is standing still because they weren't letting us into the Hilton lots. The right lane is standing still because somebody was trying to get into the left lane.

[cyclonedave25]

Has anyone noticed our student section is extra "dorky" during bball? If you go to fball games you see normal guys that dress normal and hot chicks that party. Bball student section looks like the library had a field trip and there was a sale on wallmart jeans and new balances. Great u made a clever sign using an internet meme. What happened to getting hammered and screaming threats at the opposing team. Youre the same age as the players, its ok to get into a fistfight w them if they come at you. What happened to students tailgating bball games?

What happened? Nancy Clark wrote an article in the Rag about how rude and classless our student section was. hahaha. I think it was after the Colorado game a few years ago when some student threw water bottles at the team as they went into the tunnel.

[Jordanj6502]

I don't know why Ames has this problem but it took us 22 minutes to get from s duff to the parking lot on Saturday. It takes less time to get out of target center than that in a crowded downtown. My job involves some transportation engineering and know adding more lanes doesn't always make traffic go faster.

When we leave we go south on university past 30 and flip a u next to the gas station. So much faster than turning left onto 30. Need a roundabout at that intersection.

I would flip a U-Turn there too if I had to get to the Interstate. They should have police down there to control the light, but they only do that for football games. A roundabout wouldn't be beneficial for everyday traffic, and there isn't enough room for a partial cloverleaf which is what would really help.

[Cycsk]

Will never happen, but the 1 guaranteed way to get people to show up earlier is the make the entire arena General Admission. Can you imagine the length of the lines waiting to get in?!

That would certainly do it.

[Al_4_State]

Has anyone noticed our student section is extra "dorky" during bball? If you go to fball games you see normal guys that dress normal and hot chicks that party. Bball student section looks like the library had a field trip and there was a sale on wallmart jeans and new balances. Great u made a clever sign using an internet meme. What happened to getting hammered and screaming threats at the opposing team. Youre the same age as the players, its ok to get into a fistfight w them if they come at you. What happened to students tailgating bball games?

CYphyllis and I have been somewhat dancing around this, but you're dead on, and you're not the only who notices this. Years ago, the football/basketball crowds were pretty much the same, but the basketball was actually more intense as it was the hardest of the hardcore.

Now its like a Who's Who? of 20 year old virgins and tee-totallers.

[Doc]

Here's the difference:

Watch the KU student section tonight. They aren't worried about props. They aren't making stupid dance moves and pointing at the jumbotron if they get on the camera. They aren't behaving like children. They're intense, screaming pretty much the entire game, and look more like they're ready to take the floor and fight every mother ****** wearing green/gold or black/white.

The ISU student section used to be the same way. Between making the entire section CA, the restrictive atmosphere of CA at the time, and the terrible basketball of the McDermott era, this all died off. Its coming back, slowly but surely. There were flashes of it during the KU and BU games. But CA is still too cute, for lack of a better term. To paraphrase someone else, where are the grizzled collegiate alcoholics who haven't been sober all semester, and are looking to rip the throat out of anyone in the opposing teams' colors? They seem to by and largely have been replaced with awkward goof balls who are more interested in being on a jumbotron than watching basketball.

CycloneAlley code of conduct states that not only can you not drink at the game, you can not drink BEFORE the game.

[Doc]

What happened? Nancy Clark wrote an article in the Rag about how rude and classless our student section was. hahaha. I think it was after the Colorado game a few years ago when some student threw water bottles at the team as they went into the tunnel.

And that was after Doosh and Dicklick Harrison were gone! Somebody chucked a basketball at David during warmups in one of the early 00s games.

[SenorCy]

CYphyllis and I have been somewhat dancing around this, but you're dead on, and you're not the only who notices this. Years ago, the football/basketball crowds were pretty much the same, but the basketball was actually more intense as it was the hardest of the hardcore.

Now its like a Who's Who? of 20 year old virgins and tee-totallers.

I think CA created an exclusive group without actually having any qualifications to be a member and the kids that where less popular in high school jumped on the chance to be one of the cool kids.

[WhatchaGonnaDo]

I think CA created an exclusive group without actually having any qualifications to be a member and the kids that where less popular in high school jumped on the chance to be one of the cool kids.

Precisely.

[alarson]

The lots were awful saturday. It took me 40 minutes to get from 30 and university to my spot, and after the walk in i had missed tip.

Part of the problem is its just chaotic flow. And its made worse by the fact that they let people cut the line by cutting through the stadium lots, which stops the flow of cars into hilton's lots from S4th. They had cones up at one point this season to make it so you could only turn right into those donor lots (so that cars could keep flowing in, instead of constantly switching there), but some parking person had moved them off to the side this game, and are letting people cut right through again.

As for people switching lanes between 30 and s 4th on university, they sort of have to if they want to get over to the lots, and if youre coming off 30 you get stuck in that right lane because there's no cop down at 30 managing the in-flow.

They need traffic cops down all the way to 30 manning things before conference games, if saturday was any indication.

[CYphyllis]

CycloneAlley code of conduct states that not only can you not drink at the game, you can not drink BEFORE the game.

But.. but, that is just, unfathomable. Booze and sports are a combination made in heaven and should be allowed to flourish together in all of their glory.

You see things like that and it makes you chuckle though. They don't want the students drinking, but they want to "Bring The Magic Back". Not sure how they are forgetting that a big part of that "Magic" was a student section and crowd that couldn't collectively pass a breathalizer if their their lives depended on it.

[CycloneRulzzz]

Here's the difference:

Watch the KU student section tonight. They aren't worried about props. They aren't making stupid dance moves and pointing at the jumbotron if they get on the camera. They aren't behaving like children. They're intense, screaming pretty much the entire game, and look more like they're ready to take the floor and fight every mother ****** wearing green/gold or black/white.

The ISU student section used to be the same way. Between making the entire section CA, the restrictive atmosphere of CA at the time, and the terrible basketball of the McDermott era, this all died off. Its coming back, slowly but surely. There were flashes of it during the KU and BU games. But CA is still too cute, for lack of a better term. To paraphrase someone else, where are the grizzled collegiate alcoholics who haven't been sober all semester, and are looking to rip the throat out of anyone in the opposing teams' colors? They seem to by and largely have been replaced with awkward goof balls who are more interested in being on a jumbotron than watching basketball.

Amen to all this