The Cyclone Alley chants have been super childish, even more than usual because of the total lack of creativity. F Bohannon, F KU, you suck, BS, and now we get “kill, kill, kill.” I know that’s coming from TJ but it’s idiotic. What a super environment to take a kid to. Yes, I am getting old as I actually found myself in agreement with the blue hairs in our section who have never complained about the swearing, but felt like calling something a kill was too far and a bad message to send to kids. They’re 100% right. I’m not even opposed to the occasional obscenity if we were more creative about it, but it just sounds like a childish mob of 7th graders whining right now. Also, none of those chants are actually going to get under the skin of your opponent. They’re just going to laugh at the lack of thought put in and tune you out. Scream all game and come up with something that will really bother that specific player. WV’s game sheets show actual creativity and it would be awesome for Cyclone Alley to copy that. Left right left right sit down is right up there with “let me hear your [mascot name] cheer, what’s that you say?”
Before the soapbox gives out from underneath me, calling Coleman-Lands a traitor was worthless. The guy was barely here and who would blame anyone for leaving? He held on longer than some of the others and at least considered staying. How is there any hate there? It was trying way too hard to call him that. We’re not talking an Adam Haluska situation here or even a Hinrich/Collison where top preps who left the state came back as Jayhawk stars. Hilton can be an incredible environment and both the Iowa and Baylor games were fantastic examples of that just this year, but last night was both disappointing and dumb on many levels.
