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Lobos Game, what's with the crickets chirping?

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JFParnell

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Watched the highlight reel, and I am calling out the UW student fans. :tickedoff: It sounded like a morgue in there when the opposing team had the ball. :whistle: The only time the crowd got loud is when UW scored a bucket. I went to school during the years under Jim Brandenburg and you could not hear yourself, especially when the other team had the ball. I almost went deaf during the WAC Basketball Championship that was held in Laramie. This crowd really needs to pick up their level of participation. Your players feed off of your energy. Pick out a player from the opposite team that gets harassed the whole game, and make noise whenever that player gets passed the ball. Chant whenever the opposing team is trying to make a free throw. What you are experiencing this year is special and you really have to bring it as a fan. I am coming out for the Nevada game, and I hope I am not disappointed.
 
JFParnell said:
Watched the highlight reel, and I am calling out the UW student fans. :tickedoff: It sounded like a morgue in there when the opposing team had the ball. :whistle: The only time the crowd got loud is when UW scored a bucket. I went to school during the years under Jim Brandenburg and you could not hear yourself, especially when the other team had the ball. I almost went deaf during the WAC Basketball Championship that was held in Laramie. This crowd really needs to pick up their level of participation. Your players feed off of your energy. Pick out a player from the opposite team that gets harassed the whole game, and make noise whenever that player gets passed the ball. Chant whenever the opposing team is trying to make a free throw. What you are experiencing this year is special and you really have to bring it as a fan. I am coming out for the Nevada game, and I hope I am not disappointed.
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You think the highlight reel is representative of the actual noise at the game?

Not even close.
 
There were multiple whistles during the second half and overtime that players tried to play through simply because they couldn't hear them. It was a great environment.

I'm not sure what video you watched, but a lot of times sound volume is decreased to put Dave and Kevin's words of wisdom in there
 
I do agree to some extent. You can watch the 1986 Wyoming /Clemson NIT game and it is way more intimidating and loud during that game then it is now. Not on the same level as back then.

I also agree that watching a highlight reel isn't the same as being at the game either.

BUT it isn't as loud or as intimidating as it was back then. A lot of it has to do with so much bad basketball up until Larry Shyatt got back.
 
seattlecowboy said:
I do agree to some extent. You can watch the 1986 Wyoming /Clemson NIT game and it is way more intimidating and loud during that game then it is now. Not on the same level as back then.

I also agree that watching a highlight reel isn't the same as being at the game either.

BUT it isn't as loud or as intimidating as it was back then. A lot of it has to do with so much bad basketball up until Larry Shyatt got back.
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Or a lot of it is better A/V equipment now.

I am sick of that type of statement. Wyoming having poor hoops due to Schroyer does not make the 10K people at the game any less quiet than 10K during the glory days. That just doesn't make sense. Back then 10K showed up for every game sure, but it doesn't mean that 10K was any better than yesterdays 10K.

Maybe you remember it being louder because you were younger, it was in your day, it was what helped make Wyo hoops great in your mind. Same way that when I think back to the Wyo-BYU game in 2004, I remember War Memorial being completely packed and louder than it has ever been when we picked BYU off on their final drive. But odds are, that moment wasn't the loudest it's ever been. It was just a great moment that I remembered.

People are just as loud today as they were back then. 10K is still 10K.
 
For the 1st half while I was there, it was plenty loud. Even when it was "quiet" it was loud. Every time we hit a shot, especially the 3s, it was practically deafening.
 
seattlecowboy said:
I do agree to some extent. You can watch the 1986 Wyoming /Clemson NIT game and it is way more intimidating and loud during that game then it is now. Not on the same level as back then.
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How many people were atthat Clemson game? Remember that a sellout then was about 50% more people then than it is now. Also, the student section used to project noise into the center ofthe court instead of being trapped behind thebackboard at one end of the arena.
That difference in capacity and configuration might make a difference as well.
 
It doesn't help with all the blue hairs sitting in the front row looking like they just took a bite out of a lemon. I swear, every time Wyo would make a big shot or play, they would pan the crowd and there would be a row of 4-5 fans of an older age sitting in the front row looking like they were the most miserable people on the planet. Meanwhile the people behind them are going nuts because of the big play that just occurred. Honestly, it pissed me off every time they showed it, wanted to smack them upside the head.
 
JFParnell said:
...I went to school during the years under Jim Brandenburg and you could not hear yourself, especially when the other team had the ball... Pick out a player from the opposite team that gets harassed the whole game, and make noise whenever that player gets passed the ball. Chant whenever the opposing team is trying to make a free throw. What you are experiencing this year is special and you really have to bring it as a fan. I am coming out for the Nevada game, and I hope I am not disappointed.
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Biggest crowd in years, a win against a conference rival with the winning play(s) brilliantly executed by the quality teamwork that the best coach this program has seen in decades has instilled in the funnest team I've watched in years and you're bitching.

Fuck away off. You're an ass. Or a troll, not sure.

You hope you're not disappointed. Jesus.
 
It isn't just the loudness . It was the whole atmosphere. Some of it is probably the athletics departments fault but back then during those years they had the whole arena with papers they would shake as the opposing team was introduced and they would shake them during the game when the other team had the ball so it not only was loud from the crowd noise but from the "props" the crowd used. You also had the whole crowd doing chants of which you don't see much of at all today or I haven't noticed it. You might have a few people into it but back then the whole arena was into it and when i say the whole arena i mean the whole arena not just a few hundred students.

While it is a lot better now than it has been the atmosphere still isn't where it was but again probably more of the athletics departments fault as whole then anything else. Of course we almost skipped a whole generation with bad basketball so none of those things that helped back then are even remembered today by students.

Not saying the atmosphere is bad today at all just not "As" good or intimidating as it was back then. It could easily be if some creativity was brought to the table though.
 
Not all the blame should be placed on the athletic department. For example, every fan should know the W-Y-O cheer yet absolutely nobody does it. Of course, it can be improved by doing it at a time when the crowd is more invested (media timeouts) and if the cheerleaders didn't have the W and the O facing up tunnels, but the fans (particularly season ticket holders in the lower bowl) suck at this specific cheer.
 
Someone needs to do what Homer Simpson did in the episode where he basically becomes a baseball team's cheer mascot, leading the fans into cheering and chants.
 
fromolwyoming said:
Someone needs to do what Homer Simpson did in the episode where he basically becomes a baseball team's cheer mascot, leading the fans into cheering and chants.
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I remember reading an article in sports illustrated from when the thunder recently arrived in OKC. They basically paid a guy to attend the games and be a crazy fan. They would be sure to show him on the dance cam, etc. And he would sit in a different section every game. I'll try to find a link to the article.

Highly doubt that we have this in the budget, but it would certainly help. Maybe we can get some volunteers from the good folks here at wyonation and then approach the athletics department lol
 
cali2wyo said:
Not all the blame should be placed on the athletic department. For example, every fan should know the W-Y-O cheer yet absolutely nobody does it. Of course, it can be improved by doing it at a time when the crowd is more invested (media timeouts) and if the cheerleaders didn't have the W and the O facing up tunnels, but the fans (particularly season ticket holders in the lower bowl) suck at this specific cheer.
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Those idiot cheerleaders only start the WYO chant WHEN WE HAVE THE BALL. Shut up and be quiet when we are running our offense. Get the cheers going on D. And to you complainers, it was quiet in December against Regis when there was 2000 of us there. It has been plenty loud the last month. The ESPN3 broadcast totally wiped out the crowd noise, especially at the end of the game.
 
elfletcho said:
cali2wyo said:
Not all the blame should be placed on the athletic department. For example, every fan should know the W-Y-O cheer yet absolutely nobody does it. Of course, it can be improved by doing it at a time when the crowd is more invested (media timeouts) and if the cheerleaders didn't have the W and the O facing up tunnels, but the fans (particularly season ticket holders in the lower bowl) suck at this specific cheer.
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Those idiot cheerleaders only start the WYO chant WHEN WE HAVE THE BALL. Shut up and be quiet when we are running our offense. Get the cheers going on D. And to you complainers, it was quiet in December against Regis when there was 2000 of us there. It has been plenty loud the last month. The ESPN3 broadcast totally wiped out the crowd noise, especially at the end of the game.
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The first 45 seconds of this seem to give a pretty good sampling of how loud it was there. Accurate?

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Bg-A-w6VU[/youtube]
 
elfletcho said:
cali2wyo said:
Not all the blame should be placed on the athletic department. For example, every fan should know the W-Y-O cheer yet absolutely nobody does it. Of course, it can be improved by doing it at a time when the crowd is more invested (media timeouts) and if the cheerleaders didn't have the W and the O facing up tunnels, but the fans (particularly season ticket holders in the lower bowl) suck at this specific cheer.
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Those idiot cheerleaders only start the WYO chant WHEN WE HAVE THE BALL. Shut up and be quiet when we are running our offense. Get the cheers going on D. And to you complainers, it was quiet in December against Regis when there was 2000 of us there. It has been plenty loud the last month. The ESPN3 broadcast totally wiped out the crowd noise, especially at the end of the game.
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I was referring to the WYO cheer before the game, I thought my post was self explanatory... My apologies.

I think it's common knowledge that the cheer team is incompetent
 
It's also worth repeating that coach Neal was trying to call a timeout before they passed in the ball and the game winning play happened. Refs couldn't hear him. I think it took a lot more than some chirping crickets to drown out a coaching staff yelling timeout
 
Pokes need a basketball barrel-man. Or preferably a barrel-women, with the implication there is nothing on her except the barrel.
 
Adv8RU12 said:
Pokes need a basketball barrel-man. Or preferably a barrel-women, with the implication there is nothing on her except the barrel.
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Or just boots and a hat... That'll increase fan support from at least one demographic lol
 
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