orange crush students > gopher students

[BarnBurner]

hilarious. laughable. interesting. nxet.

5 years ago we lost to winona state at HOME and to Clemson we trailed by 30 at one point at home with less than 3K in attendance the last 5 minutes. how quickly the hypocrisy little one forgets.

too bad some are so dim they have tunnel vision on one coach and cant see the others. Failed.

too bad some cant grasp the barn has no energy at year 4. Even though the sport said it was a requirment. Failed.

too bad some just dont get it.

 

[GopherRock]

Maturi's regime has killed the hockey student section as well with their "be nice" campaign.

What hockey student section? Even in it's current form, the Barnyard is better than the hockey student section has ever been, at least since I've been there.

 

[Ski U Master]

What hockey student section? Even in it's current form, the Barnyard is better than the hockey student section has ever been, at least since I've been there.

Before they split the hockey section it was the best student section at the U.

 

[PeanutButterGopherTime]

Somehow all of the radio announcers forget that our student section takes a group (several bus loads) to an away game each year and generally takes over the opposing teams arena.

Chants from our trip to Northwestern two years ago include:
"Gophers home game"
"High school gym"
"Where's your students?"
"Purple tie-dye" (Reference to their student section shirts)

Even though we lost that game we took that place over.

Also recall when we took over the away game at Michigan this year.

Unless you old'ies have gone to those games you have no basis of comparison. At away games opposing students know they are up against an army so of course they are going to be more together because of the "Us against the World" mentality.

 

[PeanutButterGopherTime]

And there were NOT 150 of them there. Maybe 150 Illini fans overall, but not in that group of students.

 

[fryguy22]

Somehow all of the radio announcers forget that our student section takes a group (several bus loads) to an away game each year and generally takes over the opposing teams arena.

Chants from our trip to Northwestern two years ago include:
"Gophers home game"
"High school gym"
"Where's your students?"
"Purple tie-dye" (Reference to their student section shirts)

Even though we lost that game we took that place over.

Also recall when we took over the away game at Michigan this year.

Unless you old'ies have gone to those games you have no basis of comparison. At away games opposing students know they are up against an army so of course they are going to be more together because of the "Us against the World" mentality.

Also its not like those students represented the average Illini student ticket holder. They were the ones willing to put in the time and money to go on the trip so were the most dedicated and vocal of their entire student fan base.

 

[Section201]

PBT

And there were NOT 150 of them there. Maybe 150 Illini fans overall, but not in that group of students.

I can attest as GopherWarrior and I were directly behind the group in Section 201, that there were well over 150 Illinois Krush students in front of us. Their "Krush" group extended to Section 224 and there were more scattered Illinois fans in Section 202. I would put the total number over 200.

If you can stand to watch it here are a couple clips from the Ilinini site and you can do a head count for yourself. I am the guy standing next to the wall in the Golden Gopher hoodie, glumly realizing who I am sitting behind. GW is sitting next to me wondering how the heck I talked him into sitting up there.

http://www.illinoisloyalty.com/GoIllini/20110211_orange_krush_propels_illini_to_victory_at_the_barn

The worst part was at the end when they chanted "this is our house". I did not care for that.

 

[PeanutButterGopherTime]

The worst part was at the end when they chanted "this is our house". I did not care for that.

We did that exact same thing or something along those lines when we went to NU 2 years ago. It's basically standard protocool at away games with a win.

I was a little disappointed in their inability to get "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" going.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE

 

[Carlson 79]

Brief history lesson:

There was a time not that ago when profanity was virtually unheard of at a MN sporting event. In the 50's, 60's and well into the 70's, MN fans (pro and amateur) had a reputation as some of the most knowledgable, most rabid (read: enthusiastic), most creative in the nation. The Rouser, with its fanfare ending, the spelling of the state name, is but one case in point. Cheerleading itself was initiated here.http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_cheerleading_originate

My point: real fans, real adults, show some imagination and some class when expressing themsleves. That commands respect, in turn. Anything else? Not so much. Leave the profane crowd rants & personal taunting to the place where they began--in Wisconsin. We oughtta be better than that as fans, as Minnesotans, as Americans. We need to raise the bar in MN, no matter how other fan bases do business.

 

[gopherphan]

As i said and was mostly ignored, pretty much all attempts at coordinated creativity have been squashed. so what do we have left?

And again, maybe if the dog show wasnt more exciting to the rest of the barn than the actual game, then we might get somewhere.

 

[scher215]

As i said and was mostly ignored, pretty much all attempts at coordinated creativity have been squashed. so what do we have left?

And again, maybe if the dog show wasnt more exciting to the rest of the barn than the actual game, then we might get somewhere.

Just out of curiosity, what types of things have been squashed?