RE: Put it all together tonight

[dfairchild]

"They have no other
D1 or pro sports so they root hard for the one team they have."

The WSU Raiders would take exception . . .

We already have music played during the timeouts - its called the pep band
or the music for the dance team.  I think it will be hard to displace them
for canned music.

DF

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Holdheide [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 7:55 AM
To: 'address@hidden'
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Put it all together tonight


Having been to UD many many times for games I can tell you that their fans
are MUCH louder than UC fans on average.  While UC does do well for big
games, the UD fans are loud for basically every game.  One major factor is
that UD basketball is all that the city of Dayton has.  They have no other
D1 or pro sports so they root hard for the one team they have.

But, I also think they do a better job of getting the fans into the games.
As Gregg stated earlier,  during timeouts they play music and the entire
crowd is clapping and stomping along in unison.  Isn't this something that
can easily be incorporated into at UC.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gary Rowe [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 03, 2002 7:46 AM
> To:	'address@hidden'
> Subject:	RE: [UC Basketball] Put it all together tonight
>
> One other factor to consider in evaluating the UD fans is that the
> Bearcats
> coming to town is one of the, if not the biggest game of the year. When UD
> plays in Cinn. it is not one of the biggest games for us. A fair
> comparison
> of fans would be to see how we compare during the cross-town shootout or
> when Marquette comes to town. UD has to feel like they never get any
> attention with UC and Xavier 50 miles down the road and this is one year
> they thought they had a real chance to beat the Cincy (unfortunately they
> were right).
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:58 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Put it all together tonight
>
>
> In a message dated 12/3/02 12:03:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> address@hidden writes:
>
>
> > The energy in the
> > Shoe was really good tonight despite the smaller crowd and
> > the Red Sweaters in Section 112.
>
> Let me jump in here on your above statement Andy.  For anyone who has
> never
> attended a basketball game at the UD Arena,  I can PROMISE you,  you have
> never seen 'crowd participation' like they have there.  For the ones that
> have been there,  you know what I'm talking about.........it is absolutely
>
> unbelievable.
>
> During timeouts the music gets to going and the ENTIRE crowd is clapping
> and
>
> stomping along in unison........and I mean EVERYONE is doing it.  It was
> really something to behold and something I won't soon forget.  There is no
>
> way that there is better fans than UD's,  there might be someones as
> good.....but not better.
>
> This is directed at Brian and Joe Feeley<---don't you have something to do
>
> with the video board??  I'd love to see us do our pregame intros the way
> they
> do there at UD and show all the regular season titles and conference
> championships and national titles......final fours etc. etc. going 'into'
> the
> highlights.  It took a while for them to go through theirs,  so I'm sure
> ours
> would be a little longer...lol...but hey!!! ;-)  Anyone else at the game
> agree with me about those crazy 'Flyer Faithful'???
>
>
> Gregg