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Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82I remember "Go start the bus", too.  Unless we played Army ("Go start the tank") or Sucks ("Go staht the cahr").

I think the whole "Hey goalie...your _____ Called" is uninteresting.  Nobody can hear anything but You suck".

I despise the tubas "Over There". Manly because the cheers don't fit the rhythm.  It sounds clumsy to me,

My annual Tepid Takes:

• The tubas are okay.  They lost Swanee River to the worry beaders so whatevs.  
• The "Ring, ring" cheer is just whatever person and/or frat does it masturbating in public.  It's embarrassing.  (Also, we stole it from BU, and they do it much better, which is even more embarrassing.)
  
• The worst thing is "Bend over," which is a lazy cheer that often continues right up until the other  team scores into our net.  Way to go, fans.
• The second-worst thing is the Jeopardy Theme, which is the pep band indulging itself.  It makes them sound stupid, which is terrible because our band is the best.
• I wish they would bring back "Go start the x," "Black hole" (the only chant I know of which was started by and stolen from Harvard), "Fight Maim Kill."
• Stop doing "Hey Baby" now that it's associated with sinkholes like Fenway.
• Finally, bring back the skating bear and the season-ending strip tease.  That was epic.

Post script: and for fuck's sake, TRY NEW THINGS!  When it's quiet, scream out some funny bit of inspiration.  That is where every Cornell cheer started.  Every one of our chants is the detritus of somebody auditioning, killing it, and it getting picked up first by their row, then their section, and finally the whole barn.  Put down your iPacifier and engage with the world, you nasty little shits.  

And keep my social security checks coming!

I agree with just about all of this.
- While "bend over" is just cringey and lazy (made even worse by how common it is during a game), "Ugly" always still cracks me up during timeouts when the mask comes off.
- Whoever first screwed up the nice, clear, blunt "Die, Drop dead, Go home" and replaced them with the long garbled nonsense needs to, well, die, drop dead, and/or just go home.
- I still can't believe they haven't figured out how to make a "Let's go Red" chant last more than about 5 seconds. And not only that chant, but why is everything always so rushed? What's even the point of the goal count and "sieve" if they just do it as quickly as possible to get to the "it's all your fault"?
- Do they still do "good goalie, bad goalie"?
- IMHO, The bests are the slight twists on the classics - like "Go start the tank" mentioned above and "good goalie" to the empty net that the CU player just barely missed and "bad goalie" to the pulled one on the bench.

Slippery slope and all, but if football goes for that reason, it's only a matter of time before hockey is next.

I think you're at a different game than I am. I'd say there are clearly more BU fans here, and they have a bigger, louder student section.

Jeremy Lin says racist remarks he heard from opponents were worse in NCAA than NBA

He mentions Cornell right off the bat.

Quote"The worst was at Cornell, when I was being called a c---k," the Brooklyn Nets point guard said in an interview on his teammate's podcast, "Outside Shot with Randy Foye." "That's when it happened. I don't know ... that game, I ended up playing terrible and getting a couple of charges and doing real out-of-character stuff. My teammate told my coaches [that] they were calling Jeremy a c---k the whole first half. I didn't say anything, because when that stuff happens, I kind of just, I go and bottle up -- where I go into turtle mode and don't say anything and just internalize everything."

Bosak on 5 right now.

Quote from: phillysportsfanAlso I dont think that extra attendance between 4000+ and a sellout makes a big difference on the noise since the townies side barely makes any noise and almost all of the cheers come from the first 4 rows in the center of the student section. The other students join in sometimes but never really start the cheers

I disagree about townies side barely making any noise.  They make a good portion of the noise that is reacting to plays on the court, which is the majority of the noise in basketball games.  

Regarding cheers, if the students want others to join in, they have to finally figure out that they need to keep a steady pace with the cheer rather than immediately speeding up. It's frustrating to hear "DE--FENSE..DE--DEFENSE..DE-FENSE.DE-FENSE.DEFENSE.DEFENSEDEFENSEDEFENSE.."silence.  Ditto with the "Let's Go Red" chant.  There's no time to build the cheer up, and I'm sure most on the townies' side don't bother because they know it will be too fast and dying down by the time they join in anyway.

Moulson a top bargain.

I guess we are all now Alabama fans for the rest of the regular season, right?

This last 4 minutes should show a lot about this team.

Up 61-56 with 3:43 left and Alabama about to shoot 2.

Pretty sure our bear could take that sorry looking elephant thing.

Nice!

Thanks for the heads up!

[quote nr53]I sent them an email about that last week but it looks like they didn't really care enough to fix it.[/quote]

I did the same a few days ago.
I also tried to register in their forums, but I was denied with the message, "Sorry, due to abuse problems from user(s) with your ISP we no longer accept registrations from it."

I wonder what that's all about.

ECAC 2009-10 preview at HFBoards.

Something is not quite right.

Was that bear Gamera's long lost cousin?

SUNY Cortland president confirms Jets are coming