Let's Go Red chant

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

I think the drums should set the pace, and keep the pace THEY want even when people start speeding it up.  After a few tries, the speedsters will slow down.

Now if we can just stop "Diiiiiiiiiiieeeeee".  

JH

[The Rancor]

[Q]I think the drums should set the pace, and keep the pace THEY want even when people start speeding it up. After a few tries, the speedsters will slow down.

Now if we can just stop "Diiiiiiiiiiieeeeee".

JH[/Q]

thats the worst. why did that start?

[dss28]

[Q]And they would need to be ready to keep the pace, and keep it going after everyone else speeds it up and stops. I don't know how long it would take for others to catch on...[/Q]

One thing I noticed when I was sitting down in the E-F region (both while I was at Cornell and when I went up for games earlier this season) was that during Gary Glitter, that end would speed up and everything would get off.  HOWEVER, once people would realize they weren't with section B, you could literally SEE people looking over to section O and the like to get back on track (now I know a lot of people here don't like the raising of the hands between claps, but it really does help everyone stay together, IMO...).

So I guess what I'm saying is that I agree with the above quote -- if you keep a steady pace and people go astray, they shalt come back to thine path.  ...I hope.

[Greg Berge]

There are usually one or two leaders in each student section that the rest of the kids take their cue from.  They self-select (a.k.a. "most spirited" or "biggest asshole," depending upon viewpoint) and and they're easy to identify.  Talk to them and you might get some coordination.  After all, we aren't talking about *that* many people.



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[BigD]

Maybe this isn't the best place to put this message up, but we have a cheer that we have been trying to get people to use for 10 years. It is far more creative than the current cheer the student sections have come up with and it is very easy to say. On the off chance that the other team should score in Lynah, the cheer goes as follows:

Announcer: Visitor goal scored by Bob Smith
Crowd: So what!
Announcer: Assisted by Jim Smith
Crowd: Who cares!
Announcer: And by Joe Smith
Crowd: Go home!

Also, my personal favorite,which I think would be truly great if everyone participated:

At the beginning of each game after the announcer has introduced the starting lineup for Cornell, he always says, "The head coach of Cornell is Mike Schafer."

At which point I always wave at Mike and yell, "Hi, Mike!" Just imagine 3,000+ people all yelling, "Hi, Mike" at the same time!

[Ack]

Coming from a short person, this might not mean as much, but I like those.

[jtwcornell91]

Won't it sound like we're telling Arthur to go home?

[Ack]

Someone could tell him that ahead of time to clear it up

[Josh '99]

BigD wrote:
Also, my personal favorite,which I think would be truly great if everyone participated:

At the beginning of each game after the announcer has introduced the starting lineup for Cornell, he always says, "The head coach of Cornell is Mike Schafer."

At which point I always wave at Mike and yell, "Hi, Mike!" Just imagine 3,000+ people all yelling, "Hi, Mike" at the same time!

Oy.  Were you one of the people with the "Good evening, Arthur" flyers a few years ago, too?   ::uhoh::

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Actually, it would be more interesting if we did it to the opposing coach.

JH

[jy3]

doesnt michigan or someone do the who cares already? or is that duke basketball? probably duke since michigan learned all their cheers from us

[Ben Doyle 03]

i think they both do it ... but michigan probably stole it form duke just like they stole our cheers.

unoriginal bastards ... ::idea::

[dss28]

I kinda like the idea of saying hi to the opposing coach.

[Gabe Heafitz \'98 \'04]

As far as the original issue of this thread is concerned, I figured the answer was obvious, but I could be wrong.

The plain and simple answer is that people try to start "Let's Go Red" WAY too often.  There's a limit on the amount of energy you can tap for cheers, and when it's the same cheer over and over, people get tired of it.  Imagine you just started a LGR chant, and it lasted about 15 seconds...  And then someone else starts another LGR chant about 30 seconds later (which is all too common in Lynah these days).  Do you really think that people are going to say to themselves, "Hey, yeah, we haven't done that cheer in a while..."?  That's just not the way it works.

We need to bring the variety back.  It seems like there's a bunch of cheers that have been forgotten, and when they return, people will get into the game more.

A couple examples of cheers that haven't been used much, if at all:

good goalie / bad goalie
goalie / sieve
is a great big sieve... [to the tune of Mary Had A Little Lamb]  (but this should only be done when we've scored at least 4 times, which hasn't happened much this season)
Good bye, ...  Good bye, ...  Good bye, , we hate to see you go [you assholes]  (this one is sung as well, but I can't think of how to explain what the tune is; this is sung near the end of the game, if we've locked up the victory)

We also used to chant the name of a Red player if he had just made a terrific play or if he was starting to really heat up over the course of the season...  It works nicely if the chant uses the doorbell tune (you know, the common tune that was used in the "We Want Weder", "Dwyer Has Syphilis"  ::yark:: , "Michigan Beat You", and "Grade Inflation" chants).  Actually, "Dave McKee" would fit nicely into that chant, but for some reason, people have been chanting it straight and without a tune.

Anyway, I've made my point.  There are tons of other cheers than LGR -- just go to the eLynah.com main page (not in the Forum) and click the "Cheers" link in the menu navigation on the left.  It lists a whole buttload of cheers.

We sound like the monocheer UNH crowd.  Let's bring the classic cheers back into the mix, instead of doing LGR every single time a cheer is called for.

[rhovorka]

Gabe Heafitz '98 '04 wrote:

Good bye, ...  Good bye, ...  Good bye, , we hate to see you go [you assholes]  (this one is sung as well, but I can't think of how to explain what the tune is; this is sung near the end of the game, if we've locked up the victory)

You mean "goodnight ladies."  I'm pretty sure this was one of the specific cheers singled out by Coach Schafer that he wanted to see eliminated from the arena when he addressed the topic in '97.


[q]It works nicely if the chant uses the doorbell tune (you know, the common tune that was used in the "We Want Weder", "Dwyer Has Syphilis"  ::yark:: , "Michigan Beat You", and "Grade Inflation" chants).  Actually, "Dave McKee" would fit nicely into that chant, but for some reason, people have been chanting it straight and without a tune.[/q]
"Dave Mc-Kee," having 3 syllables, lends itself to the LGR cadence better than the 4-syllable doorbell sing-song.  Also, Elliott, Underhill, LeNeveu all were chanted LGR style.

Last year, every so often, when Greg Hornby would have one of his insane shifts, the crowd would certainly start chanting Horn-by.

We sound like the monocheer UNH crowd.  Let's bring the classic cheers back into the mix, instead of doing LGR every single time a cheer is called for.

I respectfully disagree.  A fair variety of cheers are still happening.  Black Hole, Mom, and of course Bend Over are happening every game.  Great Big Sieve happened early in the season when we were scoring a lot more.   Also, in the mid-90s I feel we did even more "Let's Go Reds" than is done now.  I'll agree that some cheers have gone by the wayside.  And one thing that does seem to be greatly diminished is the number of individuals that taunt and rant humorously.  Instead of "dead" spots between cheers being filled with a general buzz of people all over the student section shouting random things, they are truly dead now, as everyone just waits for the next chant to happen in silence.  That's a function of the number of self-appointed "leaders" in each section, I guess.