New Idea for college students

[mike]

I was watching a college basketball game last night and it me thinking. What if during cornells penatly kills, the college students jumped and chanted ooooooooooooooo, (like when the college basketballs home team is on defence) I think its a good idea and would get our guys going and annoy the other team. let me know what u guys think.

[ugarte]

Frankly, I think this is a better idea for college students: http://thecrimson.com/today/article357342.html

[Will]

While I certainly would love such an idea, something tells me that would distract most of the players on the ice.  (Maybe not the Vermont players...they'd be more turned on by a barnyard...) :-D

[rhovorka]

[Q]I was watching a college basketball game last night and it me thinking. What if during cornells penatly kills, the college students jumped and chanted ooooooooooooooo, (like when the college basketballs home team is on defence)[/Q]
Well, that's up to the students if they want to do that, but I wouldn't want the faithful to have to resort to ripping off something TV-mugging college basketball fans do.  Also, the Harvard (sucks) student section was doing this exact thing this year in Cambridge.  Their plan was to do that until their pathetic team cleared the puck in a SH situation, but they looked pretty silly when Cornell kept the puck in the attacking zone for just about the entire penalty.  And they stopped doing that althogether after CU scored our 2nd PPG.  I certainly don't want to copy anything those losers do.*

* Of course, I know it's general knowledge that "black hole" came from Sucks, newspapers are from U of Scranton squeakball, and "See ya" has its roots from Duke basketball via Michigan hockey.

[gtsully]

mike wrote:

I was watching a college basketball game last night and it me thinking. What if during cornells penatly kills, the college students jumped and chanted ooooooooooooooo, (like when the college basketballs home team is on defence) I think its a good idea and would get our guys going and annoy the other team. let me know what u guys think.

Harvard already ripped it off.  No thanks.

[chris \'06]

some friends and i during the colgate game at lynah, anytime 'gate brought the puck into the attacking zone on the powerplay, started a let's go red chant. once it picked up around the sections (especially d,e,f nearest us) it sounded pretty good. then once cornell cleared everyone would cheer, and the chant would start again when 'gate brought it back across our blue line. i think this was during the first 5 on 3 so it was a pretty important kill

[Greg Berge]

It used to be pretty common for the whole crowd -- students and townies -- to do the let's go red cheer throughout (or at least through the first minute or so) of a penalty kill late in a close game.  Of course, this was a lot less nerve-wracking when Randy MacFarlane would steal the puck and rag it for the full two minutes.  ;-)



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[chris \'06]

unfortunately it seems some of this year's season ticket holders can't concentrate on the game for more than a minute..let alone an entire penalty kill

[jy3]

that is a true statement. if i hear one more time about a damn sorority party and who she saw and who did that and why this happened i am gonna puke. ::yark::

[Greg Berge]

'Twas ever thus, think of it as a harbinger of Spring.  And eye candy is a bandwagoneer, so the alternative is worse.

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Another one for us to steal:  

Hobart lax fans used to go "goooooal  tiiiiime...goooooal  tiiiiime..." incessantly whenever their team had the ball and were setting up the attack in the opponent's defensive end.  It's harder to do in hockey since the attack is usually much less deliberate than in lax, but it would work when we're moving the puck around on the power play.

JH

[jtwcornell91]

Jeff Hopkins '82 wrote:

Another one for us to steal:  

Hobart lax fans used to go "goooooal  tiiiiime...goooooal  tiiiiime..." incessantly whenever their team had the ball and were setting up the attack in the opponent's defensive end.  It's harder to do in hockey since the attack is usually much less deliberate than in lax, but it would work when we're moving the puck around on the power play.

The one cheer I found annoying at the EHC Eisbären Berlin match I attended was repeatedly yelling "Hinein!" ("In there!") during the powerplay.  On the other hand, I liked the penalty kill cheer, which consisted of singing "Unterzahl, Unterzahl, Unterzahl" ("shorthanded") to the tune of "Stars and Stripes Forever" (a staple of European sports fan songs) and ending with "Unterzahl ... scheißegal!" ("shorthanded ... doesn't fucking matter!")  Although I'd be afraid it would anger the hockey gods to be that confident in your penalty kill.

BTW, is goooooooal tiiiiiime like Big Red Touchdown Time?

[CowbellGuy]

Jeff Hopkins '82 wrote:
It's harder to do in hockey since the attack is usually much less deliberate than in lax, but it would work when we're moving the puck around on the power play.

'cause clearly whatever the hell we're doing isn't working  ::worry::

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

So true, Age.  So true.

John, what is Big Red Touchdown Time?  I haven't been to Schoellkopf since I was in school.

JH

[atb9]

fans that cheer as if they are at a basketball game are called Colgate fans.  I remember when they would start chanting "defense, defense."  So strange.