"I'd expect"... I know that I would expect this because that's exactly what I'd expect.
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"I'd expect"... I know that I would expect this because that's exactly what I'd expect.
We’ll make Illinois pay for that wall.They also had security try and silence a fan last night. What's next a concrete wall around the court?great. NU just cursed the program.
Sadly, a pretty bad season just got worse as NU is now making its supporters the enemy.
Golf clap golf clap. Cheerio ol chap.Love her enthusiasm and spirit and wish her no ill will. But I am glad the screaming has ended, it was really irritating. Emily can cheer loudly in a more “conventional” manner just like the rest of us. Go ‘Cats.
They also had security try and silence a fan last night. What's next a concrete wall around the court?
Except it sure sounded like they weren't cheering at all. Heard more from the Io-a people. To bad.We can always use more fans (cheering in a loud but conventional way)!!
I hope Northwestern loses every game until they reverse this stupid policy. This is embarrassing and infuriating! Our most passionate and loyal fan and they tell her to stifle herself.
I trust the NU students will come up with an appropriate retort to this.
I've been a rapidly noisy and annoying fan in my time. I've been told to please be quiet at football games. And yet, this news makes me happy. Her special brand of screaming was a real drag on the whole experience for players, patrons, recruits, etc. I love her enthusiasm for NU sports and she is no doubt a better fan than me. But if I went to every game there was as a superfan and brought a chalkboard and scraped it with a metal rake throughout the entire game, I'd expect to be asked to stop as well.
Fans on here have complained... patrons.I meant your generalization as to the fact how you feel about a certain point is necessarily share by every single fan, player, recruit, etc.
I would have preferred a meeting with the other students around her saying "Hey, how about some help drowning her out?"Fans on here have complained... patrons.
Quotes from players politely saying it is what it is.
You've got me on recruits, but I believe it is a bad look. I have a hard time imagining a 17 year old top athlete thinking, yeah this is totally cool. One extremely odd fan screeching after every single play. It is just weird. Not cute in quirky way, not light and fun. Not something that caught on as a fad. It is like the scene from Dumb and Dumber... wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? Repeated every 15 seconds for two hours straight every home game? Yeah, that is just as cool as the Cameron Crazies or other top program student sections. Sorry, I don't think so. Just another form of Nerdwestern.
Forget NU students. They are in their own little nerd cocoons. I have no idea what NU admissions has become, but it seems to be a self(NU)-serving attempt to get the highest grades and SAT scores at the exclusion of everything else. How has Fitz survived and even flourished in this climate? We have out-Chicago'd, Chicago. It's up to us alums to save this.I imagine she would drive me nuts. But I have also been told to sit down at NU football games. I think this is part of the divide.
A big part of NU is alum that followed no sports in college, rose in life to be forced to appreciate or even participate in gentlemanly sport and truly appreciate the silence of tennis and golf.
Then minority that played or loved sports or understand why the Seahawks are tough at home. And I hate the while strapped it on argument...
And here, on this Board, the former are just so proud to have teams that now compete, but also graduate. The wins are superfluous.
And others that can acknowledge progress, great progress from the 80s and 90s, yet see potential and yearn for greatness.
At other schools, Duke, ND, Stanford - I would expect a student driven response. At NU, this simply sucks.
gee I thought that the new , smaller W-R was supposed to accomplish that. Now instead of 2,000 opposing fans in a 10,000 seat arena we get 2,000 enemy fans in a 7,000 seat gym.I would have preferred a meeting with the other students around her saying "Hey, how about some help drowning her out?"
What I'd really prefer is this program focusing on things that actually matter, like how to keep 50% of our seats out of opposing fan hands and trying to win a ball game or two.
Nothing will fix season ticket holders giving away and/or selling their prime seats to opposing fans.gee I thought that the new , smaller W-R was supposed to accomplish that. Now instead of 2,000 opposing fans in a 10,000 seat arena we get 2,000 enemy fans in a 7,000 seat gym.
Nothing will fix season ticket holders giving away and/or selling their prime seats to opposing fans.
Huh?Like, for instance, the paying fan clearly enjoying her seat right in front of The Screamer?
Huh?
Like, for instance, the paying fan clearly enjoying her seat right in front of The Screamer?
F him. He's an Illini.
Seriously, F him.
In what way does that relate to my statement that NU is doing nothing to stop certain STH from giving away/sale prime seats to opposing fans and that being the real problem rather than number of seats?You have to click through the link, then again on the photos to see her; woman who paid for front row tickets immediately in front of The Screamer plugging her ears to try in earnest to block out the noise:
In what way does that relate to my statement that NU is doing nothing to stop certain STH from giving away/sale prime seats to opposing fans and that being the real problem rather than number of seats?
You know, for someone who bitches about others arguing the exception so much, you're really quick to resort to it yourself. There are maybe what...10 seats on that side of the court (in front of the effin' student section which is a DUUUUUMB place to put anyone). If no one else gave away their tickets in, say, Sections 107-109 and the Wilson Club, I'd be more than fine having opposing fans in front of the student section (which, to reiterate, is a dumb place to put big time donors and/or STHs).That "prime ticketholder" sure seems a hell of a lot more likely to sell/give away her ticket if she's subject to insufferable screaming throughout the game, no?
Ahhhh, Welsh Ryan Arena ... where fun goes to die.
So let me get this straight: Her screaming was okay at Allstate Arena. But now that NU has created an intimate atmosphere, we should check with the noise police to see what fan distractions are acceptable.
Agree , I couldn't believe that they put seats in front of the students and band. maybe if they expanded up and/or out they would have plenty of seats for the big donors.You know, for someone who bitches about others arguing the exception so much, you're really quick to resort to it yourself. There are maybe what...10 seats on that side of the court (in front of the effin' student section which is a DUUUUUMB place to put anyone). If no one else gave away their tickets in, say, Sections 107-109 and the Wilson Club, I'd be more than fine having opposing fans in front of the student section (which, to reiterate, is a dumb place to put big time donors and/or STHs).
That "prime ticketholder" sure seems a hell of a lot more likely to sell/give away her ticket if she's subject to insufferable screaming throughout the game, no?
They call me The ShriekerShe made the (sub)headlines at Fox News, though they call her The Shrieker:
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nort...hrieker-a-regular-fixture-at-basketball-games
You know, for someone who bitches about others arguing the exception so much, you're really quick to resort to it yourself. There are maybe what...10 seats on that side of the court (in front of the effin' student section which is a DUUUUUMB place to put anyone). If no one else gave away their tickets in, say, Sections 107-109 and the Wilson Club, I'd be more than fine having opposing fans in front of the student section (which, to reiterate, is a dumb place to put big time donors and/or STHs).
They also put "prime ticketholders" directly in front of the band at the beginning of the year. When those septuagenarians were putting their hands over their ears, the band didn't get kicked out.
This is all so silly, and it's indicative of what fanbases of teams that don't win end up talking about.
I'm encouraged that NU is taking steps to improve seating at Ryan and hope they gain insights applicable to W-R as well.
Because the band is forced to play only at certain times, whereas the screaming occurred consistently throughout the game.
There's nothing creative about what she was doing. It wasn't witty. It wasn't creative. It was different when it was only at select times (i.e. during free throws, etc.), but had clearly become something more than that. It was "enthusiasm" or "cheering" in a general sense, but sure felt like it became more about her than supporting the team.
EDIT: I fully realize that I'm an "old man shaking his fist" on this one, but the screaming was just too damn much.
If you paid thousands of dollars for a sports ticket, would you want to be 3 feet from a tuba?
If you paid thousands of dollars for a sports ticket, would you want to be 3 feet from a tuba?
I fully realize that I'm an "old man shaking his fist" on this one, but the screaming was just too damn much.
I was in the handful of front rows down in Indy for the Big Ten Title. 4th, 5th. Something like that. Literally 10 feet from them. I had never sat that close to the band before. I loved every second of it!!
GCG is 100% right on this.
That "prime ticketholder" sure seems a hell of a lot more likely to sell/give away her ticket if she's subject to insufferable screaming throughout the game, no?
We can always use more fans (cheering in a loud but conventional way)!!
I just hope people don't stand up and ruin my observation of these sporting matches. And please don't let them don't play any of that rock-n-rap music that's ruining our young people these days at our ballgames. We need something more conventional!
Kind of scandalous to have men and women singing together in the same group, no?