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Date Posted: 10:10:58 10/01/02 Tue
Author: BP
Subject: Cintas Center - What can be done?

Ever since X moved the home games into the Cintas center, the crowd noise has dropped about 20 decibels. I've heard many reasons given for this. New snobby rich fans in the best seats that are there to be seen, not heard. The lower bowl is much brighter than the lower bowl at the Gardens. Chief Couch busts anyone who so much as throws an empty cup in excitement.

So assuming none of these things change, is there any way to get some of the gardens excitement back? Should the Kahn's crazies launch processed meat out of a cannon after every basket? How 'bout we get UC's cannon they use for football, and fire that thing off after every basket.

Does anyone have any better ideas?

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[> It is the lighting and the more expensive seats. You get rich alums that are in the "Who's Who", who know the other rich alums. The place is so well lit that if you had too many beers and started going off on the refs your doctor, lawyer, or accountant might see you. It is peer pressure in a bad way. On the bright side, those people paid for the Cintas Center, and it helps the school. I say turn down the lights, let them out of their shells. -- Sniper, 11:00:30 10/01/02 Tue

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[> [> Please Snipe, if the doctors, lawyers and accountants you know saw you drunk at a game, it would be because they were standing right next to you. I think the solution is for Xavier to hire me to sit in the front row of every game and incite violence from opposing coaches and their wives. I am like alcohol. I am the cause of and solution to all of life's problems. -- Homeskillet, 11:15:25 10/01/02 Tue

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[> [> Peer pressure be when youz iv sposed to bend over yo first night in lockdown. THAT's peer pressure. -- Lloyd (jail jail jail) Price, 17:42:17 10/07/02 Mon

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[> I think that instead of having everyone stand and clap until Xavier scores its first point(s), they should have everyone stand and clap until they score 70 points. Also, we probably need more mascots. I think that having a mere two mascots (blob and frenchy) leaves us woefully short of the optimum of 9. -- XU Fan, 13:05:41 10/01/02 Tue

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[> [> Every coach in recent history has gone on record saying that they don't like the stand and clap tradition. Thad Matta said last year that he didn't like it because it puts additional pressure on the offense. He would rather the team stand and cheer until the other team scores and put pressure on them. It is a stupid tradition, opposed by coaches, and I will no longer participate (at least with the clapping). -- Sniper, 13:21:53 10/01/02 Tue

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[> I have never favored that idea either for two reasons. First because, as you say, it can put pressure on the offense if they miss a couple early shots. Secondly it makes the silence that occurs for the rest of the half that much more noticeable. It is only when a game is closely contested that the crowd becomes loud. -- XU Fan, 13:45:57 10/01/02 Tue

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[> Maybe if we all had to take a big swig of beer each time we scored a point that would loosen up the crowd and they would become more vocal. I am sure that Snipe has already adopted this practice, as have I. -- XU Fan, 13:50:00 10/01/02 Tue

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[> [> I propose combining XU Fan's idea (swig of beer with every score) with a nickle beer night. Nickle beer is always a crowd favorite, and it would help the old guys get back to their glory days. -- Homeskillet, 14:48:35 10/01/02 Tue

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[> [> [> By the way, when I refer to nickle beer, I mean beer that costs only a nickle, not beer made out of nickles or produced by the nickle company. -- Homeskillet, 14:49:45 10/01/02 Tue

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[> [> It is the least I can do, my doctor put me on a liquid diet. -- Sniper, 21:32:19 10/01/02 Tue

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[> Wow. Imagine that. A Xavier basketball-related thread on a "Xavier basketball" msg board. Of course, it quickly denegrated into non-basketball crap, but hey, what are you gonna do? By the way, I killed Chandra Levy. -- Donald Little, 23:18:04 10/01/02 Tue

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[> What about one flashback game a year - played at the Gardens? It could be a 'neutral site game.' -- Mastermind, 02:30:38 10/02/02 Wed

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[> The games need hot chicks in skimpy uniforms, dancing and giving old alums woodies. I realize XU might need to hire these chicks from outside the XU community, but it needs to be done. No more Omega Moo's. -- xuwetback, 09:10:18 10/03/02 Thu

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[> The Kahn's Krazies should fire their processed pork ordnance and the flabby dance team while they dance during timeouts. -- XU Fan, 16:39:33 10/03/02 Thu

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[> I think we should have a contest at half time to "guess the weight of the xavier cheerleader". The first person within fifty pounds wins. -- Lloyd Price (bored but staying out of trouble for once), 08:19:26 10/07/02 Mon

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