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Title: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ksuno1stunner on January 28, 2007, 11:31:00 AM
Continually shooting t-shirts into the crowd?
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ECN on January 28, 2007, 11:31:45 AM
thats the only thing so far.

perhaps wire random seats with voltage and shock them every now and then.?
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: michigancat on January 28, 2007, 11:32:01 AM
Let them sit.  They've earned it.

I hate freaking dorks that spend the entire game trying to get the west side to stand up.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: sonofdaxjones on January 28, 2007, 11:43:56 AM
Ya know . . . over there in that group of people who "don't stand up" are many of the people that are likely financing somebodies scholarship, or made a building that KSU students now use possible.   

Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ksuno1stunner on January 28, 2007, 11:48:20 AM
Nobody sits in Allen Fieldhouse
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: Saulbadguy on January 28, 2007, 11:49:35 AM
Nobody sits in Allen Fieldhouse
:D
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: Super PurpleCat on January 28, 2007, 12:01:41 PM
Remove the seats?
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: sonofdaxjones on January 28, 2007, 12:03:42 PM
Yeah . . . those JoCo housewives are always on their feet there at AFH.   :rolleyes:
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: WILDCAT NATION on January 28, 2007, 12:04:44 PM
Continually shooting t-shirts into the crowd?

That's pretty much it...from what I can tell.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ksuno1stunner on January 28, 2007, 12:06:55 PM
Yeah . . . those JoCo housewives are always on their feet there at AFH.   :rolleyes:

Believe what you want.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: sonofdaxjones on January 28, 2007, 12:15:57 PM
Sure, they stand from time to time. 

Many times though, the "great" crowd at AFH sounds like their at a tennis match, or waiting for Tiger to put out at the Masters.

Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ksuno1stunner on January 28, 2007, 12:28:53 PM
Sure, they stand from time to time. 

Many times though, the "great" crowd at AFH sounds like their at a tennis match, or waiting for Tiger to put out at the Masters.



You mean when they're on offense?  16k fans every game is insane.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ECN on January 28, 2007, 12:30:52 PM
ive been to around....10-15 games at allen.

alum sit all game. the ones the camera see, they sorta stand.

the others...they sit.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ksuno1stunner on January 28, 2007, 12:36:12 PM
ive been to around....10-15 games at allen.

alum sit all game. the ones the camera see, they sorta stand.

the others...they sit.

I've actually never been to a ku game.  :)

Just razzing sonofdaxjones.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ECN on January 28, 2007, 12:38:16 PM
aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: 1albatross on January 28, 2007, 01:23:50 PM
Standing is for the students.  The alumni have earned the right to sit during the games.  The  student body is what will make Bramlage a tough place to play b/c they are the younger ones with the energy to make all of the noise and jump up and down and go ahead and make a$$es out of themselves (in a good way).

As an alum, we will make our noise and stand on an occasion, but if everything works the way it should, we should pale in comparison to the fans in the student body.  Every top program is that way.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: catsdo on January 28, 2007, 02:24:35 PM
Earned the right?  The reason we want alumni to stand is to help the team.  Alumni stood the whole time during the marching cobras.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: WILDCAT NATION on January 28, 2007, 02:28:51 PM
Earned the right?  The reason we want alumni to stand is to help the team.  Alumni stood the whole time during the marching cobras.

I can attest that the West side sat on their asses for most of the Cobras performance as well.

It drives me nuts sitting over there sometimes...

Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: dohminator on January 28, 2007, 02:45:05 PM
When I finally manage to get back for a game, I'm really going to be sad that I won't be in the student section.  That is where the fun is at.  Why an alumnus would not want to stand and get crazy like they did when they were students is beyond me. 
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: Chet Stedman on January 28, 2007, 02:48:19 PM
Most of the alumni are too old to care.  I suggest anal prods. 
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: catsdo on January 28, 2007, 02:49:32 PM
The sections to the right of where the student section is gets pretty exciting.  I think there are a lot of young alumni next to ICAT and in the ends.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: mjrod on January 28, 2007, 03:01:59 PM
Have a no sitting theme at the game with Taco's and beer as prizes for those who stand the most.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: gkonz72 on January 28, 2007, 03:04:48 PM
They stood up for the marching cobras.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: dohminator on January 28, 2007, 03:05:00 PM
Whichever section outside of the student section stands the most gets free nachos and a drink at the next game.  That would get people standing. 
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: fatty fat fat on January 28, 2007, 03:05:40 PM
The alumni want to stand, they are just too embarrassed to do it. Anyone who has sat in those sections feels that way.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: ksuno1stunner on January 28, 2007, 03:19:16 PM
We just need the front row to stand, and everyone else will follow.  I agree, nobody wants to be the douche bag who's standing.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: chum1 on January 28, 2007, 03:35:09 PM
When The FBC first opened, there was an error with the tickets and the students were in the chairbacks.  They sat while the old folks stood.  It was strange.  They had the error fixed by the second game.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: mcmwcat on January 28, 2007, 03:40:00 PM
I stand at times.  Usually at the end of the halves and I'm up and down a lot after baskets and good plays.  But I'm not going to stand and block the view of the senior citizens sitting behind me.  LSnyder sits down the row from me and I just can't picture making him have to stand for stretches during the game.

Frankly I stand more during timeouts and half time than I do during the game because I would rather stand ... but just don't have the nerve to piss off people behind me during the game action.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: mcmwcat on January 28, 2007, 03:40:51 PM
When The FBC first opened, there was an error with the tickets and the students were in the chairbacks.  They sat while the old folks stood.  It was strange.  They had the error fixed by the second game.

Are you serious?  That would be pretty entertaining to see.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: Leyton on January 28, 2007, 03:55:27 PM
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But I'm not going to stand and block the view of the senior citizens sitting behind me.

Yeah.  That's the main reason that it's pretty much necessary that most people in those sections sit during the game.  It'd be a little, I dunno, barbaric to turn around to an 80-year-old woman behind you and say, "Come on, grandma!  I know you're have two hip replacements and struggle up and down the stairs, but you need to stand for our cats!"

As several others have suggested, I think it'd be really cool if alumni could buy tickets for a section devoted to buck-wild old codgers who want to act like students.
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: RU4KSU2 on January 28, 2007, 04:13:24 PM
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As several others have suggested, I think it'd be really cool if alumni could buy tickets for a section devoted to buck-wild old codgers who want to act like students.

I would love to buy a ticket into that section.  Has someone e-mailed that idea to TW?
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: RU4KSU2 on January 28, 2007, 04:30:19 PM
It has been suggested that there should be some type of low-rise bleachers behind the baskets to fill that section in with people right on the floor.  I would pay to "stand" down there.  Maybe that is where the crazy alumni section should be...  :love:
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: Super PurpleCat on January 28, 2007, 04:59:53 PM
Maybe some sort of motorized chairback that you could strap yourself into and it will stand for you, when appropriate of course.  :)
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: kcnut on January 28, 2007, 05:03:40 PM
I'm 32 and my dad 60 we would be standing
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: PurplePowerhouse on January 28, 2007, 05:12:55 PM
Yeah . . . those JoCo housewives are always on their feet there at AFH.   :rolleyes:

Yeah well, even they have to give their knees a break once in a while  :D
Title: Re: What will make the alumni stand?
Post by: slucat on January 29, 2007, 09:06:25 AM
I sit in 18, in the lower rows and stand most of the game, jump up at good plays and don't even attempt to get a stupid XL tee-shirt (though I did try to get a black madness one :blush:).

PS, the west side stood as the cobras left, its called a standing ovation...for the record they stood when the guys came out before tip and at the end of the game.  There were several times the crowd got going and they stood and cheered after a big play or at a NU time out.  :jerkoff: