I'll admit I wasn't big on having to organize this stuff going in, but its hard to argue with when the student section was the best I've seen in years. It does look kind of lame that it takes a chant sheet, but I can't complain about the results it was a fun game to be at with how involved the students were during the game.
I don't see why it's lame. It's not like we have 20 straight years of great basketball and a packed house every night to carry on the traditions like ku has. The success of the chant sheets tell me that a) some students out there care enough about this stuff to come up with ideas and make the effort to print and distribute the chant sheets and b) the rest of the students section wants to show support for the team and is willing to get into the games, they just need a little guidance because the last time we made a run for the NCAA tournament, a lot of them were in 2nd or 3rd grade.
Some of the stuff may have been kinda rudimentary the first time around, but my guess is that they'll get better stuff going as time goes on and more people get into the act of suggesting things. They'll figure out the stuff they like and they'll do it a lot and those will become traditions. Perhaps the chant sheet itself will become a tradition, only it will contain mostly opponent-specific information rather than the chants that become traditions. Trust me, if they start doing chant sheets for every game, it's going to get play on Big Mondays here in a few years, with Erin Andrews in the student section talking about how much the students are into games that they do all this research before the games to come up with chants specific to the opponent, etc.
