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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Re: Best/Worst Court Designs
« on: January 17, 2014, 12:58:15 PM »
Our hated rivals from Long Beach played at UC Santa Barbara last night. There aren't a lot of great images of that court online.
The font/kerning for "Welcome to the Thunderdome" is terrible. If you're wondering if the logo is a UFO or a hat, it's a hat. They're the Gaucho's, and that hat with the weird lines under it is the "magic hat" version of their logo.
Here's what else you learn when you go down the UCSB rabbit hole:
The font/kerning for "Welcome to the Thunderdome" is terrible. If you're wondering if the logo is a UFO or a hat, it's a hat. They're the Gaucho's, and that hat with the weird lines under it is the "magic hat" version of their logo.
Here's what else you learn when you go down the UCSB rabbit hole:
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As Gaucho basketball evolved into a Big West power, the building in which it made its mark also evolved, emerging as one of the nation’s most feared venues. Few arenas inspire fear. The Thunderdome is one of them.http://ucsbgauchos.com/our_stories/Our_Stories_Videos/OS-The_Thunderdome
Christened The Thunderdome, with a nod to the Mel Gibson film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, because of sheer volume of noise it produces, the home to UCSB basketball became a nightmare to visitors. Opponents not only had to deal with great Gaucho teams, but they also had to handle a level of noise beyond what their imaginations could muster.
It’s humble exterior belies the Thunderdome’s inner beauty and power. It has become more than an arena, it’s become legend.
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In the mid-1990s, Gaucho basketball fans became nationally notorious for chucking tortillas onto the court at televised games. The tortilla barrages often stopped play and resulted in technical foul calls against the Gauchos. Coaches could occasionally be seen begging the crowd to stop and even helping with cleanup. The practice peaked in February 1997 when the Gauchos took on University of the Pacific in a game that was televised on ESPN. The rowdy fans throughout the game threw tortillas where the Gauchos head coach was eventually ejected. While the athletics department prohibits tortilla chucking at basketball games, the tradition is celebrated today at soccer matches – only after goals – and never during play or directed at fans or opposing players (this act can lead to an ejection, penalty on the home team and a possible end of the tradition). The only after Gaucho goals tortillas tradition is part of a great game-day atmosphere.http://www.ucsbgauchos.com/fan_zone/Locos/nickname
, but a friend swears it's true