The Crowd Today

[BlueMAB]

I thought the crowd yesterday sounded great once they got going. That seemed to be a few hoops into the comeback.

This.

Both Hartford and Gampel (UConn being the common denominator) need the team to play well before the crowd gets hyped up.

The only thing worse than the first half crowd performance was the team’s.

And fans left early…again. Gaping empty sections with 1-2 minutes left.

Crowd was great when UConn was great. We shouldn’t pat ourselves on the back as if we willed the team to victory after a terrible first half. As always happens, the crowd came alive when the team came alive. Our fans are fickle, we need the team to give us a reason to cheer and get loud. Regardless of whether we’re in Hartford or Gampel. Seems the only place we’re loud from the beginning is MSG

 

[ctchamps]

Except for the women’s first game vs BU, both teams have had home game sellouts

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I’m glad we beat Butler and DePaul to avoid someone declaring we can’t win in venues with less than 10,000 attendance.

 

[HuskyNan]

Sounds pretty loud to me

 

[LIUCHusky]

This.

Both Hartford and Gampel (UConn being the common denominator) need the team to play well before the crowd gets hyped up.

The only thing worse than the first half crowd performance was the team’s.

And fans left early…again. Gaping empty sections with 1-2 minutes left.

Crowd was great when UConn was great. We shouldn’t pat ourselves on the back as if we willed the team to victory after a terrible first half. As always happens, the crowd came alive when the team came alive. Our fans are fickle, we need the team to give us a reason to cheer and get loud. Regardless of whether we’re in Hartford or Gampel. Seems the only place we’re loud from the beginning is MSG

Many of those fans who left there seats to get an early exit are standing on the concourse level.

 

[Dogdeacon]

1) Agreed
2) Agreed
3) It's BB - teams score all the time - crowd noise isn't magic.

The crowd feeds off momentum - once you get to 3-4 plays in a row that go in our favor it gets ratcheted up like crazy. Or in situations like yesterday when we needed it. But people are so used to us winning by a lot they just don't push.

I'm in the first row in 209 - and I'd stand a lot more but I feel like I make everyone stand behind me if I stand so I tend not to (to be fair the cameras partially block my view so I would stand just because of that).

The problem is if you eliminate 'stand until we score' you get more sitting. At least the standing creates a precedent and prevents games from starting off in total doldrums. Its not great, yet much better than letting the crowd start games sitting down.

 

[businesslawyer]

This.

Both Hartford and Gampel (UConn being the common denominator) need the team to play well before the crowd gets hyped up.

The only thing worse than the first half crowd performance was the team’s.

And fans left early…again. Gaping empty sections with 1-2 minutes left.

Crowd was great when UConn was great. We shouldn’t pat ourselves on the back as if we willed the team to victory after a terrible first half. As always happens, the crowd came alive when the team came alive. Our fans are fickle, we need the team to give us a reason to cheer and get loud. Regardless of whether we’re in Hartford or Gampel. Seems the only place we’re loud from the beginning is MSG

I disagree with "the crowd only came alive when the team came alive" part. Strongly disagree. The crowd starting standing and screaming on D about 3 or 4 minutes into the second half, when we started scoring most possessions but were just trading baskets because we couldn't get stops.

 

[nashusky109]

Coach spent ~40 seconds of is 2 min opening statement talking about the crowd. If you haven’t seen it it’s on YouTube. Maybe I’m interpreting this wrong but It seemed to me he’s asking for a bit more from the crowd in different ways and it’s more intensity from fans and students especially on the defensive side. On offense when there’s a score it’s loud but that’s expected. I think that’s where a lot of the older chants that seemingly went away or students doing there best to be loud and jumping on defense makes a difference and maybe that’s what he means by needs the crowd for full 40 mins.

In any case the second half atmosphere looked electric over the broadcast and the announcers made sure to acknowledge it. Looked like a great game to be at!

 

[UDann]

I disagree with "the crowd only came alive when the team came alive" part. Strongly disagree. The crowd starting standing and screaming on D about 3 or 4 minutes into the second half, when we started scoring most possessions but were just trading baskets because we couldn't get stops.

It’s like any relationship it’s give and take. Can’t expect any crowd to go crazy when team is just playing poorly as the last few minutes of first half. No scoring and no defense. There has to be a reason to cheer,

During the comeback we stood up every time they scored but as you say we were trading baskets. It was up and down a lot. The crowd was electric and fed off the teams positive results and urged them on.

Big Red who sits behind me a few rows did his thing. It was magnificent. Go Huskies!!

 

[auror]

I disagree with "the crowd only came alive when the team came alive" part. Strongly disagree. The crowd starting standing and screaming on D about 3 or 4 minutes into the second half, when we started scoring most possessions but were just trading baskets because we couldn't get stops.

Yeah the crowd was going nuts when we were like down 11, cutting the lead only by 3 or whatever.

 

[Gurleyman]

2) I hate hate hate the "tradition" of standing and clapping until the first pt is scored. It is ANTI inspiring in that a) it gets awkward when it takes a few minutes to score and b) everyone IMMEDIATELY sits right down and all momentum crashes to the earth.

I’ve thought for a long time that, if there is going to be one, the tradition should be to stand until the other team scores. Then the crowd could naturally get more and more intense the more stops we get, put pressure on the other team to shut everyone up, and it encourages the team to open up the game with defensive intensity - to try to keep the crowd standing.

 

[HooperScooper]

Coach spent ~40 seconds of is 2 min opening statement talking about the crowd. If you haven’t seen it it’s on YouTube.

I got you covered.

Hurley's Post Game Press Conference from PC game

I didn't see this on here although it may have been posted. I need to watch this one.

www.the-boneyard.com

 

[willie99]

This.

Both Hartford and Gampel (UConn being the common denominator) need the team to play well before the crowd gets hyped up.

The only thing worse than the first half crowd performance was the team’s.

And fans left early…again. Gaping empty sections with 1-2 minutes left.

Crowd was great when UConn was great. We shouldn’t pat ourselves on the back as if we willed the team to victory after a terrible first half. As always happens, the crowd came alive when the team came alive. Our fans are fickle, we need the team to give us a reason to cheer and get loud. Regardless of whether we’re in Hartford or Gampel. Seems the only place we’re loud from the beginning is MSG

I couldn't disagree more. Time after time we get loud helping our team comeback

We're not fickle, not the fans at the games

Now fans at the Boneyard, they're often times beyond fickle

 

[willie99]

Hurley loves us

Calhoun loved us

We own MSG

Pitino wishes he had us

Opposing teams hate hearing U-C-O-N-N...

We're bad Jazz

 

[ctchamps]

I’ve thought for a long time that, if there is going to be one, the tradition should be to stand until the other team scores. Then the crowd could naturally get more and more intense the more stops we get, put pressure on the other team to shut everyone up, and it encourages the team to open up the game with defensive intensity - to try to keep the crowd standing.

Love it.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Crowd sounded good on TV but taking a victory lap for being loud at a college basketball game where the home team is the back-to-back defending champs playing their local rival is a little weird to me. Reminds me of Chris Rock’s bit about taking care of your kids ie “you’re supposed to”. Anyway, lets keep the momentum going!

 

[uconnric]

Now fans at the Boneyard, they're often times beyond fickle

And will always need something to piss and moan about.

 

[BlueMAB]

I couldn't disagree more. Time after time we get loud helping our team comeback

And those times where when we were making shots and playing well.

We scored and got loud. In the first half we didn’t score. And the place was a library.

This ain’t difficult.

 

[BlueMAB]

And will always need something to piss and moan about.

Kinda like what you’re doing here?

 

[BlueMAB]

Crowd sounded good on TV but taking a victory lap for being loud at a college basketball game where the home team is the back-to-back defending champs playing their local rival is a little weird to me. Reminds me of Chris Rock’s bit about taking care of your kids ie “you’re supposed to”. Anyway, let’s keep the momentum going!

Careful, you bordering on “pissing and moaning”.

 

[Deepster]

Crowd sounded good on TV but taking a victory lap for being loud at a college basketball game where the home team is the back-to-back defending champs playing their local rival is a little weird to me. Reminds me of Chris Rock’s bit about taking care of your kids ie “you’re supposed to”. Anyway, lets keep the momentum going!

Don’t worry. A few more pages and this will turn into “we need to play all games at Gampel!!!” Thread.

 

[BlueMAB]

Yeah the crowd was going nuts when we were like down 11, cutting the lead only by 3 or whatever.

I didn’t say we stayed quiet until we had the lead. I said we stayed quiet until we started playing better.