by Longtimer » Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:45 am
I can understand why there is a petition, the attempts at replacing it have all been failures. You can feel the crowd wanting to stand, clap in unison and sort of be built into a frenzy. But instead, we are forced into watching a video, a real buzz kill! Our crowd needs all the help they can get, we pride ourselves on having a pro like atmosphere and they're right. Show up late, sit on your hands until the equivalent of the fourth quarter, get loud for 10 possessions, win and go home happy. I shared season tickets to the Charlotte Hornets before moving back, I know the drill. We don't have 25% of the crowd students like Iowa State, we don't show replays (single biggest reason I probably won't be a season ticket holder next year after 17 years), our crowd needs all the help it can get! I will say it has gotten better over the years. But we are still not very close to being and elite college basketball crowd. And for a guy that travels 2 hrs in the the car with his wife to the games, I'm ready to yell for awhile!! Seriously though, if it's not going to be "Power", find something, because what currently is being done fails miserably to meet the objective. Just to throw it out there, a couple years ago someone on the board suggested One Republic "Love Runs Out", that definitely has a beat folks could clap to.