Drake observations....

[molly jabali]

...remember I asked about tickets for 13?Well, by hook and crook, I got them...paying for 7, getting 6 from friends.Their observations(most have no connection with WSU)
* CROWD WAS AWESOME!!!
* The knucklehead who threw the object had to walk 'the walk of shame'...they ALL loved that!(and what are the odds he hits the National Anthem singer???)
* my ksu nephew said he was impressed with wsu, but he thinks ksu is better...THIS year.

all in all, a great time...they were very impressed!

[wufan]

I would agree that KSU is better than WSU this year. They will likely be a top 10 team by Monday.

[shockball]

Sullentrop's observaations.

http://blogs.kansas.com/shockwaves/

[shocks02]

Crowd was sub-par if you're comparing it to other Shocker games.

[molly jabali]

oh, i forgot one observation...at the visitors' bench end, one of the mop boys is hilarious...he does nothing, including once pushing the mop with his belly...great free entertainment....

[emmitt]

I would say the crowd performed about "par."

If Texas Tech was a 9.8 out of 10,

Then I would give last nights crowd a 6.9 to 7.2.

[Ashockalypse]

The crowd can do a lot but it is in the end somewhat relational to the play exhibited by the home team and the momentum and rythym being exhibited. For most of that game we really didn't play that great, get any strong momentum or get into much of a rythm. Most of us agree it was not a great performance. I bet we have a much better performance on Sunday and the house will come down.

[60Shock]

The crowd can do a lot but it is in the end somewhat relational to the play exhibited by the home team and the momentum and rythym being exhibited. For most of that game we really didn't play that great, get any strong momentum or get into much of a rythm. Most of us agree it was not a great performance. I bet we have a much better performance on Sunday and the house will come down.

I agree with your comments which beg the question, "Just when do we need the crowd most?

a. When we are playing great and scoring and defending at will? Which for the most part is when most home teams really get their fan support.

b. Or when the shoe is on the other foot and the home team is getting hammered unmercifully. Where is the fan support then? Usually silenced or pretty well not existent. And this is the fan support is needed most. This may or may not be true for the Shocks as I have not been able to attend a home game for two decades, but you see this virtually everyday whether you are attending a basketball or football game in person or watching it on TV.

When things aren't going good, home crowds often tank.

[SB Shock]

b. Or when the shoe is on the other foot and the home team is getting hammered unmercifully. Where is the fan support then? Usually silenced or pretty well not existent. And this is the fan support is needed most. This may or may not be true for the Shocks as I have not been able to attend a home game for two decades, but you see this virtually everyday whether you are attending a basketball or football game in person or watching it on TV.

When things aren't going good, home crowds often tank.

I can recall WSU crowds getting on their feet trying to give the team energy when they need a critical stop or score. Couple examples I can think of was a SIU game a few years ago when SIU pulled out to 20+ lead. The crowd got up and willed the team forward and WSU responded and brought the team back but fell short.

It also happened at the TTech game - as the Ref were threatening to assess a "T" against the crowd. Instead of the crowd getting the T or sitting down like a scolded puppy they instead turned their energies to the team.

Of course I think we could be better. There are several factors hampers this from

a. The hardcore fans are further from the floor. But if you get the lower people to stand, then everybody has to stand. The NIT FSU game shows what happens when those seats are opened up to anybody.

b. The cheerleaders pretty much only work with the student section. But I think if they would pick and choose certain critical times to try and get the whole crowd into it they might be more effective.

Maybe Coach Marshall should have some "crowd" practices.

[ShockMe300]

I noticed in the last couple of games that the cheerleaders are leaving thier "posts" after the opposition makes a freethrow and not a fieldgoal for their first points. Someone needs to let them know the rules.

[Shox21]

a. The hardcore fans are further from the floor. But if you get the lower people to stand, then everybody has to stand. The NIT FSU game shows what happens when those seats are opened up to anybody.

Here we go again. I don't know your age or what generation you fall into, but I get so tired of the veiled and not so veiled statements about the odler fans being the ones that sit closest to the floor (and if those seats were opened up to the younger fans the crowd would be much louder, more support, standing, yada yada yada). Of course they are the ones that sit closest -- they are the ones that can afford the large SASO to get those tickets. And they are probably also the ones that supported the Shockers back in the 90s when things were pretty bad. Leave them alone -- most of them have earned the right to sit where they do.

[shockmonster]

shox21 I don't think that he meant that the lower bowl fans are older fans. I think that most people refer to them (generally speaking) as the corporate fans who often come to games on a free ticket that would not otherwise come.

[Ricardo del Rio]

shox21 I don't think that he meant that the lower bowl fans are older fans. I think that most people refer to them (generally speaking) as the corporate fans who often come to games on a free ticket that would not otherwise come.

Yeah, yeah, quit picking on old goats.

[Shox21]

shox21 I don't think that he meant that the lower bowl fans are older fans. I think that most people refer to them (generally speaking) as the corporate fans who often come to games on a free ticket that would not otherwise come.

Then the corporate sponsors should build a fire under the people they give the tickets to -- or give them to someone else.

Maybe I'm just being overly critical -- at least SB Shock didn't call them "blue hairs." I've heard the reference to the FSU game many times on here and I agree we were loud. I was there. And I sat in the lower bowl. But please remember also we were not supposed to even be able to take the floor with FSU let alone compete. We were primed for that game and since we played them hard and played them close the game got louder and louder and louder. Comparing the noise level at the FSU game with most other games is kind of an unfair comparison.