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How about "the Indiana University student section"?

Sigh.  Here's a release from IU's media relations department:

The Indiana University Athletics Department is seeking names for the student section in Assembly Hall. The student's selection will be placed on the front of the Crimson Club Student Basketball Shirt. These shirts will be handed out to all student basketball season ticket holders. The student t-shirt is a great way for the students to show their passion and pride for Indiana Basketball at every home game.

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Student section names will be accepted now through November 17th with finalist selections occurring on November 18th .Entries are open to all current Indiana Students. Students will be able to vote for their favorite name from November 18th-November 24th on IUHoosiers.com.

We don't need names on our jerseys.  We don't need new warmups.  We certainly don't need some cheesy name for the student section.  I'm not averse to all change, but for decades the focus of the experience at Assembly Hall has been on the game itself, and it should remain that way.  I loathe the Duke-ification of college basketball student sections: the oh-so-clever names, the overly contrived chants, the painstakingly researched "jeer cards," the stupid left-right-sit-down thing that every school thinks it invented, and so on.  Here's what IU's students need to do: 1) show up, early if possible; 2) wear crimson, and you shouldn't need an official shirt to do so; 3) make lots of noise; 4) sing and clap to the fight song.  Come on, Fred Glass.  What's the point of having an athletic director who attended IU during the heart of the Knight era if you can't get this right?  Torpedo this idea, Fred, and while you are at it, get rid of the thundersticks and the oversized foam bricks and the big heads and the pinwheels.  It's about basketball.  Period.  Leave the gimmicks to the nouveau riche and the never weres.  IU is, as Mike DeCourcy described it yesterday, one of college basketball's blueblood programs.  Let's act like it. 

IU students, I'm counting on you.  Flood this contest with suggestions that the student section be called "the student section." 

And yes, get off my lawn.

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Same goes for the pep band uniforms. I like my band to look like a pack of misplaced valets, damnit.

by LoneStarHoosier on Nov 11, 2009 12:21 PM EST reply actions  

Amen to both of you

I always thought the pep band looked like sleezy black jack dealers. And loved it.

by hoosierdaddynow on Nov 11, 2009 1:29 PM EST up reply actions  

I actually agree with you

That is why I hate the Mackey renovation. People should be standing anyway, so who cares if the bench seats are uncomfortable.

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by BoilerTMill on Nov 11, 2009 3:02 PM EST reply actions  

What student section? We don’t even have a real student section. We have random clusters of students. The athletic department needs to prioritize — they should be working on actually making a legitimate student section before jumping to the step of naming it. Before sections get named they all should SITTING TOGETHER. Groups like the Cameron Crazies, the Oakland Zoo, you name it (pun fully intended).

I don’t find many faults with IU athletics but the lack of a first-come first-serve contiguous student section is a major problem. I don’t care whose fault it is, it just needs to get fixed.

Second, student section names (however necessary or not) shouldn’t be coming from some lame contest. They should evolve or carry some type of tradition.

by D.M.J. on Nov 11, 2009 11:27 PM EST reply actions  

Be careful what you wish for. While you are correct that IU doesn’t have one single student section, IU typically has allotted 7800 of 17,000 seats for students, which (at least at some point in the not so distant past) made it the largest student ticket allotment in the country both by percentage and raw number.

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by John M (The Crimson Quarry) on Nov 12, 2009 8:13 AM EST up reply actions  

I’d make that trade-off any day of the week.

by D.M.J. on Nov 12, 2009 4:36 PM EST up reply actions  

Student Section

How about calling them the Late Arrivals!

by SPARTANGREEN on Nov 12, 2009 10:23 AM EST reply actions  

If the students like it I'm ok with it.

They do need to get all the students together in one spot.

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