billikenfan05

I really hope that the seats behind the student section are reserved. I think it could end up being comparable to the last game against Xavier at Scottrade.

Lets just say we may be seeing some of this at the next game.

I definitely like "random" as the identity with the signs, the heads, the costumes. IMO it should still be grounded in wearing blue and group chants(ie defense, s-l-u, etc....).

Anybody know if they accept Billiken bucks at the SLU Shop? I know they accept them at the Bookstore but I'm not sure if they accept them at the arena shop.

I definitely think if we can combine the jumping with a guy in a chewbacca suit and maybe get a fat guy or a speedo guy we can definitely catch any shooter by surprise!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine...ection3-13.html Every basketball fan knows that the seats behind a backboard don't afford a great view of the court, but they do provide an opportunity to affect a game's outcome. By waving ThunderStix - those long, skinny balloons that make noise when smacked together - or other implements of distraction, fans sitting behind the basket can unnerve an opposing team's foul shooters and make them miss. But not, a new theory holds, unless the fans gesticulate in a particular way. According to Daniel Engber, a basketball fan with a master's degree in neuroscience, the standard "free-throw defenses" are too haphazard to be effective. Fans tend to wave their ThunderStix willy-nilly, creating a unified field of randomly moving objects. Because of the way the human brain perceives motion, free-throw shooters can easily ignore this sort of visual commotion. "Fans might think they're doing something by crazily waving their ThunderStix," Engber says, "but to the players it's all just a sea of visual white noise." Which is why, Engber surmises, N.B.A. teams' free-throw percentages at home and on the road are nearly identical. The key to a successful free-throw defense, Engber argues, is to make a player perceive a "field of background motion" that tricks his brain into thinking that he himself is moving, thereby throwing off his shooting. In other words, fans should wave their ThunderStix in tandem. Last season, Engber proposed this tactic to the Dallas Mavericks' owner, Mark Cuban, who took him up on the idea. For three games, Cuban had members of the Mavs' Hoop Troop instruct fans to wave their ThunderStix from side to side in unison. And as Engber subsequently reported in the online magazine Slate, the initial results were encouraging. In the first game, the Mavericks' opponent, the Boston Celtics, shot 60 percent from the line, about 20 percent below their season average. In the second game, the Milwaukee Bucks shot a meager 63 percent. But in the third game, the Los Angeles Lakers shot 78 percent - about the league average. Which apparently was enough to persuade Cuban to abandon the strategy. Engber, however, remains a believer. "It's a pretty basic idea when you're studying what kind of perturbations of the visual world affect movement," he says, "that something systematic will have more of an effect than something random."

Had a dream last night. Said we got a 13 Seed I was PISSED!!

Look, this whole thread is bull****. I realize that some people don't like me. I can be a polarizing figure. But none of you truly know me and I think if you knew me you would temper your criticisms of me. I don't yell and scream and go crazy because I want attention, or think I'm the second coming of Christ. I do it because I am deeply passionate about the Billikens. I love this team more than I love myself for crying out loud. I've always been that way and I've always started chants even when I was sitting in the upper seats of Scottrade. I'm sorry if I've ever yelled at anyone in the heat of a game(that includes any of you who are on here posting). I try to be excited and get everyone else excited. Apparently I fail at the latter with the greeks. I know many greeks and the ones I know are always good guys. I really want nothing more than the student section to be united. I'm no better than anyone else in the student section. If you want a cheer started PLEASE START IT, I WILL JOIN IN AND SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE! If the cheer is good it will stick. Lastly, please come introduce yourself to me if we've never met. I would love to meet others who love the Billikens. In the end wether you like me or not anyone who is a fan of the Billikens is a friend to m.

Cheer directions?? I start cheers, if someone starts it before me, I join in. If you have a problem with me personally, take it to Private Messages. I don't hold anyone by the hand and make them do anything. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

How do you figure?

AHAHAHAHAH

WOW!

The Betsy Ross Dancers look like they are on drugs.

WHERE IS RUNNIN' DUDE WOULD BE LOVIN' THIS!!! CODY 3-3!! MADDDD HATEFUL! POSTCARD STYLE!!

I start cheers. I don't tell people or care what they can or can't do as long as they aren't throwing things on the court. This post is a joke right?

I'm getting great sound!

I dont see HD. But they are already streaming. The announcers just figured it out.

You gotta be kidding me!

JEEZ! Sounds like a neutral site/dayton home game!

That should be on a sign!!!

I meant 4 fouls. Sorry.

WOW did I hear that right? CW with 4?

I think Dayton.

You would know about the drink specials eh hammer?

1.I have always supported diversity and including the greeks, ask anybody, I have pushed for the athletic department and even brainstormed with them on how to involve the greeks. We NEED them! 2. There absolutely is a bit of defacto segregation between the greeks and the lower group in the student section. This goes back to the days of Scottrade, when it was mostly the hardcores who came to every game due to the difficulty of getting to the arena, I remember being heckled by the Sig Eps(most of them have now graduated) countless times at scottrade. 3.Great post slufan. 4.Also great post KC The term Blue Crew can stay IMO, I was for its removal early this season but now I think different. I have had conversations with people who handle student marketing about it. My idea was that you sell student season tickets and offer a free Billiken Basketball shirt with that purchase. Then for the home opener give every student in attendance a Blue Crew t-shirt. p.s. I like midtown maniacs/mob/mafia I also understand that I have also been combative at times and I need to chill out. I love the Billikens and have since I was very young. I understand that I get overly excited and lose my head if someone disagrees with me at a game. It's all in the past. Let's get behind OUR Billikens and help them win the last 3 home games!!!!!!!