Found this in my email after the game. Are you proud of this or something? What a joke. Article was pretty decent for my counterparts, but the next to last paragraph is a complete joke. As long as student atmosphere continues to improve, I can live without the limelight.

Quote:Taylor’s favorite Blue Zoo moment was joining roughly 400 Blue Raider fans, who traveled to Western Kentucky for the basketball game last season. Blue Zoo members took the 25-foot banner and waved it during the introductions, almost having it confiscated by security after WKU fans complained. MT invaded their home court and was louder than the Western Kentucky student section, Taylor said.

So ~400 fans took over an 8k arena? and you were louder than ~7k people? and security tried to take away your banner (which no one could see because the lights were off) because WKU fans complained. Well my dad's seat was right in front of where these lying jack wads sit and says it never happened. So I'll jut go ahead and say BS. While the Red Riot does not have the twitter following that BZ has, we still manage to have much better student attendance than these guys could dream about. 5k is your second largest student crowd ever? really?




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Your dad is a liar.

First of all, does this even matter? Seems petty to me.
Secondly, I was there and saw the banner out during the first part of the game, however it disappeared after that.. Also, towards the end of the game, MT fans were louder. We sang the fight song over the Western fans.
If you really want something to complain about, why don't we jump to the WKU student section who flipped the bird to several MT fans as they sulked while walking out of the arena that day.

Guys, let it rest. This is juvenile TopsonTop. It's a rivalry. Both sides have overzealous fans. I was at the game and the place was rockin. The 300-400 MT fans were loud and they may have felt they were louder but one always thinks their own section is louder because well, you're in your section and it appears louder than a section on the other side of the arena. For what it's worth, I sat in front of the MT section and there was a grown 40-something year old man flipping the bird and using foul language. My 10 year old son asked me what a couple of the words were during the game. Needless to say, I was embarrassed for that man.

Every fan base has members that embarass the more civilized memebrs of such fan bases. My son was cursed out by a 60+ y.o. fan of MT after my son made a comment about Kermit walking off the court without shaking hands after WKU won the last regular season game against MT. That fan was a jerk. Two MT students came and stood in the WKU reserved section at last year's football game and made smart a** comments in an attempt to rile up the people in our section. They were jerks. So what. I would imagine that the majority of MT fans are not.
Having arguments about fans acting poorly is interesting but pointless as all of us have our fair share unfortunately.

(10-04-2013 07:02 AM)MTalum09 Wrote:  First of all, does this even matter? Seems petty to me.
Secondly, I was there and saw the banner out during the first part of the game, however it disappeared after that.. Also, towards the end of the game, MT fans were louder. We sang the fight song over the Western fans.
If you really want something to complain about, why don't we jump to the WKU student section who flipped the bird to several MT fans as they sulked while walking out of the arena that day.

Certainly seemed to matter to the anonymous failer fan who felt i needed to read it.

And unless "toward the end of the game" was the last few seconds after we had already lost the game, or during a WKU freethrow, you weren't audible at all. I didn't see the banner before the game, but I did see it at the end, so either you intentionally disregarded an order from arena security and potentially caused a safety issue or these two losers are full of it. I'll take my chances with the latter.

The bitterness is strong in this one.

Not that it matters, but I was at the game, too. Been to most every MT game at WKU in hoops & football.

WKU fans were rocking that night and loud as hell. I came away impressed for the first time in a while. Still not as loud as it was in the late 1970's.

MT fans brought a great crowd as well, and the large banner was there (albeit behind the goal).

(10-04-2013 12:09 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  Not that it matters, but I was at the game, too. Been to most every MT game at WKU in hoops & football.

WKU fans were rocking that night and loud as hell. I came away impressed for the first time in a while. Still not as loud as it was in the late 1970's.

MT fans brought a great crowd as well, and the large banner was there (albeit behind the goal).

The crowd banner was there no doubt, but you couldn't see it before the game unless you were near it. I was at the opposite end line 2 rows from the floor and didn't see it until after the game. That was a good crowd but the previous year was better. Place was deafening when harp took the mic.