MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Pat Coleman]

To the Oxy students, I have to say that "Safety School!" and "Just Like Football!" are banal. You can do much better. Please try something else.

True. Though at least it wasn't profane.

[David Collinge]

The Redlands student section was largely composed of players from their powerful 4-5 football team, and some of them appeared perplexed by "Safety School!" since they were under the impression they were a linebacker school.

LOL!    +K to you.

[Gray Fox]

And to think I put my TV on "mute" to listen to the cone of silence sound effects.....

I guess that's a double dip cone.

[diehardfan]

To the Oxy students, I have to say that "Safety School!" and "Just Like Football!" are banal. You can do much better. Please try something else.

True. Though at least it wasn't profane.

Though the Oxy student section was a little more classless than average (and less creative for that matter), they generally weren't profane. I can't say how much I appreciate the way Oxy's student section usually conducts themselves compared to so many active student sections I've encountered. Redlands was also pretty decent. (That tiger on the fishing line thing was pretty creative, incidentally... though I must admit I was one of the dozens of girls in the gym that gasped, "Aaawwww! How mean!!!" when they reeled in and then stamped on the adorable little baby tiger stuffed animal )

The most creative cheer I've ever heard is this guy at a Wash U - Rochester game. This Wash U guy yelled "CHEESEBURGER!!!" at the top of his lungs at random intervals. When opposing team members were on the FT line, he would shout the various characteristics and merits of a cheeseburger. This actually was so absurd it took the Rochester players out of their game. You could tell they were actually having to consciously not laugh and tune out the noise as the guy described ketchup and the yummy juicyness, etc. My favorite Wheaton cheers are "Suppress them, suppress them, make them relinquish the ball!" and "Angel, angel on the rim, please don't let that ball go in!" (A fun absurd little tribute to our Christian foundation). We may have stolen these cheers from somewhere else, but at least it's not "That's alright, that's okay, you will work for us someday." My point being, you can be creative, random, supportive, and classy all at once. There are numerous schools in the SCIAC that are at least as known for their academic prowess as Wash U. I am honored to go to a school who people basically never have anything negative to say about class-wise (though I often think we could do much better). I think that should be the goal of many fans, and I think if the fans and alumni that care were more vocal about it, things would change.

There many student sections in my home conference who are decidedly more offensive than anything I've encountered in the SCIAC. Oxy is one of the few places I've been to DIII wise where I'd feel comfortable bringing my theoretical kids. I haven't felt like IWU's student section was very family friendly many times, despite the fact that all the other fans and other components of Shirk center games are about as family friendly as they come in DIII. And then Augustana and Carthage and many others are just flat out NOT places you want to bring your kids. Ugh... I hate being those gyms despite my respect for numerous of their individual fans and players and administrative staff.  I've heard rumors about offensiveness in the SCIAC in certain places but haven't been to too many games that have made me want to cringe yet.

I think in general, I really wish students had enough control to save the illegal underage drinking at least until AFTER the game. Aside from the whole fact that it's basically like driving 100 in a 45 past a cop, this always makes me seriously ponder many things during games... Is your life really that sad that you have to drink to the point of drunkeness on a Saturday afternoon? (or even scarier, a Wednesday afternoon?) Are students in our nation's top colleges really so illogical that they don't realize/care what drunkenness does to damage brain cells much less their reasoning skills/behavior? I really wish the administrations cared enough about their image, not to mention their students' safety, to curb these habits and then keep the people acting like drunken fools out of their gyms!

Hah, I sure can go on a sportsmanship rant at the drop of a hat, huh?  At least it's not as bad as it gets when someone makes a joke discounting Global Climate Change.

[Gray Fox]

dhf,
I notice that Oxy got a couple of additional votes on your poll since last night.

[diehardfan]

dhf,
I notice that Oxy got a couple of additional votes on your poll since last night.

It was actually only one, but yeah. That person doesn't get any "insightfulness points" from me. 

I've locked the voting to give people a chance to check out the results. I'll replace it with an MOP poll in a bit, so if anyone wants to nominate people to be included, let me know.

[Gray Fox]

UCLA, now that's an Oxy safety school, right, tigersports?

OxyBob

After reading the Barry Obama article, I thought that Columbia was the Oxy safety school.  Or is Columbia the "bailout' school?

[Gregory Sager]

My favorite Wheaton cheers are "Suppress them, suppress them, make them relinquish the ball!" and "Angel, angel on the rim, please don't let that ball go in!" (A fun absurd little tribute to our Christian foundation). We may have stolen these cheers from somewhere else, but at least it's not "That's alright, that's okay, you will work for us someday."

... which the Wheaton football team / student cheering section has also stolen and used on at least two occasions over the past three years.

To be fair to Wheaton, two weeks ago Elmhurst trotted out the "Angel, angel" cheer when an NPU player was at the free throw line -- and in CCIW circles that cheer is clearly identified with April's alma mater. Originality among college basketball student sections is like big-city clean government: An aspiration that gets more lip service than actual practice.

[WLCALUM83]

OxyBob:

Just an update on WLC's men:  Warriors started out 4-1, lost their next 4 games, then won 8 of their last nine NAthCon regular season in-conference games to qualify for the NAthCon post-season conference tournament. WLC also upset Aurora's men at home earlier. Looks like Aurora's got a good shot at qualifying for NCAA tournament.

How good are Oxy's chances?

[scandihoovian]

Sounds like the Kingsmen had their chances against PP but let one get away on Saturday night.  Looks like turnovers (CLU 15, PP 7) and difficulties at the free throw line (CLU 8/20 PP 8/12) played a big role.  I suppose those are exactly the kinds of problems young teams struggle with, especially on the road against an always tough and well coached team in PP.  I remain impressed with the quality of play from the Kingsmen this season, and hope they can finish strong against CalTech and CMS.  I think it's fair to say that even though they lost twice this week (OxyBob's theme of the week) CLU continued to play well, especially Wednesday at Oxy (not quite the massacre you anticipated, eh Bob  )

With the exception of the CMS game, Oxy has put together a great season, and I hope their experience serves them well as they look to the postseason.  I think we'd all love to see them make a deep run in the tournament.

[DIIIghetto]

Oh how I wish I could be in Claremont tonight.   Kats will be excited to try to return the sweep favor.  Always tough to do in that classic series.  Two Ls to PP in a year when CMS was supposed to be the front-runner and that would go down as one of their most disappointing seasons.   A little more than usual on the line pride-wise.

Hats off to CLU.  I didn't expect them to be as good as they were this year and they are my early pre-season favorites for next year. 

Oxy Tigers take a bow.  Big W in a very difficult environment.  Maybe as tough a place to play as  you will find in the SCIAC this year.  Couple that with Betty going down early with an injury and not being able to help and it shows you just how much Oxy's upperclassmen stepped up.  Well done fellas.  I also give the coaches credit for making adjustments at the defensive end.  3-28 doesn't happen in a team's home gym unless someone is making you shoot shots that you don't normally shoot. 

Coach Smith, TFS system aside, goes down as one of the classiest acts you will ever see, at any level. 

I think next year is the first year the SCIAC puts in a mini-conference post-season tourney.  Great idea.   I'm not sure whether the format is 4 or 3.  But you can imagine with where CLU, PP, CMS & Oxy are now how exciting that Tourney will be with the potential of an upset team stealing the dance ticket.   I'm all in favor of it and think that it will prepare our invitee for the tournament better than the format we have now.   Going into that first round game we need a battle-tested team representing us. 

[Hoopsallthetime]

DIIIghetto:

>>Oh how I wish I could be in Claremont tonight<<

I'd like to be there at Rains to see if more than 47 people show up to watch the game.

OxyBob

Bob, I can promise you there will be more than 47 people at the game tonight between cms and pomona. I can promise you that this will be a game to remember. You should probably take the night off watching your beloved tigers play, and come out and watch a great game with an awesome atmosphere. For those who have never been to one of these games, try to make your way out to one before you die. The intensity can be cut with a knife, and the students are louder than ever. Who would have thought students who have the same classes with each other, and probably party together could hate each other so much in one night. Enough said, GO STAGS!!!!!!!

[D3hoopguy]

DIIIghetto:

>>Oh how I wish I could be in Claremont tonight<<

I'd like to be there at Rains to see if more than 47 people show up to watch the game.

OxyBob

Bob, I can promise you there will be more than 47 people at the game tonight between cms and pomona. I can promise you that this will be a game to remember. You should probably take the night off watching your beloved tigers play, and come out and watch a great game with an awesome atmosphere. For those who have never been to one of these games, try to make your way out to one before you die. The intensity can be cut with a knife, and the students are louder than ever. Who would have thought students who have the same classes with each other, and probably party together could hate each other so much in one night. Enough said, GO STAGS!!!!!!!

I am with the Stag.  The atmosphere at the game tonight will fantastic.  It is as good a rivalry as there is in D3.  I went to the game in 2003 when PP was finishing 6th in SCIAC, and it was still as intense a game as I have ever been to.  It doesn't matter if the teams are fighting for 1st or 7th.  Isnt that what a rivalry is about?

Also, Oxybob, I am going to guess that there were more than 47 people at the PP-CLU game saturday night.

http://www.pomona.edu/Welcome/Trek/47trek.shtml
http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/pcmfl00/1.shtml

I am guessing it the PP SIDs idea of a inside joke. 

[Gray Fox]

DIIIghetto:

>>Oh how I wish I could be in Claremont tonight<<

I'd like to be there at Rains to see if more than 47 people show up to watch the game.

OxyBob

Bob, I can promise you there will be more than 47 people at the game tonight between cms and pomona. I can promise you that this will be a game to remember. You should probably take the night off watching your beloved tigers play, and come out and watch a great game with an awesome atmosphere. For those who have never been to one of these games, try to make your way out to one before you die. The intensity can be cut with a knife, and the students are louder than ever. Who would have thought students who have the same classes with each other, and probably party together could hate each other so much in one night. Enough said, GO STAGS!!!!!!!

I am with the Stag.  The atmosphere at the game tonight will fantastic.  It is as good a rivalry as there is in D3.  I went to the game in 2003 when PP was finishing 6th in SCIAC, and it was still as intense a game as I have ever been to.  It doesn't matter if the teams are fighting for 1st or 7th.  Isnt that what a rivalry is about?

Also, Oxybob, I am going to guess that there were more than 47 people at the PP-CLU game saturday night.

http://www.pomona.edu/Welcome/Trek/47trek.shtml
http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/pcmfl00/1.shtml

I am guessing it the PP SIDs idea of a inside joke. 

Excellent.  Your first +k is from me.

Keep posting.

[Pat Coleman]

I am guessing it the PP SIDs idea of a inside joke. 

Kinda like taking an hour to post the score.