Student Section names & activities

[smedindy]

At Wabash, they're known as the Chadwick Crazies, and sometimes they are just that. I don't know if anyone has worn a bathrobe to games since Smitka graduated.

[sac]

The rest of the MIAA

Adrian---Dawg Pound  (not very organiazed, but organized enough to have tshirts)

Alma---empty bleachers

Albion---Kresge Krazies, named after Kresge Gymnasium, their numbers come and go with the success of the team, and have been toned down in recent years.  Not sure they technically exist anymore.

Calvin--At one time called the Knight Court, they've always had really good student attendance, just not much organization, rumors that this year they will be known as the Knightmares.

Kalamazoo--Many years ago were known proudly as the Stingers, but have not been organized now for several seasons, also toned down much like Albion

Olivet--not much student attendance beyond friends

Tri-State---they have one, just can't recall the name.

[frank uible]

At one time in the 80s the WashU student rooters were called the Bomb Squad.

[ILive4This]

From my understanding that group still exists in small numbers. I have been told by some of our players that they have a small group that always dress in camo and carry fake bazooka's and other crazy things like that. I assume they are the current version of the bomb squad

[golden_dome]

This might not  have anything to do with student sections, but two years ago Maryville played at Mississippi College in the NCAA Tournament. Six or seven Maryville students showed up wearing crazy outfits. I can't remember them all, but I remember one was dressed up as a penguin and another was a toilet. One of the funniest things I have ever seen.

Mississippi College has the Choctaw Crazies who wear gold t-shirts. Usually not that organized until later in the year when we have the ASC or NCAA Tournament games and a bunch of them come to the games painted up. There's a picture of some of them at the top of our basketball webpage http://www.gochoctaws.com/index.asp?path=mbball

[OC_SID]

The rest of the MIAA

Adrian---Dawg Pound  (not very organiazed, but organized enough to have tshirts)

Alma---empty bleachers

Albion---Kresge Krazies, named after Kresge Gymnasium, their numbers come and go with the success of the team, and have been toned down in recent years.  Not sure they technically exist anymore.

Calvin--At one time called the Knight Court, they've always had really good student attendance, just not much organization, rumors that this year they will be known as the Knightmares.

Kalamazoo--Many years ago were known proudly as the Stingers, but have not been organized now for several seasons, also toned down much like Albion

Olivet--not much student attendance beyond friends

Tri-State---they have one, just can't recall the name.

I have a T-shirt in my closet when we tried to organize a student section with "O-Zone" across the front. I remember having an "O-Zone" contingent of student fans at a few football and basketball games.

[John Gleich]

Quandt Qwazies- UW-Stevens Point...named after the home gym.  It's fun to say although it sounds like a Daffy Duck impression.

I remember that Tshirt from a few years ago too... but the current UWSP student section calls themself the Purple Haze.

[gatoradio]

Potsdam State has a student section called the "Maxcy Maniacs".
Maxcy was a former instructor/A.D. at Potsdam for whom the athletic complex was named.

Of course, the basketball gymnasium is named after the immortal Jerry Welsh, who coached the Bears to 2 National Titles in Basketball in '81 and '85, and fell just one game short of making it back-to-back in '86.  I believe that he still holds the D3 record for consecutive victories - 60 - including a perfect season of 32-0, which is also a D3 record (most wins in a season).

[Gregory Sager]

Of course, the basketball gymnasium is named after the immortal Jerry Welsh, who coached the Bears to 2 National Titles in Basketball in '81 and '85, and fell just one game short of making it back-to-back in '86.

He actually coached them to titles in '81 and '86 -- and the championship game you're thinking of in which he fell short happened in '85 (North Park beat Potsdam State in the national championship game that year). Welsh also led his team to the national championship game and fell short on two other occasions: 1979 (in which his Bears were beaten by, again, North Park) and 1982 (in which his Bears lost to Wabash).

[Just Bill]

Quandt Qwazies- UW-Stevens Point...named after the home gym.  It's fun to say although it sounds like a Daffy Duck impression.

I remember that Tshirt from a few years ago too... but the current UWSP student section calls themself the Purple Haze.

That's disthpicable!!

Any purple school could have the Purple Haze.  Only UWSP could have the Quandt Qwazies.

[Cards7580]

Plattsburgh's baseball team has been sitting together in one section for the past couple of games.

I annoint them the "foul balls"  or the "fowl balls"  (Plattsburgh's mascot is a Cardinal).   

The other group of crazies that paint their chests (and backs), are un-nameable 

[quaj]

Bomb squad still exists at Wash. U. and they don't carry bazookas. They do carry a missile with their frat's name on it. Lots of guys dressed in camo and boy do they add spirit to Wash. U. games.

There's also the student organization called Red Alert which passes out free T-shirts and helps with the publicity.

[HSUPosse]

Just caught this topic...

Back when I was at Hardin-Simmons (99-04) we had a group of students known as HSU Posse (after the school mascot Cowboys).  We would dress in overalls, white tank tops, and cowboy hats.  I don't know they're around anymore.

[WLCALUM83]

WLC has a student section called the "Sixth Man" --first time I saw and heard it in person was during the last LMC Tournament Championship game in the 2005-06 hoops season-when WLC knocked off Edgewood at home to get to the NCAA tournament. Whenever a 3-pointer or a dunk takes place, that section goes nuts!

[TigerDad]

Trinity (TX) has a student section ... they're all at the library or in their dorm rooms hitting the books.  I doubt that many of the know or care that TU has a football team ... unless the school organizes their annual "free food on the grass" outside the stadium.  THEN a few of them wander into the stadium to see what's the fuss.