Or is this on changing the things once the students get there

Some of my quick thoughts that I think should be on the table:

• The hullabaloo band either needs a complete refresh or they should get rid of it. Right now it absolutely kills the vibe any time they start playing.
• The yell leaders need to think outside the box on either new basketball-specific yells, or ways to turn some of our traditional yells into basketball chants. I know a lot of people think we should get rid of the yell leaders, but I'm exactly the opposite, they're a perfect organization tool, we just need to ditch traditional yells for the most part (though a well-timed BTHO and bus driver still works)
• Maybe some chants or something that play the two student sections off of each other. Our best bet for this would be turning "Farmer's fight" into a back-and-forth yell but that's probably too similar to "Texas Fight"
• Situational yells: I love the idea of something like this: When we make a three, the student section immediately goes into yelling "ball" or whatever until the pass is inbounded, once they inbound the ball, the students start counting down from ten (ideally too fast or too slow but this might be hard to coordinate), and then if we turn them over and score you start it right back up. This could get absolutely wild those times that we get a few backcourt turnovers in a row.
• We need to bring back some of the old free throw distractions. One that used to work fairly often that I don't remember seeing in a while is the student section sitting down and then jumping up and yelling right before the free throw.

I also like the idea of basically inviting families and former students into the student section for the conference games that happen during the holiday break. Say family side is the south side and "Former rowdies" or whatever is the north side. We know the students aren't going to fill the section for those games.

This year that's for sure the Auburn game on the 2nd, the Arkansas game on the 12th and maybe also the LSU game on the 16th

I said it before, but even just bringing back some of the old chant type things we used to do when on offfense would be good. They're simple, but they keep people engaged and provide crowd interaction rather than just quietly watching us run our offense. Defensively I think the idea of the quick count and some other style of play related chants would be good, but can't say I have any ideas off the top of my head.

The FT distractions need a revamp too. They take too long right now to decide what to do and coordinate, where I swear a lot of the time the shooter already has the ball before the crowd even knows what is going on. We should have like 3 go to options, have quick and easy had signs for them (even easier than a traditional pass back) and just rotate them so generally everyone knows which one is getting used the next time someone gets fouled. Everyone knows the saw'em off, use that. Keep the silence and then jump scare, but get the timing right. Ditch the "brick, brick, brick."

I would also totally understand if they didn't want to, but I'd probably split the Rowdies up a bit. I think it would be useful to have a group of them on both ends to educate students who attend less, but also lead some of the easier stuff or general heckling. I think it was against OSU back in the day where everyone did the sirens when a player got the ball after he'd been arrested, but stuff like that could be more easily researched and led by the Rowdies rather than the yell leaders.

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BQ_90 said:

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What did Volleyball do, they seem to have pretty good student crowd without having to come up with gimmicks to get them there?

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They won a national championship

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they had good student attendance before the natty

one change VB made, was they moved the students into one solid block.

They're not doing that for MBB, that displaces many large donors seats

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.....add a DJ

Blues Brothers

Somehow incorporate part of the "Under Pressure" song by Bowie /Queen into the full court press theme . Fans need to buy into and exacerbate the full court press style. . It's definitely a key feature of Buckyball. Make it Texas A & M's calling card for home games

bobinator said:

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I also like the idea of basically inviting families and former students into the student section for the conference games that happen during the holiday break. Say family side is the south side and "Former rowdies" or whatever is the north side. We know the students aren't going to fill the section for those games.

This year that's for sure the Auburn game on the 2nd, the Arkansas game on the 12th and maybe also the LSU game on the 16th

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I completely agree with this! We live in town and really enjoy going to the break games when we don't have school. Getting people closer to the court and out of the 2nd level would be very helpful!

I also wish they would do seat fill-in like they do for baseball. Let people move down in the 2nd half. They can give the disclaimer that seat holders have priority, which seems to work well for baseball.

BQ_90 said:

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Frisbee Dogs

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Back in the G Rollie days they would toss a frisbee to Rev who would retrieve it (if not outright catch it) during halftimes of basketball games.

Then one game against UH she took a dump at midcourt.

I like the idea of yelling "ball" on the inbounds.

Maybe we count fouls like baseball does with balls? Then in the bonus we just keep chanting "bonus! Bonus!"

Idk. The planned stuff is never as good as the stuff that just grows organically

Yes and no, I think anything complicated you need to work on. Like the watermelon yell for Rick Barnes wouldn't have happened without the yell leaders and some coordination. I think if we're going to come up with some kind of semi-complicated backcourt idea that it needs to be pretty well thought out and then taught to people.

But there definitely needs to be some space for some good ol' fashioned trash-talking chants to spring up game to game.

bobinator said:

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Yes and no, I think anything complicated you need to work on. Like the watermelon yell for Rick Barnes wouldn't have happened without the yell leaders and some coordination. I think if we're going to come up with some kind of semi-complicated backcourt idea that it needs to be pretty well thought out and then taught to people.

But there definitely needs to be some space for some good ol' fashioned trash-talking chants to spring up game to game.

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It would be awesome if we could recreate that Serbian basketball atmosphere. I don't know what they're chanting but it would be for sure intimidating

I would love to see some wild free throw distraction ideas. Just go nuts and see what works. The key for a good free throw distraction is that you gotta try some really stupid ideas to find what works.

But the whole idea is just to throw the shooter off. It doesn't have to be loud. Like the guys in speedos or the "curtain of distraction" the whole idea is just to do something weird an unusual.

One I thought of a long time ago is what I call "The celebrity." It only works on the north end of the arena where there's a tunnel back to the concession stand, but right as the teams are lining up for free throws you have a random student walk out and then the entire student section acts like the world's most famous person just walked out. Pulling out phones, snapping pictures, screaming and pointing, people fainting in the aisles like it's Elvis, the whole thing. Maybe they pose with the yell leaders right behind the basket during the free throw. You know the shooter would be like "what the f...."

bobinator said:

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I would love to see some wild free throw distraction ideas. Just go nuts and see what works. The key for a good free throw distraction is that you gotta try some really stupid ideas to find what works.

But the whole idea is just to throw the shooter off. It doesn't have to be loud. Like the guys in speedos or the "curtain of distraction" the whole idea is just to do something weird an unusual.

One I thought of a long time ago is what I call "The celebrity." It only works on the north end of the arena where there's a tunnel back to the concession stand, but right as the teams are lining up for free throws you have a random student walk out and then the entire student section acts like the world's most famous person just walked out. Pulling out phones, snapping pictures, screaming and pointing, people fainting in the aisles like it's Elvis, the whole thing. Maybe they pose with the yell leaders right behind the basket during the free throw. You know the shooter would be like "what the f...."

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you can always do that chant where the fans countdown the number of seconds they have to attempt the free throw. Kind of like what they do to Giannis when he takes a free throw.

too rhythmic. Might work if you randomly stopped counting on a certain number and just went dead quiet.

TheDecadeSapling said:

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I like the idea of yelling "ball" on the inbounds.

Maybe we count fouls like baseball does with balls? Then in the bonus we just keep chanting "bonus! Bonus!"

Idk. The planned stuff is never as good as the stuff that just grows organically

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True, but you do need some gimme's to get the crowd going.

I do think we should incorporate some chant where the fans get louder with every consecutive turnover caused by our defense. Make it so that they know they messed up... say something like, "Stupid, stupid, stupid".

bobinator said:

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too rhythmic. Might work if you randomly stopped counting on a certain number and just went dead quiet.

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or start screaming on a certain number.

GrayMatter said:

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bobinator said:

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too rhythmic. Might work if you randomly stopped counting on a certain number and just went dead quiet.

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or start screaming on a certain number.

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Maybe we all moon the shooter. What's the Guinness world record for most people mooning at the same time? He would never forget it. That's for sure

Yeah now you're talking.

It's pretty easy for shooters to tune out anything with a set rhythm or volume. It's why the just general yelling and waving doesn't work. But it can work if you do something weird or strangely timed.

Reed also isn't set up for well for distractions that overly rely on visuals. On one side of the arena the student section isn't even in the shooter's line of sight when they're taking a free throw and on the other end the area that is in their line of sight is either the top of the bottom student section or the top student section.

If its a low percentage free throw shooter prep the crowd with what that percentage is and yell together with the %, taking off points if they miss.

Or have some research where they tend to miss (back iron etc) and shout that at them while they are getting ready to shoot.


I have always thought the yell leaders could get the students at football games to chant either wide right or wide left base on an opposing kickers tendency.

It's impossible with the current configuration (legacy seats), but we really, really need to combine the student section in a single location.

halfastros81 said:

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Somehow incorporate part of the "Under Pressure" song by Bowie /Queen into the full court press theme . Fans need to buy into and exacerbate the full court press style. . It's definitely a key feature of Buckyball. Make it Texas A & M's calling card for home games

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Jump to conclusions mat bad

How about instead of acting like it's third and six we chant defense defense on big possessions

I don't think I agree with this. I do think there's some value in having some students on the side of the court, but I actually like the split student section. The opponent is shooting into the students in both halves.

bobinator said:

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I don't think I agree with this. I do think there's some value in having some students on the side of the court, but I actually like the split student section. The opponent is shooting into the students in both halves.

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surely that helps make opponents shoot worse

With AI being what it is how about posters of the shooter's girlfriend posing with members of the A&M team? Is that in the Reed Rowdies budget?

I think we should boo bad calls.