Re: UNO @ tUMD: This series will be a Blais!
mark that on your calender LOL
and the problem with the snootiness as it pertains to UNO hockey is that people don't have a clue here as to what a game day experience should be like. Alumni should be screaming at the top of their lungs over the lack of a pep band. This crap of singing we are the UNO Mavericks to the tune of We're not gonna take it is embarrassing. I'm dumb founded over the lack of anyone associated with the school making the UNO fight song public knowledge. That alone is a travesty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUuK4SSDV7A Redcow if you are a member in good standing at mavpuck maybe you could post something over there about it. Perhaps someone could print off the words and hand out fliers to the student section so they can start a new tradition of actually singing the school fight song at the games. One thing I miss about the Civic is the intimidating atmosphere.
Another thing that is quite disturbing is the dirty looks I used to get when I used to ring my cowbell. It's not a golf tournament it's a hockey game.
I agree with most of this, too.
Having been to other school's games, the game day atmosphere at UNO hockey games, by comparison, is VERY VERY poor. At one time it wasn't too bad. Over the past 3 seasons is has gotten absolutely awful and had turned into a sad parody of itself in its repetitiveness.
Cheerleaders that don't skate and are barely even in evidence. No band. Now, no organist, either, although the one we did have was awful. A student section that barely qualifies as such for most games. Poor music (barely audible) being played at the arena and the disappearance of the music that
was well liked and received. Bad concessions that got even worse
this season (and higher priced, yet). I used to see Trev Alberts in the concourse of every game. Now? Rarely. Don't even get me started on Lester St. James (a complete disgrace to the program), who is a slovenly cretin that knows absolutely nothing about hockey other than ridiculous cliche's that do nothing but showcase just how little he does know. To say nothing of the sheer amount of people at a game that bring ten zillion kids who are doing anything but watching the actual game and the amount of people that are there that see the game as some sort of social event to sit and chat and occasionally cast a glance at the ice while talking on their phones or staring at them endlessly. I've been to games all over the CCHA and WCHA and I have never seen a bigger kid quotient than there is at UNO games. It isn't even close.
I could rant all day about the "things" Jeff is talking about. Obviously, he sees a lot of things I do, too. And THIS is supposed to be the school's "signature" and revenue producing sport (read: cash cow).
One thing that may prove to be a
benefit with a 7,399 seat arena is that it will weed out a ton of the kids and the casual fans, methinks. Between price and availability, maybe actual fans is all that will get into that building.
I don't have an account at Mavpuck. I did try at one point about 3 years ago and haven't pursued it since. They were unresponsive. To say that a lot of the fans and posters aren't real knowledgeable over there is an understatement (some are, though). These are "truer" hockey fans over here.
I know the fight song. I get to sing it with the team in the lobby of the Clink after every win!
