Use Facebook if you can. I would've done the same during my tenure (03-04 through 07-08), but I grew tired of Facebook as soon as I had joined, so I was never bothered enough to rejoin just for the Creatures. But, like you said, its unlikely to ever work. I've found that when you try to confront students with the truth online, they just get uber-defensive about it. Especially the football fans. Good Lord, how they love to defend their right to show up for half the game and not give a crap about it while they're there.
But really, here's the sad truth: The egregious stupidity that is the Football Student Section has been slowly taking over the Kohl Center since the 2006-07 season. The only thing you can do is to do your own creative cheers and pray that you're surrounded by the kinds of kids who will cheer along with you instead of thinking that you're doing it for attention*. It sucks, but you can't force people to not be stupid. You're stuck with what you get. Hockey Guy Pete used to just get really ****y and try to shush people who did things he didn't like. No matter how in the right he was, it always just came off making him look kind of like a tool, so a lot of people would just ignore him.
It's a tragedy, being a clever hockey fan at UW. You're just stuck wishing it was 2005-06 all over again. And when you graduate, trust me, you'll find yourself just wishing you could go back to the student section. You won't find that same enthusiasm, passion, and desire to cheer along anywhere you go. Ok, maybe at an MLS team, but then you'll be surrounded by posers with fake English accents.
When you do try to go back to sections 113-117 after graduating, you just feel like a bum who can't move on- like those people who kept showing up at their high school after they graduated, so they could talk with their old teachers. Or you feel like Hockey Guy Pete. (Although I gotta give mad respect to Hockey Guy Pete... he's the same kind of fan that I am.) Either way you slice it: going back just is never the same as it was two years ago, or three years ago, or five years ago. It's really soul crushing. Literally, every time I go to a sporting event, I just think about how tired and lame it is compared to my Crease Creature hey day. Even when I finally got to go to Lambeau. Isn't that just sad?
*(By the way, I'm not kidding, I tried to do my "If you want a sausage fest, go to Tech" song once and just got looks from people as if I was just entertaining them instead of trying to get a chant going)
