is absolutely insane. I had never been before and I've never heard a crowd get so loud. Their cheers were totally in sync and pretty witty. Anyone who says its overrated is out of their mind. If anything, it was more than I expected. What a group of fans!!!

oh, and I got two tix... for absolutely free, 3 rows from the court.... that probably made it that much better.

ok that's all... i'm out.

1/18/2006 11:13:12 PM

you should have introduced me to brackman

i went home and cried that night

1/18/2006 11:14:47 PM

I thought you two were best friends.. hung out all the time hehe.

1/18/2006 11:21:53 PM

never heard of it

1/18/2006 11:22:27 PM

tell brackman he sucked balls and to try to actually make the open 3 when he gets it

1/18/2006 11:22:38 PM

you never went to reynolds

/thread

1/18/2006 11:23:39 PM

Yeah i was there tonight too and i have been to over 50 games there before. Tonight was definitely really loud and ranks up there with some of the more memorable games i have been to. Still not as loud as it was for the unc game last year. That was just wow.

1/18/2006 11:23:42 PM

did the Crazies make any cracks on Gavin tonight? i didn't hear them heckling him through the tv, but what you see on tv is usually only a quarter of what's really going on in the building.

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1/18/2006 11:24:58 PM

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"I thought you two were best friends.. hung out all the time hehe."

a guy can dream

1/18/2006 11:25:02 PM

^^I didnt hear anything.

1/18/2006 11:25:56 PM

no cracks on gavin

but they were chanting to the refs "watch Simmons hook"

1/18/2006 11:25:56 PM

i was just completely ammused by all of their little chants:

"this is our house"
"pay your rent"
"if you cant go to college, go to state"
"big high school"
"start your tractors"

i have to say alot of them just made me giggle. But I was kinda lost.. why do they say "hi [insert player's name]" when they call out our starting line up? and what's with the weird sound they make.. i cant even describe it. either way it was alot of fun. Oh, and I have been to 1 game at reynolds... didnt compare darlin.

but of course that doesnt change the fact that i love the pack!

[Edited on January 18, 2006 at 11:30 PM. Reason : .]

1/18/2006 11:29:35 PM

i couldnt go there

id punch one of those arrogant cocksuckers

1/18/2006 11:30:36 PM

^^Well they say hi and whatever the name is and sometimes they yell, you suck afterward. Depends on the opponent.

1/18/2006 11:32:12 PM

I don't give a damn about cameron i'd rather go to NC State than go to duke with a bunch of yankees, foreigners, and zit faced nerds...i swear looking at their student section not one person in that crowd has ever seen a girl naked

1/18/2006 11:33:21 PM

god damn the yankees, foreigners, and zit faced nerds!

1/18/2006 11:33:54 PM

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"i couldnt go there id punch one of those arrogant cocksuckers"

Fucking Asian douchebags most of em. Either that or Yankee pricks.

1/18/2006 11:34:01 PM

yeah, i laugh when people insult my intelligence by saying my college is like a high school, too

and no, seeing state play UNCA at Reynolds isnt the same as seeing them play an ACC team there

1/18/2006 11:34:10 PM

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"Their cheers were totally in sync and pretty witty"

they're caricatures of themselves and haven't been "witty" in years

1/18/2006 11:34:29 PM

osama bin laden went to duke

1/18/2006 11:34:58 PM

I must agree. Cameron Indoor is crazy. I went to a game last year and stood front row student section. the weird sound they make... i think is the lee melchionni chant, where they yell, "lee, lee, lee" and move their arms up.

1/18/2006 11:35:50 PM

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"they're caricatures of themselves and haven't been "witty" in years"

ding ding ding, my dad is a big duke fan and talks shit to me every time duke plays state. but he even agrees that the "crazies" are a bunch of douchebags these days

1/18/2006 11:35:54 PM

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"i swear looking at their student section not one person in that crowd has ever seen a girl naked"

LOL of course they do when they secretly watch p0rn and beat off at night.

1/18/2006 11:36:08 PM

My first trip to Cameron as well, very loud, all the time. Students were there (clogging up the bathroom putting on face paint) 45 minutes before tip and 99% of them were there 30 minutes before the game. No green cards or any mess like that that I saw. None of their fans seemed to be knowledgeable about basketball, I heard some head scratching comments from their students. Duhon's little brother is a lot bigger (obviously) than when Duhon was there, prolly going to be playing for Duke if he's any good. Coach K and JJ are God there, no two ways about it. Our admiration for Rivers his last year doesn't hold a candle. In fact, K could probobly urinate at center court and students would run to lick it up. GG had a few turnovers as usual, but he looked very comfortable out there in the midst of it. Atsur seemed to have a few breakdowns, and Cam was off and on. Don't know if noise had anything to do with any of the above scenarios, but I would venture to say Atsur looked the least comfortable.

1/18/2006 11:36:24 PM

They def. arent as good as they were in the late 80s early 90s. Those were the most fun games to go to. The chants then actually made me laugh. The big high school chant is just stupid.

1/18/2006 11:37:34 PM

^ yea, what is the "highschoo"l chant thing, I couldn't hear it clearly....

1/18/2006 11:38:30 PM

yeah, when i was younger i used to love duke. once i got to state, it took me almost a whole season to pull against duke. i remember the first time i ever really pulled against duke was in the 97 acc tournament when we won the play in game then beat duke (#1 seed). and eventually lost to carolina in the final

but now i see them for what they are. just a bunch of arrogant douchebags that dont know shit about basketball... bunch of pussies that whine when they dont get their way.

god i fucking hate duke

1/18/2006 11:41:37 PM

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"Coach K and JJ are God there"

thats interesting, because i've heard that a lot of students don't really care for K.

1/18/2006 11:42:03 PM

^^ Word up man

[Edited on January 18, 2006 at 11:42 PM. Reason : ^]

1/18/2006 11:42:19 PM

Duke fans seem to have more respect and appreciation of their success than those students over at Orange County Teacher's College... I've been to the last two Duke games at Cameron and have pulled for Maryland and State in both... the fans were respectful and the atmosphere is unparalleled. I can't say the same for UNC. At Duke it feels like you are in some kind of time warp to 1950's Ra-Ra days...

And that weird sound is the students going Whooooop Whooooop louder and then soft

1/18/2006 11:42:22 PM

a friend of mine who's dad went to State back in the hey day, said that Reynolds could get so loud that if a Nuclear Bomb went off outside none of the fans inside would have heard it. that's just one of the many stories i've heard about the decibel level in Reynolds. i know that during a game at the RBC Center last year i saw the decibel meter sustained at 118 dB and jumped to 121 dB at one point.

1/18/2006 11:44:45 PM

the easy part about changing from a duke fan to a state fan is you still get to hate carolina

ha ha

[Edited on January 18, 2006 at 11:46 PM. Reason : message_topic.aspx?topic=380553&page=1]

1/18/2006 11:45:18 PM

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"Oh, and I have been to 1 game at reynolds... didnt compare darlin."

when?

1/18/2006 11:46:57 PM

haha i was a carolina fan until i got here but i just think i wasnt a true fan cuz i dont like carolina at all now

1/18/2006 11:47:00 PM

I couldnt hear myself think after 3 games in my career at State

1) Duke in 04

2) Wake in 04(cause of the huge comeback)

3) VT game this fall in football.

I cant even imagine how lout Reynolds could get. It gets loud as fuck when someone makes a basket in the annual game there, but there isnt any sustained noise anymore like in the 3 games I mentioned. If I saw a real game there, I cant imagine it being quieter than Cameron...ever...and I've been to cameron. RBC got louder for those two games. It aint shit...just small and hot...and cool because of the student section being so close.

1/18/2006 11:48:54 PM

everyone knows that reynolds was and always will be better, louder and more intimidating then cameron.

1/18/2006 11:50:32 PM

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"In fact, K could probobly urinate at center court and students would run to lick it up."

lol of course they would...satan i mean coach K has em all brainwashed

1/18/2006 11:51:25 PM

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"is absolutely insane. I had never been before and I've never heard a crowd get so loud. Their cheers were totally in sync and pretty witty. Anyone who says its overrated is out of their mind. If anything, it was more than I expected. What a group of fans!!!"

GG, Benedict.



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1/19/2006 12:03:13 AM

^^^ I went to a lot of reynolds games when i was little... probably 8 a year with my dad who had season tickets from 1993-whenever we left.

When we played a top-ranked team, win or lose, it was the most nuts I've ever heard a place. and these were the les robinson years. the only thing I've ever seen come close isn't the RBC, but RFK stadium when the skins played the cowboys, or this year's skins-cowboys game at fedex... but that's hard to compare.

the state-wake game last year was the loudest the RBC had been since that huge win over the terrence morris terps team on a game-winning gainey shot... and neither of those games were anywhere CLOSE to a normal ACC game in reynolds. place was AWESOME.

1/19/2006 12:06:52 AM

I think the Duke game in '04 was about the same, but we were nervous down the stretch since they wouldn't go away.

1/19/2006 12:15:37 AM

Duke game '04 was insane in terms of noise level. About halfway through the first half I realized that I had lost the hearing in my right ear, took it a few days to get back up to speed.

1/19/2006 12:24:41 AM

19-point comeback against Wake.

Marcus Melvin hits a three to complete the run.

That's the loudest I've heard the RBC on a basketball night.

1/19/2006 12:48:17 AM

i recently acquired a decibel meter this past fall. you think the RBC Center staff would let me bring it in. i could report back the loudest moment of each game. keep a little record like.

1/19/2006 12:51:42 AM

How big is it?

1/19/2006 12:52:16 AM

it's a hand held one about the size of a camera.

1/19/2006 12:53:38 AM

they're caricatures of themselves and haven't been "witty" in years

1/19/2006 1:05:02 AM

Plus, there's nothing intimidating about the chants they still do. Loud? Sure. Intimidating? No.

1/19/2006 1:09:10 AM

I went. Had a great time. Pack looked amazing and poised.... can't do much about a six point play... that was nasty.

Duke fans are so much nicer than UNC fans.

[Edited on January 19, 2006 at 1:13 AM. Reason : .]

1/19/2006 1:12:53 AM

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"But I was kinda lost.. why do they say "hi [insert player's name]" when they call out our starting line up?"

They used to say, "Hi ________, you suck!" (fill in the blank with whatever name you choose). But the administration and coaching staff, many years ago, asked that the crowd act a little more reasonable and whatnot. The students then turned a bit smartass and just left off the "you suck!" and that's the way it's been ever since. This is also why the students don't make some of the lowclass chants that they have in the past (including throwing panties on the court at a player who was arressted for rape or chanting "Inhale, Exhale" at a player that suffered a collapsed lung). As someone mentioned earlier, in the '80's the Crazies were much rowdier.

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"and what's with the weird sound they make.. i cant even describe it."

Could be a number of different things. It could be the "move" they do when Lee makes a basket, where they say "Lee, Lee, Lee" and then act as if they're all skiing. Or it could be any number of things they do when an opposing player is at the free throw line.

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"they're caricatures of themselves and haven't been "witty" in years"

Agreed. As noted earlier, they're sorta limited in some of the things they can say these days. Some of the more wittier chants back in the day were far more classless, but much funnier. The chants these days reflect as much.


Also, at the end of the game, they chanted "Drive home safely..."

1/19/2006 1:27:14 AM

set em up

1/19/2006 1:30:30 AM