How about the social aspect, Alan? It's still great fun to connect with fans in Cleveland. For example, I got to meet D.A. last night. And I was all primed to buy you that beer I've owed you for 10 years.

OK this is one of the more head scratching threads I have read in a while. Let me get this straight, thousands of Bobcat fans probably drove hours to get to the game, cheered as best they could (under the circumstances) and they are being called out because they didn't cheer loud enough? The problem was on the hardwood, not in the stands.

I wish it were like the mid 1980s and people went to games more often, but there are more entertainment options than there were in the mid 1980s. In addition, as we discussed ad nauseam before, fewer people are into sports for sports sake, they are probably into it for the socialization factor. Also, we don't have the metropolitan area like a Dayton who has a pretty rabid fan base. I understand frustration, believe me I was frustrated for most of the game and the three hour drive home. However, let's not direct it at the most supportive fan base in the MAC!

You don't even need to watch it on TV. Just read about it in the paper the next morning.

That'll teach me to drive 22 hours round trip for the privilege of rooting on the Cats!

Well apparently I am one of those douchebag fans, since I was sitting in the middle of those douchebag donors that get the BS treatment for seating. I guess my "standing for defense" went unnoticed, as well as that of others seated around me including Rod, who was up a ton during the game with many others around him/me. Now that I know that I am being judged for my performance in the stands I'll have to step my game up. Thank god I didn't wear my Bubba Walther jersey or otherwise I would have gotten doubly berated!

I happened to be sitting in the middle of the blue hairs, but in my vicinity were also other less seasoned alumni, plus parents of the team directly across the aisle, many Athletic Department staff and plenty more folks that, had the outcome been more in question would have been on their feet for 40 minutes. But if you were too blind to see that the outcome was pretty much in Beefs favor late in the first, then pass me that packed blunt you're smokin'. No amount of "Oh you, of yeah" would have turned the tides on Friday night.

But in all seriousness, a few in my general vicinity were 70+ and you could not depend on them to "stand for defense", but for chrissake, where do you want those people to be seated? So far from the court that they can't see what is going on, or worse yet put them in a suite where they would be relegated to watching on TV?

No offense, but if an OHIO graduate that has been an active donor until their dying days wants to go to a game, there is one place I would love for them to sit: wherever they damn well please, because they have earned it!

Now get off my lawn!

That gave me a laugh Monroe. In retrospect, it would have been more appropriate to replace "embarrassed" with "disappointed" in my initial post. My opinion remains the same more or less that OUr fans were pretty darn quiet when the boys needed their energy. What's perplexing (also in retrospect) is that two weeks earlier at home in The Convo versus UB, our fans really, really responded in a big game. Water under the bridge at this point.