Ryan Center In-Game Experience - Issues and Upgrades

[Taylor Swift]

I suggested a new chant. Something longer than rhody rhody rhody. A long song or chant keeps the crowd involved more

I think that's a great suggestion. The cheerleaders also do not do the fight song anymore, which obviously means the students don't do the fight song anymore either. I could be losing my mind, but I swear when I was a student ('02-'06), the cheerleaders would come out on the court during timeouts and actually lead a cheer of the fight song?

Rhody, rhody, rhody is just too short, and the only thing currently used.

[gorhody89]

I posted this awhile ago...its from the US soccer team, just replace USA with URI

[gorhody89]

Or even replace USA with Rhode Island...anything 3 syllables works

[SmartyBarrett]

Twitter is now more popular then facebook. They tweet alot. https://twitter.com/RhodyRuckus and their twitter has almost 1100 followers.

Ask and you shall receive. They've linked their FB and Twitter accounts so the same content now shows up on both.

[rodfromcranston]

I was watching a game at Utah State.
Those people do these long chants, and songs
thoughout the game.
Watch the entire MSU crowd doing the Daniel Bryan ,YES! YES! YES! chant.
Any game from south of the Mason Dixon line has active
student and crowd participation.
How about less giveaways and more things to do with the games themselves,
like getting the crowd involved in cheering.
And what was with throwing things into the stands, while our guy was shooting free throws?
Couldn't believe that!

[Rhodymob05]

Using the USA chant, although unoriginal, would be awesome. Simple yet profound

[SmartyBarrett]

I was watching a game at Utah State.
Those people do these long chants, and songs
thoughout the game.

Same here. Watched the San Diego State / Utah State game this past Saturday and some of the chants blew me away. When a guy stepped to the line for two free throws the entire place chanted "You will miss it!" You could hear it crystal clear on TV. After he missed the first, a "We were right!" chant erupted. It was awesome.

Another awesome chant - I believe it was the Michigan / Michigan St game - was when a pretty boy white guy stepped to the line and chants of "Jus-tin Bei-ber!" exploded.

[gorhody89]

Using the USA chant, although unoriginal, would be awesome. Simple yet profound

I'm pretty sure that chant originally came from the Columbus Crew MLS team...most chants are copied or influenced by something already in existence....I've always thought that chant would be awesome at a URI game

[rodfromcranston]

Smarty, I remember our crowd killing a Bonnie's player,
who was about 5'3".
Every time he touched the ball, the chant of
"OOOMPA LOOMPA!" would start.

[adam914]

We need to model ourselves after San Diego State. State school, similar in size for enrollment and arena (theres is a little bigger, but not so much that it would be a huge difference in noise level), similar conferences. Their student section is outstanding.

[gorhody89]

San Diego State's student section dressed up as Mormons when they played BYU...pretty hysterical

[Rhody4012016]

Last year they created events on facebook to spread the word of the game and had some of the chants for us to use pregame. If they had flyers to give out for chants it would help. My favorite was you cant do that. The cameron crazies yell at opposing players and tells them to sit when they miss a free throw.

[gorhody89]

I cant stand the "you can't do that"...sounds painfully cheesy every time I hear it

[ATPTourFan]

Oldy but Goodie....

Lets go Rhody! CLAP CLAP... CLAP CLAP CLAP
[REPEAT]

When other team has ball, obviously they should default to :
DE-FENSE CLAP CLAP, DE-FENSE.CLAP CLAP.. etc (at a deliberate pace accompanied by foot stomping)

Then when shot clock approaches 10 seconds, be default you can switch to the "OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH" drone as you hear commonly from Cameron Crazies.

Amazingly, the original Ryan Center "fanatical fans" in section 104 did all of these from the USC game onward until around when they were renamed/reorganized as The Mob.

[Rhody4012016]

I cant remember what game it was last year but we all sat and read the newspaper while the other team was being introduced. Then went crazy when URIs line up came.

[twisted3829]

chants should follow the KISS method, found this worked the best when running the mob

[SmartyBarrett]

Smarty, I remember our crowd killing a Bonnie's player,
who was about 5'3".
Every time he touched the ball, the chant of
"OOOMPA LOOMPA!" would start.

Reminds me of the "GA-RY COLE-MAN!" chants directed towards Karl Hobbs.

[adam914]

Oh man those Hobbs ones were the best.

[rodfromcranston]

I'm just curious as to how Mormans dress differently than
anyone else? I mean, besides the secret underwear.

[Rhode_Island_Red]

Mrs. Red, a Michigan State alumna, took me to the Rose Bowl. State's primary cheer is really simple: One section yells, "Go Green!" and the other yells, "Go White!" It was especially cool when coming from opposite sides of the parade route.


BTW, I also took some extra satisfaction in State's beating Stanford. Arthur Lee is still a punk, no matter how many times he apologized.

[gorhody89]

I'm just curious as to how Mormans dress differently than
anyone else? I mean, besides the secret underwear.

http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2011/02/de ... w-goes-on/

[Rhody4012016]

Similar to Mississippi States Maroon and White chant.

[Rhody4012016]

The URI cheerleaders are talking with ruckus to get cheers started.

[gorhody89]

The URI cheerleaders are talking with ruckus to get cheers started.

please not the "R H O D Y rhody go rhody"

[Rhody4012016]

I said try a blue white or keaney white chant. The cheerleaders said they would get signs and hold them up.

[steviep123]

I cant remember what game it was last year but we all sat and read the newspaper while the other team was being introduced. Then went crazy when URIs line up came.

I remember doing that back in the 80s. Everyone had a "Cigar" and held it up while the opponents were announced (can't remember the opponent), and then went crazy for the Rams intro.

[steviep123]

Another tidbit from the late 80s/early 90s. The cheerleaders were holding up signs saying "Go" and "Rams" to which the crowd would chant. At one of the time outs, the cheerleader with the "Go!" sign had it upside down. Me and my crew started yelling "Og Rams! Og Rams". The whole crowd got into it. Finally, the cheerleader looked down at her sign, realized it was upside down and started cracking up.

[Justns11]

During the George Mason game I liked it when the students started counting down the shot clock a few seconds early. There were 2 or 3 times when it caused the GMU players to shoot an ill-advised shot while there were still 3 or 4 seconds left on the clock.

[SmartyBarrett]

During the George Mason game I liked it when the students started counting down the shot clock a few seconds early. There were 2 or 3 times when it caused the GMU players to shoot an ill-advised shot while there were still 3 or 4 seconds left on the clock.

YES, same here. Sure it's the oldest trick in the book and a little corny, but it works. It can throw off the road team at least a few times every game.

[rhodyrudder]

I'm just curious as to how Mormans dress differently than
anyone else? I mean, besides the secret underwear.

http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2011/02/de ... w-goes-on/

"Hi moms"
Hysterical!!!

[Rhody Guy]

The big heads are a joke. They are too dispersed and are a complete non-factor. My thought is to have them right across the baseline during opponent free throws, and when they take the shot thrust them toward the shooter. No idea if it would do anything, but surely better than what they are now.

[Billyboy78]

The Dayton game didn't have our cheerleaders...or Ramettes. We can't expect the Chariho High cheerleaders to get our students going. Where were the girls that day?

[bressler3south]

Has anyone ever thought about moving the serious members of the mob or ruckus to the middle of the student section in the 200 level instead of putting them on an island in 103

The @RhodyRuckus twitter account is taking suggestions from people if you want to voice some of your opinions.

SUGGESTION#1: JUST SHOW THE EFF UP -- AND THE REST WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF!!!!!!!!!!! SO, MAKE AN EFFIN' RUCKUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[adam914]

The Dayton game didn't have our cheerleaders...or Ramettes. We can't expect the Chariho High cheerleaders to get our students going. Where were the girls that day?

Wasn't there a women's game going on that involved a big Pat Summit fundraiser or something? Maybe they went to that due to the charity aspect of it. Or was that a different day?

Also, I know they competed in some national competitions recently that Thorr and Hurley tweeted about. Also could have been that.

[bressler3south]

The Dayton game didn't have our cheerleaders...or Ramettes. We can't expect the Chariho High cheerleaders to get our students going. Where were the girls that day?

Probably waiting outside for the beloved Greeks to leave the game………..

[adam914]

Little detective work (ok it was just checking their twitter feed) led to this. Looks like they were working this event on Saturday...

http://www.providencejournalnews.com/ne ... urday.html

[Rhode_Island_Red]

The big heads are a joke. They are too dispersed and are a complete non-factor. My thought is to have them right across the baseline during opponent free throws, and when they take the shot thrust them toward the shooter. No idea if it would do anything, but surely better than what they are now.

Or how about life-size cardboard cutouts of Beyonce and Rihanna in the altogether?

[Billyboy78]

Little detective work (ok it was just checking their twitter feed) led to this. Looks like they were working this event on Saturday...

http://www.providencejournalnews.com/ne ... urday.html

So, where were the Ramettes?

[adam914]

At the same event.

[Obadiah]

This is a high school event. La Salle Academy nickname is the Rams. Not to be confused with the URI Rams.

[adam914]

Alright, well either way they weren't there because they were at some other event.

[section(105)]

Thank you Bressler on the show up first comment, a consistent winning product will indeed take care of the rest. Wonder how many of those other student sections mentioned as examples have not been to the dance since Christ was a young man??

[bressler3south]

Ask, and ye shall receive……………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkPgYbdQ1kQ

[Sweep The Leg]

I cant remember what game it was last year but we all sat and read the newspaper while the other team was being introduced. Then went crazy when URIs line up came.

I remember doing that back in the 80s. Everyone had a "Cigar" and held it up while the opponents were announced (can't remember the opponent), and then went crazy for the Rams intro.

In the early 90s, I remember the cheerleaders sitting on the shoulders of male cheerleaders and reading the Good 5 Cent Cigar. We in the student section in Keaney would stand up and turn our backs to the court and start stomping the aluminum steps.

We had the 'find a noose, find a tree , hang the &$@)in referee' for bad calls. Or the classic 'Get off your knees, you're blowing the game.'

You should make chants for other teams somewhat personal without crossing the line. Like the 'Yinka' chants for Mr. Dare when GW came to town.

We started a 'Cat is Phat' after Mobley made a free throw my last year, but he got hurt early in the season, so that ended pretty quick.

[ace]

I loved this Temple response to St. Joe's "the hawk will never die" motto, changing up the typical I Believe chant

[Billyboy78]

I guess the cheerleaders know there is a problem with the students...

(@URICheer):
@RhodyRuckus We start cheers with or without fans-however only the #uriband yells back! Let's work together to create home court advantage!

[bressler3south]

WHAT ABOUT CHEERLEADERS LEADING THE CHEERS?

An Internet soothsayer!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ram Stampede!!!]

Maybe if we build this GIANT ROBOT RAM. Then we all hide inside....and wait for the opposing team to drop their guard. Then FIRE and SMOKE billow out of the Rams ears, mouth and nose!!! THEN WE RUN OUT AND TAKE THEM BY SURPRISE!!!!

I also believe the hawk is dead...and can't wait for St. Joes to return to the RC so we can redeem ourselves just like we did vs G. Mason.

[Rhody4012016]

Can they play the video of the hawk getting tubed at the ryan center when they come?

[Andrew]

When the opposing team fouls out, Harding University escorts the player to their seat. They apparently yell "sit down" when the player does, but this guy never sat during this video. EDIT: Apparently, a bunch of schools do this. I'd never seen it before. Still pretty funny regardless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cYWmeBDJQs