CRAZIES
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CRAZIE CONNECTION IN NEBRASKA
Thoughts from Basketball’s Best “Seats” (We Stand)
By Zach White (Cameron Crazie/Duke ‘10)
I hope you are as pumped about our to get some tips from the Cameron
team as I am. The guys are looking Crazies, the best fans in the country.
great. Jon is playing absolutely lights- The next day I had a conference call
out. He is clearly one of the very best with eight of the Rowdy leaders, who
players in the country. Kyle and Lance were prepping for an upcoming game
have been showing a lot of determi- against their rivals. Here are a few tips
nation, and it is very encouraging to I gave to them.
have players that fight game-in and
game-out as hard as they do. Nolan 1) ALWAYS be loud. Winning or losing,
has learned to use his speed to tear before the game, or in the last 30 sec-
apart the opponent’s defense. Watch- onds, no one in the arena should ever,
ing his progression reminded me of ever forget that this is “Our House!”
how last year a light-bulb seemed to
go off in Gerald’s head that said, “Wow, 2) Cheers should be short and sweet.
I’m faster and more athletic than my If things get too complicated, the cheer
opponents.” Nolan has figured out just will die out. When a chant only has a
how fast and talented he is, and he is few words, it allows every fan to know
looking great. The player I’m most ex- exactly what to say, and enables them
cited about right now, though, is Zoubs. to place emphasis on each individual
He is an enormous defensive presence, syllable.
and is altering the offensive plan of our
opposition, as we could see in the game 3) Be witty. By using rhymes or play-
against Gonzaga. His statistics don’t on-words, cheers will be more catchy
even remotely show what a positive and more funny.
impact he is on our team.
The games have been awesome in 4) Be spontaneous. Cheers can’t
Cameron. The Crazies really did our always be thought up ahead of time.
research for Radford. We had plenty of You never know when an opposing
inside information on their players, and player will have really bad hair and
came prepared with some pretty funny you need to start a “Lather! Rinse!
statistics about Radford University. I Repeat!” chant (just ask the power
was particularly impressed with the forward from Gardner-Webb). Giant
crowd for St. John’s. Coach Krzyzewski white boards can be helpful to get the
gave the Crazies some encouraging word out for these spur of the moment
fist pumps as he walked onto the floor, cheers.
and that really got us going. We were
intense and loud. The Gardner-Webb 5) Be random. If the opposition is
game was lighter on student atten- on the free throw line, the goal is to
dance, due to winter break, but the fans have them wondering “why the heck
who were there made up for it. There are they doing that?” Singing Miley
were an abundance of signs, Cyrus can be effective, as
ranging from “Excuse me, can chanting one of their
Mr. Defender, you forgot teacher’s names. This is the
about Dre” to “Hey Deon, ultimate form of distraction,
don’t miss it” (yeah… we as they place their attention
went there). on what the fans are doing,
Last week I got a phone rather than on making their
call from the Assistant Prin- free throw.
cipal of Kearney High School,
in Nebraska. He explained to At the end of the phone
me that Kearney has an awe- call, the students of Kear-
some student section at their ney High School said the
basketball games, known for Crazies were now honorary
being loud, organized, and members of the Rowdies. I
inspirational to their team. think it’s fair to say that the
The fans call themselves the Rowdies certainly are honor-
Rowdies and were hoping ary Cameron Crazies too!
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