Student tickets for KU game

[Shldr2Shldr]

"The Izzone"

"The Orange Krush" (The real crush was taken)

"Cameron Crazies"

"The Corral"

"The Show"




They are all named you ****ing idiot. They are all cheezy and come up with stupid cheers. It is about having fun, and giving your energy to the team. There are no "cool" student sections. Also, "The C-Unit" has been a Naismith Foundation Finalist for best student section in the nation. So **** off.

 

[CUnit]

While you're at it could you drop all of the other stupid sh*t as well? A college student sections should be witty and mean, not boring and corny. The nerdy kids who sit in the first couple of rows, of which I assume you are a part, kind of suck. There is nothing cool about dressing up like bananas and singing altered lyrics to bad 80's song to "intimidate" opponents shooting free throws. By all means keep that spirit, just try and be slightly less embarrassing when doing so! Whats with the C-Unit name anyways? Why does everything have to be branded these days and why does this branding have to be a stupid overtly ghetto name?

Sincerely, the rest of the CU student section.

First of all, let me address some of your “facts” before you form such formidable opinions about something you clearly know very little. No, I am not one of the “nerdy kids who sit in the first couple of rows, of which you assume I am a part and who kind of suck.” In fact, those kids are not the students that run the CUnit, they are merely small contributors to a very large operation that is the student section. The students that DO run the CUnit remain anonymous my friend, they don't stand out at games, they show up, get the crowd rowdy, heckle the opposing bench much like you do, and support the Buffs with all of the fervor you would expect out of loud college basketball fan. The CUnit is strongest when nobody appears to be more “in the know” than others. This is quite hard to accomplish while simultaneously making the CUnit as loud and cohesive as possible. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss how much work it requires - that we do FOR FREE - to make sure that you and your friends can show up 10 minutes before tipoff and heckle the opposing team and do whatever you want at CEC. Don’t call out other Buffs fans for supporting the Buffs how they want. Rather, get involved, i’d love to hear your opinions on how we can improve the student section and you can see first hand what it requires.

Oh and the name? It’s a little something called tradition. 10 years ago - a group of students much like yourself - started the CUnit. I didn’t choose it, but somebody before me did, and so it will remain. Also those honorable men like to spend their time on AllBuffs too so you can say “thank you” personally. So lets not be so divisive and support our Buffs together. Go Buffs! F*** Kansas

 

[Shldr2Shldr]

First of all, let me address some of your “facts” before you form such formidable opinions about something you clearly know very little. No, I am not one of the “nerdy kids who sit in the first couple of rows, of which you assume I am a part and who kind of suck.” In fact, those kids are not the students that run the CUnit, they are merely small contributors to a very large operation that is the student section. The students that DO run the CUnit remain anonymous my friend, they don't stand out at games, they show up, get the crowd rowdy, heckle the opposing bench much like you do, and support the Buffs with all of the fervor you would expect out of loud college basketball fan. The CUnit is strongest when nobody appears to be more “in the know” than others. This is quite hard to accomplish while simultaneously making the CUnit as loud and cohesive as possible. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss how much work it requires - that we do FOR FREE - to make sure that you and your friends can show up 10 minutes before tipoff and heckle the opposing team and do whatever you want at CEC. Don’t call out other Buffs fans for supporting the Buffs how they want. Rather, get involved, i’d love to hear your opinions on how we can improve the student section and you can see first hand what it requires.

Oh and the name? It’s a little something called tradition. 10 years ago - a group of students much like yourself - started the CUnit. I didn’t choose it, but somebody before me did, and so it will remain. Also those honorable men like to spend their time on AllBuffs too so you can say “thank you” personally. So lets not be so divisive and support our Buffs together. Go Buffs! F*** Kansas

Too nice.

 

[absinthe]

First of all, let me address some of your “facts” before you form such formidable opinions about something you clearly know very little. No, I am not one of the “nerdy kids who sit in the first couple of rows, of which you assume I am a part and who kind of suck.” In fact, those kids are not the students that run the CUnit, they are merely small contributors to a very large operation that is the student section. The students that DO run the CUnit remain anonymous my friend, they don't stand out at games, they show up, get the crowd rowdy, heckle the opposing bench much like you do, and support the Buffs with all of the fervor you would expect out of loud college basketball fan. The CUnit is strongest when nobody appears to be more “in the know” than others. This is quite hard to accomplish while simultaneously making the CUnit as loud and cohesive as possible. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss how much work it requires - that we do FOR FREE - to make sure that you and your friends can show up 10 minutes before tipoff and heckle the opposing team and do whatever you want at CEC. Don’t call out other Buffs fans for supporting the Buffs how they want. Rather, get involved, i’d love to hear your opinions on how we can improve the student section and you can see first hand what it requires.

Oh and the name? It’s a little something called tradition. 10 years ago - a group of students much like yourself - started the CUnit. I didn’t choose it, but somebody before me did, and so it will remain. Also those honorable men like to spend their time on AllBuffs too so you can say “thank you” personally. So lets not be so divisive and support our Buffs together. Go Buffs! F*** Kansas

Well said.

 

[absinthe]

J-R-K's posts make so much more sense now, he's 17

 

[Darth Snow]

First of all, let me address some of your “facts” before you form such formidable opinions about something you clearly know very little. No, I am not one of the “nerdy kids who sit in the first couple of rows, of which you assume I am a part and who kind of suck.” In fact, those kids are not the students that run the CUnit, they are merely small contributors to a very large operation that is the student section. The students that DO run the CUnit remain anonymous my friend, they don't stand out at games, they show up, get the crowd rowdy, heckle the opposing bench much like you do, and support the Buffs with all of the fervor you would expect out of loud college basketball fan. The CUnit is strongest when nobody appears to be more “in the know” than others. This is quite hard to accomplish while simultaneously making the CUnit as loud and cohesive as possible. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss how much work it requires - that we do FOR FREE - to make sure that you and your friends can show up 10 minutes before tipoff and heckle the opposing team and do whatever you want at CEC. Don’t call out other Buffs fans for supporting the Buffs how they want. Rather, get involved, i’d love to hear your opinions on how we can improve the student section and you can see first hand what it requires.

Oh and the name? It’s a little something called tradition. 10 years ago - a group of students much like yourself - started the CUnit. I didn’t choose it, but somebody before me did, and so it will remain. Also those honorable men like to spend their time on AllBuffs too so you can say “thank you” personally. So lets not be so divisive and support our Buffs together. Go Buffs! F*** Kansas

Jrk just got unitslapped.

 

[Burrito]

Jrk just got unitslapped.

He gets slapped a lot.

 

[TDbuff]

First of all, let me address some of your “facts” before you form such formidable opinions about something you clearly know very little. No, I am not one of the “nerdy kids who sit in the first couple of rows, of which you assume I am a part and who kind of suck.” In fact, those kids are not the students that run the CUnit, they are merely small contributors to a very large operation that is the student section. The students that DO run the CUnit remain anonymous my friend, they don't stand out at games, they show up, get the crowd rowdy, heckle the opposing bench much like you do, and support the Buffs with all of the fervor you would expect out of loud college basketball fan.

In your opinion, what happened at that WBB game with Iowa? I'm seriously just curious. Because however anybody feels about the AD's decision to go that route in the first place, that was a bad look for the C-Unit or the CU student section, however you want to label the kids that were there.

 

[CUnit]

In your opinion, what happened at that WBB game with Iowa? I'm seriously just curious. Because however anybody feels about the AD's decision to go that route in the first place, that was a bad look for the C-Unit or the CU student section, however you want to label the kids that were there.

This is a really great question and something we have talked about with the athletic department to make sure we can avoid this situation in the future (or handle it better). The first thing i’ll mention is that the CUnit officially had no say whatsoever in how the tickets for Kansas (or any other game, ever) are distributed. I do know however that the idea originated with the WBB team and they wanted to find a way to get more students into the seats for their games. Was it the most effective way, probably not, but the way they looked at it was that if they could turn at least one head it was worth a try. I can’t disagree with that, in fact, we do everything we can to support every CU athletics team. I don’t want to say that the students handled the Iowa game well or not well because I cannot make a general and sweeping generalization of some 5000+ student season ticket holders. There were obviously a few bad apples and those students are not good representative of the CUnit as a whole or the University of Colorado, period. That being said - it’s something we need to move on from AND learn from. The CUnit is autonomous and our opinions are respected in the Athletic Department and this situation has only led to better communication between the two parties. Hope that helps answer your questions! We might as well just turn this into an AMAA (Ask me almost anything).

 

[cubuffs85]

While you're at it could you drop all of the other stupid sh*t as well? A college student sections should be witty and mean, not boring and corny. The nerdy kids who sit in the first couple of rows, of which I assume you are a part, kind of suck. There is nothing cool about dressing up like bananas and singing altered lyrics to bad 80's song to "intimidate" opponents shooting free throws. By all means keep that spirit, just try and be slightly less embarrassing when doing so! Whats with the C-Unit name anyways? Why does everything have to be branded these days and why does this branding have to be a stupid overtly ghetto name?

Sincerely, the rest of the CU student section.

A real lack of respect for the origin of the CU basketball fan support before it was the "cool thing" to come to games.

 

[dio]

JRK is such a ****wad - I like it when he isn't around

 

[absinthe]

This is a really great question and something we have talked about with the athletic department to make sure we can avoid this situation in the future (or handle it better). The first thing i’ll mention is that the CUnit officially had no say whatsoever in how the tickets for Kansas (or any other game, ever) are distributed. I do know however that the idea originated with the WBB team and they wanted to find a way to get more students into the seats for their games. Was it the most effective way, probably not, but the way they looked at it was that if they could turn at least one head it was worth a try. I can’t disagree with that, in fact, we do everything we can to support every CU athletics team. I don’t want to say that the students handled the Iowa game well or not well because I cannot make a general and sweeping generalization of some 5000+ student season ticket holders. There were obviously a few bad apples and those students are not good representative of the CUnit as a whole or the University of Colorado, period. That being said - it’s something we need to move on from AND learn from. The CUnit is autonomous and our opinions are respected in the Athletic Department and this situation has only led to better communication between the two parties. Hope that helps answer your questions! We might as well just turn this into an AMAA (Ask me almost anything).

Doing an AMaA over chat/FB/Twitter with you guys would be pretty cool, can you pm me an email addy to see if we can make it work?

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

Thanks for stopping by and giving insight, CUnit. It's info like this that helps us distance-challenged fans feel closer to CU, the programs, and the people.

 

[Darth Snow]

How is cunit organized? How do you recruit new generations?

 

[TDbuff]

This is a really great question and something we have talked about with the athletic department to make sure we can avoid this situation in the future (or handle it better). The first thing i’ll mention is that the CUnit officially had no say whatsoever in how the tickets for Kansas (or any other game, ever) are distributed. I do know however that the idea originated with the WBB team and they wanted to find a way to get more students into the seats for their games. Was it the most effective way, probably not, but the way they looked at it was that if they could turn at least one head it was worth a try. I can’t disagree with that, in fact, we do everything we can to support every CU athletics team. I don’t want to say that the students handled the Iowa game well or not well because I cannot make a general and sweeping generalization of some 5000+ student season ticket holders. There were obviously a few bad apples and those students are not good representative of the CUnit as a whole or the University of Colorado, period. That being said - it’s something we need to move on from AND learn from. The CUnit is autonomous and our opinions are respected in the Athletic Department and this situation has only led to better communication between the two parties. Hope that helps answer your questions! We might as well just turn this into an AMAA (Ask me almost anything).

Solid answer, thank you.

 

[CUnit]

Thanks for stopping by and giving insight, CUnit. It's info like this that helps us distance-challenged fans feel closer to CU, the programs, and the people.

Of course. We actually spend a lot of our time on AllBuffs as it’s a really good resource for fans of CU. AllBuffs has been nothing but incredible and supportive of the CUnit over the years and we appreciate it more than you will ever know. Being a completely 100% student run group with high expectations is incredibly fun and rewarding. It’s also quite humorous when we read criticism on the CUnit - much of which we agree with, much of which is unfounded and untrue. Either way, we have to be careful what we say but AllBuffs is a great forum for us to interact with other fans and alumni. After all, everyone is the CUnit.

 

[CUnit]

How is cunit organized? How do you recruit new generations?

Carefully.

In all honesty, this is something we try to keep on the DL as we are firm believers that the BEST student sections are the ones where nobody feels more included or more in the know than anyone else. What I can tell you is that at the beginning of the year we reached out to our followers on social media/on campus and put together a team of dedicated students that understand not only the GOALS of the CUnit but the VALUES that are deeply rooted in a student section that has been completely student run for 10 years. There are student leaders within this group that are most connected to the athletic department as they are the “point people.” I cannot tell you how lucky/rare we are for having this. See SDSU “The Show” as another good example. Most student sections around the country that have too much athletic department presence (See Duke, Kentucky) tend to be losing student support and have been for a number of years.

 

[FightCu1414]

Carefully.

In all honesty, this is something we try to keep on the DL as we are firm believers that the BEST student sections are the ones where nobody feels more included or more in the know than anyone else. What I can tell you is that at the beginning of the year we reached out to our followers on social media/on campus and put together a team of dedicated students that understand not only the GOALS of the CUnit but the VALUES that are deeply rooted in a student section that has been completely student run for 10 years. There are student leaders within this group that are most connected to the athletic department as they are the “point people.” I cannot tell you how lucky/rare we are for having this. See SDSU “The Show” as another good example. Most student sections around the country that have too much athletic department presence (See Duke, Kentucky) tend to be losing student support and have been for a number of years.

Although I did kinda bash you guys earlier in the thread, it was with more of the frustration of the people in the front and did not realize that there was more. I know I am back tracking a bit, but as a fellow student who bleeds black and gold I appreciate what you guys do. The fat heads are awesome and the student section has obviously came a long way since I was going to games as a high schooler. Keep doing what you guys are doing and you are in fact including the whole student section. Other than the banana chant (which you said was not your doing) the whole crowd is involved with every chant which is very tough to do. I didn't recognize this until I went to the CSU game Tuesday. "Rivalry" aside there was not once that they had a chant in unison and were on the same page. We on the other hand are a single unit. A force that can be reckoned with and you guys are a key part of it. From a student to another student, I appreciate it greatly. See you Saturday.

 

[CUnit]

Although I did kinda bash you guys earlier in the thread, it was with more of the frustration of the people in the front and did not realize that there was more. I know I am back tracking a bit, but as a fellow student who bleeds black and gold I appreciate what you guys do. The fat heads are awesome and the student section has obviously came a long way since I was going to games as a high schooler. Keep doing what you guys are doing and you are in fact including the whole student section. Other than the banana chant (which you said was not your doing) the whole crowd is involved with every chant which is very tough to do. I didn't recognize this until I went to the CSU game Tuesday. "Rivalry" aside there was not once that they had a chant in unison and were on the same page. We on the other hand are a single unit. A force that can be reckoned with and you guys are a key part of it. From a student to another student, I appreciate it greatly. See you Saturday.

We really appreciate the kind words. We empathize with your frustrations moreso than you could ever imagine. If I had a nickel for every time we got frustrated or the Athletic Department got frustrated with us, I would be on full academic scholarship. Let us know if you ever have big head ideas or any other ideas you would like to see in the CUnit - realistically - we need passionate and fun students like you to come up with the new ideas. That’s how we become great/historic/legendary - create an environment where students feel apart of something big but individual enough to cheer how they want, dress how they want, make whatever fat joke toward bill self/sean miller however they see fit (Or not fit in context of Sean Millers shirts. See: http://pachoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CATCH-THE-BALL.gif)

I won’t even address CSU students, we know our superiority, they are not worth our time if it isn't the first week of November (FB) or the first week of December (BBALL).

 

[Daaah]

Does the CUnit have any connections with Radio 1190? There used to be a decent student run sports show on Radio 1190, but I'm not sure if anything like that exists anymore. What does the CUnit do to connect with students that may not already be CU sports fans?

 

[CVilleBuff]

UVA's Rob Ford fathead has proved highly effective, just saying.​

 

[Darth Snow]

Carefully.

In all honesty, this is something we try to keep on the DL as we are firm believers that the BEST student sections are the ones where nobody feels more included or more in the know than anyone else. What I can tell you is that at the beginning of the year we reached out to our followers on social media/on campus and put together a team of dedicated students that understand not only the GOALS of the CUnit but the VALUES that are deeply rooted in a student section that has been completely student run for 10 years. There are student leaders within this group that are most connected to the athletic department as they are the “point people.” I cannot tell you how lucky/rare we are for having this. See SDSU “The Show” as another good example. Most student sections around the country that have too much athletic department presence (See Duke, Kentucky) tend to be losing student support and have been for a number of years.

Thanks. vague, but interesting.
do you ever reach out to those student groups for ideas/tips? Organizational and/or distracting ideas etc?

 

[Sexton Hardcastle]

UVA's Rob Ford fathead has proved highly effective, just saying.​

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

:
Yes, absolutely. A McDonalds burger-flippers or dry-baggers spin off of their McDonalds all Americans. Hats off to you, V. :thumbsup:

 

[slider]

Please do Baby Sinclair. I asked last year and it didn't happen

 

[Scotch]

Hey CUnit. Long time fan and season ticket holder here, and just want to say how much I appreciate what you guys are doing. CU Hoops games have become a lot more fun with the CUnit around. You guys absolutely killed it up in Moby on Tuesday night. Even had us older fans joining in on some of it. Keep up the good work!

 

[Daaah]

 

[CUnit]

Does the CUnit have any connections with Radio 1190? There used to be a decent student run sports show on Radio 1190, but I'm not sure if anything like that exists anymore. What does the CUnit do to connect with students that may not already be CU sports fans?

Wow, another fabulous question. We are actually on very good terms with Joe and Mat at radio 1190. Although they have been struggling to keep their audience over the last couple of years, I think they have what it takes to be a really solid student broadcast team. They are very intelligent Buffs fans and they call the games really really well (Although they are played on a 2 hour delay because 850 KOA has exclusive broadcasting rights). You would have no idea one of them is a sophomore. We haven’t told anybody this yet but we will actually be a guest on their sports talk show in the coming weeks. Interesting timing for your question!

As far as reaching out to students that may not already be sports fans this is an area that we don’t really have much control. As CU athletics continues to grow and win - student support will continue to grow from the general CU population. Remember that freshman didn’t grow up with a winning tradition at CU. The more games we win, the more student support we get. The CUnit is here to help our basketball team win and anything else we can do to bring in more fans we do.

 

[CUnit]

Hey CUnit. Long time fan and season ticket holder here, and just want to say how much I appreciate what you guys are doing. CU Hoops games have become a lot more fun with the CUnit around. You guys absolutely killed it up in Moby on Tuesday night. Even had us older fans joining in on some of it. Keep up the good work!

Thank you! It makes us proud when alumni still find the environment that we can create as a student section something that they STILL want to be a part of.

 

[CUnit]

Please do Baby Sinclair. I asked last year and it didn't happen

It has been added to the minutes.