The Heart of the Buffaloes

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By Adam Butler
www.PacHoops.com

I jacked this quote off of @RyanKoenigsberg’s twitter as retweeted by

@Rumblinbuffalo:

Boyle: I want this to be the best home-court advantage in the Pac-
12. Our fans must understand how important these non-conference
games are.

I love this. Maybe it’s some PR, some sweet speak to get the fans excited about their
coach. A further rallying cry by which The Keg and C-Unit can rest its laurels and
continue to be the yellers and screamers and intimidators behind Boyle’s 47-7 home
record. But there’s plenty of validity to getting rowdy.

Because that’s where it’s at. No, us in the stands aren’t going to win many games – by
most accounts we’re worth about 3.5 points or 10.5 if you’re playing at altitude – but
without support around what you’re trying to accomplish, Tad Boyle isn’t going to get
a chance to win many ball games. Why do Kentucky and Kansas bring all their recruits
to Big Blue Madness and Late Night at the Phog? That’s arguably the pinnacle of fan
support where 15,000+ seat arenas are packed for a basketball practice. There’s theatrics
and fire and hype and dunking and excitement. People want to be part of excitement.
So when Tad says the above and when 9,042 people show up for a 10am game against
the Jackson State Tigers – a team coming off of an 11-18 record – then we’re onto
something. Or growing something. There’s something’s cooking and it’s not the bacon.
We could focus really closely at what we’ve seen on the floor – the good, bad, and
otherwise - but attendance to a 10am game says more to me about the health of this
program than almost anything else. I mean, ask yourself what you were doing at 10am on
a collegiate Saturday? There’s a kid named Brett Brady scoring 1.5ppg; which means a
kid named Brett Brady is getting into the game. And scoring points.

An additional thought to this is what better character to usher in this fan driven era of
Colorado basketball than Spencer Dinwiddie? Firstly, he’s damn good at basketball.
That’s probably number one when it comes to gaining fan interest. But he’s also a
confident, charming, funny kid. He wears a mustache and he goes by The Mayor. If you
can’t support that kind of player then you’re probably more of an NBA guy. That’s ok;
he’ll be there soon enough.

So keep this up, Buffalo Nation. Continue to make The Keg the toughest place in the
conference, if not nation, so that when I come in February, we can have the best damn
time. Like I said above, everyone wants to be a part of excitement, so I’m coming. I’m
bringing as many Wildcats as you can handle and afterwards I’m buying at The Sink.

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[jgisland]

That was a great showing on Saturday morning - people arrived late (I was one of them). But they showed up, I was impressed.

 

[Quattro]

Buying at The Sink after, eh?

 

[pachoops]

There's fine print to that.

Buying at The Sink after, eh?

 

[Shldr2Shldr]

There's fine print to that.

false. There is no fine print or even smaller font. In colorado verbal contracts are binding, and you sir put one in writing haha.

 

[pachoops]

Alrighty then. It's on.