UNI fans embarass the Hawk's Nest

[alleycat]

I think Iowa had more ushers than fans.

[Born-a-Panther]

Geez BAP, why didn't you pull the "Do you know who I am??" card. I think once you told them that you are a PN mod they would have gladly obliged to let you on the floor.

Darn. Why didn't I think of that?

[General_Panther]

The UNI Fans were great. I could hear them SEVERAL times on TV and it sounded awesome. WIsh I could have been there. I got an Email from a buddy of mine who lives in Dubuque asking me if I wanted to go at 12 am yesterday but I didn't check my Email till 11:30 pm so by that time it was obviously too late.

As for the Ushers, I remember when I used to go to Iowa games with my dad and Grandpa when I was younger they had a Crap ton of them and they were all (litterally) Old people.

Iowa needs to learn how to treat people, oh and the Squawks Nest needs to learn how to cheer on their team, if they want lessons they should watch the tape of last night's game.

[NorthernIowaBacker]

I was sitting with the Panther students behind the basket - along with Purple Reign, Mrs. Purple Reign and someone else that came with us. We originally were sitting way up high with the coaches wives but moved down after the game started since it obviously didn't come close to filling in. As we moved down to the row right behind the students, a guy in an Iowa shirt was sitting in that row with just one other guy. I first asked him if he was saving the seats -- to which he replied, "yea, so get out of here" -- and literally SHOOED me away. I then repeated my question -- "so people are actually sitting here with you?" -- and then he started demanding to see our tickets. He went at Purple Reign demanding to see our tickets -- acting as if he were security or something. I have never seen any fan from any school act like this. Purple Reign ended up sitting back a row, and I ended up sitting right by the guy -- I told him he'd have to physically remove me to get me to leave unless someone who actually had tickets for that spot showed up to sit there.

I'm so proud that he ended up looking like an idiot at the end -- surrounded in a sea of purple.

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[Born-a-Panther]

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I saw that Now look at the guy standing to the left of me as you're looking at the picture -- gray shirt and glasses -- he's the guy I'm talkin about

[Purple1]

I've always thought UNI has the best fans...but then I'm a little biased. That got proven last night at C-H. Our students were AWESOME! You may have been few, but you were LOUD outcheering the Hawks most of the night.
Jake's Jungle should be proud in the McLeod also...we've always been enthusiastic but not rude like the Hawkeye students during our player intros. Guess we don't suck as much as they thought now!
And what's up with none of their fans except students standing for the fight song?
There were several people in our section as well confirming their stupidity by rudeness and arguing amongst themselves.
I hope we can always show respect and class along with our great Purple Pride. Great win! Go Panthers!!!

[CincyPanther88]

I've always thought UNI has the best fans...but then I'm a little biased. That got proven last night at C-H. Our students were AWESOME! You may have been few, but you were LOUD outcheering the Hawks most of the night.
Jake's Jungle should be proud in the McLeod also...we've always been enthusiastic but not rude like the Hawkeye students during our player intros. Guess we don't suck as much as they thought now!
And what's up with none of their fans except students standing for the fight song?
There were several people in our section as well confirming their stupidity by rudeness and arguing amongst themselves.
I hope we can always show respect and class along with our great Purple Pride. Great win! Go Panthers!!!

Excellent post. I know we had some people on here last week talking about what we should do when Mac came back. They justified it by saying if it happened with Iowa or ISU they would really be nasty to him. My point was that if we continually come on here and criticize Iowa and ISU fans - among others - for acting like that and we say we are better than they are then we should act like it. And I was very happy and proud to read that our fans treated Mac about as well as any opposing coach could be treated and they were great in Iowa City too.

Nothing turns people off about a program more than obnoxious fans. We are at a unique time where the basketball and football programs for Iowa and ISU are down and our programs are at a high level. There are fans out there who may be looking to associate themselves with a consistent winner and that could be UNI. When they see how respectful we act, they might just come over to our side.

When I visit my family on Iowa for X-mas, I'm hoping to go up to the Bradley game on the 27th and I'd like to take my nephews and niece with me. The older one is 14 and the younger ones are 10 and 8. I know they are Iowa fans but I'd like to take them up and show them around campus, perhaps eat at the OP and root the Panthers on to victory. They may not stop being Iowa fans but it may get them to start paying attention to UNI and, who knows, they may even end up going there.

[uninisg]

My favorite part of the night was when the UNI students starting singing our fight song late into the game. Our singing was louder than their band's playing!!!

[FerociousCat]

Great job by the UNI fans dispersed throughout C-H. Only the Hawkeye band could drown out the UNI fans.
What about all the Hawkeye fans who left with 4 minutes to go??? Great decision.

[ZonaPanther]

Security was rediculous after the game. The only people left in the arena were UNI players' parents, coaches wives, and a few of us fans still mingling around. We had to hug Coach Jake over a security rope, and when I wanted to go talk to people who were five feet away, I wasn't allowed to take two steps on the floor -- I had to walk all the way up and around in the stands to get to them.

They must simply be keeping the floor prepared for the Hawk's Nest annual stoming of the court after a big win over Penn State (if that is even going to occur this season)

[UNI MadCat]

What about all the Hawkeye fans who left with 4 minutes to go??? Great decision.

That would have happened even if they had been beating Greg Oden and OSU in a tight game. I hate the Hawks but actually enjoy going to Carver and have been going to games since I first moved there in 1990. It never ceased to amaze me that even in the closest games a HUGE amount of people left their GREAT seats in order to watch from the top rung of the stadium up where your nose bleeds.

I understand traffic sucks and I've sat and waited for what seemed like an hour, just to get down to the Coralville strip, but c'mon! Why own the seats then?? I used to notice that it was a lot of "old" people but now it seems like the people are younger... I suppose it's their kids that they've handed the tickets down to and the kids didnt want to break such a great "tradition".

[UNI MadCat]

I saw that Now look at the guy standing to the left of me as you're looking at the picture -- gray shirt and glasses -- he's the guy I'm talkin about

I put this picture on my desktop wallpaper this morning and was looking at it and thought, "that looks like BAP!"

Seriously, AWESOME job by the students last night. Many, many, many times the chant of "U-N-I! U-N-I!" came through loud and cleer on tv.

So were those tickets sold to UNI students or was it just that a group bought a bunch and other people just congregated there? If the latter is the case, I'm SHOCKED that the infamous yellow-blazered "security" guards didn't clear people out.

[unigriff]

hehe...a few girls sat down there and i was on row 42 (top row righ tby the TV guys) and i told merkpanther that i was gonna go talk to them and say hi. I asked if they actually had tickets for there and they said no, thet just got tickets last nite for bout 20 rows up, but they would move if iowa people came for those seats. So i stayed and then a few other guys came by...then we just started telling all our friends to come down there...We were in the aisles and on the floor at times. The yellow bad guys didnt do poop to us! it rocked!!!!!!!

ONE TEAM ONE GOAL

ONE STUDENT SECTION ONE SOUND

ONE UNIVERSITY---ALL CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!

[The Flying Squirrel]

Great job by the UNI fans dispersed throughout C-H. Only the Hawkeye band could drown out the UNI fans.
What about all the Hawkeye fans who left with 4 minutes to go??? Great decision.

For anyone in attendance. Does the band know any songs other than the fight song? They must have played it 30 times. Their fans don't even stand anymore because they play it so often. By the way, I don't even think the band could drown out the UNI Fans. When they would do the I O W A cheer all I could hear was U N I Panthers!

[pantherclaw]

Perfect sign of how bad Iowa's student section has been: I am known by the pep band as "Hawk's Nest" because I go to so many games and make so much noise...and I am a graduate student. Guess how surprised they were to see me walk by them wearing purple I'm sure I won't live it down for a while, but it was worth it. Iowa students need to learn how to make noise when things aren't going well, they just seem to give up when their back is against the wall.

Speech, i think i know who you are. Did you sit a few rows in front of a particularly obnoxious UNI fan wearing a UNI hard hat. That was me. WOW so many people from PN im jsut now meeting. HEHE YAY PAnthers.