Comments on: Support participants, in a positive manner

By: D3Keith

D3Keith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:51:43 +0000

umhbfella Says:

November 27th, 2007 at 1:25 am e

Also, just as a side note… I have a question that I would like to hear other D3 Football fan’s opinions on. Spectator conduct. I know that sportsmanship announcements are made at the beginning and during NCAA sporting events (required by the NCAA), and I know that it is up to the host school’s game manager to deal with unruly fans. My question is…Is there problems at other D3 universities with both home and visiting fans shouting obscenities at players, officials, and other fans? Throughout this season I have noticed it more then ever. Sometimes it is so bad you can hear it across the field in the upper sections of the stadium. Is it really bad other places, or do us Texans really make everyone that mad?

For the record,
I hear it pretty much across the country and can remember it in my playing days 10+ years ago. In my experience, it’s usually limited to a few knucklehead loudmouths, who stand out much more on the visitor’s sideline in a semi-empty D3 stadium or one where you can walk up to the dotted line four yards from the field and insult a player’s Mom. Although there are parents, even Moms, who do the loudmouth thing.

It doesn’t seem to be in epidemic proportions, in my opinion, it’s almost without exception a few people making fools of themselves. The nice, cool, well-behaved at D3 games far outnumber those who cross the line, in my opinion. In some weeks at some places, there are no problems at all.

By: jlawrence01

jlawrence01 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:04:39 +0000

Today’s game was also the first time that I had to toss my bottle of water when entering UWW’s Perkins Stadium.

By: Pat Coleman

Pat Coleman — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:41:03 +0000

Sometimes schools don’t read the handbook and don’t enforce the rules until they are called on it, yes, that’s true.

By: U-Dub-Dub

U-Dub-Dub — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:39:27 +0000

It seems to me, though, that that rule is only enforced if the opposing team says something about it.
For example at Whitewater we have the cannon guy and he was present at every home playoff game for the two years previous to this. That is until last year when Wesley asked for him to not be there (I believe that is what was said) and as it ended up, the NCAA enforced the rule and he could not fire the cannon. That was also the first game that the cops at the gates were stopping artificial noise makers.
But like I said, he was at the previous games and it wasn’t until this game that something was said.
As a disclaimer, I feel I should note that he only fires it off after scores and after a win, so it’s not like he was shooting it off while the other team was trying to run a play.
That’s just out little experience with this rule, but now that you bring it up on here it will be interesting to see if he is allowed to be there on Saturday.

By: Pat Coleman

Pat Coleman — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:22:33 +0000

That is correct, it is an NCAA rule.

The NCAA doesn’t take jurisdiction over regular season games. Those rules are left to the conference. That’s why some leagues restrict the number of players that can travel, or can dress for a game, etc. They may also restrict noisemakers. But once the playoffs start, the games are played under the NCAA’s ground rules, including a neutral public address announcer, restricted sideline access, 52 players on each side dressed, and no artificial noisemakers.

By: crufootball

crufootball — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:15:32 +0000

Very well said. On another note about fan behavior, can someone tell me if the no artifical noise maker during games is an NCAA rule. The reason I ask is I am student at UMHB and proud member of the Couch Cru. For those of you who don’t know, we bang on 50-gallon steel barrells with baseball bats to create noise in an attempt to bug the other teams offense. We do this each home game and as many aways games as possible and it seems to have some affect on the opponents. However come playoff time, we are told we can no longer do that. Doesn’t that take away some of the home field advantage that the team earned in the season? And if it wrong during playoff game, why isn’t wrong during the rest of the season?

By: lg1970

lg1970 — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:28:07 +0000

This is a no-brainer. Cheer, don’t jeer.

By: musichawk

musichawk — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:15:18 +0000

Please support your team without vulgarity. It is a family show. This is division 3 football! “It ain’t intramurals!” I had always been embarrassed by our student section “cheers”. I hope they have come to understand that we do not play in Camp Randall. Go Hawks, beat Cap.

By: D3forme

D3forme — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:40:13 +0000

“If you need to get all liquored up in order to enjoy a football game, stay home. The football should be reason enough.”

Agreed.

By: old ends

old ends — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:45:05 +0000

Amen.
Something that should be at every statidum and in every program