Could this ever happen in Norman?

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Check out the scene in Dayton tonight.

Don't think we could get this kind of craze over basketball in Norman, even if OU won a national title.

Everyone would be: Watching the Thunder... Or at Church... Or stuck in I-35 traffic... Or "I'd be there if I lived in Oklahoma"... Or at home re-watching the Sugar Bowl on YouTube.

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I have given up trying to understand why and making excuses for it. Only observation i can make is that at OU the fans do not have the same passion as other fans do for their school when it comes to the "other" sports.
 
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Looks like that pic is students. OU students are too busy studying to attend a sporting event.
 
That wouldn't happen in Norman for football either.

The thing is, most schools can support one program very well. Very few schools sell out football and basketball consistently. The only real exceptions I can think of are Florida, and a few teams in the Big Ten. The enrollment at all of those schools is more than twice OU's.

I'm not saying it's right, it's just a reality.
 
JBaker said:
That wouldn't happen in Norman for football either.

The thing is, most schools can support one program very well. Very few schools sell out football and basketball consistently. The only real exceptions I can think of are Florida, and a few teams in the Big Ten. The enrollment at all of those schools is more than twice OU's.

I'm not saying it's right, it's just a reality.
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It's been three or four years since I checked, but last time I did check, the fan support Florida's hoops program received was overstated. In short, they had plenty of basketball games that were not sell-outs.

Perhaps that's changed since I did my research, but I sort of doubt it.
 
This wouldn't happen in Norman b/c we aren't a small Catholic university that isn't use to winning.
 
JBaker said:
That wouldn't happen in Norman for football either.

The thing is, most schools can support one program very well. Very few schools sell out football and basketball consistently. The only real exceptions I can think of are Florida, and a few teams in the Big Ten. The enrollment at all of those schools is more than twice OU's.

I'm not saying it's right, it's just a reality.
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I guess you weren't around for the 2000 National Championship.
 
Boomer said:
I guess you weren't around for the 2000 National Championship.
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2000 were different circumstances. We sucked for a decade before that.
And even then, I still don't think the celebration was quite as over the top as this Dayton stuff.
I almost guarantee you we wouldn't have a massive student rave/block party in the streets with David Boren crowd surfing if we won the MNC now.
 
JBaker said:
2000 were different circumstances. We sucked for a decade before that.
And even then, I still don't think the celebration was quite as over the top as this Dayton stuff.
I almost guarantee you we wouldn't have a massive student rave/block party in the streets with David Boren crowd surfing if we won the MNC now.
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That's because the title game in football takes place over Christmas break. If we won a NC in the middle of April with nothing else going on, it would be party time on Asp Ave.
 
A scene like that would never happen in Norman. OU basketball fans are much too sophisticated to carry on like idiots. I mean, look at the Dayton fans! That's as close to an out of control mob as anyone in their right mind would ever want to be. [sarcasm]

There's more than a hint of truth to what I said about "sophisticated" basketball fans. I have never watched a game at the floor level in the LNC. But the fans from the second level up can be noticeably "cautious" about showing too much enthusiasm. I have actually had fans turn to look at me like I was crazy if I got excited after a great play.

It's not that way at football games, so anything is possible I suppose.
 
ouboomer said:
I have given up trying to understand why and making excuses for it. Only observation i can make is that at OU the fans do not have the same passion as other fans do for their school when it comes to the "other" sports.
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You get comments like "we are OU", "we are above that", "rushing the court is lame", "act like you have been there before", etc.

I love things like that picture. Personally, it is unlikely that I would be in thet crowd today but when I was younger I would have.
 
Closest scene I can recall is 2000 win over NU. Crowds on Lindsey pretty far west of the stadium.

I swear some of OUr fans feel like they are cheating on football if they support basketball too passionately...
 
JBaker said:
That wouldn't happen in Norman for football either.

The thing is, most schools can support one program very well. Very few schools sell out football and basketball consistently. The only real exceptions I can think of are Florida, and a few teams in the Big Ten. The enrollment at all of those schools is more than twice OU's.

I'm not saying it's right, it's just a reality.
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florida doesn't sell out football or basketball
 
If OU won a championship in basketball we'd be lousy with bandwagon fans the next year, and they'd be the first and loudest to complain the minute we lost.

edit: Oh, and we'd get more dumb commercials like this:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7fonK1HqoE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7fonK1HqoE[/ame]
 
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