Booing Brust? I thought we didn't want him anyway.

homes said:
Of course resorting to an extreme position to try to make a point is always an effective rebuttal.

I get why the crowd booed, I just think we're better than that response. So he left, BFD. Booing him almost gives him more legitimacy, like the "overrated" chant demeans the significance of an upset win. That's all.
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The booing of Brust is nothing like the over rated chant. Brust begged out of a legal contract. He should not have been allowed to play at another conference school. Decisions like that have consequences. This one results in him being booed loud and long every time he touches a ball in Carver.
 
Note to the student section. When a guy shoots an air ball and subsequently makes a basket (let alone multiple) you should not still be chanting "AIRBALL, AIRBALL"
 
I think the crowd didn't boo loud enough. I wish I could have been there last night so I could have joined in. I hope we boo the **** out of him for the next 2 years.
 
I think if Ben had followed the rules and either sat out a year at a conference school or gone out of conference and Iowa played them at home there would not have been the animosity. But the way this went down with The Vulture and the waiver sought by Benji's parents sticks in the craw of many Hawkeye fans.

I didn't mind the booing. That's life on the road in college athletics.
 
homes said:
I get why the crowd booed, I just think we're better than that response.
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Why? Because we're Iowa and you think that means our sports fans have more integrity than those of any other school? Apparently Iowa fans are NOT better than that.

For the record, I think it's great that our crowd was giving Brust some grief. That's part of a home court advantage - making life difficult for the opposing team. If our fans were throwing things and creating a dangerous situation or something, that would be a different situation. But this is college sports, not a church pot luck.
 
The crowd booed Jason Bohannon every time he touched the ball the last time he played here (2009) and he didn't sign on LOI. It happens.
 
Were not supposed to boo or yell. At least every game i have been to this year someone somewhere close always asks somebody to sit down or could you not yell so much. It's really annoying. It's a basketball game. Why go if your going to sit on your hands and get upset when people around you are yelling...or booing.
 
I think that happened every time he played there, not just the last time. Now if the younger Bohannon ever sees the floor with Wisconsin, I would not see the need to boo him.
 
Thank you for the clarification...

Thawki said:
The B10 didn't change their own rule, Dodger, they made an exception to the rule. Kind of like when they pretty much always give guys that had injury issues in more than one season or that weren't detected properly an extra year to play---except in Jared Reiner's case. They didn't change this rule so everyone would benefit from it, they just decided to stick it to Iowa because we sucked and were irrelevant.

Welcome to Northwestern's world from the whenever until the 2000s.
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and yes, you are correct. The rule is still in place.

And don't get me started on injury rulings and Iowa. The way Reiner was handled was a joke.
 
I fully expected a hostile crowd for Huluska at ISU. Same thing here. Though Brust was never on campus, at the time he was our only hope. And he ripped that hope away from our fanbase momentarily. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 
Iowa has been kind enough to Brust already, they were nice enough to let him out of his LOI and nice enough to leave it up to the Big Ten on if he could go to another Big Ten school. It does not mean we (fans) have to be nice to him when he steps out onto the court against Iowa in CHA.

The OP must be one of those fans that just politely claps every time something good happens and giving me the dirty look when I sit behind him screaming my head off. Or one of those sitting behind me telling me to sit down.
 
So the mob has spoken. I say we kill him. No, I say first we hang him, then we kill him. No, I say first we drag him around the court, then we hang him, then we kill him. [homes - I say we let him go]. NO!!!
 
homes said:
Of course resorting to an extreme position to try to make a point is always an effective rebuttal.I get why the crowd booed, I just think we're better than that response. So he left, BFD. Booing him almost gives him more legitimacy, like the "overrated" chant demeans the significance of an upset win. That's all.
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homes said:
So the mob has spoken. I say we kill him. No, I say first we hang him, then we kill him. No, I say first we drag him around the court, then we hang him, then we kill him. [homes - I say we let him go]. NO!!!
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Maybe you should heed your own advice.
 
You know while we are on this topic, we really should stop booing the officials or questioning their calls. We need to start removing fans from the arena when they start booing. Fran needs to sit on the bench and not say anything bad to the officials or to the players for that matter. Someone get him a pack of gum.
 
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