pathetic, and you ought to be ashamed

they just couldn’t hit shots in the first half and made stupid mental mistakes on defense at the worst times.

But even if they mailed it in, that has nothing to do with anyone’s fandom. If a fan’s too fed up to go to the games, then they shouldn’t go. But if you’ve got pride in yourself and the way you come off as a fan, you don’t need external motivation. You either care enough to show up and stick it out or you don’t, its that simple.

It didn’t seem to be that way tonight. Although I did hear some idiot in the PC behind me yell that Hummel is a failure. Ugh.

to be fired up. I was as mad as I’ve been in weeks or months at the garbage calls and our inability to hit shots, but this old dog knows his role. Be loud, be passionate, and don’t ever let outside situations pull you from the course you ought to be on as a fan. I understand it can happen at times, and I’m not even as upset at that as I am the quitter’s mentality I see.

People acted as if we needed to be beating them to make noise. What everyone needed to realize is that we were playing IU, and that’s reason enough to scream your brains out for the entire 40 minutes.

It was still a close single digit game most of the first half until the very end.

Not like Indiana came out guns a blazing from the field either

The next two years of classes on the floor together….sweet Jesus.

most of the Paint Crew brought the noise and emotion for pretty much the whole game until it was clearly over. I’ve just got a problem with the fair weather types who don’t have the spine to suck it up and be a man (or woman).

It made me sick. I had to sit next to iu fans the whole game. They never said anything unreasonable but they did do the cheers after the game. It did really suck when all you can hear in Mackey is iu fans cheering. One of the worst things I’ve experienced in my sports life.

we had to sit through IU fans singing their fight song in our arena. It was terrible.

That’s disgusting and I can’t stand Oladipo and Elston. Fuck them and their stupid fight song.

as a matter of fact who, in this thread, is even talking about performance?

The only people I see talking about the team’s performance in this FP are using it as an excuse to the “fans” at the game not bringing their all. Those same people are criticizing the effort despite the fact that Purdue played as hard as many of us have seen them play all season.

Execution != Effort

What most of is are saying (if I can speak for “us” in general) is that doing your duty as a fan is independent of your team’s performance; you either bring the noise and passion or you don’t. Its that simple. As for me personally, I’m tired of the excuses. Show up or don’t, but don’t be lukewarm.

there was no foul call. If the refs aren’t going to call it, you don’t drive without an opening. I didn’t like the offense either but we were playing at Ass. Hall of Calls North last night, and the team did what they could with that.

and I was there. As far as the “heartbreaking” bit, did bailing out make it better? I’m not here to taunt you or anyone else, but for those fans who don’t have the guts to stick it out to the bitter end you should consider how that comes off. A lot of people have it a lot worse than having the team you love lose a tough game and they soldier on anyhow. It is not unreasonale to expect FANS to stay until the final buzzer.

I apparently speak along with most people on here in that there is a fraction of the PC (and a large amount of the older fans) that can’t take it and that’s pathetic. I was raised 20 miles from Bloomington in an IU fan family when every the Purdue football team wasn’t as good as IU, let alone basketball, where IU won a title when I was 5 and made the Final Four again a few years later, but I (and a few others) stuck it out anyhow.

The current students have been spoiled by the success of the b-ball squad and now that things are getting tough a minority apparently can’t hack it. To those people I say good riddance; the rest of us will continue to do our part with our pride intact. Boiler Up!

I don’t think anyone is trying to dispute that. What I think a lot of people (me included) are upset about is that the minute we got down 7-8ish points, the crowd went relatively quiet. I was in the Paint Crew, and at some points during that game, I felt like I was the only person in my section making a significant amount of noise. I was literally getting strange looks from other people when I was yelling my head off when we were down, as if I was doing something wrong by being loud when things weren’t looking good

I’m always making noise at each game, regardless of the score and regardless of where I’m sitting. Although it has always annoyed me a tad, I can live with the fact that sometimes people are going to be quiet when the game isn’t a close one. However, when we’re playing IU which was without a doubt the biggest game at Mackey this year, I can’t help but be disappointed when people just stand there and watch when things aren’t going our way. If you’re not happy about how the game is going, get loud, cheer on the Boilers, and help them get back into the game.