The Deuce: Yeah I don’t think the oldness of the crowd is new. I also think we romanticize our old crowds a bit

When we get up for a huge game (Wake Forest, Seton Hall, Frank Williams show, MSU College Gameday, etc.) it’s an elite atmosphere. For the run of the mill games, filling the seats and everyone wearing orange was what made it stand out much more than the noise itself.

Before the renovation, the camera-facing portion of “A” section always looked like the people there were attending a symphony. The best part of the remodel was getting that off TV.

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Krush provides a baseline level of noise and atmosphere around the crowd, but the only way it’s a good atmosphere is if the other 15,000 people make it so. Any time I’ve been at a game at Assembly Hall where the atmosphere was electric, it was never because of Orange Krush. It was from looking around the arena and seeing the whole place going nuts.

The reason places like Kansas, Purdue, Indiana, Kentucky feel different is the rest of the crowd feels indistinguishable from the student section. So we can blame Krush all we want and much of it is justified, but if the atmosphere sucks it is much more on the rest of the crowd.