Storming the court/rushing the field

[DanOregon]

Mushnick is right - ESPN shows them again and again, guess what, they happen again and again. ESPN shows a one-arm catch on its top plays? The next week, nothing but one-armed catches by receivers (whether necessary or not). Its almost become that the court-stormings are more interesting than the upset/kind of upset/vanquishing of long-time rival that inspired them, people love seeing bodies get mashed together.

I see most of these, and they look pretty orderly. But schools should be advised to keep students in one general area, with limited access to the court. I would love to see a case where students jumped the gun and stormed before the final buzzer - resulting in two ts for every student, and allowing the apparently losing team to come back That would be hilarious.
Of course, I LOVED when the Stanford Band started celebrating before the game was over.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Let's be clear.

If the same scene happened at a rock concert, we'd all be breathlessly warning about the probability of disaster, a la The Who in Cincinnati. Nothing different here. Nothing.

 

[DanOregon]

The only thing crazier than students storming the court are the camera people running out there holding the expensive 40 pound piece of equipment high in the air, like they are going to get a great shot.

 

[playthrough]

Mushnick is right - ESPN shows them again and again, guess what, they happen again and again. ESPN shows a one-arm catch on its top plays? The next week, nothing but one-armed catches by receivers (whether necessary or not). Its almost become that the court-stormings are more interesting than the upset/kind of upset/vanquishing of long-time rival that inspired them, people love seeing bodies get mashed together.

I see most of these, and they look pretty orderly. But schools should be advised to keep students in one general area, with limited access to the court. I would love to see a case where students jumped the gun and stormed before the final buzzer - resulting in two ts for every student, and allowing the apparently losing team to come back That would be hilarious.
Of course, I LOVED when the Stanford Band started celebrating before the game was over.

It had been a minute since I last watched Christian Watford's shot, still fabulous as an IU guy. That court storming also seemed like a more gradual thing, which you'll get sometimes with buzzer-beaters. Maybe I'm overthinking it but when a team is comfortably ahead and the fans know they're gonna storm, just waiting for the horn, that seems much more dangerous. And in theory there's time for security to mobilize and the PA announcer to explain that any student caught on the floor is subject to suspension.

 

[dixiehack]

Probably just a weird old man tangent, as I can see the wisdom in this going away. But it strikes me that the momentum for a crackdown is here at the moment in time when college sports are just about to cross over into becoming fully professional.

 

[BTExpress]

If the same scene happened at a rock concert, we'd all be breathlessly warning about the probability of disaster, a la The Who in Cincinnati. Nothing different here. Nothing.

At the concert, 18,000 people were crushing to get into two doors (because the others didn't open simultaneously as planned).

Court stormers aren't trying to squeeze into any limited entrance.

Stuff can happen, because stuff can always happen when you have a mob of people with little oversight.

But it's a pretty big difference.

 

[jr/shotglass]

At the concert, 18,000 people were crushing to get into two doors (because the others didn't open simultaneously as planned).

Court stormers aren't trying to squeeze into any limited entrance.

Stuff can happen, because stuff can always happen when you have a mob of people with little oversight.

But it's a pretty big difference.

I'll give that. But searching out the inaccuracies in the statement is still, in a way, minimizing the danger of the current situation. Suffice it to say somebody is probably going to get hurt.

 

[wicked]

They’re real amateurs in Miami. For beating the No. 11 team in the country? I expect more from a power conference school.