What you might see in Dayton on Sunday

[muskieman]

when I read the headline of the topic:

What you might see in Dayton on Sunday

I thought about thousands of dayton fans crying about another opportunity lost.

To know that all you have going for you in life is a basketball team, which has(by their own words) the greatest player in the A-10 but who has never played in an NCAA game.

The question is what will be their excuse this time.
A) the refs gave it to X
B) Our star of the future didn't play
C) Our Saviour of the past four years had 1) the flu 2) the plague 3) a case of burrellist
D) out coach is too short
E) all of the above and we live in dayton

[joeybaloney]

actually, i rooted for x last night. i still can't stand x, but it was in ud's benefit for ri to lose. as far as the tire slashing, NEVER HAPPENED. typical lying x fans talking about how they arephysically threatened and harassed when they go to ud games. doesn't happen. i have a relative who works in security at the arena. he said that stuff just doesn't happen, and i believe him. i have been to many ud-x games and i have never witnessed any of that

[bbaker06]

You live in your own world don't you? I had a roommate in college that was in the band. He said he'd never been treated so poorly as at your Urine Dump for an arena. He said the fans behind the band routinely dumped beer and heckled them all game. Go away already. You're annoying.

[teek]

actually, i rooted for x last night. i still can't stand x, but it was in ud's benefit for ri to lose. as far as the tire slashing, NEVER HAPPENED. typical lying x fans talking about how they arephysically threatened and harassed when they go to ud games. doesn't happen. i have a relative who works in security at the arena. he said that stuff just doesn't happen, and i believe him. i have been to many ud-x games and i have never witnessed any of that


Deny, deny, deny. IT HAPPENED. Check with your the athletic dept., they paid for the new tires!

[XURunner85]

Oh Joey you are so nieve, security is not going to believe a fan from the other team, they live in Dayton, they are one of you. I have a friend who son got punched in the ribs by a UD fan sitting next to him and it was witnessed by XU and UD fans but the security took the UD fan side. I have talked with fans from other schools who have had similar experiences. For a catholic univeristy they sure don't teach to love they nieghbor up there unless he is a UD fan.

[muskieman]

Teek and Joey you can denie all you want but you are wrong about some dayton fans.

[CarlosTheJackal]

It does happen, phoneybaloney and teek.

Personal experience #1: sitting with another Xavier fan in lower portion of bowl, just over where the visitors enter and leave. Cheering Muskies, jeering refs about loud calls. Very large 30 something guy, 10 rows in front of me, starts standing, turning around and giving me dirty looks. He's sitting with what appears to be his mother or aunt. My friend says "Don't get that guy started." I say nothing to the guy, but continue cheering and jeering. He get up out of his seat, comes up to the end of our row, points his finger and screams "Shut the ***** up." He was clearly threatening me. I shut up for the rest of the first half, but mention it to an usher at the half. In the second half, I start cheering again, he gets up, comes to the row, and starts across the row towards us, screaming more obscenities and threats. Other fans stop him, but no one will back us up when I go get an usher.

Personal experience # 2: Just walking around the arena in a blue X sweater vest. Accosted by three student age males in the classic middle finger salute to X red Ts and red face paint, who start screaming and taunting "Don't come in our house", "this is our house". I turn to get out of there, get brush bumped by one of these dudes.

I have also seen and heard plenty "siddown" and "shaddap" in the 400 level seats that is threatening and well beyond the merely irate.

I have good friend and lower level fanatic Cintas season ticket holder, pretty crusty, who will not go to Dayton any more because it is so hostile.

This is not the great balance of attendees, I readily agree. But it is a very strong undercurrent at the UD Arena, and like nothing I have ever experienced in any other arena. I have attended college basketball games as a visiting fan in Milwaukee, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, DC, St. Louis, South Bend, and never had any experience like I observe or personally experience at Dayton.

[teek]

My post above was to confirm the tire slashing incident. I know the person who owned the car and that he contacted the Athletic Dept., and that he got paid for new tires. I am a X fan and will not go to a game at UD. I far as I am concerned every home UD game is an a-hole convention.

[ByronLisKing]

what you might see at Dayton arena is fat, 30 to 40 something year olds wearing UD uniforms shorts and all with head bands and 2 beers really getting behind their team. You will then see the same loser accost a 70 year old X fan in the bathroom when X is up 20 telling the old man that "X sucks."

Dayton is a MINOR league city so why waste tiem talking about them.

Let's talk X.

Let's talk

When the casual college basketball fan talks about the elite schools, the names that pop up most are Duke, North Carolina, UCLA, Kansas, Connecticut and Kentucky, all big-time athletic programs from major conferences.
Rarely, if ever, is Xavier University on the list, but the small Catholic school from Cincinnati has produced one of the most successful programs in the past quarter-century. The Musketeers have won 20 or more games in 20 of the past 25 seasons, including 22-4 this season, for the eighth-best such record over that period in Division I.

[hatsoff27]

My experiences at Dayton have been exactly opposite. I've been to 2 or 3 games between XU and UD in Dayton and have never been cussed at or saw any other X fans get treated any differently. Maybe i've been lucky or maybe it's just been the games i've been to. I went to the conference tournament championship game 3 or 4 years ago and was treated with respect the entire game. Of course X won the game, and the Dayton fans were even congratulating me as I walked to my car in the parking lot. I have nothing but respect for Dayton and it is a great place to watch a game, unless you're way up one of the sides. I always root for them when they're not playing X, unless a loss would help us in the standings. The same goes for UC except you have to have a death wish to go to the shoe for the crosstown shoot out. That's the worst place for any Xavier fan. I think UC fans are far worse than Dayton fans.