In the Sunday's TD, the featured letter to the editor was from a VCU alumnus, decrying the behavior of some VCU fans directed toward the Northeastern team. She said that the usage of SUK and other profanity was overdone and an embarassment to the University. Although I was not at the game, if her allegations are true, then I agree. We should cheer loudly for our team and give our opponents respect and courtesy. Boorish behavior should not tolerated. We have a hard time getting quality opponents to play us at the SC and this does not help.
Respect and Civility
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As much as I agree on the point of civility, I don't believe our fans are any more raucous or profane than any other fans of "big ticket" teams out there. I mean, have you been to a Maryland game? A school where chants of "F___ (player)" rain down regularly from the stands. J.J. Redick is still whining to Dick Vitale about the "emotional trauma" that Terp fans gave him.
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While I certainly don't want to succumb to the 'almost everyone else does it too' rationale/excuse, and I would hope we could hold ourselves to a higher standard (although not the purist standard by any means), I do think it's important to recognize the over-all landscape and keep perspective about the background against such things should be judged. Again, not that the many, many, many other examples out there justify anything, but that they should at least be kept in mind before any attempt is made to single us out as especially bad examples.