Floor Storming Legislation
After Syracuse’s defeat of Georgetown on Saturday, I mentioned the floor-storm-that-shouldn’t-have been up in the middle of New York. I also mentioned that there had to be certain rules for floor storming somewhere around these Internets.
I think we’ve found the definitive voice on the matter…
Rules For Storming the Floor {Storming the Floor}
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 @ 9:24 pm 
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February 20th, 2008 at 10:19 am
2 things to point out in your previous “Syracuse embarrasses itself” entry after reading this one:
A: When we beat PITT (not UCONN dumb ass) we were 24 and they were 2. That was a HUGE upset. Here’s an article to remind you http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0DA1238F931A35751C0A9659C8B63
B: We ARE unranked and G’town was ranked 8th. That article just said it’s fine to storm the court if you’re unranked and beat someone in the top 10. How about if that team is your biggest rival who beat you previously in OT by sheer luck?
Those kids had every right to be excited that they finally got a good win. It may be the only good one of the season.
February 20th, 2008 at 10:25 am
when a team storms the floor all they do is jump on the court…what does that mean? how does that show respect? that game was not worthy of a storm, plain and simple.
February 20th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I’m sorry if UCONN fans have about as much passion as a potato. Maybe its harder for them to understand respect since their players keep stealing shit.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
BluJ, ‘Cuse fans prematurely stormed the court again on Saturday. Cardinal sin. No defending it.
Speaking to your Pitt argument: Syracuse is more of a basketball school and has much more history and pride than a program like Pitt. You should simply never storm the floor against an inferior program, regardless of rank in a given season.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
HA see thats where you’re completely wrong. 98% of the student body at any given school became fans when they got accepted. How can you actually think that a student is going to rationalize “hmmm well this IS a huge upset… buuuut historically we’ve been a bit better… I guess we’ll all calm down.” None of those SU kids knew when Pitt became a bball powerhouse. All they cared about was “holy shit -we just beat the number 2 team in the country.”
Stop trying to rationalize emotion.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
You don’t have be aware of history as a fan, but it demotes your fanbase if you aren’t. There are plenty of intelligent, historically-aware active student fanbases out there, I thought Syracuse was one of them. Maybe I was wrong.
And it’s hardly “emotion” when students are just standing there, 5 feet from the floor, waiting to storm for about 5 mins as cuse fans were.
I’m pretty much against all floor storming anyway.
February 20th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
The emotion I was referring to was in regards to the Pitt game, which went down to the last 2 seconds -literally. The whole city went nuts and it was easily the biggest win we’d had in years. The student section ran onto the court during almost every single game that season -it was absolutely ridiculous. Most of it had to do with the fact that the University was banning chants and songs that had been part of our tradition. The kids started rebelling, who gives a fuck.
I personally would never “storm a floor” anyway. I just get pissed off at Norlander being all judgy. Fans can react however the hell they want. I don’t understand how someone that didn’t even go to a bball school thinks he can create a bunch of rules for codes of conduct. How can you write about it if you don’t even know what it feels like? At least they weren’t rioting and burning down the nets right?
Every school is different. SU rushes the court for EVERYTHING now. Its unfortunate that their season has been so lame this was the first time they got to do it.
February 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
The floor-storming-ball-bust is all in good nature anyway. I practically judge tongue-in-cheek.
And just because I never had the fortune of attending a D-I school does not mean that I have kaleidoscope eyes to the issue.
It was inevitable anyway: The floor storm used to be a rare, spontaneous thing that came from unheralded programs after monumental upsets. Now it’s become almost as trite and played out as the Gatorade bath. The day we see Carolina, Kentucky, Duke, Indiana, UCLA, Kansas (schools that have never stormed and probably shouldn’t ever) fans lionize their programs on the hardwood, then it can be officially deemed irrelevant.
February 20th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
FIRSTLY, you’ve got to be out of your mind to say that UConn fans have no passion. Are you serious? Every time we won, the whole school went haywire. As did thousands of families in CT who fly UConn banners from their front porches and have 8-year-old kids who can recite the stats of any incoming freshman. We burned trees, flipped cars, and watched, drunk, as a Channel 7 News (or 4? who knows? we were all smashed and smiling) helicopter circled overhead.
Secondly, I know they keep stealing shit and have no regard for anything. But that shouldn’t reflect on the fans and it shouldn’t reflect on the ENTIRE basketball team. Yeah, it’s totally fucked up, but dude, every school has players with issues. It’s not fair to say we have no respect though, as fans.
Thirdly, I don’t think Norlander is being judgy. I think that he’s got an opinion. And frankly, I’d rather have a sports blogger with an opinion of his own who can back it up than one who has no idea what he’s talking about. If you want to read a passive, unanimated, boring blogger, you probably have the wrong website.
For the record, I agree with you though. I think there’s nothing wrong with storming the floor when fans get all excited and pumped up. And especially if the university had started banning shit and stuff, I’m even more on the side of the students.
My only thing is, I don’t like Syracuse.
February 21st, 2008 at 3:17 am
I storm the court anytime I can at the Garden its also fun pulling some classic drunk L-1 / R-1 moves on the ushers. Last year when we beat ND when they were ranked at the buzzer and we might have done it against cuse too.