While watching the Maryland-Duke game, you heard some pretty good stuff. Sure it's loud when 9,100 are crammed into a small gym and they are organized like the SE's, Barra and LN. Just thought I'd pass it along.... Duke Knows How to Cheer Here is a copy of Duke's cheer sheet, which was distributed by students to students before Wednesday night's game against Maryland: Duke vs. Maryland Cameron Indoor Stadium Wednesday, January 26, 2005 The Basics • We welcome Maryland to town. They defeated us last year in the championship game of the ACC Tournament, but now it's time for redemption. • Recently, Maryland's student fans have been getting nationally berated for their crass and crude behavior (you might remember being able to here (sic) their taunts of "F-You, J.J.." on television at the Duke Maryland game in College Park last year, and a couple years before that when their fans threw trash at the Duke bench resulting in Carlos Boozer's mom receiving a concussion). This is our chance to distinguish ourselves from them, so let's be creative, but classy. • Cameron should never EVER be quiet. During timeouts, stoppages, halftime, etc., do something. Make up cheers. Make noise. If you are behind Maryland's bench, make all kinds of noise during their timeouts. We're on national television. Prove again that we are the best fans in the country. Period. The No-No's • D.J. Strawberry is entirely off-limits. NO EXCEPTIONS. Just don't go there. We're classier than that. • Cameron Security has asked us to remind you not to bring food, drink, or bags into the stadium. The Dirt on Our Opponent: University of Maryland Terrapins • Fodder for your cheering creativity. • Although he is no longer on the team, taunts concerning the ugliness of Steve Blake are still acceptable. • Maryland likes to think they're our rival, but our rival is Carolina. Don't forget the staple chants of "Not our rival!" or "We're not rivals!" • Maryland uses the slogan "Fear the turtle" but we prefer "Smear the turtle." • To draw distinctions between us and Maryland, we can chant "We don't riot" or "We don't throw stuff." • The UMD Head Coach is Gary Williams: he tends to sweat, a lot. The standard chant is "Sweat Gary, Sweat!" (Two years ago he was so angered by this chant that he flicked off the student section.) • If (when) Gary gets angry and red in the face, we can chant "Gary needs a hug!" • We can point to Coach K and say "Sure" and then to Gary and say "Unsure." • Gary Williams hates being referred to as the ACC's "second Williams" now that UNC has Roy-Will. • For Maryland's midnight madness, Gary drove out to center court in a NASCAR race car. We could chant "Where's your racecar?" • No. 22, Nik Caner-Medley: Was recently arrested in Portland Main (sic) for drink and disorderly conduct. According to the newspaper: "'Caner-Medley was there, yelling,' said Lt. Malloch, reading from the police report. 'He took his shirt off and threatened to assault (the complainant). (Caner-Medley's) friends were trying to restrain him. He was intoxicated and made a statement, 'I'm from Maryland, and nobody can beat me.'" • NCM's girlfriend is named Myra, and her pet name for him is "Piggy." • NCM was arrested at a bar called "The Old Port" and is prohibited from returning. • A previous cheer we've used for NCM is "Three names, no game!" • NCM's major is "Letters and Sciences" • No. 11, John Gilchrist: Gilchrist and Gary have been having personal problems recently (stemming from Gilchrist's desire to leave early for the NBA). Gilchrist has also been having academic issues. • No. 13, Chris McCray: Second in the ACC in free-throw shooting percentage behind J.J. ("J.J.'s still better.") • No. 23, Mike Jones: heavily hyped player out of high school, but hasn't lived up to the hype and is very sensitive about it. Lots of talk surrounding him about transferring. Very sensitive to the media talk and Internet message boards
I went to NC State, and when we played North Carolina last year we did a chant to Rashad McCants at the free throw line of "STD! STD!" A guy that was a friend of a guy that helped make up the cheer sheet heard from Carolina girls a week before the game that Rashad had an STD, but not to say anything because he gets emotional about it (dumb idiots). I was in the back corner of the student section when the cheer was going on looking up at the Jumbotron and McCants' face was classic, his eyes went from side to side like uh-oh. First time I've ever seen a player acknowledge a cheer. (Have no love lost for McCants. He said in preseason: "Man, playing at Carolina is like being in prison." Then we lost, the bastards.
One time a couple years ago we (Univeristy of Richmond) compelled Xavier's David West to come over to the student section a full hour before the game and threaten to "********** our ********** up." Then security pulled him away, it was awesome. (Note: We deserved the threat, the previous year we were sufficient to make his mother cry.) Edit: WTF, I censored my swear words by putting asterisks in for the vowels. Stupid filter. He threatened to "fvck our sh!t up"
One of the great pranks in ACC fan history. The ACC message boards, particularly Terp Sports, are on fire about this one. The rest of the ACC fan community makes fun of those dorked-out cheer sheets (I mean - "Smear the Turtle"? "Not Our Rival"? Who writes this stuff, my five year old cousin?), but this is the first time anyone has managed to get something by the "Cheer Sheet Committee" at Duke (no I'm not making this up) and onto the sheets. The "best fans in college basketball" obviously don't know even their recent Duke basketball history very well. You need to be registered on Terp Sports to see it, but I'd love to be able to link everyone here to the thread that includes the capture of the IM conversation that the undercover (and still anonymous) Maryland fan had with "CheerSheets" at Duke to get "Myron Piggie" onto a Duke cheer sheet. It is beyond comical. For more info, check my post in the carolinab thread here.
I'm on the Terp mailing list from Washington Post.com and this was sent to via e-mail today. I'll give their fans some credit, they bring it loud every game. It was nice seeing the shots of the dejected fans after their perfect season was ruined. The taunting in the ACC has been some of the best. When MD's Adrian Branch was busted for marijuana possession and suspended a game by Lefty Driesell, a UVA fan made a "High Adrian" sign that got some TV time. There was Charles Shackelford getting busted for robbing a pizza delivery man and Duke fans were holding pizza boxes. I was sitting in the Maryland section at the '84 ACC tournament when Michael Jordan was announced as conference player of the year so we yelled "Player of the Year, Not Here" as UNC got knocked out of the tournament earlier. Sounds kinda tame compared to today's standard of heckling but back then it was a lot of fun. Paul, I haven't checked Terps Sports in ages, what is the address? I need to go back and check it out.
I don't get why they wouldn't heckle DJ. I mean maybe not because of who his father is, but I'd still get on top of him because he couldn't help his team (not that they needed it). If Ronnie O'Brien was out for the year with a broken leg but still came and sat on the bench, I'd be sure to give him some if I was close by. Anyway, I think the cheer sheet is a good idea, maybe one the Barra and SE could get behind. Like BBBulldog's choreography cards last year. It's something we could hand out to the sections surrounding the supporters areas. Maybe get the crowd a bit more into feeling like they belong or something... Thx, Jay!
gocaps, notice that Cheersheets hasn't been logged on since the game? Duke fans are definitely loud, but I'll kill myself if my fellow students at Maryland ever start being like that. Most of those kids now dress up like its Halloween every game in completely non-sensical fashion. They've truly become a charicature of themselves. Give me the "thugs" that we have over the chess club all-stars any day of the week.
Regardless of dorkiness, it's absolutely pathetic that Coach K's wife, among others, has been assaulted with objects being thrown at her head during games in College Park. Like I said, I really don't like either team, and dislike Dook more than any other school, but that's just sad.
If people in surrounding sections want to sing then it's not hard to figure out words. I barely speak English and I figured it out in half hour of first game (English words at least )
I actually like Duke and think that Maryland fans are indeed filthy rabble, but that doesn't stop me from screaming foul things about Duke when Jay Heaps is on the field.
He's probably being hauled before the campus judicial board right now. "Mr. Cheersheets, you must turn in your facepaint, Afro wig, and 'Smear the Turtle' T-shirt to the administration immediately"
He tore his ACL a week or two ago. Heckling an injured player is off limits, but a player's girlfriend or parents aren't. Don't know how many know the story, but former UMd and current Wizard's player Juan Dixon lost both his parents to drugs. Needless to say the Dookies reminded him about it by chanting "crack whore" or something along those lines a couple of years ago. Classy bunch of folks there.
The SEs did have printed copies of songs last year. They were passed out in the Nest and included with day of game ticket orders. We will probably do again for 2005. K
His father, Darryl Strawberry has been battling drug and alcohol addiction for years. As someone pointed out earlier, their "classy" fans didn't show that courtesy to Juan Dixon regarding his parents. My hatred for all things Duke goes back a long time.