The Cameron Crazies is the student section that supports the Duke Blue Devils basketball team. This section can accommodate about 1,200 passengers. This section, also considered "The Zoo" by Al McGuire for their humorous jokes, and "The Sixth-Man" by Duke male head coach Mike Krzyzewski, is known for being "abusive, abusive and obscene - also funny," said Frank Vehorn of Virginian-Pilot. Crazy people are famous for painting their bodies blue and white or wearing embarrassing clothes. They start cheering as soon as the warm-up starts. Throughout the game, the Crazies jumped up and down when the opposing team had the ball and shouted in unison at the focal points of the match.
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History
Cameron Crazies was named after Cameron Indoor Stadium, where a home basketball game was held, sometimes in the mid-1980s. The name became widely known as Mike Krzyzewski's program. It became one of the best in the country. In an article on Crazies published in 2007, Al Featherston stated, "The Dukes may or may not be the best students... but this is the standard used by everyone else". Several other colleges and universities have used Crazies as a model for their own cheerful parts in basketball games, such as Harvard University and Indiana University, both of which recently printed a series of Crimson Crazies T-shirts. Over the years, some people have noted that the Crazies people have been quiet because of restrictions, such as not being able to throw things to court.
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Krzyzewskiville
Krzyzewskiville is an emergency city where Cameron Crazies camps before the game to get a seat. It was believed to be made in 1986 when about 15 drunk college students hired tents late Thursday and camped for a match that was held the following Saturday. Students follow the trend and finally Krzyzewskiville becomes almost like an official city with its own metal plaque. Before the big game, like the game against the University of North Carolina, more than 1,200 students packed up in the yard. Staying in a tent in front of the stadium almost three months before the game, students use the access codes given to them secretly by athletes to use the toilets at the gym, order pizza and deliver it to 'K-ville,' and follow the strict rules that apply by the university.
Strategy
Since the 1980s, Cameron Crazies has sent embarrassing opponents to the house. The Crazies are organized and prepared for every game, handing out "dirty sheets" of embarrassing information about opposing players, often focused on academic irresponsibility or disputes with the law, and cheering ideas suggested by the line monitoring team Duke student. Once in a game, a television network had to turn it off because the Crazies were shouting about one of the sponsors. Other jokes include throwing raw noodle bags during warmup at Craig Neal, Georgia Tech, aged 6'5 "and weighing 160 pounds, throwing Twinkies into Dennis Scott from Georgia Tech because he's overweight, throwing a pizza box when North Carolina State University Lorenzo Charles walked in court after being caught stealing pizza a few weeks before the game, and Chris Washburn had a note thrown at him after being accused of stealing stereos.After being criticized by The Washington Post, the Crazies changed the normal plaque that read , "If you can not go to college, go to State," and add "If you can not go to State, write for The Washington Post." Once, while losing to NC State , the Duke crowd began to sing, "It's okay, it's okay! You will work for us someday! "Cameron Crazies popularized many famous cheers and taunts, most notably the" air ball "cheers, created in 1975.
Another notable example of the Crazies' antics took place in the Duke/UNC battle on February 9, 2005. This was Roy Williams's first visit to Cameron Indoor as UNC's chief coach after leaving his head coaching position at the University of Kansas. Cameron Crazies uses this knowledge and greets the visiting Tar Heels in creative ways. Some Duke fans dressed up as characters from The Wizard of Oz and set up a yellow brick road for Tar Heels to communicate that Williams "is not in Kansas anymore".
One of their most famous singing happens every time the opposing player fouled. When the player returns to the bench, the Crazies people mock him and sing "Aaaaaah..." As he sits, they shout, "See you later!" Some players have been known to remain standing for a long time - for the rest of the game - not to hear "Bye!"
Criticism
In the past, cheers and singing have offended some coaches and fans, including Coach Krzyzewski, who in 1994 publicly asked the students to cheer for their team instead of against the opposing team. Duke University president Terry Sanford agreed, sending back letters to students in the 1980s, asking them to turn the obscene cheers into "healthy, intelligent, and strong cheers." Television networks also pay attention to one point; in 1979, NBC insisted the delay of time so that the crowd could be censored if necessary.
However, many of these criticisms have cooled since the late 1990s, notably as commentators have noted that modern Duke teams often face far more, and more vulgar, harassment on the streets of teams visiting Cameron because of their status as one of several private schools with a successful basketball program consistently.
References
External links
- ESPN Page2 on Cameron's Craziest at ESPN Page 2, 2002
- Krazy Camp article in Kville at Sports Illustrated , 2004
- Articles and photos from the first Indoor Kville - Cameroon exhibition at Duke University Archives
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