Of all the incredible traditions in college basketball, Taylor University’s annual “Silent Night” has to be one of the most original.
Pajama-clad students, faculty and alumni packed Odle Arena on Friday night for Taylor’s home game against Ohio State-Marion. They remained dead silent until guard Casey Coons scored Taylor’s 10th point at the free throw line and then they erupted in confetti-filled mayhem for five straight minutes as though the tiny NAIA Indiana school had just captured a national championship.
It’s a sweet idea, but as you’ll see from the video, it’s not perfectly executed. That’s always going to be the problem: There’ll be some fans of the opponent around, plus a few who just didn’t get the memo.
I’ve always held that it’d be awesome if a closer could organize something like that for his entrance music. Instead of a song, the whole stadium goes completely silent, and the only thing anyone hears is the sound of the ball popping the catcher’s mitt as he warms up. Badass, right?
Problem is if the guy isn’t Mariano Rivera and fans start to turn on him, then you’ve got all the supportive fans sitting silently giving a few vocal haters the opportunity to broadcast whatever they want.
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My goal has always been to see a stadium go dead silent when the graphics guy puts the noise meter on the jumbotron just to watch the thing continue to go up despite the silence. I’m sure this has happened in Florida or Atlanta but there’s no proof as far as I can tell.