The acoustics of State Farm are weird, like others have mentioned. Nothing travels up or across at State Farm as opposed to Memorial, where you can easily hear the volume from the west main (however loud or quiet it may or may not be) from the east main, so basically only hear what's behind you. Obviously, the nature of the bowl, the back seats are far apart, so it can be hard to get into the action on your own, and human nature makes it so if the people around you aren't rowdy, you'll follow their suit. It makes it nearly impossible for energy from Krush at the bottom to spread anywhere. Combine that with the fanbase's general refusal to cheer for the sake of cheering, and you get the product that we have.
When it does get loud tho, you would never know. That volume hits the court and gets trapped down there. It can get loud on the floor level, especially in the second half when the baseline Krush start stomping their feet on the bleachers (granted they're on the opposite side of defensive play in the 1st, but I think they should be doing it all game). You would just have absolutely no clue if you were in the 200 level how loud the students are being, and even less of an idea on TV because Fox refuses to mix in the crowd noise as much as ESPN does (which is why the crowd is always 3x louder on the radio broadcast than TV).
The fanbase, for whatever reason you want to give, just doesn't cheer for the sake of cheering. Mild politeness has been the default for a while now, and that doesn't mix with the acoustics of State Farm. If the team doesn't give a reason to be loud, it never will be loud, no matter how hard people may try to get vibes up. At its core, it's the same problem we have in football, but Memorial (despite claims on here) has better acoustics to hide it (hidden in all the SEZ and NEZ complaints is the incredible acoustics of the sideline seats). State Farm puts a spotlight on the issues. And fixing that issue in the fanbase is a lot cheaper than funding the massive Memorial renovations we all want and building a brand new, acoustically perfect basketball arena. I've got no idea how to fix it, but it's the actual solution to most of the crowd noise issues we have in basketball and football.
TLDR: The acoustics don't necessarily make it hard to be loud, just make it travel around the arena weird, which limits how energy spreads. Krush can be the rowdiest they've ever been, and that energy would struggle to spread beyond the lower bowl. It just puts a massive emphasis on the greater problem with our fanbase, and that's the fact that people don't want to just cheer to cheer; they require a reason to cheer first.
When it does get loud tho, you would never know. That volume hits the court and gets trapped down there. It can get loud on the floor level, especially in the second half when the baseline Krush start stomping their feet on the bleachers (granted they're on the opposite side of defensive play in the 1st, but I think they should be doing it all game). You would just have absolutely no clue if you were in the 200 level how loud the students are being, and even less of an idea on TV because Fox refuses to mix in the crowd noise as much as ESPN does (which is why the crowd is always 3x louder on the radio broadcast than TV).
The fanbase, for whatever reason you want to give, just doesn't cheer for the sake of cheering. Mild politeness has been the default for a while now, and that doesn't mix with the acoustics of State Farm. If the team doesn't give a reason to be loud, it never will be loud, no matter how hard people may try to get vibes up. At its core, it's the same problem we have in football, but Memorial (despite claims on here) has better acoustics to hide it (hidden in all the SEZ and NEZ complaints is the incredible acoustics of the sideline seats). State Farm puts a spotlight on the issues. And fixing that issue in the fanbase is a lot cheaper than funding the massive Memorial renovations we all want and building a brand new, acoustically perfect basketball arena. I've got no idea how to fix it, but it's the actual solution to most of the crowd noise issues we have in basketball and football.
TLDR: The acoustics don't necessarily make it hard to be loud, just make it travel around the arena weird, which limits how energy spreads. Krush can be the rowdiest they've ever been, and that energy would struggle to spread beyond the lower bowl. It just puts a massive emphasis on the greater problem with our fanbase, and that's the fact that people don't want to just cheer to cheer; they require a reason to cheer first.
