Court Storming

[3TrueFans]

If he's trying to get out of the situation he makes an attempt to get off the court in a quick fashion. It was no secret the storm was coming. Player made zero effort to avoid it.

To me it's like if you start into an intersection after your light turns green and hit someone running the red light. Yes, you should have looked and probably been able to avoid it if you had been better aware of your surroundings, but that doesn't make it your fault because you were just doing what you were supposed to be doing. The fans on the court with time on the clock should not be there, the player should have recognized that he needed to get to his bench faster, but IMO that doesn't make it his fault because he's still the only one of them that has the right to be there.

 

[Dirt Boy 2]

I completely agree. Let's imagine that this exact same situation happens in Manhattan at the end of the season, with KSU in Wake Forest's position and Iowa State in Duke's. We would all be livid at KSU and their fans if any of Iowa State's players ended up in the middle of a court storm in the same position as Filipowski.

Our players don’t need extra protection, Conrad Hawley has their backs. One look from Hawley is like a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick to the face and things aren’t getting any prettier.

 

[ISUTex]

Good luck stopping a court storm when the students are determined to court storm.

 

[ISUTex]

That’s the point. If they could have stopped it by now, they would have. I suppose you could put all students in the upper deck. That might stop the court storming, but would probably cause other problems.

What happens when drunk co-eds start falling from the upper deck and land on old blue haired rich ladies?

 

[3TrueFans]

Good luck stopping a court storm when the students are determined to court storm.

You don't have to stop it, you just have to manage it.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

What happens when drunk co-eds start falling from the upper deck and land on old blue haired rich ladies?

A double Darwin Award.

 

[aeroclone]

You don't have to stop it, you just have to manage it.

Exactly, all that is needed here is controlled chaos instead of complete chaos. We put a man on the moon, we can put a thousand students on a basketball court.

 

[ISUTex]

You don't have to stop it, you just have to manage it.

Agree. Some think we have to stop it. Which is silly.

 

[3TrueFans]

I do think if you storm the court when you were the favorite to win then your next opponent should get to start the game with 10 points or something like that.

 

[houjix]

I'll never condemn the student body (ie the 18-22 yo crowd ) from celebrating this way, but the guy shown in the photo on the ESPN article with his young daughter in one arm and dragging his bewildered slightly older son by the other maybe should have sat this one out.

 

[CRcyclone6]

What happens when drunk co-eds start falling from the upper deck and land on old blue haired rich ladies?

Life insurance money gets paid?

 

[Nor'easter]

It's very annoying that ISU made our student section in basketball and football worse in order to comply with whatever court storming rules the Big 12 has yet I feel like no other schools are making any changes and they're gonna ban field/court storming anyways across the board. So yay for that.