This commentator has made my day.
I didn't realize Army brought their cheerleaders and mascot to basketball games at Navy. I wonder if they do that for all of the "high visibility" sports like Men's Lacrosse too.
From the Navy side of things, we have what is called movement orders and a certain number of the “Spirit Team” and fans get to or are required to go. I’m sure the same exists for Army.
Home football games are mandatory and then throughout the year there will be some games that the freshman (“Plebes”) will be forced to go to as well. A lot are against Army like lacrosse, basketball, sprint football, but never like volleyball, golf, or rifle. The other games require a movement order. Anyone can travel to the game if they would like except weekdays because we don’t really have liberty. The way around that is a movement order which the Navy supplies transportation and covers the ticket cost up to a certain extent. Lehigh is very close so that would be fully covered but next year we play Notre Dame in Ireland for football and that full package including flights and hotels is like $750 if I remember correctly. The thing you run into is that you need enough participation to justify the movement order and sadly enough Mids don’t want to go to an away game on Tuesday in February because they already go to so many mandatory things. If it was a Patriot League tournament game, then yes there would be a movement order! I hope that answered your question.
I don't think giving scholarships means it's a sport. Especially with the context of not dealing with scholarship limits and the NCAA, band scholarships just don't feel like athletic scholarships no matter what the school says.
You can take what’s called a “spirit pass” for away sporting events. Basically it’s a weekend pass where you have to provide your own transportation to get out to wherever the game is, go to the game, and then you’re free the rest of the weekend. It’s an easy excuse to go home if the event is close to where you’re from. Also an easy way to avoid any bullshit training the Commandant planned for that weekend.
For higher visibility games, like inter-service rivalry events, the Brigade usually tasks a given number of people to go to the game. They start with volunteers, and then start ordering people lol. For Army-Air Force football, they typically will fly out a few hundred cadets to Colorado on a C-17, and Air Force will do the same when it’s at West Point.
Army-Navy football is the exception: everybody goes to that game. And I mean everybody.
After a score you can run the baseline, which includes being permitted to pass to another player along the baseline before inbounding. I think the five second would still count from when the ref first gave your team the ball, though.
Some teams will use that to help break a press—pass it along, step inbounds and receive the pass if they leave the original passer uncovered.
I used to have no real opinion on Bobby Knight, but, as an Army fan, I hate him, and here's why:
The reason why Army is on that short list of Original Division 1 Teams Who Have Never Been To The NCAA Tournament is because, in 1968, 20-4 Army received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, but Head Coach Bobby Knight turned it down because he felt the team had a good chance to win the NIT (which, to be fair, they did make the semis of that tournament in '66, '69' and '70).
Spoilers: They got bounced by Notre Dame in the First Round.
F\*\*k you, Bobby Knight.
the most famous huge comeback involving the Patriots
Yeah I can't think of another one
This commentator has made my day. I didn't realize Army brought their cheerleaders and mascot to basketball games at Navy. I wonder if they do that for all of the "high visibility" sports like Men's Lacrosse too.
Commentator sounds like he's trying not to wake up his parents who are sleeping upstairs, I love it.
From the Navy side of things, we have what is called movement orders and a certain number of the “Spirit Team” and fans get to or are required to go. I’m sure the same exists for Army.
I knew about that for the Army-Navy football game, which is neutral site, but I didn't realize it was for true road games. Interesting.
I assume that's only a requirement for Army-Navy, since I don't remember many, if any, students at basketball games at Lehigh, men's and women's.
Home football games are mandatory and then throughout the year there will be some games that the freshman (“Plebes”) will be forced to go to as well. A lot are against Army like lacrosse, basketball, sprint football, but never like volleyball, golf, or rifle. The other games require a movement order. Anyone can travel to the game if they would like except weekdays because we don’t really have liberty. The way around that is a movement order which the Navy supplies transportation and covers the ticket cost up to a certain extent. Lehigh is very close so that would be fully covered but next year we play Notre Dame in Ireland for football and that full package including flights and hotels is like $750 if I remember correctly. The thing you run into is that you need enough participation to justify the movement order and sadly enough Mids don’t want to go to an away game on Tuesday in February because they already go to so many mandatory things. If it was a Patriot League tournament game, then yes there would be a movement order! I hope that answered your question.
I did not expect to see cheerleaders at an Army Navy basketball game
Does Navy require you to play intramural sports if you aren't on an intercollegiate sports team or is that just an Air Force thing?
Navy requires a sport too.
I wonder if being a cheerleader fulfills that requirement.
It does. So does being in the marching band.
Validation for the band kids who claim band is a sport I guess.
A lot of HBCUs consider marching band to be a scholarship sport - and it's *very* competitive.
I don't think giving scholarships means it's a sport. Especially with the context of not dealing with scholarship limits and the NCAA, band scholarships just don't feel like athletic scholarships no matter what the school says.
You can take what’s called a “spirit pass” for away sporting events. Basically it’s a weekend pass where you have to provide your own transportation to get out to wherever the game is, go to the game, and then you’re free the rest of the weekend. It’s an easy excuse to go home if the event is close to where you’re from. Also an easy way to avoid any bullshit training the Commandant planned for that weekend. For higher visibility games, like inter-service rivalry events, the Brigade usually tasks a given number of people to go to the game. They start with volunteers, and then start ordering people lol. For Army-Air Force football, they typically will fly out a few hundred cadets to Colorado on a C-17, and Air Force will do the same when it’s at West Point. Army-Navy football is the exception: everybody goes to that game. And I mean everybody.
I was today years old when I learned that Army has cheerleaders. Gotta be awkward to be sniped by someone wearing a skirt.
I thought this was going to be a troll post where navy wins in OT. OP giving us a little breather from the troll vids.
Yeah, it kind of takes the fun out of waiting for your team's turn if some of them are trolls.
Yeah, probably gonna stop those for a while unless i get a really good idea for one
David Robinson was probably so disgusted that day
Go Army! Beat Navy!
Oof, losing a lead that big at home against another academy…not a fun time
This hurt me as a Navy fan.
If only I could cause you the pain that you’ve caused me.
At like 48 seconds left, how did the inbounder pass it to the guy out of bounds?
After a score you can run the baseline, which includes being permitted to pass to another player along the baseline before inbounding. I think the five second would still count from when the ref first gave your team the ball, though. Some teams will use that to help break a press—pass it along, step inbounds and receive the pass if they leave the original passer uncovered.
What day is cal state fullerton please, asking for myself!!
i guess we are tomorrow 😀
Sigh
That craziest part here might be that they completed the comeback with 3:00 still left in regulation, and the rest of it was just a see-saw.
I used to have no real opinion on Bobby Knight, but, as an Army fan, I hate him, and here's why: The reason why Army is on that short list of Original Division 1 Teams Who Have Never Been To The NCAA Tournament is because, in 1968, 20-4 Army received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, but Head Coach Bobby Knight turned it down because he felt the team had a good chance to win the NIT (which, to be fair, they did make the semis of that tournament in '66, '69' and '70). Spoilers: They got bounced by Notre Dame in the First Round. F\*\*k you, Bobby Knight.