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Post by parkerj on Mar 13, 2009 14:30:21 GMT -6
Apparently we really like changing names. A lot of the members of the student section feel like "Klotsche Krazies" is too much of a ripoff of "Cameron Crazies." They also feel that it's too confusing to keep Klotsche in the name when we don't play in the Klotsche Center for men's b-ball anymore
We figured it couldn't hurt to put it up to a vote, so now what we're looking for is ideas for new student section nicknames
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Post by PantherU on Mar 13, 2009 16:15:46 GMT -6
It seems this comes up for debate every year.
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Post by pantherdon on Mar 13, 2009 20:09:44 GMT -6
Confusing? I thought this was Milwaukee, not Green Bay.
The name is derived from the School's first Chancellor, J. Martin Klotsche, not the pavillion. Will the name change back when the women are playing or volleyball, what about soccer, baseball etc. This idea sounds retarded. I suggest it remains unchanged.
BTW- Duke's Student Section is the Crazies, we have the Krazies. Clearly not the same.
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Post by parkerj on Mar 13, 2009 20:14:54 GMT -6
sorry...
*too confusing for the casual fan...all of the regulars know why the name is what it is...
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Post by pantherdon on Mar 13, 2009 20:34:54 GMT -6
The casual fan has no idea who Klotsche was or any concern for what the section is named.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 13, 2009 23:54:33 GMT -6
Personally, and with all due respect to my fellow SBGC members, I came here when we went by the Klotsche Krazies. I didn't understand it; we were playing in the Cell, not the Klotsche Center. Why not something like the Cell Block? The fact of the matter is that don is right; this student section is named for the Chancellor, not the building. It was J. Martin Klotsche who moved from cushy surroundings at Wisconsin to a challenging new frontier on the East Side of Milwaukee. It was J. Martin Klotsche who fought Madison alumni in the state legislature and Wisconsin State College system to build a new university on the East Side of Milwaukee. It was J. Martin Klotsche who took great professional risk in banking his career on UWM, a risk that paid off for 100,000 alumni and 29,000 current students. It was J. Martin Klotsche who captained the ship at UWM, steering it to unprecedented heights. At his retirement in the mid-70's, UWM's enrollment was over 20,000 and much of the footprint was owned by UWM. It was Klotsche who thought it was a mistake to cut football, and didn't see it happen while he was Chancellor. It was Klotsche who supported athletics so much that he lobbied for a then state-of-the-art athletics and recreation facility that still stands to this day and now bears his name. It was Klotsche who repeatedly defended student rights vehemently when most administrators would take the political high road. And that, it why the Milwaukee Panthers' student section is named the Klotsche Krazies. If you disagree with this, read this thread from 3 weeks into Rob Jeter's first season, my freshman year. I thought the name needed a change too: uwmfreak.proboards5.com/index.cgi?board=Section&action=display&thread=503
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Post by DunneDeal on Mar 14, 2009 0:44:39 GMT -6
Honestly...I just would like to make this point.
NO ONE KNOWS that we are the Klotsche Krazies, they think we are the Panther Pack. Few of the students know too.
I say we unite under the Student Black and Gold Club, remove the multiple personality syndrome we seem to have.
J. Martin Klotsche was a great man that did alot, I hate to see it go, but I think it's just been pushed out.
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Post by beartrap on Mar 14, 2009 1:00:18 GMT -6
Honestly...I just would like to make this point. NO ONE KNOWS that we are the Klotsche Krazies, they think we are the Panther Pack. Few of the students know too. I say we unite under the Student Black and Gold Club, remove the multiple personality syndrome we seem to have. J. Martin Klotsche was a great man that did alot, I hate to see it go, but I think it's just been pushed out. i second this post
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Post by PantherU on Mar 14, 2009 12:22:07 GMT -6
Wait...so you want to name the student section the "Student Black and Gold Club"
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Post by DunneDeal on Mar 15, 2009 0:33:49 GMT -6
Nope I think we should not care what the student section name is. The AD has made it the Panther Pack
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Post by PantherU on Mar 15, 2009 7:57:44 GMT -6
The AD is wrong. The Panther Pack is a rewards program for students attending games, but they think that it's a good idea to splash that name on everything, which is wrong.
I thought, Tommy, you would have shared with the board your idea to rename the student section the "SBGC" hahahaha
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Post by DunneDeal on Mar 15, 2009 15:00:27 GMT -6
No I just think we need to unite under a name we know we can use and keep...which is the SBGC, seeing as you want to legitimize it.
I know what the Panther Pack was created for but, the AD did what they did and we have to live with it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2009 18:42:26 GMT -6
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Post by DunneDeal on Mar 15, 2009 19:06:47 GMT -6
Im not looking to change the name of the student section. But I think having two names that we go by.
Student Black and Gold Club and the Klotsche Krazies
Confuse some, and we need to use one or the other, or find a way to combine the two so people don't get confused.
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Post by dutchpthr on Mar 18, 2009 14:52:26 GMT -6
The AD is wrong. The Panther Pack is a rewards program for students attending games, but they think that it's a good idea to splash that name on everything, which is wrong So beside the member card and shirt exactly what else is getting the name Panther Pack plastered all over it to make it so wrong? The only thing that I could maybe see changing is to make the shirt a UWM logo shirt that just states Panthers or somethign of that frame, but you still have to make note of it being a shirt connected to the Panther Pack or else how is it any different from any random ass shirt that bookstore offers or that is thrown out at the games and events? It was said before the "Panther Pack" is the rewards group, the same way that other schools name their student rewards group different from the student section, it is easier to do that as why should the current AD create a student section that they would hen have to take responsibility for? You want freshman and students to know why we call the student section the Klotsche Krazies then start telling them, and I do not mean by just talking to them face to face although that does and will help, what i mean is get something out to them when they are in for initial visits, or when they move in, talk to the department of whatever to get it put into the info for the incoming students, send it out to all of them, who cares if some don't want to read, lord knows there was plenty that I didn't read from what was sent to me when I was a freshman because it didn't interest me or I didn't care about it, but still send it to them because those that do or will care will know and understand it and will continue it on, thats my suggestion, no need to change any name of the student section, but I also think that there is no reason to cut down the program that is helping grow the student section at the same time because it is hard for me to believe that those of you in the Krazies really think that the Panther Pack is not a good thing and is not doing good things for the student interest to the program the whole way around, or do you?
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