Purdue Fans - Welcome to the "Trapezoid of Terror"

[Scarlet Town]

Red and white options should be available tomorrow!

 

[RutHut]

Are Indiana high schools massive regional schools? Do the gyms need to be that big because whole communities go to games? Or both? Those are some big gyms.

 

[StyleKnight]

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What gym is that? Looks similar to the Palestra.

 

[cubuffsdoug]

What gym is that? Looks similar to the Palestra.

I think Butler.

 

[S_Janowski]

This is cheesy.

Let’s just stick with The RAC.

 

[RUnTeX]

What gym is that? Looks similar to the Palestra.

Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler U in Indianapolis; incidentally where SHOE just won on the road against #5 Butler last night.

 

[cubuffsdoug]

Gyms like that, the RAC, Palestra, and a few others have character that sets them apart from stale, generic arena we see across the B1G. Those generic gyms have appeal to their fanbase but don't generate national talk or history like the bandboxes.

 

[BigRnj]

This is cheesy.

Let’s just stick with The RAC.

I agree it seems forced... and I have never heard it used outside of this forum. Clever? Mildly. Cool? No it’s nerdy. Sorry that’s the facts.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

 

[rsutton86]

Cameron Indoor stadium only has a capacity of 9300. With a renovation in the old 118 area and expanding the current student section to the baseline, the arena can easily be expanded to 9500.

question for long time fans - is there an opportunity to creat a space for a portion of the band on the floor or in the corner (floor seats plus drums) to create even more room in the student section. I see some college bands on the floor or a portion of them on the floor.

 

[AreYouNUTS]

Cameron Indoor stadium only has a capacity of 9300. With a renovation in the old 118 area and expanding the current student section to the baseline, the arena can easily be expanded to 9500.

question for long time fans - is there an opportunity to creat a space for a portion of the band on the floor or in the corner (floor seats plus drums) to create even more room in the student section. I see some college bands on the floor or a portion of them on the floor.

There’s no need for the band to take up as much room as it does. They can easily be compressed into half the rows that they currently use.

 

[Degaz-RU]

Bumping this to “welcome” the Boilermaker fans to our cozy arena.

 

[just.a.fan]

Are Indiana high schools massive regional schools? Do the gyms need to be that big because whole communities go to games? Or both? Those are some big gyms.

My old high school in Indiana had a gym seating 4400 with 800 students grades 9-12.

 

[KevH]

I don't like trapezoid of terror. It feels like trying way to hard. We have an awesome nickname. "The RAC" is awesome.

Yeah, Trapezoid of Terror sounds like an amusement park ride. If anything other than The RAC, I think "The Trap" would be a little better than the ToT.

 

[Fzacsattac]

I don't like trapezoid of terror. It feels like trying way to hard. We have an awesome nickname. "The RAC" is awesome.

Yea...sounds cheesy

 

[Fzacsattac]

Why not call it the tRACezoid of terror

even cheesier......lol

 

[willisneverrana43]

This is cheesy.

Let’s just stick with The RAC.

Dear Lord I can’t wait for this murmur to die. Fortunately—and of course—only a small handful of people who apparently have pictures of t-shirts that nobody wants has been saying this thing for like 12 days. It’s the most awkward, goofy wannabe nickname for an arena ever mused into existence, made worse because the arena has already had for decades a great, natural, well-known nickname that is neither forced nor embarrassing.

Purdue. Welcome to the RAC, which is where you thought you were going. It’s not a low-budget 1963 Vincent Price movie. It’s a basketball arena, and the RAC will be rocking.

 

[RUissy]

Dear Lord I can’t wait for this murmur to die. Fortunately—and of course—only a small handful of people who apparently have pictures of t-shirts that nobody wants has been saying this thing for like 12 days. It’s the most awkward, goofy wannabe nickname for an arena ever mused into existence, made worse because the arena has already had for decades a great, natural, well-known nickname that is neither forced nor embarrassing.

Purdue. Welcome to the RAC, which is where you thought you were going. It’s not a low-budget 1963 Vincent Price movie. It’s a basketball arena, and the RAC will be rocking.

Agree 100%. The RAC...no need for anything else.

 

[hoquat63]

Believe it or not Dunellen High School once had the largest gym in the state.

 

[TODDB33]

Believe it or not Dunellen High School once had the largest gym in the state.

And at one time they had some great BB teams. Group 1 school playing bigger schools

 

[Rutgers25]

Dear Lord I can’t wait for this murmur to die. Fortunately—and of course—only a small handful of people who apparently have pictures of t-shirts that nobody wants has been saying this thing for like 12 days. It’s the most awkward, goofy wannabe nickname for an arena ever mused into existence, made worse because the arena has already had for decades a great, natural, well-known nickname that is neither forced nor embarrassing.

Purdue. Welcome to the RAC, which is where you thought you were going. It’s not a low-budget 1963 Vincent Price movie. It’s a basketball arena, and the RAC will be rocking.

Agree! So cheesy. The RAC works perfectly fine!

 

[hoquat63]

And at one time they had some great BB teams. Group 1 school playing bigger schools

Won group 1 state championships at least three times twice in 40’s last in 1959. Had a good chance in my daughters senior year (94) but got knocked off by Piscataway VoTech in semis (I think) PVT went on to win title but were later disqualified when it was discovered they had a couple of players from NY who they illegally recruited. Gentleman who sits in front of me at women’s games was Middlesex VoTech super at the time. I always bust his chops about it.