If you think our student section is loud… In
regards to your men’s basketball article by AJ Cadman
(“UCLA
prevails in close game with Gauchos,” Nov. 30) about the
UCSB game and its idea of a “boisterous student
section,” I suggest you take a trip to UCSB’s
Thunderdome and see what a real student section sounds like. Your
student section is a joke. UCSB will be on ESPN in January playing
Long Beach State. Why don’t you come up to the game or watch
it on TV? Then you will hear and feel what a
“boisterous” crowd sounds like. It’s too bad that
UCLA won’t come up to play us at the T-dome. Last year, the
Stanford coach was quoted as saying, “This is one of the
craziest college atmospheres we have played in,” after the
Cardinals barely beat UCSB in Santa Barbara. All in all, we are
very proud of our Gauchos, who played most of the game with three
freshmen and two sophomores. As your article correctly noted, UCSB
was undermined and UCLA was lucky our main player, 6-foot-9 Adama
Neyei, was out. Good luck the rest of the season and next time we
will get you. As our small yet loud fans yelled last night …
“over-rated… over rated.”
Reza Garajedaghi UCSB alum
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