[turkeysalad]

Will be traveling with a lot of friends and family and unfortunately we are not hearing good things about the reception for visitiors at Desales. I have no problem with a home field advantage and I certainly am about a home team having an intimidating crowd. That being said, I would want our party to be treated with respect and class and if there was an incident for it to be dealt with accordingly. Can anyone give a real report of what we should expect? I have traveled all over with the Pirates and have really never had an issue.

Our fanbase has become profoundly embarrassing; however, incidents have been so bad in the last two weeks, that school administration will have to restrain the crowd; not simply for perception purposes, but for real legal reasons.

The DeSales community contributes to a fund, in order to allow private security and officials of the county police, to serve at the games.

USE THEM.

Point out instances and individuals, which make your experience troublesome. I mentioned this in the Bardstown thread, but for every one negative representative of the DeSales community, there are dozens which want to maintain a positive experience for everyone. If someone in DeSales garb is making any individual's experience negative, please say something to a fellow DeSales fan, and we will happily intervene; it happens during every big game, and most of us are happy to get between you and another DeSales fan.

Do not react in any way which could cause you any potential problems; ask a fellow Colts' fan; we know one another and are significantly more adept at containing our fellow brethren.

I hope the Belfry followers have the time of their lives on Friday.