[Lord Grantham]

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.

With all due respect, the candor falls short.

There was ONE Officer at the Bardstown game, and he was powerless to do anything. There were 3 “Event Staff” women who were all over 60 years old, and did absolutely and positively nothing. And I’m sorry, but the old guard Desales crowd stood idly by and watched it happen. They did nothing, and in all fairness could not have done anything because the ugly truth is that there are more bad actors than good actors. If I were from Belfry, I would bring weapons. They spit on players, and there was a fight in which a 9 year-old child was assaulted and hospitalized. They formed a postgame group that laughed at the inconsolate Tiger seniors, and a coach even participated from the locker room. This is neither hyperbole or sour grapes; I have several of the incidents on video. Be proud, Archdiocese, they are yours!