For those of you going to the game this weekend, the Ticats need your help now more than ever .
One thing that gives the hone team a significant advantage is the noise when the Visiting team has the ball.
Typically when you call a play in the huddle the play can be altered after the QB has a chance to see the alignment of the defence.
For example , he may call a running play but now see that the linebackers are playing up and he might want to change the play on the fly . This happens very often and is part of the game strategy . Now , if the team sees this and is unable to change the play this can be a bad thing for the visiting team as they will feel they are running a play against a situation that could bring poor results
This is one reason why it is important to make NOISE when MONTREAL has the ball so it makes it next to impossible to change the play ( call an audible )
The noise also make it hard for their players to hear the snap count and you can tell if you see the QB tapping his foot to indicate to the center when to hup the ball. So , the center also has to look back for that which he normally doesn’t have to do .
The Noise can rattle an offence and cause them to USE VALUABLE time outs, use too much time on the clock and get a penalty , go offside , miss the play call or audible, get a procedure call . Iy causes stress to the offence.
The noise also pumps up the defence and intimidates the offence. A rookie QB like Smith could get rattled more than say Calvillo or Ray . You all saw the Hamilton offence begging us to make noise in the last RAY drive in the game against the ARGOS as they know what it can do to an offence. It gives the defence a distinct advantage and we need all the advantages we can get at this time
So , what I am saying is let’s go out there in GUELPH and make NOISE more than we ever have . Let’s make TSN and the TV audience shocked and show our Ticats how much we want that HOME playoff game and how much we want to win and are behind them .
So here is what to do . Come to the game with NOISE makers . Whether it be a cow bell or Horn (vuvuzela ) . plastic horn. Whatever you can find that will make noise will do as we need each person making noise . Of course you can stomp your feet , clap your hands and scream . Those making noise make sure you encourage the people around you to make noise as well.
This can be referred to as the 13 th man ..all this noise is like having an extra player on defence .
Am I the only one who finds these constant "when to make noise 101" threads to be awfully tiring and more than a little condescending?
Good play on the field equals a loud, boisterous crowd. If the defense is laying an egg, and the offense is unable to stay on the field for more than the occasional two-and-out, the crowd loses energy and the noise level goes down.
I haven't seen anything all year in Guelph that could be considered inappropriate crowd noise when the 'Cats have the ball.
I am anticipating a great crowd on Saturday, and more than a few Montreal fans being awfully quiet as their team gets spanked. JMHO.
This was not a crowd noise 101 . Other posts told people not to make noise when the ticats have the Ball .
I am simply reminding people that if it is very loud that it indeed makes a huge difference and god knows we need help right now
I also find it annoying that when I come on here as a die hard fan trying to do whatver it takes to help my team sending out a note to my fellow die hards that I get a note like this back . If you want to be an armchair fan and cheer when a good play is made than that is your choice . Not everyione goes to the game for the same resaon . I am just trying to speak to the people that feel their presence / noise can make a difference.
This is from the Season Ticket Package Passport Booklet.
Q&A with Head Coach Kent Austin
HOW CAN THE FANS IN THE STANDS HELP THE TEAM?
" Having a full, noisy stadium for all nine games in Guelph will provide us with a huge competitive advantage over our opposition. We want our fans to get rowdy, make noise for our defence, and create an atmosphere that makes it difficult for other teams to execute. It's going to be a great environment. It's going to be intimate. It's going to be exciting. Our fans are going to be a big part of making Alumni Stadium our home."
Im all for crowd noise and I'm pretty good at losing my voice at Ticat home games for my endless cheering (much to the chagrin of my Fiancé who is a speech language pathologist 8) ).
But rest assured, Troy Smith at Ohio State would have attended louder practises and spring scrimmages than whatever noise 13000 fans can generate @ Alumni Stadium! He'll be un-phased by the crowd on Saturday unfortunately.
Except if all 13000 fans had and knew how to properly use one of these bad boys :lol:
What a difference home field was for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers last week. After dropping four straight games on the road, the Bombers finally got back in front of a wildly enthusiastic home crowd and fed off the energy to register their first win.
Some may say they were a little fortunate but, as the old saying goes, at the end of the year they don't ask how, just how many. And for the Bombers, last week was number one.
It was a close game that went right down to the wire where the key play was, fittingly, created by pure hustle and adrenalin: defensive tackle Jake Thomas forcing a Steven Jyles fumble to seal the win. That type of play was fitting because this was a different Bomber team playing in front of the home crowd than the one Winnipeg football fans watched on TV the first four weeks, especially on defence.
The energy in the old Canad Inns Stadium was electric and the Bomber defenders fed off that energy and were flying around. Case in point: according the official stats, Jonathan Hefney may have only registered four tackles, but he was all over the field and as animated as he has been all year.
It looked as close to that aggressive, "in your face," Bomber defence from 2011 as we have seen all year, and that is why it shouldn't have been a surprise that the game-winning play was made on sheer adrenalin and hustle.
It was also a great reminder of how important home field advantage can be. I know that the visiting team won three out of four games last week, but when the fans are as loud and as intense as they were in Winnipeg, they can make it very difficult on the visitors, and in a small way actually influence the outcome of a game.You never know if that one procedure call that the opposition's offence takes because they can't handle the crowd noise is going to be the play that makes the difference.
Troy Smith has also started NFL games. Crowd noise won't bother him anymore than it would any other QB.
Also, teams don't really audible plays at the line in the CFL. The playclock simply doesn't leave you with enough time to audible a play on the fly the way you do in the NFL, with a 40-second playclock. At most, the QB can audible into one another alternative play he already received from the OC, and/or change the protections at the line if he sees blitz or whatever. Crowd noise, in the CFL, is thus more effective at disrupting the timing of the ball being snapped, as the QB has to go to a silent count and the offense is then more likely to take a time-count, procedure or offsides penalty.
The only effect that crowd noise has upon a game is in the way of officiating …
When athletes are at home, they don’t seem to hit or pitch better in baseball … or pass better in football. The crowd doesn’t appear to be helping the home team or harming the visitors. We checked “the vicissitudes of travel? off the list. And although scheduling bias against the road team explains some of the home-field advantage, particularly in college sports, it’s irrelevant in many sports.
So if these popular explanations don’t have much explanatory power for home-field advantage, what does?
In a word: the refs. Moscowitz and Wertheim found thathome teams essentially get slightly preferential treatment from the officials, whether it’s a called third strike in baseball or, in soccer, a foul that results in a penalty kick. (It’s worth noting that a soccer referee has more latitude to influence a game’s outcome than officials in other sports, which helps explain why the home-field advantage is greater in soccer, around the world, than in any other pro sport.)
Moscowitz and Wertheim also make clear, however, an important nuance: official bias is quite likely involuntary.
What does this mean? It means that officials don’t consciously decide to give the home team an advantage — but rather, being social creatures (and human beings) like the rest of us, they assimilate the emotion of the home crowd and, once in a while, make a call that makes a whole lot of close-by, noisy people very happy.
Simoni Lawrence ? @Simoni_Lawrence
i ask for one thing....... #ticat fans i just want NOISE loud loud NOISE who is with myself and the TicatS D ?
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This is observably untrue. Watch video of some BC Lion home playoff games from the last twenty years. There have been many times when visiting offenses in BC have been literally unable to get the snap off in time or coordinate their actions with the snap of the ball as a direct result of crowd noise. Many times, offensive lineman end up using mitigating tactics like using hand contact between one another to communicate the snap down the line, which would not be necessary in front of a home crowd. Any time a team is forced to adapt their behavior away from their usual optimal procedure to an alternate procedure (e.g. switching to silent count, hand contact among offensive linemen), it benefits their opponent. If the adapted behavior was itself discovered to be universally advantageous, teams would use that behavior equally in home and away games rather than only using it on away games.
I suspect that the Scorecasting authors claims are valid up to a certain threshold of field level noise volume, but once that volume threshold is crossed, crowd noise begins to affect execution in football: particularly getting the snap off at the correct time, and offensive players getting off the ball.
If you’ve read the book, did the Scorecasting authors look at each penalty call individually and make an independent determination of which calls were correct and which were incorrect, or did they just look at the aggregate statistics of the number of calls each way? That is: do the authors claim that refs make more calls against visiting teams that are INCORRECT, or do they merely observe that refs make more calls against the visiting team? If it’s the latter, it’s plausible to suggest that visiting teams may legitimately commit more actual fouls, and it’s conceivable that crowd noise could be a contributing factor. In the case of football, we would specifically expect a greater number of time count and procedure penalties against the visiting offense due to crowd noise. It’s also possible that an increased number of legitimate fouls committed by the visiting team might be IN ADDITION TO an increased tendency of officials to make incorrect calls against the visiting team.
Yes. I’ve read the book and corresponding studies. I wouldn’t reference something if I hadn’t.
To answer your question, yes, they looked at each penalty call individually. In fact they had referees watch the tape. Half with game noise piped through headphones, the other half without crowd noise. Penalties/calls in favour of the home team or against the away team were higher with those listening with full crowd noise through headphones.
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Thanks to everyone who made it out to Alumni Stadium today. You were wet. You were cold. But you were LOUD. See you in a couple weeks.
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