OK, an Improvement: Cal State Debuts Flag
A cheerleader who looked as if she were straining beneath the weight ... just ran around the gym floor carrying one of those oversize flags.
It has "CSUSB" on it, and beneath the initials reads "Coyotes."
It's powder blue and white, of course, the school's colors.
OK, one more step forward.
Four students at midcourt are chanting Cal State players' names during warmups. This is something UCLA students always do, in the minutes before the game. Players have to like it, people chanting their names.
"Lance Or-teez!" (clap clap clap ). "Lance Or-teez," (Clap, clap, clap).
They seemed to work through most of the team before the game started.
Nice. Two nice touches.
Keep it coming.
Oh, wait. A step backward. The band was playing even as the guy who's going to sing the national anthem came onto the floor. And they had been playing their first peppy song of the season, "YMCA" by the Village People.
Another problem: J.J. Gould is a detriment on the public address system. He is the master of the obvious. He actually tells people the score of the game ... he tells you how many points behind or ahead someone is. I mean, in case vision-impaired people are at the game?
Gould has a nice voice ... but his content is awful. And he always tends not to shut up. Sometimes you need to give it a rest. Gould rarely does.