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Subject: More bad news Author: Go Green [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:10:34 03/21/26 Sat In reply to: joiseyfan 's message, "MBB — #14 Penn vs. #3 Illinois Thursday in Greenville" on 20:43:07 03/15/26 Sun Apparently the Penn student cheering section started chanting “That’s all right, that’s ok! You’re going to work for us someday!” In the closing minutes of the Illinois game. The Illinois faithful thought it was classless and is telling the rest of the world about it in social media. The rest of the world agrees with Illinois. I’m well aware that such cheers and cheers like it go back generations. But we got to knock that s—t off. There are reasons why people are pleased to see the current administration inflict pain on the Ivy League. This is one of them. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: More bad news Author: joiseyfan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:56:15 03/21/26 Sat To quote the sage: Act as if you’d been there before. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: More bad news Author: Bella [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:29:39 03/21/26 Sat I agree with Go Green on this. These chants go back a long time and the Ivies are not the only student sections who have ever shouted them. But 2026 is exactly the wrong time to say them. When people already dislike or resent you, don’t give them a reason to hate you. Leave it to the clowns at Penn to be unable to read the room. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: More bad news Author: M3 [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:40:31 03/21/26 Sat I think any student section at any of the Ivies could be capable of this chant Arrogant/ classless And you wonder why a lot of Americans dislike the IL? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: More bad news Author: Memphis Bill [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:56:24 03/21/26 Sat The Stanford student section, during the Big Game vs Cal, used to take out their car keys and shake them at the state school kids, “we’re rich and you’re not.” Obnoxious! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: More bad news Author: sparman [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:55:20 03/21/26 Sat Kind of depends on the logo on the key. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Some press picked it up Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 08:35:41 03/22/26 Sun https://phlsportsnow.com/penn-fans-chant-sparks-controversy-in-loss-to-illinois/ [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Some press picked it up Author: joiseyfan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:20:36 03/22/26 Sun This discussion has regrettably brought back to mind a sweatshirt actually seen at a basketball game decades ago: Penn. An Ivy League School. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Some press picked it up Author: Bengal [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:42:03 03/22/26 Sun Penn had to deal with, decades ago, confusion with Penn State. Almost every state (not NJ) names its flagship public university with the state name, plaino. Well, the Univ of Pennsylvania is not the state school in Pennsylvania. Mid 70s in post grad time at Penn, it happened to me after replying to someone I was at Penn. “oh you guys had a great game yesterday,” referring to PSU. Got to the point where, if I remember correctly, Penn students has t-shirts reading “not Penn State.” The Univ undertook a branding campaign, I believe. It’s football programs instructed the game day commentators to refer to them as the Univ of Pennsylvania the first time they opened their mouths snd to refer to the school as “Penn” thereafter. It worked as far as I can tell, when was the last time you heard Penn mixed up with PSU? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: One reason why it worked... Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 18:39:56 03/22/26 Sun Penn v. Penn State confusion reached its apex when Penn did its Final Four run in 1979. They haven't come close to doing that again since. If Penn ever makes a serious run in the NCAA tournament again, we will see if the general public differentiates between Penn and PSU. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: One reason why it worked... Author: observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 04:46:34 03/23/26 Mon Penn ain't making a run in the tournament ever again. At least not until the Ivy commits to playing the D1 game. This year's sweet 16: 6 B1G 4 SEC 3 XII 2 Big East 1 ACC No more room at the inn for anyone else. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Geniuses at Penn Author: Bella [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:11:49 03/22/26 Sun This will blow over soon enough, but I hope the genius Penn student who started the chant finds out that his (I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume it was a "he") initiative to vent his frustration over losing a basketball game was tweeted out by Yahoo Sports to 1.9 million views. That's 1.9 million people who just got the message Penn students are a--holes. This Penn genius has caused a small and brief -- but real -- public relations problem for Penn and Penn alumni. An Ivy League student should be smart enough to realize that a lot of people don't like Ivy Leaguers. A guy who transferred into the Ivy League once liked to talk about it, but now realizes that there is political advantage to attacking these institutions and especially their faculty and alumni. Penn geniuses. We Ivy sports fans like it when our alma mater makes the NCAA tournament because, for once, we have a national audience. It's a shame when the national audience takes away a negative impression. Penn fans, you would be wise to learn the appropriate lesson here. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Geniuses at Penn Author: sparman [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 15:26:40 03/22/26 Sun Exactly. I always associated this kind of thing with high schools, where immaturity is no more welcome, but unfortunately more common. Maybe this person was channeling his high school self. Let's hope he's at least smart enough not to claim it as a badge of honor. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]