Quote:With the home team’s lead up to five with 17 seconds left, the noise from the crowd at Koch Arena reached a deafening level.

Temple coach Fran Dunphy screamed out the set he wanted his team to run, but knew the try was futile with a sellout crowd of 10,506 roaring in unison.

“We had no shot at hearing anything,” Dunphy said.

“The crowd was terrific here,” Dunphy said. “It’s a phenomenal environment. It’s the first time I’ve ever been here. Many people have talked about it and it’s a special place.”

(02-18-2018 02:01 AM)thespiritof1976 Wrote:  Can you get some cell phone video? I think that might capture the raw sound better.

(02-18-2018 02:16 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  Temple coach says Wichita State crowd gave his team 'no shot at hearing anything'

Quote:With the home team’s lead up to five with 17 seconds left, the noise from the crowd at Koch Arena reached a deafening level.

Temple coach Fran Dunphy screamed out the set he wanted his team to run, but knew the try was futile with a sellout crowd of 10,506 roaring in unison.

“We had no shot at hearing anything,” Dunphy said.

“The crowd was terrific here,” Dunphy said. “It’s a phenomenal environment. It’s the first time I’ve ever been here. Many people have talked about it and it’s a special place.”

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(02-18-2018 11:51 AM)Coog Engineer Wrote:  Cool.

And this is what TDECU stadium sounds like. Sorta makes a basketball arena sound like one of those little handheld transistor radios.

(02-18-2018 10:02 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Mid-South Coliseum could get so loud that the sound became a physical thing - you could feel it. that was a great arena

(02-18-2018 01:41 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  The other day I just happened to be listening to YouTube on my phone with earbuds as I was in a rather noisy environment. I never use earbuds. I stumbled upon a recap of the Shocker Temple game produced by Goshockers.com and Mike Kennedy (our game announcer). What happened next filled me with absolute joy.

I have never heard the unreal sonic force, when Koch Arena gets lit, reproduced in any fashion, on any device, in my lifetime. Yes, plenty of people around the country know our place gets loud, but they don't really know what "loud" is unless they've experienced it in person. For the first time in my life, I now have a way to share the meaning of "loud" with someone that hasn't been to the Roundhouse and feel confident that what they are hearing is a very close approximation of what it sounds like in person.

Now, you aren't going to feel your chest thumping or that eerie sensation you get in Koch when the ground (concrete) feels like it's shaking and your feet get "light", but the strange high pitched shriek along with weird medium and low tones can now be heard below. It's very different from normal loud cheers which are included in the highlight video. Those "normal" cheers are ear-splitting for sure, but the "Koch Arena Roar" is a completely different beast and was what prompted a staff member of the Florida State team to proclaim, that Koch Arena was louder than Duke.

Make sure you use high quality earbuds and have them jammed just about as deep into your ear holes as they can go. You have to get the lower tones to come across to hear the roar effect. It's almost like what you would imagine a mythical Spartan battle cry would sound like or some Armageddon scenario. The sound is borderline supernatural.

I have marked most of the times the "Koch Arena Roar" is present just to make sure those that try to experience the sound are indeed hearing it. If all the roars sound the same you either need better buds, your ears are shot, or you're just not worthy.

Listen from the beginning of the video and the difference between the loud cheers and the roars will be readily apparent. Here are the points that roar:

:36
:42
1:24
1:40
1:49
2:00
2:13





If you're hearing the good stuff you won't be able to keep from smiling. It's that awesome and spooky.


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(02-18-2018 10:21 AM)vick mike Wrote:  

(02-18-2018 02:16 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  Temple coach says Wichita State crowd gave his team 'no shot at hearing anything'

Quote:With the home team’s lead up to five with 17 seconds left, the noise from the crowd at Koch Arena reached a deafening level.

Temple coach Fran Dunphy screamed out the set he wanted his team to run, but knew the try was futile with a sellout crowd of 10,506 roaring in unison.

“We had no shot at hearing anything,” Dunphy said.

“The crowd was terrific here,” Dunphy said. “It’s a phenomenal environment. It’s the first time I’ve ever been here. Many people have talked about it and it’s a special place.”

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I saw a quote that Marshall thought the Koch crowd was the loudest he’d heard in his time there against Temple. Flattering!

(02-18-2018 12:34 PM)Windiwu Wrote:  

(02-18-2018 01:41 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  The other day I just happened to be listening to YouTube on my phone with earbuds as I was in a rather noisy environment. I never use earbuds. I stumbled upon a recap of the Shocker Temple game produced by Goshockers.com and Mike Kennedy (our game announcer). What happened next filled me with absolute joy.

I have never heard the unreal sonic force, when Koch Arena gets lit, reproduced in any fashion, on any device, in my lifetime. Yes, plenty of people around the country know our place gets loud, but they don't really know what "loud" is unless they've experienced it in person. For the first time in my life, I now have a way to share the meaning of "loud" with someone that hasn't been to the Roundhouse and feel confident that what they are hearing is a very close approximation of what it sounds like in person.

Now, you aren't going to feel your chest thumping or that eerie sensation you get in Koch when the ground (concrete) feels like it's shaking and your feet get "light", but the strange high pitched shriek along with weird medium and low tones can now be heard below. It's very different from normal loud cheers which are included in the highlight video. Those "normal" cheers are ear-splitting for sure, but the "Koch Arena Roar" is a completely different beast and was what prompted a staff member of the Florida State team to proclaim, that Koch Arena was louder than Duke.

Make sure you use high quality earbuds and have them jammed just about as deep into your ear holes as they can go. You have to get the lower tones to come across to hear the roar effect. It's almost like what you would imagine a mythical Spartan battle cry would sound like or some Armageddon scenario. The sound is borderline supernatural.

I have marked most of the times the "Koch Arena Roar" is present just to make sure those that try to experience the sound are indeed hearing it. If all the roars sound the same you either need better buds, your ears are shot, or you're just not worthy.

Listen from the beginning of the video and the difference between the loud cheers and the roars will be readily apparent. Here are the points that roar:

:36
:42
1:24
1:40
1:49
2:00
2:13





If you're hearing the good stuff you won't be able to keep from smiling. It's that awesome and spooky.


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That's the first video from Koch I have found to actually concentrate on getting the crowd sound captured. Whoever put that together is to be complimented.

(02-18-2018 10:02 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Mid-South Coliseum could get so loud that the sound became a physical thing - you could feel it. that was a great arena

(02-18-2018 12:12 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(02-18-2018 10:02 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Mid-South Coliseum could get so loud that the sound became a physical thing - you could feel it. that was a great arena

then:

(02-18-2018 12:12 PM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(02-18-2018 10:02 AM)tigerjeb Wrote:  Mid-South Coliseum could get so loud that the sound became a physical thing - you could feel it. that was a great arena

then:


now:

(02-18-2018 12:55 PM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  

(02-18-2018 10:21 AM)vick mike Wrote:  

(02-18-2018 02:16 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote:  Temple coach says Wichita State crowd gave his team 'no shot at hearing anything'

Quote:With the home team’s lead up to five with 17 seconds left, the noise from the crowd at Koch Arena reached a deafening level.

Temple coach Fran Dunphy screamed out the set he wanted his team to run, but knew the try was futile with a sellout crowd of 10,506 roaring in unison.

“We had no shot at hearing anything,” Dunphy said.

“The crowd was terrific here,” Dunphy said. “It’s a phenomenal environment. It’s the first time I’ve ever been here. Many people have talked about it and it’s a special place.”

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I saw a quote that Marshall thought the Koch crowd was the loudest he’d heard in his time there against Temple. Flattering!

He said top 4 or 5 which would still be flattering. It was the perfect setup being down 14 at the half after suffering through near-perfect shooting (maybe a little weak perimeter defense on our part) and then coming back against a new conference foe. This was the 2nd largest comeback from a halftime deficit in 43 years. It required a superhuman effort to dig out of that hole and we were able to bring it. The game couldn't have had any wider emotional swings from period to period had it been scripted.

Koch Arena is always extremely loud. I think what separates the memorable games from the typical is the sustained loud periods. The loudest I've ever heard Koch Arena was an NIT game against FSU. That was the "louder than Duke game". Long sustained periods of "sound you can feel" all throughout your bones. That was a triple OT game.


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