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Now that the Rebs are really good, we can look back on all of those seasons of misery and laugh, right?Kentucky Basketball Spent Just About As Much Money Lighting A Basketball Pep Rally As It Does On Football Recruiting10/14/12 4:50pm On Friday John Calipari and company kicked off the start of the college basketball season with their version of Midnight Madness, Big Blue Madness. Where To Buy Bicycle Tires In TorontoKentucky is coming off a National Championship-winning year so they're allowed to get a little nuts. Best Formal Dresses For Broad ShouldersWe're talking hip-hop music nuts.Puppies For Sale Near Virginia The celebration of Calipari's first championship as Wildcats coach and expectations for this year's freshmen contributed to an electric atmosphere.

Fans went crazy when the arena went dark at 7:30 p.m. and music blared to the entrance of Kentucky's women's team.They were followed by T-shirt giveaways, 3-point shooting contests and a cheerleader performance that built anticipation for the Wildcats' first practice.Calipari and his players delivered, whipping up the crowd by entering to smoke machines and hip-hip music, with Goodwin emerging as the team's best dancer so far.Electric atmosphere is right! But that atmosphere costs money. We all know that Kentucky is basketball crazy, but this seems particularly...out of whack. For what is nothing more than a glorified pep rally, Kentucky is cutting a check for essentially the same amount of money it does trying to fill out a football roster. Kentucky football, by the way, is an FBS team in the SEC. That may have more to do with the price disparity than anything else, but come on 'Cats, at least try! Kentucky, fans revel in Big Blue Madness [Daily Independent]Newsletter Big Blue Madness isn’t about the opening of team practices.

It’s not about showing the fans any sort of legitimate team preview, even though the loose scrimmage offered some insight. It’s about lasers and fireworks, plenty of which were implemented Friday night. It’s about coaches giving fans something to cheer about; otherwise, why else would women’s hoops coach Matthew Mitchell dress up like Michael Jackson—complete with fedora, white socks, a sparkly jacket and one glove—and moonwalk across a large stage? It’s about anything to make fans loud with a nice collection of top-of-the-class recruits sitting in on the Madness. But what makes fans the loudest? observed the entirety of Big Blue Madness with a decibel-reading iPhone app. The readouts were recorded. The loudest sequence of the night was the introduction of a group of UK alumni now in the NBA, and the loudest single moment came from within that sequence when John Wall was introduced. Wall’s introduction spiked the meter at 110.1 decibels.

The top 11 readouts of the night were for player introductions, including all nine of the NBA players in attendance. The other two were for current Cats Darius Miller and Doron Lamb. John Calipari (whose introduction was the 12th-loudest moment of Big Blue Madness 2011) gave what amounted to a campaign speech given to the fans but intended for the prospects in attendance. The speech was as rousing as any that will be given this time next year during election season, but the audible reactions were not among the loudest handful of the night. The biggest cheer was when Calipari referenced his first Big Blue Madness State of the Union-type address two years ago as “the rebirth of college basketball.” It earned an applause of 105.3 decibels, the night’s 18th-loudest moment. Mitchell, who earned a reputation after dancing the Dougie at last year’s event, got 103.0 decibels for his Jackson vignette set to “Billie Jean.” He later took to the microphone and, after telling the crowd that his team had a game in Rupp Arena this season against Duke, asked to hear “what it sounds like when we fill this building up.” The response was 106.4 decibels (No. 14).

The scrimmaging portions of the night saw a considerable drop in energy, and the decibel count shows that. Only one moment in the scrimmage registered over 100 decibels: a Terrence Jones dunk which he alley-ooped to himself off the backboard. It was 103.1 decibels. To compare, both moments in which the public address announcer told fans to make noise for free t-shirts registered over 100 decibels (100.7 and 100.5). If Calipari wants to maximize the fanfare at future events, the numbers suggest: Don’t waste your time scrimmaging; just bring in as many NBA players as you can find. Below is a list of the 20 loudest moments at Big Blue Madness on Friday: 1. John Wall introduction: 110.1 decibels 2. Jodie Meeks introduction: 109.6 3. DeMarcus Cousins introduction: 109.5 4. Rajon Rondo introduction: 109.3 5. Tayshaun Prince introduction: 109.2 6. Darius Miller introduction: 108.9 7. Josh Harrellson introduction:108.8 8. DeAndre Liggins introduction: 107.8