[2006alum]

Just for you young guys who weren’t there and have experienced Maples in the last decade.

It is impossible to explain the atmosphere at Maples during Monty’s run. Going forward Stanford should not allow men’s basketball to be played there. It is sacrilege.

+1. Though IMHO, it was not just Monty, but pre-renovated Maples (coincidentally, it got renovated around the same time Monty left). They got rid of the bouncy floors and replaced the metal student bleachers section with those weird white flat plastic/rubber stair rows. The net effect greatly diminished the ability for students to loudly and boisterously influence the game atmosphere. (Of course, you also need to have loud and boisterous students, a necessary precondition neither Johnson nor Dawkins nor Haase has managed to achieve for very long...)

[2006alum]

Just for you young guys who weren’t there and have experienced Maples in the last decade.

It is impossible to explain the atmosphere at Maples during Monty’s run. Going forward Stanford should not allow men’s basketball to be played there. It is sacrilege.

+1. Though IMHO, it was not just Monty, but pre-renovated Maples (coincidentally, it got renovated around the same time Monty left). They got rid of the bouncy floors and replaced the metal student bleachers section with those weird white flat plastic/rubber stair rows. The net effect greatly diminished the ability for students to loudly and boisterously influence the game atmosphere. (Of course, you also need to have loud and boisterous students, a necessary precondition neither Johnson nor Dawkins nor Haase has managed to achieve for very long...)