Can't disagree. An observation though.Both options are pretty juvenile, and in the case of "Let's Go Brandon" totally disgusting and disrespectful to the office.
I remember being at the bball game in Mackey on senior night in 2019. It was a fun game- we had just beaten OSU and you just knew that team was firing on all cylinders to do something special in the tourney (they did, but still, f'ng Virginia man).
Most will also remember that game as the one where afterwards Painter spoke about killing the IU Sucks chant. He didn't necessary lay into the crowd but he wasn't being easy on Boiler fans either, that's for sure, basically telling the crowd that IU didn't suck and we're not being "cute" when we do it.
I scanned reactions around me as it was happening and some were nodding in agreement, some looking down into their laps or phones, and some just plain indifferent. I do remember one man who was sitting below me and clearly perturbed by Purdue fans getting shamed over it by its own coach quietly muttering out to the woman he was with, "Oh, get off your high horse, Matt. They're just having fun."
Then, leaving the stands and entering the concourse at my section to leave one younger guy, assuming a student, yelled out loud "IU still sucks". He got many people, including me, smiling about it, and sure enough some even replied back with the chant they were just admonished for using.
I didn't make it back for a game that following 19-20 season but from watching it through tv, I never did hear the chant, until of course, IU came into Mackey to play where it definitely came through the speakers loud and clear. Despite Mitch Daniels calling for an end to it, the band changing its playing to not give the chant a que, and a coach even addressing the student section, the students are eventually going to do their thing.
Yes, it's juvenile, but that tends to happen with rivalries and in the grand scheme of things, its pretty harmless. As far as the lets go brandon chant, it's rubbish and should be pretty easy to correct that one at Purdue sports if it does ever take off to have people overpower it with "Let's Go Boilers!"', and if that can't even happen, then something is very seriously wrong with fan priorities at a Purdue game.