Although this post may seem a little basis, I am curious about your opinions on the subject. As you all know homecoming was just last weekend and the boulevard was crazy. But crazy for what? A football team that was already determined to lose? Personally, I didn’t even go the game because I knew we were going to lose. Our football team is 116 out of 119 Division one teams in the nation. Close to last but not quite. Not having any good sports teams (except soccer which we are 3 in the nation but no one really goes to the games Why? Probably because football and backetball are the most stressed college sports in the sense of particapation or spectators) in my opinion takes away from the school spirit. I don’t know about anyone else but I feel like I have no school spirit because there is nothing to cheer for when your school has the worst sports teams in the nation. In fact, I feel like I’m still in high school and not at college because of this. I cross my fingers for the basketball team to win because apparently in two years we will be March Madness worthy. My buddy that goes to TCU said, "Hey pony boy were going to beat you this weekend." I replied, "I know." To me this seems a little sad to know the outcome for your sports teams before they happen. The real question to ask is are our sports teams always going to be horrible? What incentives would an athlete have for coming here over another school that most likely is a higher ranking team? I don’t know if that sounds like a rant or like I’m whining, but I was wondering how everyone else felt on the subject? Furthermore, are sports the only contributing factor towards are school spirit? Another question that could be raised is how can we improve our situation with our sports teams?
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What were the scores of the last four football games that the Mustangs lost? Do you know the scores? If you do, would you not want to reconsider the statement that the team was "determined to lose"? I ask you this because it seems to me that they were determined to win and lost in overtimes by very close margins. I could see "determned to lose" if the scores were always lopsided, but this was not the case for most of their games. They were in the fight until the last minutes. Then, I'd have to ask you what is the problem with soccer. If we are #3 in the nation, why is it that no one goes to the games? Do you really think that everyone would go to the basketball games if they were #3 in the nation in basketball? I invite you all to tell Plunky why you don't go to the soccer games and whether you would go to see a basketball game if we were a top-ranked school in basketball?
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