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05-07-2006, 11:17 PM
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| Sports At UCSD
I know that UCSD is division 2, but are there people that always go to the games? Is the competition still good between UCSD and other schools? Are athletic events fun to go to???? Especially Basketball, Volleyball, and Soccer. | 
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05-08-2006, 12:21 AM
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| Bump!!!! Does anyone know about the sports situation???? | |
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05-08-2006, 12:26 AM
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| my motto is.. div 2 = no tv. No tv = not exciting. Not exciting = no fan support. No fan support = team sucks. Team suck = no fun. No fun = no school spirit. No school spirit = no social life. No social life = students complaing. Students complaing = bad social rep. Bad social rep = no school spirit. The then it continues in a perpetuating cycle.
hmm MO
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05-08-2006, 12:33 AM
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| i'll be rooting | |
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05-08-2006, 12:35 AM
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| Quote: |
my motto is.. div 2 = no tv. No tv = not exciting. Not exciting = no fan support. No fan support = team sucks. Team suck = no fun. No fun = no school spirit. No school spirit = no social life. No social life = students complaing. Students complaing = bad social rep. Bad social rep = no school spirit. The then cycle continues in a perpetuating cycle.
| Haha, I liked that...'cuz it's sadly so true. | |
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05-08-2006, 12:36 AM
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| yea i think i'll still go to watch...
High School Basketball games= no tv
but its still fun!! especially if you're in the game 
I guess this year i'll be watchin the action from the crowd.
But, still you guys should support the team. | |
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05-08-2006, 05:17 PM
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#7 | | New Member
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| Its all about Men's soccer at UCSD | |
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05-08-2006, 07:00 PM
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| I went to a b-ball game at SD no one was there, the kids told me the school spirit sucks, ie there isn't any. | |
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05-08-2006, 07:07 PM
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| The sad truth: UCSD is an academic school, and it is just that.
I had a cousin who attended UCSD, and he told me that if I ever found an avid UCSD sports fan who attends all the games, that I should run and get a picture with the guy. And then send it to him with a phone number so he can verify its truth, heh heh.
Not a big sports school, sorry. And high school games were fun because you either knew half the team, were on the team, or at least knew a fair share of the spectators. Division II eats away all quality of sports =/ | |
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05-08-2006, 07:43 PM
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| asjdkfjdsa;fjsadsjl. one of the things i wanted out of college was to be able to watch quality D1 basketball and football. but i guess that won't be the case..i'll just have to root for the Cal football team the same way i did this year: screaming at the tv (when games are available) | |
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05-08-2006, 07:52 PM
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| You could always try and transfer, LOL. | |
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05-08-2006, 08:20 PM
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| like one poster already said, it is a cycle. But it can be reversed. If people started going to games, packing the stadiums, bleachers, the college would invest more money into the athletic program, and recruit better athletes. Better athletes would lead to a better team, and maybe an eventual switch to D1. Not going to a Tritons game only leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy of no school sprit and no good teams. | |
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05-08-2006, 09:15 PM
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| yeah i'm probably gonna try to transfer. but who knows, maybe i'll be able to live without school sports. if i end up liking UCSD a lot then obviously i won't apply to transfer. | |
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05-08-2006, 09:49 PM
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| yeah sports was one of the main reasons why i wanted to go to UCLA and why i tried to avoid UCSD
however, i guess its not that bad cus we still got the chargers and the padres to watch
imna try to transfer, but while im at SD im going to try to get a lot of ppl to go to the games, cus as one user said, the more ppl that are interested in sports, the more the school will be inclined to actually put money into improving the sports program | |
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05-09-2006, 12:53 AM
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| I hate to be pessimistic, but... I am, so why avoid it. Here is a post I made in another thread about people complaining about the social life and being determined to revolutionize the party scene. Quote: |
Originally Posted by lecorbeau sigh....we all say this then we'll get sucked into their lethargic neurosis and we won't escape....I'm sure people have tried in years past... | Quote: |
Originally Posted by me I kinda have to agree with lecorbeau on this one...
The problem I think alot of people aren't seeing is that the lack of UCSD social life is a product of the academics and the six college system. If everyone complains about the lack of social life, that implys that all of these people want a better social life. Theres no way that UCSD is simply full of 20,000 boring people. This leads me to conclude that its something else: I'm sure people in past years have been determined to change that social life reputation, and I'm sure many are successful in their own small worlds, but not for the school overall. The cliche statement is true: if you try and make your own social scene, you can make it work for yourself... but realize that not EVERYONE is doing that, thus UCSD will still maintain its non-party rep. Thats why you can find people at UCSD who say "man, the social life sucks" and the people who say "whatever dude, I party every weekend!" Sadly, the majority are the ones saying it sucks. This doesn't happen merely because the kids don't try and have a social life, but because its difficult to balance UCSD academics and quality social life.
While the six college system is nice in dividing such a big school into smaller communities, it does just that -- divides you, puts you at separate locations in the school, and makes your community smaller. You may see this as good or bad, and as helpful or detrimental to the social scene.
The problem is that the academics and courseload are intense at UCSD, and it turns party-goer's such as yourselves into study-goer's. For a little while, you spend all that time cooped up in the library studying while wishing you could be out partying, and after a while of having to always pick study over party, you become accustomed to that lifestyle. Granted, it has the beach and everything, but alot of kids really dont have the time to go down there. Because of UCSD's tough workload, its alot easier to say that you won't get sucked down by it than it is to actually maintain that delicate balance between social life and academic life. | And I truly hate to say it, but I'm sure that the same is true with sports -- tailgaters end up in the library. Getting 10 friends to go is one thing... getting 20,000 to go and pack a stadium is another. =/
UCSD is an academic school... by no means is it a BAD school, quite the contrary, but the sports scene is not one of its strengths. | |
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