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Apr. 10th, 2007 01:16 amChildren? On my bridge?
Apr. 10th, 2007
Heh, the nice thing about LJ and Facebook
Apr. 10th, 2007 02:28 amI've got Facebook set up to pull the RSS feed of my public entries into the Facebook "Notes" thing. I can spout off about ETSU football here and have it automatically transferred over to Facebook, where it's more relevant.
ETSU's football team got dropped a few years ago due to lack of funding because nobody ever went to the games. Suddenly, everyone cared that the local college didn't have a football team.
Well, lately, there's been a big push to bring it back...at the students' expense. I think these idiots are forgetting that ETSU is a school first and a sports team last. One of the more common comments for the team coming back is "It'll make the school better." It apparently makes more sense to judge a school by how well some jackasses can move a ball around than how well it teaches students. These are probably the same people who run off to Knoxville for every single Vols game but show up to a Bucs game maybe once a year if they are in the neighborhood and bored.
"I, and undoubtedly many others, do not fucking want a football team here. We do not want to pay for such a useless, frivolous thing. We came here to fucking learn, not get piss-drunk while some jerk off runs a ball around a field. If we wanted the school to have a god damned football team, we would've shown up those last few seasons in an attempt to save the damned program. The football program adds nothing to campus. It does not help me learn one more damned thing than if we did not have it. It will not provide me with anything else to do, unless you count fighting over parking on a game day. The school should stand on its academic merits alone and not some stupid, irrelevant, pointless game.
This school needs more damned parking before it needs some stupid, fucking multi-million dollar football stadium. ETSU needs campus-wide WiFi before it needs a stupid football team. The professors deserve a raise more than we need a football team. Almost every building on campus needs some renovations before we need a football team.
Take this damned 'We need a football team' idea and blow it out your ass."
I should show up to one of the football forum things and say that, but I don't have a death wish great enough to actually criticize football in a room full of football fanatics who take it as the Ultimate Measure of Everything.
ETSU's football team got dropped a few years ago due to lack of funding because nobody ever went to the games. Suddenly, everyone cared that the local college didn't have a football team.
Well, lately, there's been a big push to bring it back...at the students' expense. I think these idiots are forgetting that ETSU is a school first and a sports team last. One of the more common comments for the team coming back is "It'll make the school better." It apparently makes more sense to judge a school by how well some jackasses can move a ball around than how well it teaches students. These are probably the same people who run off to Knoxville for every single Vols game but show up to a Bucs game maybe once a year if they are in the neighborhood and bored.
"I, and undoubtedly many others, do not fucking want a football team here. We do not want to pay for such a useless, frivolous thing. We came here to fucking learn, not get piss-drunk while some jerk off runs a ball around a field. If we wanted the school to have a god damned football team, we would've shown up those last few seasons in an attempt to save the damned program. The football program adds nothing to campus. It does not help me learn one more damned thing than if we did not have it. It will not provide me with anything else to do, unless you count fighting over parking on a game day. The school should stand on its academic merits alone and not some stupid, irrelevant, pointless game.
This school needs more damned parking before it needs some stupid, fucking multi-million dollar football stadium. ETSU needs campus-wide WiFi before it needs a stupid football team. The professors deserve a raise more than we need a football team. Almost every building on campus needs some renovations before we need a football team.
Take this damned 'We need a football team' idea and blow it out your ass."
I should show up to one of the football forum things and say that, but I don't have a death wish great enough to actually criticize football in a room full of football fanatics who take it as the Ultimate Measure of Everything.