<p>Do students from UCSB go to soccer games and cheer for the soccer team?</p>
<p>Go on youtube and search for the video of the UCSB students dumping the goal post in the ocean after the team won the national championship. I saw it last year and there were lots of students participating so I imagine they must have been at the game. Sorry I do not know the title.</p>
<p>it all depends on whether it is a championship game or not, the bigger the game, the larger the crowd. But attendance is always decent. Even the womans bball team gets a decent crowd during winter break</p>
<p>It's better than decent. UCSB had the highest average attendance for all Division I Men's schools in 2007, and also the regular season record for highest single game attendance. Soccer is a huge deal around campus.</p>
<p>Ucsb Soccer School!!!</p>
<p>Yes, great when compared to attendance for soccer games, miserable when compared the usual college spectator sports. Averaging the two = decent.</p>
<p>Yeah, fair enough. Though besides UCLA and Cal, sports aren't that big at other UCs, and UCSB soccer is kind of a unique experience.</p>
<p>Not true sports are huge deal at UC Davis. Brand new football stadium, 26 D1 teams, huge intramural and club participation as well. There is the most sports participation of any UC.</p>
<p>Well, in general, the Big West Conference is a pretty sorry conference. Looking at the most popular sport shared among all schools, basketball, most BWC schools are struggling to break an average of 2,000 fans, pretty sorry for schools with arenas that have capacities of 7800 (Davis) and 6000 (SB). Regarding UCD football, this</a> article in the Cal Aggie was critical about student support at one of the football games this year, estimating that 1,600 to 1,800 students showed up (out of a total crowed of 8876), as well as low attendance for soccer (and Davis made the NCAA tournament this year). UCSB soccer (and Fullerton baseball) are kind of anomalies among the Big West, because they field consistently good programs that make the NCAA tournaments year after year, have great fan support (both programs rank among the top in average attendance), and recruit some of the top atheletes from around the country.</p>
<p>rc251 using a complaint about one game is a poor sample. Also since Davis is brand new to D1 this year you can't claim poor athletic performance. The program is building up. UCD within D2 had an excellent track record of winning. The schools spirit is a huge point of pride at UCD and if you deny it you obviously have never been there. The Aggies are known for Aggie pride. The students both love and support their sports. The students voted a fee increase on themselves, voted to go D1 and voted to keep all 26 NCAA sports.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to single out Davis (for the record, I love Davis, part of me wishes I still went there, and I lived in Davis this past summer with my high school friends who were still attending the university). I follow the Big West Conference pretty religiously, and the entire conference has a problem with getting students out. I know about UC Davis successes as a Division II school (our current men's basketball coach won the Division II national championship with Davis), and the transition is part of that. </p>
<p>I can't speak for the rest of the football season, but the veracity of that article was somewhat confirmed by the members of Aggie</a> Sports Talk, who are some of the most hardcore UC Davis fans.</p>
<p>Thanks for the better explaination rc. My d is very involved in the sports dept. within UCD so I do know that the participation of the students just keeps increasing which is exciting. The D1 program is so new that it takes building up knowledge and participation of the students but that is happening. The article is misleading in that it doesn't state anything about past participation. In the old football field the games would always be packed and so students got used to not being able to get a seat. With the new stadium they are building new traditions which just takes time and getting the word out. The students are responding.</p>
<p>I went to the Cal Poly game and the Riverside game this season....I had fun. The Calpoly game had a turn out of either 8,000 or 11,000...dont exactly remember, but it was a big turnout for a regular season game.</p>