<p>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.</p>
<p>Bump!!!! Does anyone know about the sports situation????</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>hmm MO</p>
<p>i'll be rooting</p>
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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 cycle continues in a perpetuating cycle.
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<p>Haha, I liked that...'cuz it's sadly so true.</p>
<p>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 :)</p>
<p>I guess this year i'll be watchin the action from the crowd.
But, still you guys should support the team.</p>
<p>Its all about Men's soccer at UCSD</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The sad truth: UCSD is an academic school, and it is just that.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 =/</p>
<p>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)</p>
<p>You could always try and transfer, LOL.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>yeah sports was one of the main reasons why i wanted to go to UCLA and why i tried to avoid UCSD</p>
<p>however, i guess its not that bad cus we still got the chargers and the padres to watch</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>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. </p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.
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<p>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. =/</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>having all suites is another killer of the social scene. i know this is a sports topic, buuuut, idc. lol. not having the standard 2 kids in a room and thats IT (no open doors to the hallway, no community bathrooms) is one of the killers. there are SO many social-life-kilers at SD i think it would be near impossible to overcome it all. lol.</p>
<p>but sports. yeah. too bad. ::sadface::</p>
<p>i wanna play beach soccer. maybe i should try to start a club.</p>
<p>Yeah.... there are a lot of innate "social killers." Everything I've read leads me to believe that UCSD is the result of concessions made by University of California to the city of La Jolla. Students on campus live at six arbitrary residential colleges and are further subdivided into suits of 10-12 rather than long halls of hundreds. </p>
<p>There has also been heavy oppostion to to Division 1 sports from the community of La Jolla and the administration and faculty, which I find humorous. Yet what's even more ridiculous is that when taken to a vote, the majority of students who care enough to vote actually oppose the jump from Div II to Div I. There have been numerous other examples of students restricting themselves (i.e. the shutdown of student run television).</p>
<p>While I'd love to blame the UCSD administration and La Jolla for all of UCSD's problems (and I frequently have), the last 2 years here have lead me to believe that the student body, especially in recent years, has played a large role in UCSD's lameness. To say that UCSD's students are "boring" is unfair (especially because I don't want to call myself boring). However, to say that the majority of the student body is "apathetic" seems fairly realistic. </p>
<p>So while UCSD is designed to never become a Cal or UCLA (in my opinion), the students themselves don't seem to take any kind of initiative to make any kind of change to improve UCSD. Therefore, the policies here are those of the administration, La Jolla, and a small minority of outspoken students and organizations (i.e. the SAAC orgs). The majority quickly conforms because it's easier than speaking up. The policies on this campus are a whole different level or ridiculous, but since this a thread about Div 1, I've been trying to keep my ranting on topic.</p>
<p>No, we don't have Div 1 sports, spirit, or a significant social scene on this campus. But in my opinion, we get what we "pay" for.</p>
<p>i would join that club if you did</p>
<p>Him253 - Why is there opposition from La Jolla, administration and faculty to make the move to div. 1 sports?</p>