BroadwayVik
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Division II for a university of nearly 30,000? Ridiculous. Utterly so.
We may suffer from a few bad decisions over the years. I think simple things like duplicating the UO's green motif also tends to keep us from standing out as the unique entity on our own. The pieces are all here, but decisions to make ourselves totally unique have yet to arrive.
People may think too negatively concerning what Portland State is, what problems it has and what lack of support it seems to have. It's the wrong approach. It's that old, negative propaganda again fostered by the Oregonian newspaper against PSU. Stupid biased newspaper.
People instead need to think about what potential Portland State has as a public university for Portland, what challenges it needs to overcome and what channels of support it can have and receive now and into the future. We need to conceptualize and support a winning university for the metro area. What Chip Kelly was to Oregon as a coach, we need to bring such kind of great political and visionary leadership on behalf of PSU.
In sports, look at W Volleyball. They're doing nicely and well. Golf seems to keep improving. Football, though, seems stuck. Next year is supposed to be the big payoff year for Coach Bruce Barnum. If it happens then great, fantastic. If not, it is time to get to another paradigm. We have to go with those who know how to win, love the Portland area and can deal effectively the Oregonian newspaper's constant negative slant.
I think one of our fearless leaders, Mike Lund, is a primier example of leadership for PSU growth. The only difficulty is he is a Lewis & Clark product and is used to "not winning" through a lack of athletic performance at LC. Maybe WW's leadership will change all that. Perhaps this makes him want it all the more, but it is perhaps more tolerable to him to bear not winning (through L&C conditioning) than graduates of winning programs.
Portland State needs to be aware and studying the historical developments of programs that have moved up quickly --- those like Western Kentucky, Coastal Carolina, Middle Tennessee and the like. We need to be on a mission to have meetings with their officials to find out how if what they did could be molded to our situation here.
They certainly have a lot more spiritual enthusiasm than we do, but they are probably also tuned into that tried-and-true method that will nevertheless work for us in spite of our more "heady ways."
The Oregonian newspaper supports bias against Portland State. I frankly think they should be banned from our athletic events (tit-for-tat), but there are probably mechanisms political and monetary that will ultimately -- unfortunately -- keep them in the mix. Pity, because they are one of our worst political enemies. Makes things very uncomfortable for us.
If we could shake up the higher education world in the state, say, through a merger with OH&SU, that would make a huge difference in people's regard of us politically and otherwise. People in the state don't hate OH&SU and if it merged with PSU, it could well be regarded as a hybrid no longer worthy of the kind of hatred once reserved for unprotected PSU. Unprotected like an orphan.
This is one stupid legacy PSU has got to overcome: The stupidity of the Oregonian newspaper bias, its negative light holding up PSU's progress. They will continue it out of a sense of perverse glee overriding their sense of public service. They are a most perverse lot but they have no one to hold them in check. PSU would do well to publicize their antics through other newspapers across the land to expose them. Their perverse behavior is what happens in relatively isolated conditions such as we have here. Curses be to their foul sense of glee over their abuse to a public university and its stakeholders.
We may suffer from a few bad decisions over the years. I think simple things like duplicating the UO's green motif also tends to keep us from standing out as the unique entity on our own. The pieces are all here, but decisions to make ourselves totally unique have yet to arrive.
People may think too negatively concerning what Portland State is, what problems it has and what lack of support it seems to have. It's the wrong approach. It's that old, negative propaganda again fostered by the Oregonian newspaper against PSU. Stupid biased newspaper.
People instead need to think about what potential Portland State has as a public university for Portland, what challenges it needs to overcome and what channels of support it can have and receive now and into the future. We need to conceptualize and support a winning university for the metro area. What Chip Kelly was to Oregon as a coach, we need to bring such kind of great political and visionary leadership on behalf of PSU.
In sports, look at W Volleyball. They're doing nicely and well. Golf seems to keep improving. Football, though, seems stuck. Next year is supposed to be the big payoff year for Coach Bruce Barnum. If it happens then great, fantastic. If not, it is time to get to another paradigm. We have to go with those who know how to win, love the Portland area and can deal effectively the Oregonian newspaper's constant negative slant.
I think one of our fearless leaders, Mike Lund, is a primier example of leadership for PSU growth. The only difficulty is he is a Lewis & Clark product and is used to "not winning" through a lack of athletic performance at LC. Maybe WW's leadership will change all that. Perhaps this makes him want it all the more, but it is perhaps more tolerable to him to bear not winning (through L&C conditioning) than graduates of winning programs.
Portland State needs to be aware and studying the historical developments of programs that have moved up quickly --- those like Western Kentucky, Coastal Carolina, Middle Tennessee and the like. We need to be on a mission to have meetings with their officials to find out how if what they did could be molded to our situation here.
They certainly have a lot more spiritual enthusiasm than we do, but they are probably also tuned into that tried-and-true method that will nevertheless work for us in spite of our more "heady ways."
The Oregonian newspaper supports bias against Portland State. I frankly think they should be banned from our athletic events (tit-for-tat), but there are probably mechanisms political and monetary that will ultimately -- unfortunately -- keep them in the mix. Pity, because they are one of our worst political enemies. Makes things very uncomfortable for us.
If we could shake up the higher education world in the state, say, through a merger with OH&SU, that would make a huge difference in people's regard of us politically and otherwise. People in the state don't hate OH&SU and if it merged with PSU, it could well be regarded as a hybrid no longer worthy of the kind of hatred once reserved for unprotected PSU. Unprotected like an orphan.
This is one stupid legacy PSU has got to overcome: The stupidity of the Oregonian newspaper bias, its negative light holding up PSU's progress. They will continue it out of a sense of perverse glee overriding their sense of public service. They are a most perverse lot but they have no one to hold them in check. PSU would do well to publicize their antics through other newspapers across the land to expose them. Their perverse behavior is what happens in relatively isolated conditions such as we have here. Curses be to their foul sense of glee over their abuse to a public university and its stakeholders.
