5thAvenueVik
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There is no question that Portland State is a liberal arts and sciences (i.e. Liberal) university. Of all the other universities in America, PSU probably emulates Cal-Berkeley most (as does also the University of Oregon).
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Portland State students seek to be hip and have Portland State be perceived as a university of hipness. /users/31/07/37/smiles/595146.gif
To many in the current PSU student body, however, college sports somehow go against the grain of hipness. But how can this be true? For if it were, then athletic events at hip campuses like Cal-Berkeley (and, to similar extent, the University of Oregon) would be poorly attended the way they have traditionally been at PSU. /users/31/07/37/smiles/eusa_th2.gif
To me, a lot of the current PSU student body are very uncool---but they self-referently assume they are cool, and that alone makes them look both foolish and strongly unattractive. I, for one, do not want them to attend the games and bring their infectious uncoolness to the stadium. I say keep them the hell away. You cannot create a good product with the bad habits of misguided persons lingering.
We cannot say the reason is the city and all the other attractions pulling and vying for the student body's attention. For if that were true, few, if any, would attend the Cal-Berkeley games. Instead, they attract some 64,000 to a game on average. /users/31/07/37/smiles/smily39.gif
The level of competition right now certainly has something to do with PSU athletics having been perceived as lacking hipness. Playing "big sky" teams is certainly not hip, not cool. Playing most of the WAC and MWC teams is also neither hip nor cool.
What, then, IS cool? JG and MD are cool. The Run-and-Shoot Offense is cool. Smashing the helmet off of an arrogant Montana player would be hella-cool. Absolutely dominating the "big sky" conference is nicely cool. Trashing Idaho, Utah State, New Mexico State, Louisiana Tech fits the same category. /users/31/07/37/smiles/595146.gif
Neither Fresno State nor Nevada is cool. Beating them is though. "Dust Bowl" teams tend to lack coolness.
Hawaii is very cool; San Jose State and Boise State are pretty cool.
Beating the bejeezus out of BYU would be way cool. Playing TCU (the Horned Frogs) would be cool. Wyoming is cool and so is San Diego State. Outgunning Air Force would be cool. Giving both Oregon and Oregon State a run for their money is very cool.
A PSU Volleyball Match (here) with UC-Santa Barbara would be way cool. /users/31/07/37/smiles/595146.gif
Pepperdine has good stock of coolness capital being situated in Malibu. Portland Pilots currently lack coolness capital, however. They need to develop some too. /users/31/07/37/smiles/426567.gif
We can work to make the perception of PSU Viking athletics as cool and reflect this image back on to the university itself. Gawd, I hope we get a good successor to the Presidency after one Daniel Bernstine. He was my idea of a cool university president. Hard worker too.
Portland State students seek to be hip and have Portland State be perceived as a university of hipness. /users/31/07/37/smiles/595146.gif
To many in the current PSU student body, however, college sports somehow go against the grain of hipness. But how can this be true? For if it were, then athletic events at hip campuses like Cal-Berkeley (and, to similar extent, the University of Oregon) would be poorly attended the way they have traditionally been at PSU. /users/31/07/37/smiles/eusa_th2.gif
To me, a lot of the current PSU student body are very uncool---but they self-referently assume they are cool, and that alone makes them look both foolish and strongly unattractive. I, for one, do not want them to attend the games and bring their infectious uncoolness to the stadium. I say keep them the hell away. You cannot create a good product with the bad habits of misguided persons lingering.
We cannot say the reason is the city and all the other attractions pulling and vying for the student body's attention. For if that were true, few, if any, would attend the Cal-Berkeley games. Instead, they attract some 64,000 to a game on average. /users/31/07/37/smiles/smily39.gif
The level of competition right now certainly has something to do with PSU athletics having been perceived as lacking hipness. Playing "big sky" teams is certainly not hip, not cool. Playing most of the WAC and MWC teams is also neither hip nor cool.
What, then, IS cool? JG and MD are cool. The Run-and-Shoot Offense is cool. Smashing the helmet off of an arrogant Montana player would be hella-cool. Absolutely dominating the "big sky" conference is nicely cool. Trashing Idaho, Utah State, New Mexico State, Louisiana Tech fits the same category. /users/31/07/37/smiles/595146.gif
Neither Fresno State nor Nevada is cool. Beating them is though. "Dust Bowl" teams tend to lack coolness.
Hawaii is very cool; San Jose State and Boise State are pretty cool.
Beating the bejeezus out of BYU would be way cool. Playing TCU (the Horned Frogs) would be cool. Wyoming is cool and so is San Diego State. Outgunning Air Force would be cool. Giving both Oregon and Oregon State a run for their money is very cool.
A PSU Volleyball Match (here) with UC-Santa Barbara would be way cool. /users/31/07/37/smiles/595146.gif
Pepperdine has good stock of coolness capital being situated in Malibu. Portland Pilots currently lack coolness capital, however. They need to develop some too. /users/31/07/37/smiles/426567.gif
We can work to make the perception of PSU Viking athletics as cool and reflect this image back on to the university itself. Gawd, I hope we get a good successor to the Presidency after one Daniel Bernstine. He was my idea of a cool university president. Hard worker too.
