Best UAlbany Team Gets No Recognition!

[purest_sport]

I believe this forum has turned pathetic..You all need to spend your time in more productive ways.....Sports are important, but not life....this particular forums title "is to do with track and field and recognition..." To argue over plans that are in the infant stages still is ridiculous..What don't you all exchange names and meet in person to discuss...I'm sure you wouldn't have the same demeanor face to face as you do on this anonymous post....

 

I'm outta here..

[DaneMan]

Why don't you tell us which track coach/athlete you are and we will all come clean?

 

D2K3 and I are actually in a love tryst with Dane96, so we talk like this with each other everyday.

 

 

In regards to making track more popular. If the major networks only care every 4 years, how do you expect the casual fan to be interested in Albany track? If Mr. Voelker is struggling to get fans to home football and basketball games, it's going to be even harder to convince Joe Student to watch track.

[GODANESGO]

p_s, I do understand your frustration in the discussion going "off" on a tangent from the exact title of the thread. I had some of the same feelings when I first got on here..I would only read evey couple days and would be completely lost.

 

But this is simply the nature of this (and indeed the vast majority of) board(s). For example, if you look in the winter sports section under the "Vermont" thread, we were recently posting on how to correctly translate German..lol

 

I think the general consensus in this thread, as evidenced by its direction, is that it is extremely tough to get the average UAlbany student (let alone sports fan) to go to track and field meets, especially when we are relatively struggling with traditionally "more popular" American sports like football and basketball. It seems the feeling is that if some form of a new/added venue/facility was created for the team, then attedence might very well increase (as happens regularly with any sport and a new facility). Posters are simply discussing the likelihood/possibilities of such an endeavor.

 

Please don't get frustrated...it's fun for all of us to hear everyone's thoughts on all the sports related topics here at UA!

 

Ok, I realized that sounded kinda corny, but I do mean it..lol.

[Dane96]

Very good post GDG...and purest sport...you shouldnt leave...that is the nature of how discussions go.

 

Daneman....

 

[Iknowtrackstats101]

So umm, about track and field...