Alumni View Point

[Oldtimer]

If the current students are so 2-dimensional that they enjoy Yankees, Notre Dame and Giants games over real action of their classmates, it doesn't speak well for the type of students being admitted to UAlbany. But 50 years ago televisions, toasters, microwaves, refrigerators, telephones, and girls(or boys) were not allowed in dorm rooms. It made for a much more social campus and attendance at soccer, basketball, wrestling and baseball games were well attended.

[UAlbany09]

If the current students are so 2-dimensional that they enjoy Yankees, Notre Dame and Giants games over real action of their classmates, it doesn't speak well for the type of students being admitted to UAlbany.  But 50 years ago televisions, toasters, microwaves, refrigerators, telephones, and girls(or boys) were not allowed in dorm rooms.  It made for a much more social campus and attendance at soccer, basketball, wrestling and baseball games were well attended.

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that type of student is being admitted to college campuses all over the nation unless you're one of the big schools with 90,000 seat stadiums and 20,000 seat Basketball arenas. You go to Florida, LSU, Georgia, Auburn, Syracuse, Penn State knowing about and wanting to go to the Football and/or Basketball games. You can't miss the massive stadium and arena on campus. That was one of the reasons if not the main reason you go to that school. They're automatically hooked to the teams and to the pride even before they get on campus. It's a mindset and an indoctrination that is hard to put on students at a school where watching and supporting athletics wasn't a reason they came to the school in the first place. Having said that students do show up as you've seen at Basketball games, and even football games. I definitely think you'll see an increase in student attendance at Basketball games this year.