If you build it, they MIGHT come?
casey brandon
Issue date: 6/29/09 Section: Sports
This just in: PUC gets land
donation. New details: PUC
wants to add more sports.
There are big plans for the
land donated with talks of baseball
and soft ball diamonds.
What has the world come to?
Wasn't there a movie made
sometime in 1989 describing
something like this scenario?
I wonder if any one in the
athletic department was walking
the corridors of the fitness center
when a voice came from the
heavens.
"You. PUC athletic person.
acquire land and they will
come," says the heavenly voice.
It might have happened this
way. Nothing should be ruled
out. If it did happen this way, the
heavenly voice is referring to
fans. Fans are what have been
distinctly missing from PUC
sports games.
But with the addition of
Phase II, PUC might be able to
attract the fan base that has, for
stretches of time, been missing.
It is no secret that people who
live in Lowell, East Side
Chicago, or Hobart probably are
not going to come out to cheer
on the team.
Maybe if the Peregrines won
the conference in basketball
every year and did well at the
NAIA division two tournament,
there would be a consistent fan
base. That's not realistic. Nobody
is that consistent.
But now with the additions
of dorms, new sports teams in
the future, and add new facilities
in to the proposition, PUC very
well might have a perfect storm.
The ingredients might be
here, finally, for school spirit, or
for that matter, attendance to
pick up at sporting events.
With the prospect of roughly
800 students staying on the
campus, they all can not hate
sports. Even if they did, the
heavenly voice might choose to
intervene here as well. Cross
your fingers please.
Imagine the future: students
already on campus flock to
watch basketball, baseball, soccer,
tennis, volleyball, golf, and
cross country. It would almost
feel like West Lafeyette or
Southbend, but at this school.
Would this be because school
spirit has been found; or just
that many on-campus residents
need something to do?
Honestly, only the heavens
know.
donation. New details: PUC
wants to add more sports.
There are big plans for the
land donated with talks of baseball
and soft ball diamonds.
What has the world come to?
Wasn't there a movie made
sometime in 1989 describing
something like this scenario?
I wonder if any one in the
athletic department was walking
the corridors of the fitness center
when a voice came from the
heavens.
"You. PUC athletic person.
acquire land and they will
come," says the heavenly voice.
It might have happened this
way. Nothing should be ruled
out. If it did happen this way, the
heavenly voice is referring to
fans. Fans are what have been
distinctly missing from PUC
sports games.
But with the addition of
Phase II, PUC might be able to
attract the fan base that has, for
stretches of time, been missing.
It is no secret that people who
live in Lowell, East Side
Chicago, or Hobart probably are
not going to come out to cheer
on the team.
Maybe if the Peregrines won
the conference in basketball
every year and did well at the
NAIA division two tournament,
there would be a consistent fan
base. That's not realistic. Nobody
is that consistent.
But now with the additions
of dorms, new sports teams in
the future, and add new facilities
in to the proposition, PUC very
well might have a perfect storm.
The ingredients might be
here, finally, for school spirit, or
for that matter, attendance to
pick up at sporting events.
With the prospect of roughly
800 students staying on the
campus, they all can not hate
sports. Even if they did, the
heavenly voice might choose to
intervene here as well. Cross
your fingers please.
Imagine the future: students
already on campus flock to
watch basketball, baseball, soccer,
tennis, volleyball, golf, and
cross country. It would almost
feel like West Lafeyette or
Southbend, but at this school.
Would this be because school
spirit has been found; or just
that many on-campus residents
need something to do?
Honestly, only the heavens
know.
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