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Post by steveaztec on Jul 16, 2010 9:54:11 GMT -8
I lived in Arkansas for two years in the late 80's.
San Diego fans would be shocked about how much they know about us.....as compared to other schools who get no TV love.
Almost all Arkansans are college football fan. They know us from multiple things...
-Our uniforms (all black)
-Marshall Faulk
-Tony Gwynn
-Monty Montezuma (they call him "that real mascot")
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Post by Village Aztec on Jul 16, 2010 12:16:40 GMT -8
I have lived in may places and they know more about Aztec Sports then they know about Academic's.
UT's AD said Pat Summit gets a Million dollars of publicity for the schools, so she is worth her salary just for that reason.
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Post by sdoc on Jul 16, 2010 13:38:38 GMT -8
SDSU has above average name recognition IMO. People know Aztec athletics and the ol' party school reputation. SDSU should really try to make the SDSU academic excellence better known, especially to the San Diego community. I believe SDSU is very underrated academically, even though we have many highly rated programs and powerful alumni.
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Post by aztecnole on Jul 16, 2010 14:06:05 GMT -8
Said it a couple of times on another board. Stras' been HUGE for the school like Faulk in the 90's. If we just get the football program to a decent level...
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Post by mightymightyaztecs on Jul 16, 2010 15:50:20 GMT -8
I have lived in may places and they know more about Aztec Sports then they know about Academic's. UT's AD said Pat Summit gets a Million dollars of publicity for the schools, so she is worth her salary just for that reason. Without their football teams would any of us know of colleges like Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, etc? Or at least know so much about them? Weber is right to put so much support behind the athletic department and those professors who were trying to kill SDSU football a couple of years ago are morons. Let's see how many applications flow into SDSU if athletics were to be gutted. There's a reason all those schools I mentioned put so much money and effort into their athletic programs and it's the reason I roll my eyes whenever I hear someone complaining about how schools should be about education and not sports or the glorification of college football. Football & basketball at major universities are a lifeline. They bring in HUGE publicity and more importantly MONEY. I remember growing up and watching CFB on tv and wanting to go to Michigan even though I had no idea where the hell it was simply because of seeing them play on TV all the time. Also Wolverine was my favorite X-Men character. Texas has an endowment in the billions. Would it be so large if it weren't for their prestigious athletic programs? Would so many Texas alums have stayed connected to the school and given back if it weren't for the sports programs that helped them identify and stay connected with their alma mater years after graduating? Same for all those other schools. It's the reason why even though SDSU has 200,000 alums, many of them right here in San Diego, there's very little Aztec identity around town. I can slowly feel that turning around though thanks to the basketball team. Lots more people attending games and more people talking about it. That Tennessee game last season had people crowding bars around town. Football is the key though. Just like how you saw more Raider jerseys around town than Chargers in the early 00's and now you see a Charger Bolt on every other car. |
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Post by aztecwin on Jul 16, 2010 15:59:37 GMT -8
I have lived in may places and they know more about Aztec Sports then they know about Academic's. UT's AD said Pat Summit gets a Million dollars of publicity for the schools, so she is worth her salary just for that reason. Without their football teams would any of us know of colleges like Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, etc? Or at least know so much about them? Weber is right to put so much support behind the athletic department and those professors who were trying to kill SDSU football a couple of years ago are morons. Let's see how many applications flow into SDSU if athletics were to be gutted. There's a reason all those schools I mentioned put so much money and effort into their athletic programs and it's the reason I roll my eyes whenever I hear someone complaining about how schools should be about education and not sports or the glorification of college football. Football & basketball at major universities are a lifeline. They bring in HUGE publicity and more importantly MONEY. I remember growing up and watching CFB on tv and wanting to go to Michigan even though I had no idea where the hell it was simply because of seeing them play on TV all the time. Also Wolverine was my favorite X-Men character. Texas has an endowment in the billions. Would it be so large if it weren't for their prestigious athletic programs? Would so many Texas alums have stayed connected to the school and given back if it weren't for the sports programs that helped them identify and stay connected with their alma mater years after graduating? Same for all those other schools. It's the reason why even though SDSU has 200,000 alums, many of them right here in San Diego, there's very little Aztec identity around town. I can slowly feel that turning around though thanks to the basketball team. Lots more people attending games and more people talking about it. That Tennessee game last season had people crowding bars around town. Football is the key though. Just like how you saw more Raider jerseys around town than Chargers in the early 00's and now you see a Charger Bolt on every other car. I could not agree more. It is hard to put it into words strong enough to convey the message. Although I sent some of my kids to SDSU, I would not send a penny that way now it it were not for Aztec Sports! My connection with SDSU is through Sports! |
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Post by zurac315 on Jul 16, 2010 19:15:37 GMT -8
Hey, I live on the East Coast and I've heard of us! ;D
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Post by zurac315 on Jul 16, 2010 19:26:30 GMT -8
Interestingly, I've run into several Bostonians who remember us from the bowl game against Boston University.
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Post by texasaztec on Jul 17, 2010 8:45:44 GMT -8
I went to a sports bar in Lewisville (this is in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas) to watch the UTenn vs SDSU NCAA game. The waitress asked me which team I was rooting for (they had all gazillion games on a bunch of different screens), I told her SDSU and she showed me to the big screen and we had a decent conversation about how much she liked San Diego State. Her reason, was she had visited San Diego and she liked the city and so she adopted SDSU as her college team.
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Post by Old School on Jul 18, 2010 7:45:58 GMT -8
I went to a sports bar in Lewisville (this is in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas) to watch the UTenn vs SDSU NCAA game. The waitress asked me which team I was rooting for (they had all gazillion games on a bunch of different screens), I told her SDSU and she showed me to the big screen and we had a decent conversation about how much she liked San Diego State. Her reason, was she had visited San Diego and she liked the city and so she adopted SDSU as her college team. Nice story Tex!  Oldie Out |
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Post by mattpohl on Jul 18, 2010 17:22:51 GMT -8
And you tipped her how much?  Hang in there, Matt I went to a sports bar in Lewisville (this is in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas) to watch the UTenn vs SDSU NCAA game. The waitress asked me which team I was rooting for (they had all gazillion games on a bunch of different screens), I told her SDSU and she showed me to the big screen and we had a decent conversation about how much she liked San Diego State. Her reason, was she had visited San Diego and she liked the city and so she adopted SDSU as her college team. |
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Post by sdoc on Jul 19, 2010 7:47:21 GMT -8
Well maybe powerful was not the best word, but there are many notable and successful SDSU alumni. See this list for more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_San_Diego_State_University_alumni_and_faculty#Athletics_and_sportsSDSU has above average name recognition IMO. People know Aztec athletics and the ol' party school reputation. SDSU should really try to make the SDSU academic excellence better known, especially to the San Diego community. I believe SDSU is very underrated academically, even though we have many highly rated programs and powerful alumni. All correct except the "powerful alumni" part. |
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Post by longtimebooster on Jul 19, 2010 8:46:14 GMT -8
Without their football teams would any of us know of colleges like Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, etc? Or at least know so much about them? Uh, yes. The correlation between sports and academics is a weak one, at best. Ever heard of Harvard? Thought so. MIT? Best engineering/technical school on the planet. Yale? Dartmouth? Princeton? Cal Tech? Penn? Univ. of Chicago? Locally, UCSD has turned itself into an academic jugernaut, with a national academic ranking in the top 25 and several programs that are in the top 10, both nationally and globally. The common denominator is that none of those schools plays D-1 football. Some don't even play DII or DIII. (I think MIT has a decent intramural football squad.) If anything, there's likely a negative correlation between world-class academics and world-class athletics. Trust me, I like my college sports as much or more as the next guy. But let's not get carried away regarding the importance of sports in the greater context of our universities' primary mission. |
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Post by zurac315 on Jul 19, 2010 12:41:32 GMT -8
Darn. They left my dad off the faculty list.  |
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Post by aztech on Jul 19, 2010 13:39:59 GMT -8
And you tipped her how much? Hang in there, Matt I went to a sports bar in Lewisville (this is in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas) to watch the UTenn vs SDSU NCAA game. The waitress asked me which team I was rooting for (they had all gazillion games on a bunch of different screens), I told her SDSU and she showed me to the big screen and we had a decent conversation about how much she liked San Diego State. Her reason, was she had visited San Diego and she liked the city and so she adopted SDSU as her college team. The non-BCSers have to tip from the front pocket. The BCSers tip from the back pocket. |
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Post by mightymightyaztecs on Jul 19, 2010 14:34:58 GMT -8
Without their football teams would any of us know of colleges like Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas, etc? Or at least know so much about them? Uh, yes. The correlation between sports and academics is a weak one, at best. Ever heard of Harvard? Thought so. MIT? Best engineering/technical school on the planet. Yale? Dartmouth? Princeton? Cal Tech? Penn? Univ. of Chicago? Locally, UCSD has turned itself into an academic jugernaut, with a national academic ranking in the top 25 and several programs that are in the top 10, both nationally and globally. The common denominator is that none of those schools plays D-1 football. Some don't even play DII or DIII. (I think MIT has a decent intramural football squad.) If anything, there's likely a negative correlation between world-class academics and world-class athletics. Trust me, I like my college sports as much or more as the next guy. But let's not get carried away regarding the importance of sports in the greater context of our universities' primary mission. Read my post again. I never said that strong athletics result in strong academics. I said a great athletics department makes for a strong overall university by bringing in tons of publicity and money. A strong football program also pays for all the non-revenue generating sports. If your kid loves to play golf, water polo, collegiate hopscotch, tell em to thank the football team because it likely wouldn't exist without them. If SDSU wants to build a new science building we have to go begging to the state. If Notre Dame/USC/Texas want to build a new science building, they hold a fundraiser. |
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Hang in there, Matt