Great Time of Year.

College basketball, NBA, football nerds talking about the draft: What a perfect time of year for sports. It's too bad baseball has to come around and ruin the fun. It's been a long time since I made a post, so here's one!

MIAMI REDHAWKS. Yes, those folks from Ohio stunned the rest of the MAC by winning the conference tourny on a "gift from god" shot by Doug Penno to beat the Akron "Zippity" Zips. The reason I bring this up is because by attending the miraculous tourny, I found a sense of pride by Miami RedHawk fans, one that can't even be found at our home games. Unfortunately, Miami isn't located near a metropolis to an extent where the citizens come out for the games, (usually old people are the main fans), and our student section is as good as dead, (as my prof put it, "it's not cool to show school spirit for Miami Students"). I found the lack of student support shocking from a University that has had basketball players like Ron Harper, Wally Scerbiakdskafjadkak (I hope you understood that), Wayne Embry and the great god-like savior Ira Newble.

However, that all changed when the RedHawks made their run into the NCAA tournament and almost defeated the Oregon quack ducks. You can see just by walking on campus the pride that Miami students are now showing with the success of the basketball program, and I hope that our student body and faculty catch on the support for future sports games. I'll be their next fall when the RedHawks open up, screaming like I did at the MAC Championships, but I have a feeling I won't be hearing my echo next year.

Thus, I have made a suggestion for Miami to get the student's more involved. Unless you live on the north quad of the campus, you'll never see pictures or ads about the players and athletes. The University needs to promote the players more, because the only time we hear the school talk about our athletes is a small post on the website that says "Good job team." Thus, if the school takes more visual pride in the athletics, the students would to.