This school has spirit.....NOT (in Borat's voice)

IPFW Sports are division one. Division one is the top dog when it comes to college sports. When you get recruited to play for a college and you want to be on the best of the best teams, typically someone chooses a division one school to play for. The reason for the different divisions is typically built around whether or not the school is public or private, and goes by attendance. Because IPFW has around 16,000 + students, we made the cut off for being division one. For being a division one school, we really lack in quite a few areas. Sure maybe there are a lot of recruits from other states and even countries, but does that really give us an advantage? IPFW recruits from many areas outside of the country, some being Brazil, Australia, Spain, Germany, and even the Bahamas. These are only a few to name some.

We may have what it takes to be a wonderful program for athletics, but our school doesn't show the spirit. We watch live games on ESPN of Purdue and IU basketball, and the student sections are absolutely swamped with school spirit and pride. But then we go down to our good old memorial coliseum for a basketball game or two, and there's less than 50 students attending. Man, I can only imagine how it would feel to be on a sports team, and not have any school support. While school spirit used to be a lot greater than it is today, things do change over time. Back when our men's volleyball team made was number 1 in the midwest, then climbed to second in the nation, the school spirit was defiantly on target. Why would our school want to miss out on IPFW history.

Is there a reason why our sporting teams are slightly slacking in the winning department? Do they need to take after Charlie Sheen in-order to bring home some W's, or maybe it's a quick fix...bring in some spirit fingers and slap on some blue and white paint, and cheer for the team that we can call our own. Who knows maybe its all in the hands of the players (who may not be as good as previous years) but hey they are still trying their best, and certainly attempting to make the most of their full-ride scholarship money. I mean if I could live in America for 4 years all expenses paid towards school, I'd want to prove that I can win a game or two in the sport that I excel in. I also think it would help if there was some student action.

Maybe if there were to be some free food, we'd actually have a full blown student section at all sporting events, heck lets just throw in some free money too while were at it.