So My Alma Mater finished 0-29

[stncttr908]

As I'm sure some of you have heard, NJIT finished this season 0-29 on Saturday, the worst season in the history of Division I basketball (Savannah State and Prairie View A&M finished 0-28).

We're not 5-53 since going D-I. It has been the biggest waste of money possible and brought us nothing but ridicule and embarrassment, from our dungeon of a gymnasium to our sparse crowds, etc. We're an Independent in basketball so we play a ridiculous schedule (games in Utah, Washington, etc.).

On the other hand, if people went to the games and supported the team things might not have gone down this way. Most of my fellow alums and current students had no idea this was happening until it made March Madness (ESPN college BB recap show) and Sunday's Sportscenter.

Just had to vent. :(

[methimpikehoses]

You'd think they would get lucky once.

[Bearclaw]

You'd think they would get lucky once.
Ya... I mean, even Notre Dame won one football game this year, and they were terrible.

[bob saget]

Division 1?
thats still pretty good. Tough luck though dude :o

[stncttr908]

We lost every game by double digits as well, btw.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?id=3253281

[Bearclaw]

Ouch.

[stncttr908]

It's not a sports school (as you may have guessed) so the players don't get special treatment, aren't revered by the student body or anything like that. All the athletes tend to cling together and don't really mingle with everyone else.

I hope people don't take this the wrong way, but with the sheer number of fresh-off-the-boat Indian and Chinese students it's hard to drum up interest in athletics. If you add the number of people who sit in their room and play CS:S all day, you're probably at about half.

[|JuiceZ|]

Read that article over the weekend, just sorry. That coach needs to be fired. I take they're a division I squad for reasons other than athletics? They have to be cause its obvious they can't compete at this level.

[stncttr908]

It was supposedly a move to increase the school's exposure, but I have a feeling this isn't what they had in mind. :o

Tuition would go up 8% a year, and yet we could afford to fly our teams back and forth across the country. It's not like big time schools that offset their costs and often enter the black thanks to merchandise sales, TV contracts, bowl games, etc.

FWIW, the coach resigned last week.

[bob saget]

It's not a sports school (as you may have guessed) so the players don't get special treatment, aren't revered by the student body or anything like that. All the athletes tend to cling together and don't really mingle with everyone else.

I hope people don't take this the wrong way, but with the sheer number of fresh-off-the-boat Indian and Chinese students it's hard to drum up interest in athletics. If you add the number of people who sit in their room and play CS:S all day, you're probably at about half.

thats exactly what my highschool was like, but in college its a bit better, but we dont have intercollege tennis :( :(

[stncttr908]

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3264699&categoryId=2957357&n8pe6c=2

Starts about halfway through.

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9950/njitfailhx7.jpg

[bob saget]

i love PTI :D

[stncttr908]

Me too, but I prefer Around the Horn. I generally get home too late to see all of ATH, so I watch the last half of it and the first half of PTI. That way I don't have to see the same stories over again. :D

[bob saget]

we dont get around the horn here. 2.30-3.30pm - PTI, 3.30-4.00 sportscentre
usually at 4 some sports, like hockey.