Assistant Sports Editor promotes cheating

by lil eg not cs on Feb 5, 2008 3:24 PM PST

As a member of the Den the last 2 years, I have camped out at many of the basketball games. This includes big camp-outs and the not so popular Oregon St. camp-outs. Reading the Daily Bruin yesterday, I was quite upset with Jason Feder's article on his GameDay experience.

You sit down with some onion rings and a cheeseburger with everything but onions, without even realizing the irony of what you just ordered. It's 1 a.m. on Friday night. There will be no more roll calls at the Pauley Pavilion campout, and electing to sleep in your own bed instead of on a cold chair is an easy choice. A burger on the way back is a no-brainer.

With ESPN nationally broadcasting SportsCenter and College GameDay from Pauley six hours from now, you can rest easy.

http://dailybruin.com/news/2008/feb/04/gameday-passion-knows-no-bounds/

It is pretty easy to cheat the system at a campout. If you have ever attended one, you know that the last roll call is done around 12-12:30. That means you are free to do whatever you want until 6:30, when they pass out the priority numbers. I can tell you right now that camping out is not fun. It is cold, the ground is hard, and it sucks to get up early. However, this is all part of the experience. I would NEVER, and have NEVER, cheated at a campout. I feel that staying for the campout makes it seem that you earned your spot in the front of the student section. It is not fair to all of the people that stay out in the cold.

It is absolutely amazing that the assistant sports editor would write an article saying that he cheated at a campout. This just promotes other people to cheat.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of BruinsNation's (BN) editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of BN's editors.

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I agree.

Though I also know that when I went to UCLA, the die-hards who were there every game and who controlled the line, gave a break to other die-hards in some situations--not to go home and sleep, but to miss some roll-calls if necessary. But you had to earn that.

Also, when I went to UCLA, once a year (maybe twice), wristbands would be handed out at midnight or 1 or 2 a.m. as opposed to 6 or 7 a.m. in the morning. That way everyone could go home early and still have the seats. It also kept students from the exact kind of cheating discussed in the article.

by rfirpo on Feb 5, 2008 4:12 PM PST reply actions

I agree.

Be the change you would like to see. You certainly have the passion.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden

by MexiBruin on Feb 5, 2008 8:22 PM PST up reply actions

Sleeping in your own bed

is certainly more comfortable. That's why my roommate and I carried our mattresses down from the hill to have something more comfortable to sleep on. And as to the cold some responsible imbibing of warming agents always helped (once we were of age of course).

by TrueBlueBlood on Feb 5, 2008 6:02 PM PST reply actions

Daily Bruin

It seems like the sports section of the Daily Bruin encourages rancorous columns to provoke people. Just today they ran a column that made CRN look terrible.

by bhbruin on Feb 5, 2008 9:04 PM PST reply actions

Link?

And the link to that column would be?

God, it's great to be a Bruin!

by whp68 on Feb 6, 2008 6:47 AM PST up reply actions

Yeap

It was a column by David Woods. I am not going to link to the idiot and run up the pageviews to his column. He has been throughly clowned before on BN.

The guy is a tool.

by bluestreet on Feb 6, 2008 6:54 AM PST up reply actions