Alabama Canceling Classes for BCS Game
On one hand, I think this sends the wrong message, but on the other, college football is life in this part of the country.
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I have mixed feelings about this. I totally understand why they did it. I don’t think anyone will show up in classes that day.
I remember the day we won banner number 11, was the first day of spring quarter. We all had classes but it was just a total waste. We went to it and were doing quiet eight claps and then our professor just gave up and started doing “GO BRUINS” in class.
The only topic everyone kept talking about where, what parties people were gathering for the game.
I imagine if we ever get in the situation for football, it will be much of the same. It will be crazy. So I guess can’t really blame ‘Bama for this. I think it’s kind of cool.
Yes, which is what I thought
From what I have been told, their campus will already be shut down for two weeks prior to this. Since they don’t have a hospital or healthcare facilities on campus, they can do that (which makes some people here jealous because we can’t do it).
But the reaction in the office was, “Well, this shows where Alabama as a state has its priorities.”
by bruinbabe2000 on Dec 8, 2009 2:43 PM PST up reply actions
because of the discussion
of administration/students support of athletics, I firmly believe this would NEVER happen here…good or bad, idk its up for debate, but i cant imagine the administration approving something like this.
As a student, any more days off I can get, im soooooo down for haha
In the old days, we didn't need permission to cut classes
we just did it.
Rallies, parades, getting ready for big games — we just did it.
Protests, sit-ins, mass gatherings — we just did it.
Without fear of reprisals. Yes, we might have missed a class or two (or more) but all of these things were a part of what makes me me.
As I mentioned in another thread, attending all of these things, all of the sports events, concerts, etc — were as much a part of my education as was going to class.
I’m really beginning to worry that UCLA is a grind where grades are everything and people are afraid to step our and sniff the flowers.
sjh
Couldn’t agree more… as a current student I find the excitement in sports down to an incredible low. Aside from the bonfire (where more students were interested in just seeing something burn), the only real reminder that we were in a rivalry week two weeks ago was seeing our bear covered in paint. It’s a shame that it takes the action of the other campus to realize that there is a big game coming up.
I have no idea how to explain why it’s this way now… but aside from a few sports fanatics, UCLA sports just aren’t that exciting to many people. I remember calling a friends the night before the football games and I’d always get the same responses “I don’t want to wake up early” “I have to study”, etc. etc. Maybe if we had a perennial top 10 team things would be different… UCLA has become the place where people only care about their grades and are dead afraid of actually having fun and doing other things. I highly doubt schools like Texas and Florida hear excuses of “I need to study” for a saturday afternoon game….
I think you're right, and it makes me kind of sad.
“I’m really beginning to worry that UCLA is a grind where grades are everything and people are afraid to step our and sniff the flowers.”
There’s a difference between getting good grades and getting an education, in my opinion. Obviously, there must be a major effort to get good grades, but it looks like the current student body forgot what they had to do to get into the school, which as I understand it went well beyond only grades.
I think there will be no disagreement as to the nerdiest school in California. It has to be CalTech. But CalTech has a day of abject zanieness – when they do their “Stacks.” I don’t see any evidence of anything similar at UCLA. In fact, from what s.riley said (over and over) on his thread, the bulk of UCLA students have lots of brains, apply themselves diligently to their courses, but have no joie di vivre. The absence of that factor cannot be disguised, in my opinion, and it will not serve these one-dimensional students well when they apply for jobs in the real world.
There isn’t a whole lot of difference between the one-dimensional smart study hounds and the guys who spend all their waking hours in the gym pumping iron. The lack of balance is a bummer.
Now that this particular sermon is over, I doubt if I converted anyone. It’s tough to convince yourself that you should take a couple hours off from studying and go to a basketball game, especially if your roomie flunked out because he spent too much time at basketball games and to little time studying.
Steve, it was a different time when we were there, and from everything I’ve heard, and easier time. I don’t know what the answer is. I just know that I feel a lot of compassion for guys who will tell tales to their grandchildren about their “good old days” spent studying until 3:00 a.m. Heck, I waited until first year law school for that.
As a student right now it makes me sad.
It really is bad. People think that if they don’t get top notch grades, they haven’t made good use of what they are paying for. On top of that, people think studying endlessly in lieu of activity with the outside world is the most effective way to do that. I know many people who, when midterms/finals roll around, will go so far as to not eat with other people because they just have to get an extra hour of studying in. It is somewhat frustrating.
by Captain Leebeard on Dec 10, 2009 1:19 AM PST up reply actions
Florida didn't get classes canceled last year
I (and many others) simply skipped the first week of spring semester to head to Miami for the game.
I also will be skipping the first week of spring semester this year as I booked my flight back from LA on Jan 8th instead of Jan 3rd like I would usually do (Assuming UF would be in Pasadena) but oh well, an extra week back home in LA with no classes is always nice.
by TheTJCummingsEra on Dec 8, 2009 6:05 PM PST reply actions
well if we were playing in the national championship
im sure things would be different, i wasnt a student at the time but when we played Florida in the title game i heard they opened up pauley to watch the game on the screen in there and the support was great.
My point was simply that though students would skip out on classes im sure, it would never be something that the administration would outwardly go and say that classes were canceled because of the game.
Bama got it right.
That’s the way it should be. Even for big football schools like the Bama’s and Michigans, National Championships don’t come every year. Why not send a message from the top (dean) down (students) go out there and celebrate: Show some School Pride.
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
Alabama's entire student population
can afford to have three days off, but we can’t have a playoff because of the 4-6 missed class days only football players would have to deal with.
Formerly ryebreadraz
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Dec 9, 2009 11:14 AM PST reply actions
What was that argument about the playoff system?
Taking too much time away from classes?
Bob O. (Signholder #3)
Our students will be making it up at the end
They are adding those days on to the end of the semester to make up for it. UA usually starts a little earlier than a lot of schools and gets out earlier. This will just bring it more in line with most other schools.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
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