COLUMN: Football a frustrating fiasco
The frustration is mounting among Aggie fans, especially after Saturday’s fiasco. Between drugs, domestic abuse and the inability to score, USU football is going to be hard pressed to find a friend in the student body.
I quote the irritations of one such student: “If the football players would just stop doing drugs and beating up their girlfriends, perhaps we’d have a chance.”
I’ve heard statements like these many times from students and other Aggie fans. With some of the facts still being worked out officially, I’m not stating these things as true. But no matter how you shake it, there is a lot of bad news coming out of Aggie football.
The problem? Well, besides the obvious negative repercussions this has on the school, the plea Coach Bret Guy’s been making for the past several weeks for the students to get out and support the team is going to be harder to answer.
I was very proud of the Utah State student body on Saturday. Even against tremendous odds, including the bone numbing cold weather, the students were present in Romney Stadium, cheering as best they could. They hollered like mad when the players ran on and off the field. They clapped to the school song and waved their hands back and forth for the Scottsman. They proudly announced the Aggies’ first downs.
However, it would have been hard to hear the Aggie fans on Saturday. Why? Well, because the school song was only played four times, once at the beginning, twice at halftime and once at the end when the players ran off the field. The Scotsman was about the same. The Aggies only got two or three first downs. Plus, the University of Utah fight song was playing every five minutes, and all the Ute fans that showed up – and there were a lot – were screaming at the top of their lungs with every Aggie turnover or Ute touchdown.
Mikaylie Kartchner is a senior majoring in print journalism. Comments can be sent to mikayliek@cc.usu.edu.