Dwayne Ellis
English 112
Essay 3: Rough Draft
4/9/14
Damn
Southern..
Paint
this picture. Chilly November’s day and there’s only about 38 days left of
football and the season is finally over. Your head coach then gets into an absolute
shouting match with another coach, and I don’t mean any ordinary shouting
match, I’m talking a fight nearly breaks out, punches thrown, explicate vocabulary
is exchanged… all the good stuff. How would you react? Well, in short, I
laughed. This incident just made it even more obvious that the team and program
I played for was even more of a joke than I had already grown to feel it was.
I’m
sure if you asked the administration, they’d tell you otherwise, but athletics,
especially football, are the face of almost all universities. Athletics are
what people pride themselves most about in their attendance to their
university, whether they’re a player or just a regular, supportive fan. To keep
it simple, Southern Connecticut athletics are on the steady decline and that
would just be pointing out the obvious. Once again, I’m sure if you asked the administration,
they’d hand you the history books and tell you about the storied tradition of
Southern Connecticut sports. That’s fine and all, but my main focus is the
football program. I hate to be repetitive, but supporters (especially the
Athletic Administration), would reach deep into the archives and hand you some
statistics backing their claim of a “storied tradition in Division 2 athletics.”
And that’s when I reply simply with, “Do past victories count now?”
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