This just in: PUC gets land donation. New details: PUC wants to add more sports.
There are big plans for the land donated with talks of baseball and soft ball diamonds.
What has the world come to? Wasn't there a movie made sometime in 1989 describing something like this scenario?
I wonder if any one in the athletic department was walking the corridors of the fitness center when a voice came from the heavens.
"You. PUC athletic person. acquire land and they will come," says the heavenly voice.
It might have happened this way. Nothing should be ruled out. If it did happen this way, the heavenly voice is referring to fans. Fans are what have been distinctly missing from PUC sports games.
But with the addition of Phase II, PUC might be able to attract the fan base that has, for stretches of time, been missing. It is no secret that people who live in Lowell, East Side Chicago, or Hobart probably are not going to come out to cheer on the team.
Maybe if the Peregrines won the conference in basketball every year and did well at the NAIA division two tournament, there would be a consistent fan base. That's not realistic. Nobody is that consistent.
But now with the additions of dorms, new sports teams in the future, and add new facilities in to the proposition, PUC very well might have a perfect storm. The ingredients might be here, finally, for school spirit, or for that matter, attendance to pick up at sporting events.
With the prospect of roughly 800 students staying on the campus, they all can not hate sports. Even if they did, the heavenly voice might choose to intervene here as well. Cross your fingers please.
Imagine the future: students already on campus flock to watch basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, volleyball, golf, and cross country. It would almost feel like West Lafeyette or Southbend, but at this school.
Would this be because school spirit has been found; or just that many on-campus residents need something to do? Honestly, only the heavens know.
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