The “HEYYYY BATTER BATTER,” the taunts, the boos, the woos — everything can affect the way your team can play.
Traveling coast to coast had been a mere downside to my beginning at ASU (although the major climate transition was cool). What had been the ultimate game-changer is the student body. Have you ever looked at your MyASU or any of the ASU website? There are so many facets to it. Not only is it an informational tool, it is a hook…a hook to bring together the inner-Sun Devils of the nation.
The graphics on the sites capture a sea of gold. Are those surreal pictures common at sporting events? Being portrayed as a near utopia, there has to be some catch…maybe.
I hoped that the sea of student body didn’t deplete like the rivers in the West. I mean, that’s what Syracuse Orange fans do: Leave no matter the score, evaporate and fast. Their “big” dilemma is: “Should I leave five minutes to halftime or two?”
“I feel like there are schools that are more dedicated. We’re critical. So, if we do badly the fans don’t stay,” says incoming freshman Madeline Brown, a Spanish, special education and childhood major at Syracuse University. “When I went to England to watch soccer it was like everyone was friends. It’s not like that here.”
So let’s flip the coast, let’s see how well Sun Devil Nation proves their worth. Should the real dilemma here be “should I wear gold or go shirtless?” It sounds more Sun Devil.
“It’s awesome because everyone is involved and when everyone is involved, you want to be. Then when everyone is involved, it’s just a good thing. The Southwest has a good vibe,” said incoming freshman Kevin McElwain, a nutrition major at ASU. He comes from Chicago to now bare the heat—rival games, “The Blackout”, shutouts...the whole kit and caboodle.
But aside from McElwain’s motive and as cliché as it might be, “talk is cheap.” Incoming freshman need to first live to learn. To experience that ideality would shut the doors of any doubt, any comparison to the Orange. But humor me. Sun Devil pride, whether it be NCAA athletics or even club sports should ring loud in the ears of the stubborn (the people who don’t want to hear my naysay).
Tell me about what it takes. Shoot me an e-mail at bcapria@asu.edu or leave a comment totally shutting down any uncertainty. What are the characteristics of a true Sun Devil and are the “too good to be true” graphics the truth?
