Spring Break
Spotlight still shines on football
Eric Wormus
Issue date: 10/2/07 Section: Sports
As the leaves begin to change color and September becomes October, Oxford enters a new season-and this period of time is typically called, "Is It Hockey Season Yet?"
This annual rite of passage usually occurs nears the end of September, after the student body has lost interest in the football team, and knows that hockey season is right around the corner. But after Saturday's huge upset win over Syracuse, maybe it's not time to be heading to Goggin quite yet.
I believe that as football continues to grow exponentially in popularity throughout the country, and as hockey is about to be replaced by the Scripps' Spelling Bee as America's fourth favorite sport, the opposite has been historically happening here during the Miami football season.
The home opener usually draws a large student crowd, but even that tends to fizzle out by halftime, as we saw against Cincinnati. Family Weekend is another large draw as students and parents alike look for something to do on a Saturday afternoon before heading out at night.
Now that both of those weekends have come and gone and the team sits with a 2-3 record overall-but 1-0 in the conference, which means that there is still hope.
Even though things might have seemed bleak the past few weeks with the football team, with the exception of this past weekend, and the hockey team opens up the season with an exhibition game Saturday night against Waterloo marking the beginning of the hockey season, perhaps the football team isn't quite as bad as we thought.
Just look at the football team's first opponent, Ball State, who is now 2-1 in Mid-American Conference play already, beating Eastern Michigan University and Buffalo. The Cardinals are no easy pushover team as they knocked off Navy and almost upset Nebraska. And let's not forget, the RedHawks did beat Ball State.
Following that win against Ball State, the RedHawks came within inches of beating Minnesota. Miami took them to three overtimes before falling to the Gophers. So just maybe the RedHawk football team isn't as bad as things have sounded.
This annual rite of passage usually occurs nears the end of September, after the student body has lost interest in the football team, and knows that hockey season is right around the corner. But after Saturday's huge upset win over Syracuse, maybe it's not time to be heading to Goggin quite yet.
I believe that as football continues to grow exponentially in popularity throughout the country, and as hockey is about to be replaced by the Scripps' Spelling Bee as America's fourth favorite sport, the opposite has been historically happening here during the Miami football season.
The home opener usually draws a large student crowd, but even that tends to fizzle out by halftime, as we saw against Cincinnati. Family Weekend is another large draw as students and parents alike look for something to do on a Saturday afternoon before heading out at night.
Now that both of those weekends have come and gone and the team sits with a 2-3 record overall-but 1-0 in the conference, which means that there is still hope.
Even though things might have seemed bleak the past few weeks with the football team, with the exception of this past weekend, and the hockey team opens up the season with an exhibition game Saturday night against Waterloo marking the beginning of the hockey season, perhaps the football team isn't quite as bad as we thought.
Just look at the football team's first opponent, Ball State, who is now 2-1 in Mid-American Conference play already, beating Eastern Michigan University and Buffalo. The Cardinals are no easy pushover team as they knocked off Navy and almost upset Nebraska. And let's not forget, the RedHawks did beat Ball State.
Following that win against Ball State, the RedHawks came within inches of beating Minnesota. Miami took them to three overtimes before falling to the Gophers. So just maybe the RedHawk football team isn't as bad as things have sounded.
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