Sad

[ZapPoke]

It’s kinda sad that UW athletics has reached such a low point that a sports message board has more political discussion than sports.

 

[TheRealUW]

I'm not sure how much of it has to do with the state of UW athletics and how much is just a reflection of the change in the American political culture over the past few decades.

Political ideology has now passed occupation as the primary identifier most Americans use to describe themselves. If you asked someone in 1990 to describe themselves to a complete stranger in 30 seconds, they almost always used their occupation/career as their primary descriptor. Now, unsurprisingly, a majority of Americans use their political ideology/affiliation as their primary descriptor.

As such, politics and political discussions tend to find their way into every aspect of life now.

 

[sandiegopoke]

I'm still an engineer first!

 

[McPeachy]

I'm still an engineer first!

Nerd.

 

[sandiegopoke]

Nerd.

Even worse, I have an Electrical Engineering degree. It takes EE to spell "geek."

 

[stymeman]

It's just the environment of college sports we live in, we haven't mattered in quite sometime and it's really showing it's ugly head here on....we need to quit playing big schools just for paydays, make them suffer and find their prey elsewhere....

 

[Itsux2beaewe]

I guess we could get on and talk about how much UW sucks in football and basketball, but it’s depressing after a while.