Eugene don't care wrote:
A Duck wrote:Great times, Eugene, Great Times.
Quit hyping the lie. If you really live in Eugene, you know full well nobody in the city can name even one Oregon track athlete. Other than the couple hundred people who pepper the west stands during dual meets. While the other stands are all vacant which is why all the cheers are on the homestretch.
To 99.9 percent of Eugeneans, Track Town is just a pizza joint. Eugene has a tiny dedicated fan base, not enough to make it more special than any other city.
You don't know what you are talking about.
Track Town Pizza is a run of the mill pizza place that students got to for the cheap and greasy late night pizza.
Locals go to several other places.
Eugene's local fan base is very informed.
I was merely a member of the varsity for 3 of my 4 years there. Not bad, me thinks.
And, locals would recognize me out and about, on airplanes back into Eugene. Girls would come to the track to watch me work out, ask me out, give me their dorm keys.
It was nice to be at a school where the track team meant something. Sure other schools are better that focus on the sprints - much easier to pile up points that way due to limited scholarships.
The thing is, your opinion is a minority opinion.
Until there is another city in the USA that can put a good knowledgeable fan base in the seats regularly, you are just going to have to take your whining tears elsewhere.
I'll agree with others on this; I wouldn't want to live in Eugene after graduating. I know that it is a very supportive community for running, and if you like small towns...great.
Centrowitz has the right idea, get into OP and move to Portland, a real city, with all the perks of a real city.