This video was created by an official San Jose State student group called the Students for CSU San Jose State, with support from the CSU Alumni of Silicon Valley. This video is a must view for those concerned about the prestige and image of the University. Enjoy!
Texas Christian University (TCU) leverages its Texas identity despite the fact that it is not a public school. TCU football is ranked #4 in the nation.
"CAL STATE" Identity Would Help Salvage SJSU Football
Guest Commentary
SAN JOSE, CA - Nov 25, 2009 -- It’s mid-November and we find the Spartans football team winless in the WAC having scored only a measly 106 total points in seven games.The only team they beat was a division 2 team that nearly beat them.The team, a wise university that leverages the power of the California name quite nicely (i.e. Cal Poly).
The only consolation to this sad story is that they’re doing better than Hawaii who is 0-5 in the conference versus the San Jose State record of 0-3.But wait, Hawaii still has a better overall record than San Jose State at 2-6.So, it can be confidently said that SJSU is the worst team in the WAC.
So how does Spartan athletics attract more top talent?To start I would like to see the football team wear uniforms that simply say “CAL STATE” on the front.In other words, don’t ostracize the California mystique, but rather use it to promote yourself. Did you know that 19 of the 25 college football teams in the Division 1 top 25 leverage the power of their state in their name?
Written by Go State! - CSU | San Jose State - Editorial Staff
Southern California Trojans Crush S.J. City-State Spartans in 2009 Football Opener
SAN JOSE, CA (Sept. 7, 2009) -- California powerhouse school the University of Southern California (USC) humiliated State Jose State Spartan football 56-3 at the kickoff of the 2009 NCAA football season for the two schools on Sept. 5, 2009, in Los Angeles.
But what's more interesting than the score is a comparison of the two school's attitudes toward the State of California, and exploiting its well known and widely admired name and identity.
USC, one of the top football and academic schools in the country, has successfully appropriated California's identity for at least the Southern part of the State, and has benefitted greatly from its California identity despite the fact that it's private school.
San Jose State, on the other hand, despite being the founding campus of the entire California State University (CSU) system, deliberately suppresses its prestigous California identity, and as a result is much less well-known, respected and admired in California and beyond.
