re: A little help from SEC team fans or fans that live in a Southeastern College...

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I'm in a written mass media course right now, and we have to write a beat report each week. Well an idea I have always had is, what is the attitude and emotional outcome that is associated with wins and loses of a college football team, and what impact it has on the social scene of that town?

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I doubt you'll find that any place is more or less devastated than any other, if that's what you're looking for. It's all about expectations, so if you want to look at the most passionate fan base in the SEC, Texas A&M, then that would probably be the only fan base that reacts. Aggies will be devastated if we lose to an Alabama team we should beat when we have the greatest college football player of all time who should deliver us a national championship that we have been waiting on longer than anyone can remember. Otherwise, everything will be just the same. LSU fans will be just as sad after a loss, and just as happy after a win as the gumps will. The "social scenes" will be identical.