re: SEC school you attended vs. SEC school you root for

Know couple of folks from in Atlanta who grew up UGA fans, but went to Ole Miss because they couldn't get into UGA.

They root for Ole Miss now.

I know a girl who is from Auburn but her entire family is UA. Started at UA, didn't like it, so went to AU and graduated. Married an AU guy and still cheers for Alabama. Probably the best UA fan I know, in her defense.

I went to UGA for grad school. We lost to them all 3 years.

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Married an AU guy and still cheers for Alabama. Probably the best UA fan I know, in her defense. I went to UGA for grad school.

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In your defense, you're an okay Auburn fan.

You took all your SC insignia off?

I have a buddy who grew up in Hoover as a huge Bama fan. Moved to Little Rock in 9th grade. All of HS friends went to Fayetteville so he did too. Cheers for both teams now, but still picks Bama if they are playing each other.

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I don't think someone who lived 21 years in Tuscaloosa, and spent 2 years in Starkville should be expected to become a Mississippi State fan. That's silly as shite.

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No, it is normal.

Their degree from Starksville is what they are forever tied to. That is the brand that their career depends on.

Bama is just the fricking team they rooted for as a kid. Well guess what, kids believe in all sorts of stupid shite- Easter Bunny, Santa Claus. Point is most of us grow up and learn to form our own associations as adults.

Bama is not an NFL team no matter how much some of its fans want to pretend it is. It is a football program that is PART of a university.

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I think it's a lot more honorable and noble to maintain the allegiance you had prior to college than to flake out and become a sheep just because of where you're attending school.

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Oh really? Its more "noble" to be a fricking Bama fan who attends Mississippi State? Get the frick out of here with that sort of front running opinion.

It is noble/normal to be a MSU fan if you go to school in Starkville and root for the program you are associated with.

It is noble to be a bulldog fan and have all your family give you shite every Christmas for associating with the less successful team that you have a real tie to.

It is noble to recognize that your decisions in life lead you to Starkville and not Tuscaloosa, and embrace those decision because they make you who you are.

It is noble to be true to yourself.

A MSU grad who remains a Bama fan is basically living a lie. And that is a pathetic way to live.

I have known a few people who went to graduate schools at UGA who went to undergrad at other SEC schools and remained fans of their undergrad school.

Grew up in Arkansas but once I decided I was going to LSU I bought in 100%. My feelings toward the Hogs are now more ambivalent. Undergrad should be the best time of your life if you do it right, why would you not pull for the school that gave you that above all others? If I got a Master's degree that school would become my #2.

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Holy shite you're crazy

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Yeah I think people should support the school they attend. I must be a nutcase.

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Not everyone goes to an incredibly insular unusual cult school that has a million crazy traditions and defines their life. Some people just live at home and take classes.

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I wasn't talking about someone who is going to a community college without a football program or is only taking online classes. They can do whatever.

I was talking very specifically about someone who GOES to Starkville for school. Or any SEC school.

Basically if where you attended school has a program that you don't support then you are a self-hating moron.

I never said Bama couldn't be a second favorite team or whatever.

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And the Bama football program has been advertised and promoted as a brand for the entire state since the 1920s.

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So what? No matter how its "branded" the reality is that the football program is PART of the University of Alabama. It isn't this independent thing.

Now if you are some high school graduate who doesn't have anything better to live for who cares if you hitch your wagon to Bama? You didn't have true ties to any program, so any name out of a hat works.

But if you WENT to a university, and you graduated from there, THAT brand then forever defines part of who you are. To reject that to continue to support your "state" brand (which it really isn't) is self hatred at its worst.

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Not everyone has to be like you or think of college the way you do.

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It doesn't matter how you "think of college," the FACTS are that the football programs are PART of the universities. Period. All the Bama fans in the world thinking about it cannot make Bama into a fricking NFL team.

If Mr. MSU graduate wants to say shite like "I support Bama except for when they play my team MSU" then that is understandable. That is giving respect to their roots.

But is Mr. MSU refuses to root for MSU at all, and wants to pretend that his association with that program doesn't exist (or is less strong than just being BORN in the same state as another more successful program) then that person is pathetic and doesn't deserve the title of college graduate.

This isn't even debatable. Support your fricking school. End of story.

Jesus Bama fans have fricked up priorities.

Can you even imagine a family reunion in the state of Alabama.... big mix of gumps and barners... lot's of frickin' and fightin' going on.