re: State pride or school pride?

My father started taking me to Ole Miss games in the mid-60's when I was 8 years old and we had season tickets and went to almost every game when I was a kid.

At that time--the height of the Vaught era, just about everybody in Mississippi who was not an MSU alum (and even some who were) was an Ole Miss fan, just as everybody who lived in Alabama and was not an Auburn alum was a Bama fan.

When it came time to go to college, I got a scholarship offer from a prestigious private school in a big city in another part of the country, so I took it....and then went to grad school in the Ivy League, so I ended up never having attended Ole Miss, but have always been a fan, particularly since neither of the schools I actually attended competes in Division 1A.

I contemplated switching allegiance over the years, but my heart would not let me do what my head told me would be a good idea......so here I am, still