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

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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.