Are South Alabama Jags or Troy fans also UA & AU fans?

Everyone in Alabama is. And everyone that didn’t go to college on the MS coast and FL panhandle too.

Probably

I have connections to Troy so I am a Troy fan and a Mississippi State fan. But I wouldn't consider myself a Troy fan first if that makes sense. Of the Troy games I'd been to I'd say most fans are Auburn fans with some Alabama fans too because Troy is a lot closer to Auburn and Montgomery than it is to Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.

Most of them, yes.

I know UAB has people, mostly alums, that are UAB fans only. They always hate Bama and usually don't care for Auburn either.

I've also met a handful if Troy alums who are Troy only, but every one of them that I know was an athlete at Troy.

I don't know a ton of Mobile people, but all the USA fans I know are also a fan of another SEC school, mostly Auburn but also Bama and a couple LSU or Florida as well

90% of UAB alums are either Alabama or Auburn fans in about a 60-40 split. The Auburn fans hate UA. The UA fans don't. The few with no loyalty to either school do not generally attend athletic events enough to care. Most of them are international students. The most vocal UAB fan I know is primarily an Auburn fan who gets really pissed when people call him out on it.


During new student orientation now, UAB is actively discouraging parents and students from openly showing allegiance to any school other than UAB. I sat through it last weekend. I think that if this can gain momentum, it will go a long way toward giving them a real identity.


ETA, I suspect the same is true of most Troy and USA students. The alums I've hired or that I know non-professionally all have other schools to pull for. Not always in state, but usually in the southeast. USA alums seem to have more out of state primary teams.

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The same could go for Georgia Southern and Georgia State with UGA.

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The vast majority of Southern kids are UGA fans. Spend most of their Fall weekends in Athens. Support UGA just as hard as they have their whole lives. There is a weird contingent of Southern fans though that see UGA as rivals, and try to shite talk us. Constantly bringing up their vaunted FCS national titles and trying to make themselves relevant to any conversation involving UGA.


State is eh, idk.

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During new student orientation now, UAB is actively discouraging parents and students from openly showing allegiance to any school other than UAB.

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This is ridiculous. You can show allegiance to UAB for academics and show allegiance to UA for athletics. It’s not a conflict of interest. I don’t see why smaller schools have that inferiority complex.

Are we talking real Uga fans like die hards or they just go to Athens to party on game days bc it’s superior to anything Statesboro offers?

There’s kids like this in LA and I can’t tell if they’re actually big tiger fans or just go to BR to party because gameday is the shite and they have a lot of friends that go there.

Not entirely on topic, but I went to Alabama and MTSU is my G5 team because I grew up in southern middle Tennessee.

I don't know why everyone doesn't pick a G5 team to go along with a P5 team. It's a solid level of play, and P5 and G5 or lower programs aren't really competing against each other in any sport.

Tuscaloosa treats the other campuses like absolute dog shite. UAB has one rep on the BOT and UAH has zero. That's the way they will keep it too.