re: Why do you, yes you, hate Auburn?

quote:

---

Like I said, gatekeeping a college sports team is one of the weirdest things yall do lmao

---

I am sure there are many other schools practicing some level of "gatekeeping" (Notre Dame, Baylor, Duke, Georgetown... and not just private schools: Clemson, Purdue - probably the best example, Rutgers(special case), Syracuse, etc. I am deliberately not listing universities located in major cities.)
Most of these universities do not have the state's name in the University's name, despite being state flagship universities (unlike many other universities, e.g. University of Tennessee, University of Alabama, University of Kentucky, etc, etc). So naturally, it is a different approach and dynamic than when the school is named the "University of [state]").