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Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:48 am to TailbackU
So let me get this straight.
If you went there and graduated you’re allowed to say WE when referring to the teams?
If you are just a big fan who didn’t go there, you can’t say WE?
If you went there and graduated you’re allowed to say WE when referring to the teams?
If you are just a big fan who didn’t go there, you can’t say WE?
Posted on 8/17/18 at 10:54 am to TailbackU
Grew up watching UK sports, family was all big UK fans. Could've gone to UK, ended up going a different route(although I did take an Ag class at UK).
I've never met UK fans who went to the school that were bothered by people being fans of the school that didn't go there, glad we don't have that problem. Is it like that at other SEC schools?
I've never met UK fans who went to the school that were bothered by people being fans of the school that didn't go there, glad we don't have that problem. Is it like that at other SEC schools?
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:00 am to OKTGR580
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If you are just a big fan who didn’t go there, you can’t say WE?
You can do whatever the frick you want. Root for whoever, say "we", I couldnt care less. I'm just saying for me, I don't say "we" unless I have some vested interests like a degree or employment. I'm a huge auburn fan because I received a diploma which allowed me to make my career. I feel a level of gratitude which manifests in me giving to the school and pulling like hell for Auburn in athletic endeavors. I don't have near that level of passion for any other team/sport because I'm not invested like I am in AU. Others can do as they wish....including telling me to frick off. After all, "It's a choosin' world" as Howard Finster used to say. Like I said...so much projection going on here.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:01 am to TailbackU
I’m a sidewalk Auburn fan. I live vicariously through a school that would’ve only considered me by my student ID number and tuition checks, and I’m damn sure to vandalize Bear Bryant’s statue whenever I get a chance. Sue me.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:01 am to TailbackU
I've probably met 100 OSU fans in my life and I think maybe 1 of them briefly attended the school 
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:03 am to tWildcat
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Is it like that at other SEC schools?
Arkansas doesn't have many issues with this. The fact that there isn't much else to root for in the state allows for most individuals to get together behind the hogs. There are some issues between Central Arkansas and Northwest Arkansas but you could argue that is a totally different issue and in reality, isn't as big of an issue as people play up at times.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:05 am to TailbackU
Who’s to say that a person who doesn’t attend a school goes to a game, meets a girl at a tailgate, Marries said girl, meets another person through said girl, gets a job, makes big money. Now this person feels like if it weren’t for this sporting event at a college, they would never be in such a good position in life?
Just saying you shouldn’t be so quick to judge somebody because they weren’t able to graduate From Auburn like yourself. You should be glad your Alma matter has such a big non-alumni following. I really don’t understand your point in creating this thread?
Does it make you feel above people who root for Auburn that didn’t go there?
Just saying you shouldn’t be so quick to judge somebody because they weren’t able to graduate From Auburn like yourself. You should be glad your Alma matter has such a big non-alumni following. I really don’t understand your point in creating this thread?
Does it make you feel above people who root for Auburn that didn’t go there?
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:06 am to TailbackU
My mother was a professor at the University of Alabama.
My father was a high school coach back when high school coaches got comped tickets and near unfettered access to practice and the locker room.
I grew up sitting in Bill Oliver's office while he and my Dad talked defense and which of my Dad's players had potential.
Four of my high school teammates played for the University of Alabama.
I didn't want to go to the same school my mother was at, I'd been doing that all my life. So, I took a scholarship to a smaller school. Did have a scholarship offer and subsidized tuition to UA because of my Mom, but they didn't require me to take it.
My father was a high school coach back when high school coaches got comped tickets and near unfettered access to practice and the locker room.
I grew up sitting in Bill Oliver's office while he and my Dad talked defense and which of my Dad's players had potential.
Four of my high school teammates played for the University of Alabama.
I didn't want to go to the same school my mother was at, I'd been doing that all my life. So, I took a scholarship to a smaller school. Did have a scholarship offer and subsidized tuition to UA because of my Mom, but they didn't require me to take it.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:08 am to TailbackU
I was an Aggie fan growing up, but I was interested in the university as well as the athletic program. However big of a fan I thought I was it all changes when you actually live there. You experience a university on another level.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:12 am to TailbackU
Some sidewalk fans care more about Auburn football than you do you condescending frick. I loved Bama growing up just as much as the day I graduated and my poor dad, literally poor loved the football program more than I did. Go frick yourself slick.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:12 am to OKTGR580
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Just saying you shouldn’t be so quick to judge somebody because they weren’t able to graduate From Auburn like yourself. You should be glad your Alma matter has such a big non-alumni following. I really don’t understand your point in creating this thread? Does it make you feel above people who root for Auburn that didn’t go there?
If all of these fan bases were made up of only alumni, they would be significantly smaller. While I get some of the snob factor these folks dont necessarily love their program anymore than anyone else. I have a nephew thats a die hard UGA fan but went into the Marine corp instead of college. He is as rabid a fan as any alum. Dont get the folks that find him less worthy than some random Psychology grad student type fan.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:14 am to Farmer1906
I grew up a Bama fan. I attended and graduated from a small college so I could play basketball, and that college did not have a football team, so there was never any thought of a switch. I don't have any particular loyalty to the University but you would be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of Bama than I am, and that goes for any school out there. It is really no different than the Braves, Falcons, etc. No diploma controls passion as I know many UGA fans, since I live in Atlanta, who are far bigger UGA fans than others who went to school there. Also, the two biggest Auburn fans I know, my brother n law and a good friend did not go to school there. Both are college graduates like me, but from small colleges.
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Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:31 am to amders44
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I grew up a Bama fan. I attended and graduated from a small college so I could play basketball, and that college did not have a football team, so there was never any thought of a switch. I don't have any particular loyalty to the University but you would be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of Bama than I am, and that goes for any school out there. It is really no different than the Braves, Falcons, etc. No diploma controls passion as I know many UGA fans, since I live in Atlanta, who are far bigger UGA fans than others who went to school there. Also, the two biggest Auburn fans I know, my brother n law and a good friend did not go to school there. Both are college graduates like me, but from small colleges.
I think people get the academic and athletic side of a university mixed up. I know people that graduated from Alabama and Auburn that do not care at all about the athletics of either school.
I know people that graduated from Auburn that are Alabama fans, and vice versa.
I graduated from several universities, but for the most part do not care about their athletics.
I also know people that are HUGE fans of universities they will never attend.
Who are we to judge?
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:49 am to TailbackU
99.9% of this board has never suited up for an NFL game yet e all still cheer for a team. Its no different.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:52 am to DoreonthePlains
Kinda amused that my last post got 3 upvotes and 2 downvotes. I didn't think it was that polarizing.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 11:59 am to lsudave1
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99.9% of this board has never suited up for an NFL game yet e all still cheer for a team. Its no different.
This is a shitty argument. Pro sports do not have some sort of larger entity to which they are connected. Collegiate athletics are an extension of a university, not just a random sports team founded to compete as a sole entity. Pro sports are designed to garner a following due to geographic location and identifying with the people in that area. It's why there aren't pro teams in a small area, yet 100K people will drive to Tuscaloosa or other SEC schools that are not in areas of large population.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 12:26 pm to TailbackU
This topic comes up often and lack any sort of empathy to the multitude of ways people are brought up.
My dad grew up in South Louisiana. Instead of going to LSU, he enlisted in the Air Force. We moved all over the place and Kansas became home by circumstance not choice. I have never lived in Louisiana. I tried to go to LSU, but they weren't offering out of state scholarships that I qualified for when I was in school. Made no sense to pay out of state. That said, I've been an LSU fan since the day I was born. First game was in 1998 vs Kentucky. Have been an LSU fan, regardless of sport, since I was old enough to understand. Hell, LSU sports has created as many memorable moments for myself and members of my family than nearly any other activity we participate in.
My dad grew up in South Louisiana. Instead of going to LSU, he enlisted in the Air Force. We moved all over the place and Kansas became home by circumstance not choice. I have never lived in Louisiana. I tried to go to LSU, but they weren't offering out of state scholarships that I qualified for when I was in school. Made no sense to pay out of state. That said, I've been an LSU fan since the day I was born. First game was in 1998 vs Kentucky. Have been an LSU fan, regardless of sport, since I was old enough to understand. Hell, LSU sports has created as many memorable moments for myself and members of my family than nearly any other activity we participate in.
Posted on 8/17/18 at 12:48 pm to TailbackU
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...how is it that you can get so torqued up about a team? I don't think I'd have near the interest in SEC football if I hadn't actually attended the school and received a degree from there.
I’d posit that you are an anomaly assuming you are more than second generation southern, especially if you are from Alabama. I’ve got family in Alabama.....they’ll discuss the iron bowl in July at a funeral!
Personally I became a UGA fan on a cold October night listening to Larry Munson describe a last minute FG putting the Dawgs over Kentucky in a “drrrriving blizzard” in Lexington. My father and I were GLUED to the radio. I was about 9 at the time. A few years later my dad, my grandfather and me watched Herschel Walker and the Dawgs defend the south’s honor from a bunch of maurading invaders from Indiana and win a national title. Last year my 18 year old son, my niece and I I wheeled my 78 year old father into Mercedes Benz Stadiuam and saw our Dawgs redeem a bad beat by Auburn a few weeks earlier by winning the SEC. A few weeks later I spent a beautiful evening in Pasadena California with my wife and my 8 year old daughter as UGA won what may be as good a Rose Bowl as there has ever been.
45 years worth of fall Saturday’s with family pulling for UGA...either by radio, TV or in person with 85,000 like minded folks is why I’m a UGA fan. Life took me to a different school....I was accepted at UGA and GT but I went another route and went to work full time and school at night. Life has taken me away from Georgia. Nothing but the grave will take me away from UGA football. I fully understand that becoming an adult at a Univesity ties a person to that place in a special way....but 40+ years of memories and events timed by football games is just as binding. GO DAWGS!
Posted on 8/17/18 at 1:01 pm to germandawg
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45 years worth of fall Saturday’s with family pulling for UGA...either by radio, TV or in person with 85,000 like minded folks is why I’m a UGA fan. Life took me to a different school....I was accepted at UGA and GT but I went another route and went to work full time and school at night. Life has taken me away from Georgia. Nothing but the grave will take me away from UGA football. I fully understand that becoming an adult at a Univesity ties a person to that place in a special way....but 40+ years of memories and events timed by football games is just as binding. GO DAWGS!
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