re: Why are some of y'all fans of one school's football and another school's bball

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Who?

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can't remember the name

I guarantee you anyone who is a fan of one school in football and another in basketball doesn't have a degree from either.

ETA: or a degree from both, which is perfectly acceptable, IMO.

It's very simple. There are emotional connections, centimental values attached in most cases. I'm a gamecock through and through. Went to school at carolina. Even sat through that whole massacare against Pickens college of the toothless.

However, I was born in Greensboro NC, lived close to chapel hill growing up, and my first sporting event was in 2001, a North Carolina basketball game, and at 6 years old, the players took pictures with me and let me come onto the court after the game and shoot the basketball. I loved that. I always pull for SC over everyone, but if SC has nothing to do with it, North Carolina is my second choice.

I have the same sort of connection. I grew up in a "football family" but excelled at basketball. A group of my AAU team, including myself, would go to Duke every summer and participate in their team camps. I got to play against/with a bunch of Duke/NBA players from Duke and got coaching from their entire staff (Coach K would hold an hour to two hour long lecture with the entire camp every night where he focused on something else for a 5 day period, assistant coaches, one of which is now a head coach at a pretty big school, did hands on with us in groups of 5-7) it was a cool experience and I went for three years in a row.
While Im attending school somewhere that isn't auburn, a school not big on sports, my family all went there and multiple people in my family were professors and faculty members at auburn for a majority of their professional careers. I've been going to auburn games for as long as I can remember and following the teams on forums and what not since I was a kid.
So while I don't have a degree from either of the schools I'll root for, I'll root for auburn over anyone and I like to see Duke do well in basketball just from a nostalgic standpoint. In a tournament standpoint it would still be a little hard for me to root for Duke over any SEC team and vise versa.

Grew up UF fan but graduated from MSU. Support both sports from both schools.

I have a degree from northwestern state, LSU, and Louisville. I'm a fan of all three.