By far the most annoying fans are the ones who change depending on sport. You want to cheer for Duke basketball? Fine, but you also don’t get Alabama football, you get Duke football. Fuck those people.
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Greear springs to mind. Did that dude even finish HS?
Think so. All time scumbag back in the day.
I’d hope this something that we could all agree on.
However, I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a “Well my parents went to Alabama, but I went to Duke, so that’s totally fine.”
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When I went to Bama one of my roommates told me he had to decide between Bama and Auburn. I thought that was very strange for someone that grew up in Alabama.
All you young people and your 500 channels. Way back when we got maybe 3 college games total on a Saturday afternoon. And in Cincinnati, Ohio State was always one of them.
And if you didn’t want to be out doing chores, the game on better be a local team a parent recognizes.
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Also to this day. His Twitter is wild.
https://twitter.com/slmandel/status/1467713444220600324
Merica - where our healthcare bills subsidize stratospheric college football coach salaries.
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Can’t afford to pay the actual labor though
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On the plus side, Utah, BYU and Utah State all have successful cfb teams and a way to pay the state employed coaches’ salaries.
Although maintaining a safety net for the poor is the government’s job, welfare in Utah has become so entangled with the state’s dominant religion that the agency in charge of public assistance here counts a percentage of the welfare provided by the LDS Church toward the state’s own welfare spending, according to a memorandum of understanding between the church and the state obtained by ProPublica.
What that means is that over the past decade, the Utah State Legislature has been able to get out of spending at least $75 million on fighting poverty that it otherwise would have had to spend under federal law, a review of budget documents shows.
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Ofc BYU is private. So are their finances, but I assume this deal benefits them too.
Wel maybe in Miami. Cfb is extremely profitable for power 5 teams generally.
https://twitter.com/Coach_JakeLong/status/1467312056063954950?t=e-o86bVIkQ9Urm9vEUjp4g&s=19
Unless boss man hired him as a convenient alibi.
https://twitter.com/Coach_JakeLong/status/1467313508983443457?t=oWdrjqc0oyYRS14taeTv3Q&s=19
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Above college football discussion above very weird imo. Most CF fans didn’t go to any college, much less the one they favor. Ime the most fervent CF fans are often ambivalent to the very existence of public education. Similarly, if you actually graduated from college I would hope your fandom to be at least tempered - the whole affair is pretty distressing.
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I think one factor explaining the rabid support of SEC teams by non-alum “sidewalk fans” is the lack of pro-sports teams in the south.
Also, if you were to plot teams’ success both on the field and financially I think it would correlate really well to support by non-alums. It has always stuck me as an odd thing to be against, unaffiliated randos supporting your football team and giving it more resources.
Checking out some of the other bowl games, there are some pretty On Brand match ups to be seen:
PUBG Mobile New Mexico Bowl
UTEP vs. Fresno State
Pretty good, but needed UCLA or UTSA instead of Fresno State
Cheez-It Bowl
Clemson vs. Iowa State
Not cheese its, unfortunately, but the combined school colors get us to just missing green from the multicolor goldfish:
Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl
UCF vs. Florida
Nice call reminding us about where some of the worst abuses in the 2008 mortgage crisis were.
Duke’s Mayo Bowl
North Carolina vs. South Carolina
But this one. This one right here is our winner for most on brand bowl game.
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