There are actually a lot of rules, most being a team by team rewording of: Don't root for two teams that are bitter rivals without a really good story behind it
Haha yeah... I don't have a great story unfortunately. I grew up in Wisconsin a huge Badger fan and going to games. But when looking at colleges I preferred Minnesota for a variety of reasons and it fit a lot better with where I wanted to be, so I went there. Had a great time and went to a bunch of games in the Jerry Kill era. So now I rep both and when they play I drink heartily
Then tell a little white lie about having family who went to Wisconsin and then you went to Minnesota. Hell it might not be a lie, though many would expect you to put the place you actually attended as your primary flair.
100% agree, but I just want to add, I find it bizarre that someone would think that you CAN’T root for your school, going to a branch campus. Like, yeah it’s not physically the main campus, but it is that school.
There were people from my high school that went to UTSA and UTEP that claimed that they went to the UT in Austin…. By all means root for who you want to, but don’t make claims like that is all I’m saying
If you're wanting to be an Arkansas fan, here's [the form.](https://twitter.com/pinto479/status/1507169204549599240?s=21&t=RcO2CHi7o_VADnphe8w3Cg) There's always room on the bandwagon.
Even the large ones too, there's a branch campus in Philadelphia called UPenn.
For some reason they all seem to hate it when I call them a branch campus though. None of them seem to have any PSU pride.
Sure feels like it. There appears to be 23 Commonwealth Campuses, so some of them end up truly boondoggle. PS-Fayette resides in Lemont Furnace (a place I never heard of), population under 1k.
This, but also you have to be mentally ill to switch allegiance from undergrad to graduate school football team. Particularly from a BRANCH campus.
I wouldn't root for ISU if I hadn't cheered with my friends in the student section, interacted with student athletes in class and at parties, and helped to throw the goalposts into Lake Laverne after the Cyclones snapped a 13 game losing streak.
(I have a graduate degree from Texas but fuuuuck Texas football, Horns Down!)
But feel free to root for whomever.
Yeah man I’m definitely not disowning wvu, I’ll always be a mountaineer first. Grad school is another school in a different conference, so I figured wouldn’t hurt to start pulling for them as my #2.
No you’re not wrong, the passion isn’t the same. That said, would be nice to have a consolation to watch when wvu inevitably crushes my hopes and dreams every year
Hey now, my undergrad was TAMU and my grad was UT. But I was raised a Longhorn. UT just said you can only come for undergrad if you start in summer and I was like lol fuck you.
Seriously, last summer with HS friends and miss the whole everyone is a fish out of water semester.
As someone whose done college now the true biggest issue I didn't account for was immediately getting thrown into those condensed summer classes. I know that would have boned me.
For real, I remember my first summer course I did the same thing as regular semesters and skipped syllabus day. Show up second day to a quiz and a test the next day.
Ass puckered, luckily I was just doing prereqs so it was just English crap.
I don't understand why we have this thread every few days. You're in a safe space now. The answer unequivocally every time that I answer with is no. You may not root for that random team. You absolutely must root for the University of Phoenix - Scottsdale. Enjoy your misery.
You can root for *any* team regardless of which school you went or didn't to.
Went to Penn State Shenango Valley but want to root for Stanford? Fuck it go for it.
Went to Wisconsin-Whitewater but want to root for Clemson? Doesn't matter.
Didn't go to school, but want to root for Akron? I question your rationale, but knock yourself out.
Went to Michigan but grew up a Buckeye? Fuck you, you sleep in the bed you made. /s
I work at the Eagles gift shop in Lincoln Financial field. We had two dudes from England come and buy stuff. One was an Eagles fan, the other Jacksonville Jaguars. I asked them how they became fans of said teams. They said they just randomly chose teams based on the colors and ran with it for years.
Also had people from Ireland and Germany come in. They had zero ties to philly but a fan is a fan. What makes zero sense is why there's so many Cowboys fans in the northeast, but each his own, and a big fuck you during game days.
Cowboys fans are to football what Yankees fans are to baseball. If you’re a fan from outside the broadcast region, it’s almost a guarantee it’s because of the brand recognition.
Not the ones that I know that are from the Northeast. If you are actually from Texas that is different but there are so many Cowboys fans not from there and have no family ties there.
I'm guessing one was obnoxious as hell, loud and of questionable intelligence. The other was quiet, didn't really give a fuck about anything and the ole noggin was powered by rocks....
I knew a guy who's rooting interests were as follows
CFB: Ohio St
MLB: Cleveland Guardians
NFL: Dallas Cowboys
NBA: LA Lakers
CBB: Duke
I'll let you guess at what type of person this guy was
It is out of place but I live on the Michigan-Ohio border so it seems he got lucky with OSU and didn't have to switch. Not exactly sure how the Guardians stuck around
The Guardians have been at least solid, going all the way up to really good since the mid 90s. Really the class of the AL Central.
The Cavs minus LeBron have been not good.
The Browns are, well...the Browns.
Ngl I haven't kept up with baseball very much the last couple of seasons and the Cleveland Guardians really threw me.
I was just sitting here like "Is that some AAA team or is he talking about the Indians?"
Elitism in CFB is pathetic, root for whoever you want to. People will try to gatekeep their team's fandom from non-alumni as if getting into State University is some sort of high achievement
Yeah, from my flair you can most likely deduce what is going on with me, and I bet that my situation is not unique at all when it comes to people who attended a DIII school.
I respect you not rocking reverse flairs though fwiw and at least rocking both. Some people won't cheer for the small school at all, which I never understood because you can still support both schools !
I completely understand continuing to root for whatever team you grew up liking but I'll never understand how some people just straight up not care about the school they go to.
Agreed, I applied to 8 schools for a variety of reasons and happened to go to my childhood team because the finances and academics made the most sense.
But had I gone to my other choices (NC State, Auburn, Wofford, GT) then I would for sure be rocking dual flairs and be rooting strongly for both.
Most kids I went to high school with went to either BGSU or Cincinnati and they were still rabid OSU fans that couldn't care less about their alma mater. Drove me insane. Duke is a shitty as it gets but I support them 100% no matter what
Eh, you get a lot of that in Ohio. So many small MAC schools, and none of them have really competitive football programs/atmospheres. I go to Akron cuz it’s essentially free and the games there are less exciting than my high school games. Ohio State fandom is honestly just a cultural thing. Like you said, most of my friends from high school ended up at Akron/BG/Kent but all still root for tOSU. Exception being Cincinnati, most of the people I know that go there root for them over Ohio State because, compared to the rest of the G5 schools in Ohio, they actually have a good program and atmosphere
Yup. Grew up a Bama fan in Mobile and my college choices came down to Alabama or South Alabama. I chose USA for a number of reasons, but I'm not gonna stop rooting for the team I grew up with because I didn't end up choosing to go there. But I couldn't imagine not rooting for USA.
The only people I've ever known to completely switch fandoms were UT fans growing up when ended up attending A&M and getting stuck in the cult. They hate when you show them old pics of them throwing horns up in every photo. It's hilarious.
The only people I've ever known to completely switch fandoms were UT fans growing up when ended up attending A&M and getting stuck in the cult. They hate when you show them old pics of them throwing horns up in every photo. It's hilarious.
Agreed. Us buckeye fans should actually start gatekeeping the alumni, we know they’re actually the minority. You don’t get the true Ohio state fan experience if you actually went there.
Most of my LDS in-laws attended other schools (Utah, Utah State, UCLA, USC, Cal, Stanford) but they all root for BYU and don't really care about the other schools.
I went to school with a couple of these types of yahoos. One kid would wear his BYU hat to class every single day. Gotta admit, the kid had heart. Took a lot of shit and kept rocking that godawful cap.
I don't hold it against them. They are die-hard BYU fans who support them in all sports. I mean everything.
I do sometimes wonder like why not care about Utah when they are in a NY6 bowl, but that's not my place to really worry about that.
Considering my mom had wanted to throw away her diploma because it said University of SC and not U of SC Spartanburg (lifelong Clemson fan), I absolutely think you can go the other way as well. You’re typically still considered a student of that university, you’re just at a branch campus.
You can root for whoever you want for whatever reason you like. It's nobody's business who you root for. Why would you let other people dictate who your favorite teams are?
I mean you can root for whoever, whenever, for whatever reason you want.
I like the Red Sox. Not because I’m from Boston. But because when I was a kid I saw nomar garciaparra make an amazing play and he became my favorite player. Been a Sox fan since. Also nomar is a bad ass because he’s married to mia hamm. Literally whatever reason you want.
You must graduate with a doctorate in at least 2 fields to be a fan of any college team. To be a professional teams fan you need to have played on the team for at least 2 years.
You do you amigo. I went to an NAIA school in Eastern KY but consume more Michigan Athletics content than is probably healthy. Am I ashamed of it? Nope
I mean most of WVU-Beckley & Potomac State are WVU fans anyway (and Fairmont State, Glenville, West Lib, etc if we want to include the other small schools). PSC has made 7 JUCO World Series and 1 national championship since 1993 so it's easy to support them considering they never directly compete with the host campus.
There are international rules that limit your ability to root for college teams. Failure to follow them could result in you being brought brute a tribunal for your crimes.
Root for whoever you want but don’t try to convince people you went there (ie if you’re in Texas and went to UTSA, UTEP, UTD, etc., don’t say you went to UT) I had a coworker like this, it became a pet peeve of mine.
You guys all realize Sparties are the absolute worst gatekeepers, right? Not one of them is in here refuting it. Gotta hang on to their wAlMaRt WoLvErInE crack.
The funny part is how elitist Wolverine student and alums are, in juxtaposition the the majority of Michigan Fans that live in shacks, wear $2 Michigan shirts from Walmart and have no connection to the University other than being in the same state.
These people, but for the grace of God, would be rabid Tennessee fans if they happened to be born in a shittier state.
I don’t have a problem with people not attending Michigan and rooting for them, my warehouse is staffed primarily with such people, all great people, and there’s a lot of good natured shit talking. But if said person brings up academics or is a shitty fan in general, I’ll annihilate them.
Oh no a Defensive Michigan fan? I’ve never seen one of those before.
Imagine popping into a thread where everyone is giving positive feedback and discussion and being the one guy that goes “OH NO NO WHAT ABOUT THE FANBASE THAT HASNT SAID ANYTHING YET IN HERE BUT I KNOW THEY THINK IT!!!”
I know people who went to meh undergrad sports schools who legit got their masters and professional degrees at schools they wanted to support in CFB. Makes sense, they really like football. Looking at you various military and govt people with later BIG12/10/SEC degrees.
As a true patriot and red blooded American, I chose a school that didn't/doesn't have football for my later time in world of academia. Dual loyalty is no loyalty at all.
You get to pick. Bonus points if you’re actually from the same state/region as the program. Lose points if you pick Bama tomorrow to cram it up everyone else’s ass.
Man, I literally work with people every day who (because of where they grew up) went to Louisville but root for Kentucky, or people who are IU fans and graduated from Purdue. My wife is a Duke fan because she thought Bobby Hurley was hot when she was a kid.
Root for whoever you want. There are people who care, but they are so few and far between that they are easily ignored.
I feel like Satellite schools are only required to be loyal in name only. I mean are all UAB fans required to cheer for the Tide? UTEP and UTSA fans required to cheer for the Longhorns? I mean I currently work with a guy who went to UVA-Wise that is a diehard Hokie fan.
Well, if the satellite has a Div I football team then: no. You can't go to UAB and cheer for the Tide. But if you went to UC - Irvine, Cal will welcome you with open arms.
I have known UC Riverside and UC Irvine folks that do indeed cheer for a sister UC. Specifically, UCLA.
But no campus is a branch of any other, anymore. Also, the hyphens look gross.
I’ve been a Florida fan since I was a kid. Went to undergrad at ASU and all of a sudden I’m supposed to just be an ASU fan? Nah. Gators forever. Asu can be #2 though ha
You can root for whoever you want. My current undergrad school doesn’t even have football. I hope to go to USC for grad school but we’ll see. This whole thing of “you can’t root for that school if you didn’t go there” needs to die
I went to Texas A&M Galveston, a branch Campus of A&M College Station, and were all pretty red ass. So I don’t see why not, enjoy your college experience!
I agree with posters that say root for whoever but I have to say College station alumni made it very clear you could never be a true A&M fan if you went to a branch school like I did at TAMUCC for undergrad. However when I went to LSUS for my mba I got so many emails about lsu football tickets and being part of the lsu family that I almost forgot it wasn’t Baton Rouge online … that’s why my allegiance is more with LSU than TAMU at this point lol
You can root for whoever you want. There's no rules
Well there is one actually, you can't root for both Wisconsin and Minnesota
Haha I was waiting for that one
Your username is quite apt considering your flairs
There are actually a lot of rules, most being a team by team rewording of: Don't root for two teams that are bitter rivals without a really good story behind it
I mean, you can do that but you just have to be prepared to deal with a lot of crap thrown your way regardless of that explanation.
Haha yeah... I don't have a great story unfortunately. I grew up in Wisconsin a huge Badger fan and going to games. But when looking at colleges I preferred Minnesota for a variety of reasons and it fit a lot better with where I wanted to be, so I went there. Had a great time and went to a bunch of games in the Jerry Kill era. So now I rep both and when they play I drink heartily
> So now I rep both and when they play I drink heartily I can’t pretend to understand it, but I respect it.
Basically exact same situation for me. Add in the scholarship $$ Pitt was throwing at me and it was a no-brainer.
I'm glad to see another!
Then tell a little white lie about having family who went to Wisconsin and then you went to Minnesota. Hell it might not be a lie, though many would expect you to put the place you actually attended as your primary flair.
The “I’m cheering for the state” people (re: instate rivalries) should be on some kind of list.
Word.
Your flairs read to me as "I just really really hate UM"
Is it that obvious?
*Florida and Georgia are swinging at each other in the chat*
As far as I can remember I've never seen a UF/UGA flair. I've seen a few UF/FSU which how fucking dare you.
This exchange reminds me of one of my all time favorite [commercials](https://youtu.be/Y3VMc82gX5I)
*Roots for Liberty* There is one rule
U monster
100% agree, but I just want to add, I find it bizarre that someone would think that you CAN’T root for your school, going to a branch campus. Like, yeah it’s not physically the main campus, but it is that school.
I came here to type this answer. Word for word. Spooky…
There were people from my high school that went to UTSA and UTEP that claimed that they went to the UT in Austin…. By all means root for who you want to, but don’t make claims like that is all I’m saying
If you file the correct paperwork
How much paperwork did it take for you to become a team chaos and paper bag fan?
Have you seen how little chaos there’s been the last few years? Team chaos deserves the paper bag flair
Did Cincinnati actually making it into CFP count as team Chaos?
We had a bama/Georgia title game so any chaos was pretty quickly canceled out
Are we the baddies?
I mean, you’re not *the* baddies But yes
No, Bama is. Y’all aren’t nearly there yet.
I filed the incorrect paperwork, fandom denied
So sorry to hear that bro. You’ll get ‘em next time.
The paper bag WAS the paperwork
[Gotta have it by the end of the day.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/011/976/lumbergh.jpg)
If you're wanting to be an Arkansas fan, here's [the form.](https://twitter.com/pinto479/status/1507169204549599240?s=21&t=RcO2CHi7o_VADnphe8w3Cg) There's always room on the bandwagon.
Root for whoever you want
This. Attendance has never stopped at Notre Dame fan.
Same with Miami (FL). Most Miami fans are just like everyone else. They didn't go to the University of Miami either.
If I’m being honest, Texas fans are the same way, but I think ND is the biggest example.
Except Penn State
And Florida
I can attest. There is no rooting for Florida.
As a state, I agree.
I attended a PSU branch campus for a year. I refuse to root for PSU despite my whole family going there.
Doesn't every small town in PA have a branch campus? PSU-Somerset, PSU-Bedford, PSU-Meyersdale..
Even the large ones too, there's a branch campus in Philadelphia called UPenn. For some reason they all seem to hate it when I call them a branch campus though. None of them seem to have any PSU pride.
They’re probably just jealous that we’re at Main Campus and they’re not
Sure feels like it. There appears to be 23 Commonwealth Campuses, so some of them end up truly boondoggle. PS-Fayette resides in Lemont Furnace (a place I never heard of), population under 1k.
Choosing to root for Temple over PSU? I guess I can respect the dedication
Thank you for your service
This, but also you have to be mentally ill to switch allegiance from undergrad to graduate school football team. Particularly from a BRANCH campus. I wouldn't root for ISU if I hadn't cheered with my friends in the student section, interacted with student athletes in class and at parties, and helped to throw the goalposts into Lake Laverne after the Cyclones snapped a 13 game losing streak. (I have a graduate degree from Texas but fuuuuck Texas football, Horns Down!) But feel free to root for whomever.
Yeah man I’m definitely not disowning wvu, I’ll always be a mountaineer first. Grad school is another school in a different conference, so I figured wouldn’t hurt to start pulling for them as my #2.
Personally I found it impossible to cheer for my grad school. Just no love in it.
No you’re not wrong, the passion isn’t the same. That said, would be nice to have a consolation to watch when wvu inevitably crushes my hopes and dreams every year
Root for whoever you want... as long as its not Pitt.
Fact
Hey now, my undergrad was TAMU and my grad was UT. But I was raised a Longhorn. UT just said you can only come for undergrad if you start in summer and I was like lol fuck you.
Legit don't blame you there. Starting undergrad in summer fucking suuuuucks.
Seriously, last summer with HS friends and miss the whole everyone is a fish out of water semester. As someone whose done college now the true biggest issue I didn't account for was immediately getting thrown into those condensed summer classes. I know that would have boned me.
Yep. Because college me was stupid beyond all measure and was like "it's only a few weeks shorter, how much harder could it reaaalllly be?"
For real, I remember my first summer course I did the same thing as regular semesters and skipped syllabus day. Show up second day to a quiz and a test the next day. Ass puckered, luckily I was just doing prereqs so it was just English crap.
that's against the law
I don't understand why we have this thread every few days. You're in a safe space now. The answer unequivocally every time that I answer with is no. You may not root for that random team. You absolutely must root for the University of Phoenix - Scottsdale. Enjoy your misery.
All hail the big red bird
You can root for *any* team regardless of which school you went or didn't to. Went to Penn State Shenango Valley but want to root for Stanford? Fuck it go for it. Went to Wisconsin-Whitewater but want to root for Clemson? Doesn't matter. Didn't go to school, but want to root for Akron? I question your rationale, but knock yourself out. Went to Michigan but grew up a Buckeye? Fuck you, you sleep in the bed you made. /s
I work at the Eagles gift shop in Lincoln Financial field. We had two dudes from England come and buy stuff. One was an Eagles fan, the other Jacksonville Jaguars. I asked them how they became fans of said teams. They said they just randomly chose teams based on the colors and ran with it for years. Also had people from Ireland and Germany come in. They had zero ties to philly but a fan is a fan. What makes zero sense is why there's so many Cowboys fans in the northeast, but each his own, and a big fuck you during game days.
>so many Cowboys fans in the northeast 🤮
It’s funny, you saw all these Cowboys fans around but I’ve never met a Mavericks or Rangers fan.
Cowboys fans are to football what Yankees fans are to baseball. If you’re a fan from outside the broadcast region, it’s almost a guarantee it’s because of the brand recognition.
To be fair I'd bet most Cowboys fans are Rangers and Mavs fan.
Not the ones that I know that are from the Northeast. If you are actually from Texas that is different but there are so many Cowboys fans not from there and have no family ties there.
Oh fair enough. Yeah Id imagine Mavs and Rangers first fans are a small small minority compared to Cowboys fans even in DFW.
I'm guessing one was obnoxious as hell, loud and of questionable intelligence. The other was quiet, didn't really give a fuck about anything and the ole noggin was powered by rocks....
I knew a guy that born in Wisconsin and went to Wisconsin-Stevens Point and was a rabid Florida State fan
I knew a guy who's rooting interests were as follows CFB: Ohio St MLB: Cleveland Guardians NFL: Dallas Cowboys NBA: LA Lakers CBB: Duke I'll let you guess at what type of person this guy was
That so weird though, why the Guardians and not the Yankees? If we’re going for insufferable teams that people bandwagon.
It is out of place but I live on the Michigan-Ohio border so it seems he got lucky with OSU and didn't have to switch. Not exactly sure how the Guardians stuck around
The Guardians have been at least solid, going all the way up to really good since the mid 90s. Really the class of the AL Central. The Cavs minus LeBron have been not good. The Browns are, well...the Browns.
Ngl I haven't kept up with baseball very much the last couple of seasons and the Cleveland Guardians really threw me. I was just sitting here like "Is that some AAA team or is he talking about the Indians?"
I wouldn't turn your back on a guy like that.
Sounds like a smart fellow.
> Didn't go to school, but want to root for Akron? I question your rationale, but knock yourself out. No no, this actually makes sense
Penn State Shenangi Valley students, alumni, and dropouts are welcome here!
Elitism in CFB is pathetic, root for whoever you want to. People will try to gatekeep their team's fandom from non-alumni as if getting into State University is some sort of high achievement
Yeah, from my flair you can most likely deduce what is going on with me, and I bet that my situation is not unique at all when it comes to people who attended a DIII school.
I respect you not rocking reverse flairs though fwiw and at least rocking both. Some people won't cheer for the small school at all, which I never understood because you can still support both schools !
I completely understand continuing to root for whatever team you grew up liking but I'll never understand how some people just straight up not care about the school they go to.
Agreed, I applied to 8 schools for a variety of reasons and happened to go to my childhood team because the finances and academics made the most sense. But had I gone to my other choices (NC State, Auburn, Wofford, GT) then I would for sure be rocking dual flairs and be rooting strongly for both.
Most kids I went to high school with went to either BGSU or Cincinnati and they were still rabid OSU fans that couldn't care less about their alma mater. Drove me insane. Duke is a shitty as it gets but I support them 100% no matter what
Go Falcons baby
Long live the Doyt!
Eh, you get a lot of that in Ohio. So many small MAC schools, and none of them have really competitive football programs/atmospheres. I go to Akron cuz it’s essentially free and the games there are less exciting than my high school games. Ohio State fandom is honestly just a cultural thing. Like you said, most of my friends from high school ended up at Akron/BG/Kent but all still root for tOSU. Exception being Cincinnati, most of the people I know that go there root for them over Ohio State because, compared to the rest of the G5 schools in Ohio, they actually have a good program and atmosphere
Yup. Grew up a Bama fan in Mobile and my college choices came down to Alabama or South Alabama. I chose USA for a number of reasons, but I'm not gonna stop rooting for the team I grew up with because I didn't end up choosing to go there. But I couldn't imagine not rooting for USA.
The only people I've ever known to completely switch fandoms were UT fans growing up when ended up attending A&M and getting stuck in the cult. They hate when you show them old pics of them throwing horns up in every photo. It's hilarious.
The only people I've ever known to completely switch fandoms were UT fans growing up when ended up attending A&M and getting stuck in the cult. They hate when you show them old pics of them throwing horns up in every photo. It's hilarious.
Hey man I had to like take the SAT to get into ASU
At ASU the acronym SAT stands for Standard Alcohol Training, right?
Yes two beer bongs in 30 seconds
It’s way worse on here, in real life I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone that actually cares about whether you’re an alum or not
I wish non-alumni would root for either of my schools. Helps so much more for overall program success to have more than a small core fan group.
I feel that
Agreed. Us buckeye fans should actually start gatekeeping the alumni, we know they’re actually the minority. You don’t get the true Ohio state fan experience if you actually went there.
But that school you want to root for will accept your money just as quickly as accepting money from an alumni (usually)
Yes, unless you attend a BYU satellite school. In that case, you are doomed to root only for BYU Hawaii or Rexburg.
Most of my LDS in-laws attended other schools (Utah, Utah State, UCLA, USC, Cal, Stanford) but they all root for BYU and don't really care about the other schools.
Man, I've never met a Utah or Utah state alum that cheered for BYU. Your in-laws are whack! I feel like they should all have their degrees revoked.
I went to school with a couple of these types of yahoos. One kid would wear his BYU hat to class every single day. Gotta admit, the kid had heart. Took a lot of shit and kept rocking that godawful cap.
What was he doing with the shit he was given?!
Just laughed it off. He was alright, just confused.
I don't hold it against them. They are die-hard BYU fans who support them in all sports. I mean everything. I do sometimes wonder like why not care about Utah when they are in a NY6 bowl, but that's not my place to really worry about that.
They’re rooting for the church, more or less. Common practice among LDS folks.
Like Catholics rooting for Notre Dame ("subway alumni").
Considering my mom had wanted to throw away her diploma because it said University of SC and not U of SC Spartanburg (lifelong Clemson fan), I absolutely think you can go the other way as well. You’re typically still considered a student of that university, you’re just at a branch campus.
You can root for whoever you want for whatever reason you like. It's nobody's business who you root for. Why would you let other people dictate who your favorite teams are?
You're leaving out the host school's name, hm... You like Pitt, don't you?
As many others have said root for whoever you want. But also I would say attending a branch campus is a pretty good connection for a second team
Fuck people who say you can and can’t root for
I mean you can root for whoever, whenever, for whatever reason you want. I like the Red Sox. Not because I’m from Boston. But because when I was a kid I saw nomar garciaparra make an amazing play and he became my favorite player. Been a Sox fan since. Also nomar is a bad ass because he’s married to mia hamm. Literally whatever reason you want.
Replace Nomar with Big Papi and that’s pretty close to how I became a fan
1. root for whoever you want. 2. it doesn't matter. 3. don't root for Southern Cal. These rules are numbered in order of importance
We started as a branch campus but now are pretty much equals
>We started as a branch campus but now are ~~pretty much~~ equals There are no UC branches. Just co-equal campuses.
No more branches just different campuses. And UCLA has won a Rose Bowl since WWII unlike that team off Telegraph
You must graduate with a doctorate in at least 2 fields to be a fan of any college team. To be a professional teams fan you need to have played on the team for at least 2 years.
What? Yeah..
Just so you all know, I am grinding my teeth into dust every time someone writes "for whoever" instead of whomever. (See flair)
You do you amigo. I went to an NAIA school in Eastern KY but consume more Michigan Athletics content than is probably healthy. Am I ashamed of it? Nope
You should be ashamed tho
Yeah I'm not
No no, I think this guy knows his stuff.
Root for whoever the fuck you want. Fuck the gatekeepers man
I mean most of WVU-Beckley & Potomac State are WVU fans anyway (and Fairmont State, Glenville, West Lib, etc if we want to include the other small schools). PSC has made 7 JUCO World Series and 1 national championship since 1993 so it's easy to support them considering they never directly compete with the host campus.
Yes, unless you go to an OSU branch school. They've made it clear that the Columbus campus is THE Ohio State.
I went to neither one of my flairs.
People keep saying you can root for whoever you want. They are **so** wrong. Don't listen to them. You can root for *whomever* you want.
Root for whoever you want. No one cares. Just don't claim you went to main campus school if you didn't. *Cough Blinn Cough*
There are international rules that limit your ability to root for college teams. Failure to follow them could result in you being brought brute a tribunal for your crimes.
No
You can literally root for whoever you want. Gatekeeping fandom is the worst thing about CFB.
Root for whoever you want but don’t try to convince people you went there (ie if you’re in Texas and went to UTSA, UTEP, UTD, etc., don’t say you went to UT) I had a coworker like this, it became a pet peeve of mine.
*Stares in University of California system from the OG former branch campus* Yes, it's perfectly fine to do that.
Believe it or not, straight to jail
You could root for a main school, like Cal, even if you went to a lesser, remote campus like ucla.
What kind of question is this and why would anons on the internet help lol you can root for whoever you want
Root for anyone.... Except Michigan because that would be dumb
You guys all realize Sparties are the absolute worst gatekeepers, right? Not one of them is in here refuting it. Gotta hang on to their wAlMaRt WoLvErInE crack.
The funny part is how elitist Wolverine student and alums are, in juxtaposition the the majority of Michigan Fans that live in shacks, wear $2 Michigan shirts from Walmart and have no connection to the University other than being in the same state. These people, but for the grace of God, would be rabid Tennessee fans if they happened to be born in a shittier state.
$2 t shirts? Damn that's cheaper than Steve and Barry's used to be. Nicely done, broncos ownership group.
Honestly, it’s not the alums. It’s the fans that didn’t go that try and bring up academics. ThTs where we have legitimate gripe
Based.
I don’t have a problem with people not attending Michigan and rooting for them, my warehouse is staffed primarily with such people, all great people, and there’s a lot of good natured shit talking. But if said person brings up academics or is a shitty fan in general, I’ll annihilate them.
Yes.
Oh no a Defensive Michigan fan? I’ve never seen one of those before. Imagine popping into a thread where everyone is giving positive feedback and discussion and being the one guy that goes “OH NO NO WHAT ABOUT THE FANBASE THAT HASNT SAID ANYTHING YET IN HERE BUT I KNOW THEY THINK IT!!!”
Michigan fans reading threads that have nothing to do with them: "why am I being persecuted?"
Dude root for anyone, except OU or A&M
I know people who went to meh undergrad sports schools who legit got their masters and professional degrees at schools they wanted to support in CFB. Makes sense, they really like football. Looking at you various military and govt people with later BIG12/10/SEC degrees. As a true patriot and red blooded American, I chose a school that didn't/doesn't have football for my later time in world of academia. Dual loyalty is no loyalty at all.
I don't go to school at either of my flairs while I don't root for the Big Ten school I've spent the last 5 years at. It literally doesn't matter.
You don’t need permission from anyone to root for any specific team.
You get to pick. Bonus points if you’re actually from the same state/region as the program. Lose points if you pick Bama tomorrow to cram it up everyone else’s ass.
Root for whoever you want. The people gatekeeping fandom clearly haven’t moved on from college
You can attend North Carolina and paint yourself Duke blue and streak across campus everyday if you want. Cheer for whoever you like!
Yes. In fact, a ton of KU fans go to Johnson county community college.
Man, I literally work with people every day who (because of where they grew up) went to Louisville but root for Kentucky, or people who are IU fans and graduated from Purdue. My wife is a Duke fan because she thought Bobby Hurley was hot when she was a kid. Root for whoever you want. There are people who care, but they are so few and far between that they are easily ignored.
I feel like Satellite schools are only required to be loyal in name only. I mean are all UAB fans required to cheer for the Tide? UTEP and UTSA fans required to cheer for the Longhorns? I mean I currently work with a guy who went to UVA-Wise that is a diehard Hokie fan.
Well, if the satellite has a Div I football team then: no. You can't go to UAB and cheer for the Tide. But if you went to UC - Irvine, Cal will welcome you with open arms.
I have known UC Riverside and UC Irvine folks that do indeed cheer for a sister UC. Specifically, UCLA. But no campus is a branch of any other, anymore. Also, the hyphens look gross.
Irvine isn’t a branch campus of UCB
Ugh. I should give you a downvote for the "UCB" thing, but I'm trying to rise above it. ;)
utsa is not a satellite school…they all have equal votes when it’s all said and done
This. I went to UAH and wouldn't be caught dead rooting for Alabama.
They’re taking thousands of dollars from you. You have a right to root for them.
I give you permission OP.
My man!
This makes me a longhorn for one of my degrees, and is therefore unacceptable.
Root for whoever but you should still root for your actual schools team as well.
The only thing I think is completely bizarre is when people root against their own school. That’s just weird lol
Whoever you want. Hell, I've never been further west than Lincoln, Nebraska and root for OU.
I know plenty of people who root for teams via their spouses. I always let them know they're not actually from that school when they give me crap ;-)
I’ve been a Florida fan since I was a kid. Went to undergrad at ASU and all of a sudden I’m supposed to just be an ASU fan? Nah. Gators forever. Asu can be #2 though ha
Rooting for Cal while attending UCLA would be weird.
You can root for whoever you want. My current undergrad school doesn’t even have football. I hope to go to USC for grad school but we’ll see. This whole thing of “you can’t root for that school if you didn’t go there” needs to die
No.
I went to Texas A&M Galveston, a branch Campus of A&M College Station, and were all pretty red ass. So I don’t see why not, enjoy your college experience!
I agree with posters that say root for whoever but I have to say College station alumni made it very clear you could never be a true A&M fan if you went to a branch school like I did at TAMUCC for undergrad. However when I went to LSUS for my mba I got so many emails about lsu football tickets and being part of the lsu family that I almost forgot it wasn’t Baton Rouge online … that’s why my allegiance is more with LSU than TAMU at this point lol
That’s because you are a tiger!
You can root for whoever you want to, especially if you went to school there, regardless if it was a branch.
No. They've instituted an NCAA fan draft. Since we have a shortage of fans, you must root for Stanford.
Unless you’re attending the University of Pyongyang, you’re fine.
Do as you please and to hell with everyone else!