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Is it wrong to like a different college for another sport...

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BUCKEYESTUCKNGA said:
whoa! chill bro. I was just asking. I have been a fan of tOSU since I can remember. I never had the option of picking another team in a different sport. I was born and raised 'bout a half hour from the 'shoe.

booing tOSU players in any sport is not an option for me.

Anyway GO BUCKS! (in every sport, game, debate club, bar fight, pissing contest) :biggrin:
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Sorry for coming off like an ass. It's just that when this subject comes up every six months or so, it becomes a little tiresome. The funny thing is, the people who ask this question seem to come and go, yet I'm still here every damn time... :biggrin:
 
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jlb1705 said:
Man, I wish I didn't have to keep weighing in on this topic every six months or so.

I've been a fan of both Ohio State and Kentucky ever since I can remember. I've stuck with both of them through tough times (fuck you, Tai Streets and Christian Laettner), but I've also been fortunate that there's been plenty of good times for both as well (thank you, Craig Krenzel and Jeff Sheppard).

Growing up in the Dayton-Springfield area, there are plenty of Kentucky transplants and plenty of UK fans here (especially in my hometown). It's just the way I grew up. When it came time for me to choose a college, I narrowed my choices to those two schools (and eventually went to OSU).

I don't see it as a "split allegiance". If you want to call it that, then so be it. I know where I stand. I know I'm a better fan of either one of those two than most people I know are for the one and only college they root for.
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Jlb I am right there with you.

My liking of UK bball came at a young age, for whatever reason, and I have always been a buckeye football fan.

I look at it as when you are young you don't think of them as colleges you just look at them as being a team you would like to root for. Much like when picking pro teams you see people who like the Bengals in football and the Indians in bball. Are they being disloyal to a city.

As time as went on I have still follwed UK bball, but I have also became a bigger tOSU bball fan, It is just one of those things where you can't give up on a team you have liked all those years even know you should be loyal to a school.

Now that I attend tOSU I like Ohio St. more, but I will still root for UK. If they were to play each other I would root for tOSU.

I kind of look at it this way. Say you have your alma matter, but your have a kid that goes to another school to play a sport, well you like that school b/c your kid plays for them, but you will still like the school that is your alma matter.

But to say if you root for other schools in different sports is disloyal is ridiculous.
 
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jlb1705 said:
Sorry for coming off like an ass. It's just that when this subject comes up every six months or so, it becomes a little tiresome. The funny thing is, the people who ask this question seem to come and go, yet I'm still here every damn time... :biggrin:
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you didnt come off like an ass. from your first post on the subject, i had the feeling it was something you've dealt with before. I've only been on here since july. That's why I wanted to know.

its all good. as long as scUM sucks!!!:biggrin:
 
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ScarletBlood31 said:
bingo. except that I think if you start to be a fan of a certain team, you should stick with them. Liking a new team the next season because they are better is unexceptable.
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and therein lies my hesitation in regarding as at true fan someone who has been a fan of ohio state for a short period of time. having lived outside of ohio for the last 5 years, i've run across a handful of ohio state fans who became such just recently. their responses as to why they became fans of the team were unanimous: ohio state is a good team. while that sounds like a great reason (it's nearly impossible to think less of any ohio state fan), it is nonetheless being a bandwagoner.

all of my talk about qualifying an ohio state fan boils down to one question: how badly do you feel after an ohio state loss? i'm sure we've met many ohio state fans who would be barely distraught after a buckeye loss. they'll shout the cheers and wear the scarlet like the rest of us, but they won't consider life virtually unbearable after losses like the ones against texas and penn state. though the loss to psu hurt me badly, after losing to texas, the following week was spent doubling over -- as it felt like a gnome was employed to punch me in the stomach from dawn to dusk.
 
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i think what it all boils down to, is how you feel to yourself what your loyalty to a team/college is. No one has the right to tell someone who to like or to not like, and as long as you know for yourself how loyal you are, and are happy with it, then who gives a shit. Your teams are your personal business.
 
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Yeah. There have been a lot of valid points. One of my biggest pet peeves is being a front runner. I also don't like when people split up colleges for different sports, but oh well; that's there problem. Front runners can't experience the joy and excitement of their team taking home the World Series title, Super Bowl, National Championship title, etc.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
all of my talk about qualifying an ohio state fan boils down to one question: how badly do you feel after an ohio state loss? i'm sure we've met many ohio state fans who would be barely distraught after a buckeye loss. they'll shout the cheers and wear the scarlet like the rest of us, but they won't consider life virtually unbearable after losses like the ones against texas and penn state. though the loss to psu hurt me badly, after losing to texas, the following week was spent doubling over -- as it felt like a gnome was employed to punch me in the stomach from dawn to dusk.
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do you feel this way when the basketball team loses in the tourney? How about when teh rugby team does the same thing?

This gets back to the variety of fans thing I discussed earlier. Many have grandparents that have been cheering for OSU for half of a century. They may not base their life around OSU's success, but they have not waivered in their support of the team (despite not being able to name all of the starters). Are they non-fans? I simply see them as a different type of fan.

I can't stand someone who started liking OSU b/c they won a title, and then started cheering for USC once OSU struggled in 04. That is the example of a bandwagon fan. Someone who began following OSU under Tressel and has stuck with it (thru 04) is not necessarily a bandwagon fan.
 
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ScarletBlood31 said:
i think what it all boils down to, is how you feel to yourself what your loyalty to a team/college is. No one has the right to tell someone who to like or to not like, and as long as you know for yourself how loyal you are, and are happy with it, then who gives a shit. Your teams are your personal business.
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okay, oprah.

who here is talking about not having the right to like or not like a team? liking a team is not about one's rights really. if someone asks why you like strawberry ice cream, would your response be, "well, it's my right to like strawberry ice cream"?

being happy with the team you decide to a be a fan for is the mantra of the bandwagoner. now, i'm not saying that anyone here has jumped on a team's bandwagon, but i am definitely saying that there are different levels of fans.
 
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being happy with the team you decide to a be a fan for is the mantra of the bandwagoner.
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no, switching teams when you aren't happy with them is the mantra of a bandwagoner. if someone is loyal to OSU in football and loyal to another team in basketball, I may not like it, but that doesn't make them a traitor or bandwagoner.
 
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jwinslow said:
do you feel this way when the basketball team loses in the tourney? How about when teh rugby team does the same thing?
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heck yeah i do when osu loses in the basketball tournament. i'm a huge fan of the team. no, i don't when the rugby team loses. i don't follow the rugby team. but, and here's the crucial point here, i don't root for any other school's rugby team, either.

the rest of you post i agree with, and i've posted nothing to the contrary.
 
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