Well, I don't think I'm ass-clown goofy (I used this on a friend after I read it, so thank you) about it but I love picking a team and sticking with them and cheering my brains out for them. Isn't that the point of sports? We're all here because we're Rockets fans and in all honest they are just a business that chose to operate in Houston. UH and in the future UT-Houston are places that I'm going to be associated with for the rest of my life, I don't really see a problem still cheering passionately for the teams even after graduation, ass-clownery aside.
From the outside looking in, it's tough to understand. People that criticize big-time sports programs and their rabid fan bases typically didn't go to college/sat in front of a computer screen and received a print-out degree from U. of Phoenix, or wanted to be "different" and rebel against the tens of thousands of other students supporting their school.
A graduate Longhorn is still a Longhorn. In some ways, that's the best way to experience UT; you get slightly higher status around campus, better parking, office space to hang out in, etc. but can still be around all the fun stuff. I root for the teams, especially now that I'm living out of state and can represent the homeland. I will still root for my undergraduate school, as painful as it is - that would be Rice - but I actually don't feel that I identify with that school much anymore, or have much in common with it. It's nice to have a more mainstream type place/program to be tied to as well. Hook 'em! -Isabel, University of Texas class of 2002
My knowledge of "t shirt fans". When I was in middle school, and even elementary, you see all these kids wearing mostly UT apparel. There were some that that wore Aggie stuff and if you wore a Cougar/Baylor/TXST T-shirt then well, you were probably a loser.
I don't understand how anyone who posts on a sports team message board would say this. Why would I be less gung-ho about my college sports team than the pro sports teams I follow?
If you can't get in to A&M or UT (moreso the case for UT), then act like you never wanted to go to that school in the first place.
The difference is, after graduate school if I wanted to apply into a post doc program or go to work for a company I can say I worked under so and so, but if I went to a company and said I deserve this job because my school consistently had a top ranking it wouldn't really do much for me. Furthermore, I think picking a school based on one, two, ten professors is asinine. It's 5-8 years of your life and you'd better love the research you're doing. Working for a world renown professor sounds amazing, but I'd rather just like what I do everyday. I think most chem grad students would agree with me. I also think your statement about grad school is drastically wrong, at least in the realm of chemistry. Without opening the door to another host of questions and discussion materials I feel like graduate school does a lot more for you than most people in industry understand.
You really can't hold a kid that young responsible for how their parents dress them. Gooooo St. Scholastica!
Nah: Hardin- Simmons. We actually had a damn god football team for Div III. We played Sul Ross every year; I don't recall ever losing to them.
Wow, that's some really profound knowledge... What, pray tell, did you call the kids who wore SFA/UNT shirts? Big poo-poo faces?
I've never seen an SFA/UNT shirt in my life, it is from this observation that I draw the conclusion that they are mythical entities and don't actually exist.
UT '98 I just find it strange that adults get so worked up over kids playing kids' games. Hell, maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just old, maybe I'm just weird, maybe a lot of things, but I don't get it.
