Fanhome Poll

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:20 pm

I don't think we've done this before and am curious...

Did you get a degree from the college you root for?

or

Did you attend the college you root for and not get the degree?

or

Do you currently attend the college you root for?

I attended Texas A&M from 1995-1999 and received my BBA in MIS. Began rooting for A&M as a bandwagonner when I was about 9 or 10. Also, the "cool kid" in school was a big A&M fan because his parents both went there. My older (and only) brother was a tsip fan as a kid so that also made me want to be an Aggie.

I would have been the first Aggie in my entire family tree except...my brother decided to quit football (he played at U of H) and follow his girlfriend (now wife) to A&M.

Man...there is no better feeling than seeing a life long tsip fan wearing Aggie Maroon. Having it be my own brother was just icing on the cake.

So what's your story?

Can you tell I'm ready for football season???

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:34 pm

Good question and while I think there is a lot of value in actually graduating from the school you root for, I can't fill those shoes.

I went to OSU for the first two years and then transferred to Miami of Ohio for a girl....who I promptly broke up with. I ultimately met my wife so I guess it turned out all right but I kicked myself for leaving Columbus.

I doubt you all will give me any leeway but I plan on getting my MBA from tOSU starting next year.

By the way, of interest might be LB's story. Some of you may know already but he has a whale of a conversion story.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:38 pm

Sky,

I'd say Man Law allows for a rooting interest if you attended said interest.

In any case, I'm not trying to label bandwagoners or anything. Crown already wears that crown. I'd just like to hear everyone's story as to how they began rooting for whatever team. SOme stories I've heard before. Some I haven't. Let's get'em all down and 'chive this bitch.

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:44 pm

Graduated from RICE and of course root for them.

I also root for the other Texas schools and a few of the schools we played against, ie OU, FSU, New Mexico.

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:12 pm

I did not attend the school I root for. I tried my damndest, and even being top 5 in my HS class, with a 28 ACT, every extra activity you could imagine, from an all boys, catholic college prep school, I got denied. No, I'm not bitter at all.

That having been said, I am currently exploring the option to get my executive MBA from ND starting in '07.

I graduated from MSU who has always been my second favorite school, mainly because all of my friends were UofM fans. Kinda hard being an MSU fan with Babs around, but what are you going to do.

Becoming a Notre Dame fan was a long process. It first started when I was 5 years old. My mother had bought be a jacket to wear outside when I started school that fall. The jacket was grey with two yellow and blue stripes down each arm. I loved that jacket! Unfortunately, that jacket had a big, blue "M" on the left chest. Growing up in the state of Michigan, I just thought that "M" refered to the state, not a university.

My Godfather ran into us at a mall and saw me wearing that jacket. I always had fun with this man and he was nothing but nice to me, but when he saw that jacket he grabbed a handful, looked at my mother and said "Why the hell is he wearing this god damned jacket!?!" The next day I had a new jacket that was instantly cooler because it was reversible. On one side it was navy blue with a school crest on the left breast. The other side was grey with two words on the back, "Notre Dame". I had no idea what those words meant but I did know that many of my realitives now complained about my jacket. "Why, it's brand-new" would often be my response, but they hated that jacket.

Two years later my friends and I were running around the play ground choosing up football teams and when I asked which team was Notre Dame, my friends told me I couldn't play. They only rooted for UofM and MSU because those were the best teams and Notre Dame sucked! Or so I was told. That was when I decided to find out exactly who and what Notre Dame was and why they were so hated.

When my father realized that Notre Dame was about to take it's seat along side my other passion, baseball, he took them as his team as well. When I asked my father and godfather who ND was, I was told stories about Knute Rockne, The Four Horseman, Paul Horning, Frank Lahey, and someone with the same first name as me eating some chicken noodle soup and beating a team in some bowl. When I asked why most of my friends hated ND, I was told those kids didn't know the history of ND and how good ND was. They told me that people had forgotten ND's greatness because they had been down for a few years, but they had a new coach named Lou Holtz that was going to do great things for ND. This was the spring of '87.

So in the fall of '87, I was introduced to Notre Dame football. I was allowed to stay up late and see Tim Brown return 2 punts against Michigan State. I also saw ND beat UofM and wondered what these friends of mine were talking about. At the end of the year I watched as some people gave Tim Brown an award as the best football player in the country. Did my friends have ND confused with some other school? It appeared to me that they had no idea what the hell they were talking about.

The next year I watched as ND won the National Championship and I was hooked. My favorite player of all time single handedly beat UofM the next year with 2 kick returns for TD's and ND could not lose. Even though they lost to Miami that year, I still hadn't "felt" a ND loss. That would come in 1990. On my birthday. To Penn State. While all my friends were over I watched in horror as ND lost at home while ranked #1. How could they, on my birthday! Then came the Orange Bowl when Rocket saved the day only to have it ripped from him and the rest of the team by a ref. That was the first time I cried because of a ND loss.

This is when I became a true ND fan. I had to go to school the next day and I just wanted to stay home. My mother was getting me up and telling me that I had to go to school when the phone rang. It was my godfather. He told me that ND fans held their heads high, win or lose and they support the team no matter what. He told me I should wear every piece of ND clothing I had to show my friends that I supported ND at all times. So I went to school wearing my Notre Dame sweatshirt with a ND t-shirt under, my ND jacket, ND sweatpants, ND hat, and my brand new ND bag to carry my books. My friends were so shocked they didn't know what to say.

So, I started rooting for ND around '87, but became a true ND fan January 2nd, 1991. I've never been one to flow with the crowd so when my friends made fun of me and Notre Dame, it just galvanized my love for them.

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:23 pm

i went to Vandy and have an MA from Colorado......but grew up in Norman in an OU family. my dad has 3 degrees from OU as does my mom. My uncle played for OU and is the guy that 2 time All-American Jack Mildren beat out at QB in Spring ball in 1970. I went to all the home games from 1975 to 1988 with the old man. some of my best memories of drawing breath on this planet were the walk to Owen Field with my pops and the sound of his Panasonic pocket transistor radio and the John Brooks/Mike Treps pregame...getting a turkey or pastrami sandwich with hot mustard at Amspacher's Deli and the huge cattle troughs filled with iced beer and cokes......the smell of cheap stogies and Aquanet hairspray (from the Bud WIlkinson era fans) walking up the ramps into the stadium...and all that.

my family has been in Oklahoma longer than it's been legal to be there. my great great grandad lived on a homestead leasing land from the Cherokees before the territory was opened for settlement. when the Cherokee Strip opened for settlement, he traded his team of horses for a "race-horse" and rode back to where he'd been living and claimed the land legal-like....and traded back for his team of horses later that same day.

as the saying goes, Sooner born and Sooner bred....

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:25 pm

Attended FSU from Fall of '99 to Spring of '03 in which I graduated w/ a BS in Public Relations from the College of Communications.

Growing up in Florida, its hard to not root for one of the Big 3. Around the age of 10 I started following college football as best a 10 year old could. Since a lot of my family went to UF, I started to root for them. That all changed in '95, b/c of the Choak at Doak. FSU came back from a 31-3 4th Quarter deficit and after that I was hooked on the Noles.

They werent my first choice of colleges however. My first choice was Notre Dame but I got wait listed. My second was Syracuse and I was real close to going there but after visiting twice in the cold winter months, I knew I would be miserable up there. I chose FSU and it was the right decision. Great football team, hot chicks and warm weather.

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:28 pm

Cicero wrote:Great football team, hot chicks and warm weather.

0-3 for ND when you would have went there. You made the right choice.

Terry in Crapchester · Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:44 pm

B.A. in Government and International Relations (now called Political Science) from the school I root for in May 1986. I was a ND fan before that. Nobody in my family had ever gone to ND, but I always rooted for ND as long as I can remember, going back to the early 1970's.

Why did I become a ND fan? Growing up Catholic, and going to Catholic schools, had a lot to do with it, no doubt. Also, the period of time when I began following college football also coincided with the nadir of the program (until now, anyway) at Syracuse, which was the only college football program worth a damn in the state where I lived.

The first time I really got hooked was New Year's Eve 1973. My parents went out, and we had a teenage boy babysit us who was a ND fan. ND was playing in the Sugar Bowl (which was on New Year's Eve at the time) against Alabama for the national championship, and he let us stay up late to watch the game. I got hooked. I got hooked to an even greater extent watching the 1977 green jerseys game against USC, and from that time forward I was a diehard.

The first ambition I remember having was to play QB for ND, I think I was about 5 or 6 at the time. I followed up on that passion as time went on, did some research on Notre Dame and found out that it was an excellent academic university as well. As I got older, playing football there wasn't exactly in the cards, but I had great grades and a 1320 SAT score (before they inflated the scores). And the state where I lived had a state university system which leaves something to be desired relative to many other states. So I applied to ND, got accepted, and there wasn't any question but that I was going. My parents didn't have the money to send me, but I went through on a NROTC scholarship.

Would I have gone to ND if I had not been a fan of the football team? Almost undoubtedly, no. But that doesn't mean that I went there only because I was a fan of the football team -- I probably wouldn't have had the interest or done the research if I hadn't been a fan in the first place.

T REX · Post by **T REX** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:24 pm

Cicero wrote:Since a lot of my family went to UF, I started to root for them. That all changed in '95, b/c of the Choak at Doak. FSU came back from a 31-3 4th Quarter deficit and after that I was hooked on the Noles.

uhhhh......that was 1994, btw.

'95 was the Fiasco Bowl.

Terry in Crapchester · Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:47 pm

Killian wrote:
Cicero wrote:Great football team, hot chicks and warm weather.
0-3 for ND when you would have went there. You made the right choice.

Although we did beat FSU during his senior year.

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:52 pm

I received my Bachelor's degree in Marketing from USF in 1996 (the year before we began football). I originally attended SUNY Brockport from 1991-1993 before transferring to USF.

I never had any allegiance to any college team prior to USF getting a football program. Caught many Syracuse games while at Brockport State and plenty of FSU, UF, and Miami games when I moved to FL.

Shawn Marion · Post by **Shawn Marion** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:56 pm

I don't root for the school that I attended so much that I attended the school that I root for.

I have a Civil Engineering degree from the Ohio State University, although my love affair goes back much farther than that.

My family has always been die hard tOSU fans and my parents and grand parents would attend games every year as far back as I can remember. From the time I was 4 I would go to C-Bus with my family and hang out on the play ground that used to be over by the education buildings and the women's field house. My family would go into the games and the kids would hang out at the car/van with my grand mother.

By the time that I was 10 I was allowed to attend games, and by the time I was in high school I was hooked. I graduated in 1995, 2nd in my class, ACT in the 30s and SAT in the 1300s but I never even looked anywhere other than tOSU. I didn't care. All I knew was that for my freshman season ticket there would be home games against Notre Dame and Penn St. That was all it took.

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:59 pm

Shawn Marion wrote:I don't root for the school that I attended so much that I attended the school that I root for.

Very well put. I applied to only one college because I knew I didn't want to go anywhere else.

L45B · Post by **L45B** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:44 pm

Sky wrote:By the way, of interest might be LB's story. Some of you may know already but he has a whale of a conversion story.

Yeah, this is some background I haven't shared much with many people but what the hey, I'd hope none of you will hold it against me now that I am kind enough to disclose said information.

I was born in Lima, Ohio. My dad was born on the same farm that I grew up on. My grandfather was an Ohio State grad. My uncle was an Ohio State grad. Yet somehow, I grew up a Michigan fan, damn it. But just like you hear about a guy who say, beats his wife, but then admits that he too was beaten as a child... nevermind, bad analogy. Anyways, the first college football game I ever watched was the ’86 OSU-UM game. My dad, who was really just a true Big Ten fan (who liked to stir the pot as well), worked with a couple OSU grads, so just to get them riled up, he would talk shit and root for Michigan. Well as a seven year-old kid, I just took after Dad, not yet realizing where he was coming from & what my ultimate destiny as a CFB fan would be.

Now, I mentioned he was a Big Ten fan. Which meant, that I wasn’t brought up to root against a particular team—which to any tOSU or UM fan is pretty much bullshit (and I would later realize that fact) . So I still rooted for the Bucks, outside The Game. In fact, I vividly remember rooting for Earle’s team when they played A&M in the ’87 Cotton Bowl. But then in junior high, my strange loyalties were put to the test. My fellow classmates who were die-hard Buckeyes had quite a distaste for my Michigan paraphernalia. And it wasn’t before long that my dual allegiance had to be narrowed to one. The Rivalry demanded this.

So up until college, I rooted pretty heavily for the maize & blue (wow, this hurts to type now). But the whole time, my CFB inspiration—my dad—had turned on me. He was now rooting for OSU and sometimes even Notre Dame, just to get me riled up. But then I remember my dad’s last college football game, the ’97 Rose Bowl. He was so pumped up about that OSU team. I remember how excited he was after Germaine hit Boston to end the game. I’ll always remember that. He wasn’t trying to get under anyone’s skin that day, he was truly enjoying the game of college football (and rooting for the team he secretly liked the whole time IMO).

I grew up playing competitive tennis, so when it came to making my college decision I initially wanted to play somewhere in school. I got a guaranteed spot at the D-1 level and walked on at Northern Illinois. But once football season started up, I realized what my true passion was. I knew I had made a mistake, and just didn’t feel I was at the right place. It was almost like a Scarlett O’Hara/Gone With The Wind-Esque moment. I missed home. I missed what I had grown up loving on fall Saturdays. I had to go back. I was an Ohio guy, damn it. It was in my blood. I eventually fulfilled my destiny and ended up transferring to OSU and graduating with a BS in Accounting from the Fisher College of Business.

And what great years those were. I got to witness (thankfully) the end of the Cooper era & the beginning of the Tressel era. My last season of student tickets was the ’02 National Championship season. Never forget that. I got to truly absorb the great feeling of hating Michigan, the team I had been fooled (in my mind) into rooting for as a kid. But most of all, I felt connected to Ohio State, to the Big Ten and to the rivalry of The Game. I know now, that I will always in some way be linked to OSU Football & Big Ten football till the day I die. It was always going to be that way, it just took me a different path to understand it.

(By the way, anyone that dares to throw out any “traitor” or “bandwagonner” comments from here on in can go fuck themselves.)

Lance

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:54 pm

Thanks LB, even I forgot some of those details. Glad to have you on our side.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:07 pm

Believe the Heupel wrote:Grew up a UW fan, but switched allegiances when OU gave me a pile of money.

You never told us you played football for them!

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:07 pm

Terry in Crapchester wrote:
Killian wrote:
Cicero wrote:Great football team, hot chicks and warm weather.
0-3 for ND when you would have went there. You made the right choice.
Although we did beat FSU during his senior year.

Uggghhhhh, the Rix era

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:13 pm

Cicero wrote:
Terry in Crapchester wrote:
Killian wrote: 0-3 for ND when you would have went there. You made the right choice.
Although we did beat FSU during his senior year.

Uggghhhhh, the Rix era

I think Chris returned it just fine the next year.

stuckinia · Post by **stuckinia** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:13 pm

I was born in DC area, but moved a couple times until settling in Richmond. I decided to attend VT, not due to the football program as they went 2-8-1 my senior year in HS, and graduated in 98 with a BS in Biology/Microbiology, minor in Chemistry, followed by doing research at the Vet school a couple years. During that time the football team went from complete shit to a haven for drunken thugged out pedophiles and I pickled a good portion of my brain in and around Lane Stadium. I could not help but become a fan.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:14 pm

Sky wrote:
Shawn Marion wrote:I don't root for the school that I attended so much that I attended the school that I root for.
Very well put. I applied to only one college because I knew I didn't want to go anywhere else.

Ditto. I applied to Texas A&M and nowhere else. I went to A&M wanting to major in accounting. Then, as I smartened up, I went into computers.

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:35 pm

Killian wrote:
Cicero wrote:
Terry in Crapchester wrote: Although we did beat FSU during his senior year.

Uggghhhhh, the Rix era
I think Chris returned it just fine the next year.

Maybe his best moment as a Seminole outside of beating Florida at UF.

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:54 pm

Shawn Marion wrote:All I knew was that for my freshman season ticket there would be home games against Notre Dame and Penn St. That was all it took.

I should have caught this earlier but I don't think that is possible. We played ND at home and PSU away in 95 and ND away and PSU at home in 96. I'm just trying to stalk you and by figuring out when you entered college, it gets me one step closer to my goal.

Jimmy Medalions · Post by **Jimmy Medalions** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:14 pm

Killian wrote:catholic college prep school, I got denied.

I never turned you down, my son.

Jimmy Medalions · Post by **Jimmy Medalions** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:19 pm

Attended USC from 1990 to 1994. Graduated with a BS in Accounting from the Leventhal School of Accounting, which ranks top 5 nationally each year.

Was a fan from the high school days on. A real shame we sucked balls during my entire career there. Larry Smith. Paul Hackett. ND assraping us repeatedly. Only one win vs. UCLA.

All in all, good times. Could have been epic of the team had been dece.

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:20 pm

Your forgot "all boy".

Jimmy Medalions · Post by **Jimmy Medalions** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:21 pm

WAR target-rich environments.

Shawn Marion · Post by **Shawn Marion** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:40 pm

Sky wrote:
Shawn Marion wrote:All I knew was that for my freshman season ticket there would be home games against Notre Dame and Penn St. That was all it took.
I should have caught this earlier but I don't think that is possible. We played ND at home and PSU away in 95 and ND away and PSU at home in 96. I'm just trying to stalk you and by figuring out when you entered college, it gets me one step closer to my goal.

I made this same mistake as a high school senior. I remember picking up my tix as a freshman and realizing that we didn't play PSU in the Bus that year.

'95 was the year when we played at PSU two years in a row. I went to the '93 game at OSU and I was in Columbus in '94 for a party and watched on TV as tOSU got blown out by PSU 63-14 or something. So I figured that PSU v. tOSU would be in Columbus my freshman year.

All in all, I am an idiot. Twice.

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:23 am

I am a product of a mixed marriage. My mom is a life-long Husker fan and my dad was a CU grad. I was born in Denver, but we moved to Nebraska in 1979 when I was 6. CFB is religion, there, obviously. You are required to follow it. I started rooting for Colorado not out of spite (if that was the case, I'd have picked OU), but simply because that was where I was from. This was back when CU was Nebraska's perennial bitch, and I definitely built up a sour tase for all things Husker during those early years.

Oddly, I never really considered going to CU right out of HS. I had good enough grades, but I was obsessed with moving to Southern California. I was basically looking for the polar opposite of small-town Nebraska life. Even Colorado seemed too close. Plus, it snows there. I applied to UCLA, UCSD, UC-Riverside, and UC-Irvine. Only got into the last two. Ended up going to UCR. They didn't even have a football team. Did a shitload of partying and not much studying. It was fun for a while, but I eventually felt like I needed to be someplace where there wasn't so much better shit to do than go to school.

I transferred to UNL and went there for 3 semesters. Continued to do a lot of partying. While I was there, I sat in the student section (dressed completely in black & gold) for the 1994 CU/NU game. It was the 200th consecutive sellout of Memorial Stadium.

After a while, I realized that there was always going to be "something better to do" than go to school if I wasn't really into it. So I ended up quitting school and just hanging around in Lincoln for a couple (mostly uneventful) years.

Eventually, I got the urge to go back to school and finally get my damn degree. I thought it'd be fun to learn to write screenplays, CU had a film school, and they'd been my favorite team my whole life, so it seemed like a perfect fit. I enrolled at CU in 1997. However, I dropped the film school idea pretty quickly after seeing how pretentious most of my fellow students were. (Trey Parker & Matt Stone might be the most famous alums, but everyone there wanted to be Bergman or some shit.) Plus they only had one screenwriting class.

I applied to get into the SJMC at CU and got in. I got my BS in Journalism (Advertising) in 2000. Saw some good games at Folsom in those years, including a couple absolute heartbreakers to Nebraska. This was right in the middle of that stretch 5 games that NU won by a total of 15 points.

I've never been a fan of snow & cold weather though, so I moved out here to the Phoenix area within days of graduating. I am now attending ASU for an MS in Journalism. I don't think there's much chance of me becoming an ASU or Pac-10 sports fan anytime soon, but I'll definitely vouch for the chicks out here. ASU coeds are ridiculously hot.

Not sure where I'll end up after I'm done here at ASU. I'm somewhat settled down here. I have a condo, a dog, and a cat. I still haven't lost my love for SoCal, so ideally I'd like to live there or here. I wouldn't rule out going back to Denver. It sounds trite, but if you're a sports fan, there's definitely a strong appeal to living in the area where your team(s) play. Denver's about as far east as I'd go though.

I should probably c&p this to a Word doc for when we change boards again in another year or two.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:51 am

Born in and grew up in Penna.
Graduated from PSU in '94.

Simple. I ain't writin' a fookin' book.

Danimal · Post by **Danimal** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:39 am

IndyFrisco wrote:I don't think we've done this before and am curious...

Did you get a degree from the college you root for?

or

Did you attend the college you root for and not get the degree?

or

Do you currently attend the college you root for?

I attended Texas A&M from 1995-1999 and received my BBA in MIS. Began rooting for A&M as a bandwagonner when I was about 9 or 10. Also, the "cool kid" in school was a big A&M fan because his parents both went there. My older (and only) brother was a tsip fan as a kid so that also made me want to be an Aggie.

I would have been the first Aggie in my entire family tree except...my brother decided to quit football (he played at U of H) and follow his girlfriend (now wife) to A&M.

Man...there is no better feeling than seeing a life long tsip fan wearing Aggie Maroon. Having it be my own brother was just icing on the cake.

So what's your story?

Can you tell I'm ready for football season???

I've seen the "tsip" name on Texas/ATM boards before. What exactly does that refer to?

Oh and I'm a 1992-grad of University of Nebraska. I have a BS in criminal justice with a psych-minor. Hopefully by this time next year I'll have a BS in respiratory therapy. That won't be from NU though.

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:51 am

Danimal wrote:Hopefully by this time next year I'll have a BS in respiratory therapy.

That might come in handy after a night with her.

the_ouskull · Post by **the_ouskull** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:01 am

I think that, when you're younger, 88, you're caught up in the "cool" of it all when it comes to things like that. I think that, as you get older and realize that you're not going to be able to be around the things you love most about football, you know... forever... that you really start gaining a deeper appreciation for those things.

The first time the OU RUF/NEKS pulled Boomer and Sooner into the yard of my fraternity house and shot off the cannons in my front yard, solely because they knew I was hungover

-- ('cause I was partying with them the night before and they told me that they were going to do it when I made fun of how early they had to get up...) --

I was angry with them. Now, I tell that story with pride.

I grew up in Oklahoma, applied to OU, Oklahoma State (my dad's an alum) and LSU. Never really wanted to go anywhere but OU. My mom and grandparents were all HUGE OU fans, and I became the same. Then, much as Frozen, and in the same year in fact, OU also threw a boatload of money at me, and it made everything fall into place.

I got to OU in the fall of 92, dicked around until 97, got back to OU in 2003, and graduated (finally) in 05.

I also just found out, today, that I might be teaching / coaching football in Central Oklahoma. I'll know tomorrow whether or not they're going to offer me. If they don't, I won't be suprised... I have no experience.

..but next year, after a year of teaching, and teaching classes...

...I'm gonna OWN small-town football and / or basketball.

...and teach, too, I guess. :D

the_ouskull

Harvdog · Post by **Harvdog** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:29 am

I did not do any undergrad work at UT. I went to a small school in West Texas called Angelo State University. I got in to Texas. It was the school I always wanted to go to. My dad was militray and we moved back to Texas from Europe for my senior year. After 5 years of boozing it up Euro style, my mom was not to keen on me heading to Austin. During my senior year they came with an offer I couldn't refuse. They offered to buy me a new truck if I stayed home for my first year of college. I did and actually liked the smaller school. Plus my ex was going to ASU so I stayed around until I graduated with a BA in Communication.

I did get into Texas to start work on my MBA. I did a year and had to stop because of work. I travel like a mofo and have been too lazy to start back up.

Danimal....TSIP is a term the sheepfuckers use to describe those that were smart enough to go to Texas. Evidently, the boys that went to Texas had an easier life than the blue collar boys from A&M. Therefore, while the pooooooorrrrrrr aggies worked the white collar boys from Texas sipped tea and watched. Therefore we are tsips. :D

FLW Buckeye · Post by **FLW Buckeye** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:55 am

I am one of those college fans that never attended the school, but grew up in an environment that would have made anyone a lifelong Buckeye fan. Was born and raised on the North Side of C-bus, living within a mile from the stadium for about 3 years off Lane Ave. Lived the rest of the time in the Linden area until I joined the Army after HS graduation.
My father was a rabid fan; same can be said for both of my grampas. Everything stopped on football Saturdays at least during the game… didn’t matter who they played. I will never forget the image of being at my grampa’s house with my dad and uncles when the 1968 squad won it all.
Used to go to the games and sell newspapers outside of the stadium… made pretty good money for a juvenile delinquent. Also got into quite a few games with tickets that were given to me.
I was able to roll up all of my college experience throughout my Army career into a BA in history and currently doing graduate work with MSU…that would be Missouri State University (formerly known as SMSU), not the scUM wannabes that graduated the likes of Babs.

Vito Corleone · Post by **Vito Corleone** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:31 am

I went the JC route mostly because I wanted to try and play football but also because I had a lot of fun in HS and didn't too much work. I earned a AAS in Bio-medical electronics and then imporved my GPA enough to get into Texas where I finished my BS in Computer Science in 97.

Terry in Crapchester · Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:04 am

Killian wrote:I did not attend the school I root for. I tried my damndest, and even being top 5 in my HS class, with a 28 ACT, every extra activity you could imagine, from an all boys, catholic college prep school, I got denied.

You may have been an inadvertent victim of the people around my era. When I went to ND, there were 3 guys for every girl, and ND purposely kept that many spaces open for male students. I remember getting a survey in the mail from ND about a year or so after I graduated. The survey was somewhat unremarkable, except for the last question: How can Notre Dame improve?

My answer: make enrollment more gender-equitable. And it was the overwhelmingly most popular suggestion to that question. I think people had different things on their mind: most of the women were probably thinking along the lines of Title IX, and most of the men wanted their fellow male students to have an easier time socially (when I was at ND, it was a common complaint among the guys that the dating scene left quite a bit to be desired).

Most amazing thing of all was that ND actually listened to us and made the change. So there you have it, yet another reason for you to hate Malloy. :wink: Although I should point out that at the time, the general consensus was that Fr. Hesburgh and Fr. Joyce had been out of touch with and indifferent to the concerns of the students, so at the time, Malloy was coming across like a breath of fresh air.

indyfrisco · Post by **indyfrisco** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:17 pm

Harvdog wrote:Danimal....TSIP is a term the sheepfuckers use to describe those that were smart enough to go to Texas. Evidently, the boys that went to Texas had an easier life than the blue collar boys from A&M. Therefore, while the pooooooorrrrrrr aggies worked the white collar boys from Texas sipped tea and watched. Therefore we are tsips. :D

Nice story.

The real reason we call them tsips is that when Aggies were off fighting wars, t.u. students were sipping tea on their front porch.

Sky · Post by **Sky** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:42 pm

Indy, great thread idea. I have really enjoyed reading about everyone.

88, I didn't know you went to Miami. We need to reminisce over a few beers...I always knew Miami wasn't for me but with only a year left it didn't make sense to transfer back to OSU. But yeah, JCrew U was still the scene into '01 and they are still a bunch of pricks.

Harv, I love San Angelo. I know a lot of people who hated it but for a W Texas town, I thought it was great. There were a bunch of great bars, the cotton patch had great food and Julios is still my favorite chips and salsa. Plus, trips to SA, Fredericksburg and Austin made things a lot more fun.

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:10 pm

Terry in Crapchester wrote:
Killian wrote:I did not attend the school I root for. I tried my damndest, and even being top 5 in my HS class, with a 28 ACT, every extra activity you could imagine, from an all boys, catholic college prep school, I got denied.
You may have been an inadvertent victim of the people around my era. When I went to ND, there were 3 guys for every girl, and ND purposely kept that many spaces open for male students. I remember getting a survey in the mail from ND about a year or so after I graduated. The survey was somewhat unremarkable, except for the last question: How can Notre Dame improve?

My answer: make enrollment more gender-equitable. And it was the overwhelmingly most popular suggestion to that question. I think people had different things on their mind: most of the women were probably thinking along the lines of Title IX, and most of the men wanted their fellow male students to have an easier time socially (when I was at ND, it was a common complaint among the guys that the dating scene left quite a bit to be desired).

Most amazing thing of all was that ND actually listened to us and made the change. So there you have it, yet another reason for you to hate Malloy. :wink: Although I should point out that at the time, the general consensus was that Fr. Hesburgh and Fr. Joyce had been out of touch with and indifferent to the concerns of the students, so at the time, Malloy was coming across like a breath of fresh air.

I tend to think I was a casualty of a different kind of leveling out. I'm all for a hand up, just not a hand out. Not having an alum in my family also hurt.

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