Which is an absolute and unconditional hate. There aren't even words to describe it. It is the exact opposite of the love we have for our babies. Complete, unbending, all encompassing, ever growing, infinite hate.
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I think the issue is that, as my signature makes fun of, at least half of the SEC derives their entire worth from those NCs.
So they'll root for Bama (SEC SEC SEC) and only halfheartedly hate them in order to make their own miserable record palatable.
Whereas it's the opposite in the Midwest. Nobody is propping their team up for losing to Ohio State... they just hate. Which is at it should be imo.
Throw in the West Coast being fairweather fans, that just leaves the All Texas Conference having a roughly even split between hating "helmet schools" as they call them.
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OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
I think you are on the mark.
The SEC is an interesting study. I may be way off, but I think the Civil War figures into their mentality. There is a remnant confederacy down there based on hate for Yankees for winning a war 140 years ago, and pride in the fact that the SE is over-represented with 4 and 5 star football players. I think this creates a regional pride in Alabama (and LSU, Florida, and Auburn's NCs) that we don't have. The last thing in the world I want is for ND, scUM, Penn St, et.al. to win a national championship. But I sense that if Alabama (or any SEC team) wins a natty in football, it somehow vindicates southern manhood, and keeps alive the superiority of the "lost cause" southern culture - setting aside the fact that their football success is largely dependent on the descendants of people their ancestors proudly owned as property as the primary source of their talent base. It's not that far of a stretch to see a connection between the antebellum mentality that gave us "any southern gentleman is worth 5 Yankees" and the modern mentality that gives us "southern football players are superior to those in the north or elsewhere." FWIW
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
I know some guys who are Arkansas fans. One has lived in Arkansas his whole life, and the other went to Arkansas for a couple of years before getting kicked out. (That's a really funny story, by the way.) When Ohio State beat Alabama, they were PISSED. Well, not about beating Alabama - they said later that they hate Alabama so much that they were rooting for Ohio State - they just hate Ohio State enough to get angry with the national championship game results. "At least Alabama didn't win it" was their mantra. So this year, they're both doing the "so how did Ohio State do this year?" junk. "They went 12-1, why?" "Yeah - they didn't win the playoffs, did they? The SEC is back!" Ha.
I remember a few years ago, the SEC won pretty much all of the championships. Kentucky won the basketball championship. The talk on the radio shows was about how the SEC was best, because of it. I understand that Kentucky was probably pretty damned good that year - I'm not arguing that. But talk earlier that year was about how awful the SEC was in basketball, outside of Kentucky. I think that just because your conference won the championship, you can't claim to be the best conference. When Michigan went to the finals (I forget who they played) I wanted them to lose by all the numbers. All the positive numbers. No way would I chant "BIG TEN BIG TEN BIG TEN" if another Big Ten team won a championship.
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