Dividing loyalties?

[ugarte]

[quote Rita][quote Trotsky]It's very rare that someone builds up the emotional attachment to a team in grad school the way they do from their undergad years.  Grad students are basically poorly paid university employees.  There's little or no emotional attachment, or even affection, involved.  And the gap between doctoral candidates and undergrad student athletes is so large that you might just as well ask me whether I follow the Raytheon fastpitch softball team.  If there's any contact at all, it's as TAs or lecturers, and that's probably just liable to result in mutual contempt. ;-)[/quote]

Then, according to Trotsky, I am indeed rare and unique, thanks! :-D . I went to undergrad at Trinity College, a small DIII school in CT. [/quote]Amazing. I was going to post something about the exception being people who went to college at a small school without a lot of fan interest in sports* and then grad school at a campus with big time intercollegiate athletics. And then Rita went and proved my point before I had a chance to make it.

As another example, people who hung around the Round Table probably remember Bob Mulligan (if I remember his name) - he went to Binghamton but did graduate work at Clarkson and instantly became a knight nut.


*Fan interest here is distinguished from university support and committed athletes. Rita can correct me, but I doubt that Trinity had packed houses for any sports.

[Rita]

[quote ugarte][quote Rita][quote Trotsky]It's very rare that someone builds up the emotional attachment to a team in grad school the way they do from their undergad years.  Grad students are basically poorly paid university employees.  There's little or no emotional attachment, or even affection, involved.  And the gap between doctoral candidates and undergrad student athletes is so large that you might just as well ask me whether I follow the Raytheon fastpitch softball team.  If there's any contact at all, it's as TAs or lecturers, and that's probably just liable to result in mutual contempt. ;-)[/quote]

Then, according to Trotsky, I am indeed rare and unique, thanks! :-D . I went to undergrad at Trinity College, a small DIII school in CT. [/quote]Amazing. I was going to post something about the exception being people who went to college at a small school without a lot of fan interest in sports* and then grad school at a campus with big time intercollegiate athletics. And then Rita went and proved my point before I had a chance to make it.

As another example, people who hung around the Round Table probably remember Bob Mulligan (if I remember his name) - he went to Binghamton but did graduate work at Clarkson and instantly became a knight nut.


*Fan interest here is distinguished from university support and committed athletes. Rita can correct me, but I doubt that Trinity had packed houses for any sports.[/quote]

For the most part no. There was one year, 1989 or maybe 1990 when the basketball team was doing really well, and the gym was packed for the games that season (a packed gym was ~ 1200 people if IIRC). The football games usually had a decent turnout for a small school, and that was probably attributed to campus security turning a blind eye to a lot of pre- and during game "social activities" and also to there being not much else to do in Hartford on a Saturday afternoon.

[crodger1]

[quote RedAR]Crodge2K, no comments about turn-jersey...[/quote]

Oh, I wouldn't ever suggest that you might be a turn-jersey, would I?  ::laugh::

When it comes down to it, though, I know you bleed carnelian red.