Xavier alums who root for other teams...

[SixFig]

...you suck. You are embarassing. So many of my fellow Xavier alums are celebrating like X won the 'ship. We didn't. Just cause you grew up in suburban Louisville and your uncle and second cousin went to Louisville doesn't give you right to celebrate their glory. You grew up a Louisville fan? So did half of Kentucky. You went to Xavier.

Once you have a Xavier diploma, you cannot root for any other college basketball team. Period.

Alma Mater means "nourishing mother". You went to Xavier and can have no other. Till death do you part. Tell me I'm not alone in this viewpoint.

End rant.

[LA Muskie]

...you suck. You are embarassing. So many of my fellow Xavier alums are celebrating like X won the 'ship. We didn't. Just cause you grew up in suburban Louisville and your uncle and second cousin went to Louisville doesn't give you right to celebrate their glory. You grew up a Louisville fan? So did half of Kentucky. You went to Xavier.

Once you have a Xavier diploma, you cannot root for any other college basketball team. Period.

Alma Mater means "nourishing mother". You went to Xavier and can have no other. Till death do you part. Tell me I'm not alone in this viewpoint.

End rant.

I take no pleasure in Louisville's victory. But I think your notion that once a Xavier grad, never again a fan of any other school, is...well...extreme.

[TUclutch]

...you suck. You are embarassing. So many of my fellow Xavier alums are celebrating like X won the 'ship. We didn't. Just cause you grew up in suburban Louisville and your uncle and second cousin went to Louisville doesn't give you right to celebrate their glory. You grew up a Louisville fan? So did half of Kentucky. You went to Xavier.

Once you have a Xavier diploma, you cannot root for any other college basketball team. Period.

Alma Mater means "nourishing mother". You went to Xavier and can have no other. Till death do you part. Tell me I'm not alone in this viewpoint.

End rant.

You're a fool. I go to Miami but Im a diehard XU fan. People don't, and shouldnt, pick where to go to college based on a team they like.

[GoMuskies]

People don't, and shouldnt, pick where to go to college based on a team they like.

I think you've got that a bit backwards. People certainly shouldn't pick their college based on a team they like, but once they pick a college that should generally be the team they like. At least it should be their #1 team.

I'm glad to hear you're a Xavier fan, but I can't imagine going to Miami and not being a Miami fan. Granted, I can't imagine going to Miami, but that's a different subject.

[wkrq59]

I like good college basketball period. I love Xavier. Because I love Xavier and am an alumnus, does not mean I can't appreciate good college basketball. With the exception of the officiating, especially John Cahill in the final game, I thoroughly enjoyed both games Saturday and really had a good time watching Louisville win last night. I dislike the pros, so that leaves me with a ton of great college games, especially Xavier's. Oh and remember, 77-66, and of course 76-53. Go Muskies

:clap::ninja::eek::sneeze:

[XUPhilly04]

You're a fool. I go to Miami but Im a diehard XU fan. People don't, and shouldnt, pick where to go to college based on a team they like.

Agree, otherwise, no fan of college basketball would ever go to Fordham or Northwestern, both great schools but God awful basketball.

[XUPhilly04]

I root the former Big East team in Cincinnati and proud members of the "AMERICAN" athletic conference. You know Mick is going to claim after a loss that the "AMERICAN" is a tough league because they have the defending National Champs (for one year).

Why root for them? Because the bigger they are, the harder they fall... to us. Cannot wait to reinstate the status quo at US Bank Arena next year.

[boozehound]

...you suck. You are embarassing. So many of my fellow Xavier alums are celebrating like X won the 'ship. We didn't. Just cause you grew up in suburban Louisville and your uncle and second cousin went to Louisville doesn't give you right to celebrate their glory. You grew up a Louisville fan? So did half of Kentucky. You went to Xavier.

Once you have a Xavier diploma, you cannot root for any other college basketball team. Period.

Alma Mater means "nourishing mother". You went to Xavier and can have no other. Till death do you part. Tell me I'm not alone in this viewpoint.

End rant.

This is a completely ridiculous post, that I hope was made in jest. We have plenty of great Xavier fans that didn't go to Xavier for any one of a variety of reasons. They buy season tickets. They donate to their University. Are they not allowed to be fans because they didn't attend Xavier?

What if your parents attended Xavier and you grew up rooting for the team and attending the games but they didn't offer the program you wanted, or you werent able to get accepted to Xavier? What if you got a scholarship offer to another school but didn't get one to Xavier? Do you have to renounce your fanhood at that point?

[DC Muskie]

Can we all agree that SixFig's avatar is pretty awesome? Reps.

[MADXSTER]

My oldest boy goes to Bellarmine in Louisville, yet he's a die hard Xavier fan. Wears his Xavier shirts on campus all the time. My next boy is deciding between Miami and OSU. Both wanted to go away so Xavier is not in the mix. Both would not consider Dayton. The senior in high school referred to Dayton as the Detroit of Ohio.

[jhelmes37]

Following this logic, I can only root for Eastern Michigan University.

They don't even have a message board! Damn!

[GoMuskies]

The senior in high school referred to Dayton as the Detroit of Ohio.

Detroit has some redeeming qualities. I think it is more like the Gary, Indiana of Ohio.

[BandAid]

Detroit has some redeeming qualities. I think it is more like the Gary, Indiana of Ohio.

I think it's like the Toledo of Ohio. Wait...

[ammtd34]

Growing up, my family were die hard IU fans. In November of my freshman year, I was eating lunch with Fr. LaRocca. I asked him what he would do if I cheered for Indiana when they played us in the Wooden Classic. "Adam," he said, "I'd break your fucking knee caps."

Though I don't think it's necessarily inappropriate to cheer for other teams, I've rooted for no one else since then.

[SM#24]

People don't, and shouldnt, pick where to go to college based on a team they like.
Isn't this one of the major purposes of college athletics ?

And yes, I think it's OK under most circumstances to keep your allegiances, but I do believe your school should be #1.

Although I do see see a side of SixFig's rant, as to me, rooting for a team to win, even strongly rooting for a team to win, is much different than celebrating. I could not see myself celebrating for any other school than Xavier.

I do hope there are not Xavier alums out there that put on Louisville gear and were chest bumping and hugging other Louisville fans with "we did it" chants.

[kyxu]

Growing up, my family were die hard IU fans. In November of my freshman year, I was eating lunch with Fr. LaRocca. I asked him what he would do if I cheered for Indiana when they played us in the Wooden Classic. "Adam," he said, "I'd break your fucking knee caps."

Though I don't think it's necessarily inappropriate to cheer for other teams, I've rooted for no one else since then.

Ha! Good old Father LaRocca.

I remember when we played Hawaii in the first round of the 2002 NCAA Tournament, there was a student in the cafeteria from Hawaii wearing a UH t-shirt. As I was speaking with Fr. Bischoff, I pointed it out to him and he responded, "No worries, saint. He'll burn in hell."

Jesuits are serious about their basketball.

[Mel Cooley XU'81]

Great thread.

Great memories of Fr. LaRocca (who named me on sight on campus after not seeing me for 20 years, btw).

And while we're recognizing great avatars, public reps to Madxster, as always.

[Milhouse]

Such a stupid statement...almost thought I was reading UDPride for a minute.

You can only cheer for a team if you went to that University. I wonder how many people here didn't go to Xavier but grew up Xavier fans...or how many season ticket holders for that manner. I know quite a few....

[boozehound]

Such a stupid statement...almost thought I was reading UDPride for a minute.

You can only cheer for a team if you went to that University. I wonder how many people here didn't go to Xavier but grew up Xavier fans...or how many season ticket holders for that manner. I know quite a few....

I do too, and they are every bit as big of a fan as I am (I have a BSBA and MBA from Xavier FWIW). Many of them have been fans of Xavier far longer than I have, as well.

[Muskie]

How far does this extend? Can I root for my Wife's alma mater in Football? I don't have a degree from there, and sadly X has no Division I Program?

As those who know me personally, my entire family when I was young went to IU. Everyone member of my biological family has at least one degree that says Indiana University on it (including me). I have fond memories of Coach Knight, watching the 1987 Championship game while on Spring Break in Antigua, and many other memories of going to see IU play basketball as a youngster. My favorite basketball player of all time before I enrolled at X was Calbert Cheaney (who has been replaced by some guy named West).

I still root for IU to do well (though not Tom Crean's version) when they are not playing X or a member of our conference. I guess I'm a bad fan.

[Xavier]

Using this logic, really have no team to root for in College Football.

[PMI]

Just because you go to a school does not mean they have to be your favorite team in sports. Had I gone somewhere else, I still would be primarily a Xavier basketball fan. That said, I knew kids who were wearing Ohio State crap around campus after the 2007 loss. It was obnoxious as hell and really pissed me off. But that's an extreme case, given that A) Ohio State is the weakest school you could root for in anything, B) they had our former coach, and C) they just beat us in one of the most hear-breaking games we've ever had. I know lots of Xavier grads who were rooting for Louisville and I don't really have a problem with it. Hell, as a Michigan football fan, I was pulling for them. I wasn't going to burn down the city if they had won, but I'd have been happy for them.

[danaandvictory]

Root for whoever the hell you want, whenever you want. Good Lord. It's freaking sports, it's supposed to be fun.

It's like the "court storming rules". If you're excited and want to run on the court, do so, because after you turn 22 the opportunities to participate in a spontaneous celebration go way the hell down.

[rove02]

I think you've got that a bit backwards. People certainly shouldn't pick their college based on a team they like, but once they pick a college that should generally be the team they like. At least it should be their #1 team.

I'm glad to hear you're a Xavier fan, but I can't imagine going to Miami and not being a Miami fan. Granted, I can't imagine going to Miami, but that's a different subject.

I'm a Miami grad but X has always been my #1 team. I knew even before I got to Miami that I would always root for X over Miami just because I was such a big fan already. You can't just go against that because you attend school somewhere. At Miami it is really easy to not root for the sports teams. They don't have good basketball and football teams and they hardly get support from students. I rarely went to football/basketball games there.

[ammtd34]

As those who know me personally, my entire family when I was young went to IU. Everyone member of my biological family has at least one degree that says Indiana University on it (including me). I have fond memories of Coach Knight, watching the 1987 Championship game while on Spring Break in Antigua, and many other memories of going to see IU play basketball as a youngster. My favorite basketball player of all time before I enrolled at X was Calbert Cheaney (who has been replaced by some guy named West).


Off Topic Alert, but since it seems no one really agrees with the topic, it probably doesn't matter.

Cheaney was my favorite player, too, and I have some great memories of coach Knight. In the 70s, my grandma wrote Knight a letter telling him how much she enjoyed watching his teams play. He wrote back and they became pen pals of sorts until she died in 1986. Knight wrote a letter to our family expressing his condolences.

Two uncles and four cousins went to IU. One cousin was a basketball manager and Jason Collier's high school best friend. When Collier transferred to GT, my cousin stayed. On senior night, Knight said he usually doesn't bring out the managers but wanted to bring out my cousin. He said, "He came with Collier," and Assembly Hall booed, "but we're glad he's the one that stayed." It was pretty cool.

A few years later, the same cousin was jumped, beaten with a bat, and left for dead in Cincinnati. He was then an assistant at Ohio State and had just accepted an assistant job with the Orlando Magic. His 2002 OSU Big 10 championship watch was stolen (even though it was later vacated). He had a pretty tough six month rehab. A few weeks into it, though, Knight showed up at his house. He gave him two things; a check to pay the balance of his student loans, and his watch from the 1992 Final Four. Awesome.

[GoMuskies]

I'm a Miami grad but X has always been my #1 team. I knew even before I got to Miami that I would always root for X over Miami just because I was such a big fan already. You can't just go against that because you attend school somewhere. At Miami it is really easy to not root for the sports teams. They don't have good basketball and football teams and they hardly get support from students. I rarely went to football/basketball games there.

Cheer for whoever you want, obviously, but I just find it kind of odd to cheer for anyone against the school you attend for undergrad. I grew up a big Louisville fan, and I am still a big Louisville football fan. I continued to live and die with Louisville basketball until the end of the Denny Crum era even though I went to Xavier. But when Xavier and Louisville met in the Great Alaska Shootout, there was ZERO question who I was rooting for. Made no sense to me to root for Louisville over my alma mater.

[rove02]

Cheer for whoever you want, obviously, but I just find it kind of odd to cheer for anyone against the school you attend for undergrad. I grew up a big Louisville fan, and I am still a big Louisville football fan. I continued to live and die with Louisville basketball until the end of the Denny Crum era even though I went to Xavier. But when Xavier and Louisville met in the Great Alaska Shootout, there was ZERO question who I was rooting for. Made no sense to me to root for Louisville over my alma mater.

Easier to do when you go to a school with a good basketball team though. Would you be saying the same thing if you went to Presbyterian?

[JTG]

How far does this extend? Can I root for my Wife's alma mater in Football? I don't have a degree from there, and sadly X has no Division I Program?

As those who know me personally, my entire family when I was young went to IU. Everyone member of my biological family has at least one degree that says Indiana University on it (including me). I have fond memories of Coach Knight, watching the 1987 Championship game while on Spring Break in Antigua, and many other memories of going to see IU play basketball as a youngster. My favorite basketball player of all time before I enrolled at X was Calbert Cheaney (who has been replaced by some guy named West).

I still root for IU to do well (though not Tom Crean's version) when they are not playing X or a member of our conference. I guess I'm a bad fan.

Ugh, I think I'll throw up...one school I have always hated because of Knight is IU, and I live in Indy.

[GoMuskies]

Sure. I mean, that's the whole point of college athletics, no? Picking another college team over an undergrad alma mater just makes no sense to me. But again, people are free to root for whomever they like. And I'm free to think it makes no sense.

[PMI]

Cheer for whoever you want, obviously, but I just find it kind of odd to cheer for anyone against the school you attend for undergrad. I grew up a big Louisville fan, and I am still a big Louisville football fan. I continued to live and die with Louisville basketball until the end of the Denny Crum era even though I went to Xavier. But when Xavier and Louisville met in the Great Alaska Shootout, there was ZERO question who I was rooting for. Made no sense to me to root for Louisville over my alma mater.

Not everyone is as into their alma mater as you though. Some people grew up diehard fans of other programs and where they went to get their degrees didn't change their minds about who they liked in sports at all. I can see why a diehard Louisville fan who came to X when he was 18 would still keep the Cards as his number one team. I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer here. Unless you root for Ohio State. Then you're just wrong.

[bigdiggins]

Dad went to X and took me to games growing up; Wright St. offered me more scholarship money and kept me out of student loan debt. Now I have to cancel my season tickets after 13 years and go to Wright St games? Heck, I only attended 2 Wright St games the 4 years I was there. The coach spent more time stealing vitamins from Meier in my 4 years than I spent watching the basketball team.

[PMI]

Root for whoever the hell you want, whenever you want. Good Lord. It's freaking sports, it's supposed to be fun.

It's like the "court storming rules". If you're excited and want to run on the court, do so, because after you turn 22 the opportunities to participate in a spontaneous celebration go way the hell down.

This is pretty much exactly how I feel. Although, I do think there will be a death or serious injury due to storming the court at some point, and then there will be the national outrage over why it's "allowed." Some fat chick will be in front of the cameras telling us all how reprehensible it is, and Doug Gottlieb will tell us all he told us so.

[DC Muskie]

This is pretty much exactly how I feel. Although, I do think there will be a death or serious injury due to storming the court at some point, and then there will be the national outrage over why it's "allowed." Some fat chick will be in front of the cameras telling us all how reprehensible it is, and Doug Gottlieb will tell us all he told us so.

Actually that would be Seth Davis. In fact he said it to Greg Anthony after the UVa upset over Duke and Coach K whined like the bitch he is.

[GoMuskies]

I don't think there's really a right or wrong answer here. Unless you root for Ohio State. Then you're just wrong.

This is absolutely correct. Granted, I don't feel much different about Michigan, but I dislike them slightly less.

[xudash]

My oldest boy goes to Bellarmine in Louisville, yet he's a die hard Xavier fan. Wears his Xavier shirts on campus all the time. My next boy is deciding between Miami and OSU. Both wanted to go away so Xavier is not in the mix. Both would not consider Dayton. The senior in high school referred to Dayton as the Detroit of Ohio.

I applaud your wife and you for being such astute, effective parents.

[GoMuskies]

...you suck. You are embarassing. So many of my fellow Xavier alums are celebrating like X won the 'ship. We didn't. Just cause you grew up in suburban Louisville and your uncle and second cousin went to Louisville doesn't give you right to celebrate their glory. You grew up a Louisville fan? So did half of Kentucky. You went to Xavier.

Once you have a Xavier diploma, you cannot root for any other college basketball team. Period.

Alma Mater means "nourishing mother". You went to Xavier and can have no other. Till death do you part. Tell me I'm not alone in this viewpoint.

End rant.

Back to the original: I don't mind so much...though I did see a Facebook post from a former Xavier Newswire sports editor last night, and he had a UofL avatar (or profile photo or whatever it's called on FB). For some reason that bothered me.

[BBC 08]

Back to the original: I don't mind so much...though I did see a Facebook post from a former Xavier Newswire sports editor last night, and he had a UofL avatar (or profile photo or whatever it's called on FB). For some reason that bothered me.

Is this a relatively recent grad? If so, then I think he went to Trinity and he is a lost cause any way.

[GoMuskies]

Is this a relatively recent grad? If so, then I think he went to Trinity and he is a lost cause any way.

No, he's from my era.

[TUclutch]

[QUOTE=GoMuskies;391108]I think you've got that a bit backwards. People certainly shouldn't pick their college based on a team they like, but once they pick a college that should generally be the team they like. At least it should be their #1 team.

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