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<blockquote data-quote="MidtownJacket" data-source="post: 949794" data-attributes="member: 959"><p>Agree that some imbalance always existed. </p><p></p><p>A primarily STEM based school with a small enrollment compared to a larger state school whose mission is educating kids beyond the HS level will always have imbalance. </p><p></p><p>This notion though, of it not being about the school but just the team or player, feels foreign to the ideal I have of college athletics. </p><p></p><p>I don’t follow GT sports because of the stand alone production value the team has, I follow them because I have a shared experience and sense of community with them. </p><p></p><p>That’s what makes the wins sweeter and the losses more tolerable for me as a fan. Maybe that style of fandom is less common than I realize, but why would I watch college sports without it? If it’s just a professional process then I’m better off watching better talent compete in the pros. The same way I don’t follow my high school sports team despite their comparatively better performance than GT’s. They were multi year repeating state champs in 5A and I certainly had some formative years in the stands and on campus. </p><p></p><p>That balance of game day experience v athletic quality always felt just right to me about college sports. It is a bummer to think the sport might be different enough by the time my kids are in college to have lost that magic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MidtownJacket, post: 949794, member: 959"] Agree that some imbalance always existed. A primarily STEM based school with a small enrollment compared to a larger state school whose mission is educating kids beyond the HS level will always have imbalance. This notion though, of it not being about the school but just the team or player, feels foreign to the ideal I have of college athletics. I don’t follow GT sports because of the stand alone production value the team has, I follow them because I have a shared experience and sense of community with them. That’s what makes the wins sweeter and the losses more tolerable for me as a fan. Maybe that style of fandom is less common than I realize, but why would I watch college sports without it? If it’s just a professional process then I’m better off watching better talent compete in the pros. The same way I don’t follow my high school sports team despite their comparatively better performance than GT’s. They were multi year repeating state champs in 5A and I certainly had some formative years in the stands and on campus. That balance of game day experience v athletic quality always felt just right to me about college sports. It is a bummer to think the sport might be different enough by the time my kids are in college to have lost that magic. [/QUOTE]
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