Besides Syracuse, what team(s) would/do you root for?

[AccuRater]

For me, Florida St. and Air Force.

Miami (Ohio), Louisiana-Lafayette (Rajun Cajuns), LSU

 

[Shrmdougluvr]

Army.

If we arent talking D-1 football, I was all in on Stony Brook baseball this summer.

 

[OttoMets]

The Red Raiders of Colgate University. Except when they play Syracuse.

 

[jekelish]

Same for me with Wake hoops. I didn't apply there but did send them my SAT scores back in the day (mid 90's). Even if I got in I wouldn't have been able to afford it w/o some major scholarship/financial aid.

I have a very specific reason to like Wake. When I was 12 my brother played in a national AAU tournament in Yakima, Washington and one of the best teams there was Memphis Idlewild (this was 14 and under). The star of the team was Robert O'Kelley. I loved everything about Idlewild. They were the first team I saw wear black socks over white socks, ankle high, with about half an inch of the white sock showing above the black sock. I emulated them when I played, and from then on O'Kelley was a hero of mine, so when he went to Wake they became my second favorite team by default.

 

[edowd26]

cuse, service academies, everyone else can eat my chit.

 

[syr02esq]

Baylor Bears ahh sic em bears!

 

[chop block]

Alma's lemoyne and university of buffalo
Married to Alabama fan-which makes me a Bama fan

Under no circumstances will I ever root for Auburn- Its the last time my grandpa watched a cuse game he was so upset

Indiana-first time I remember crying

Vermont- I'm glad we kicked them out of ny in 1777. Hey tom Brennan, everyone already knows you guys beat cuse, you don't have to mention it every five seconds when you are on tv

 

[nzm136]

I root for Penn State, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Notre Dame, Miami, Rutgers and UConn.

You forgot Georgetown, Saint John's, Villanova, UVA, WVU, and John Hopkins.

 

[mountaincuse]

Honestly, no one. Orange are it.

I'll root for a good game, an upset, against a team, etc. but that varies from game to game.

 

[SoBeCuse]

USC (grad school) and Michigan (brother did two degrees there). Always liked Oregon, Georgia Tech, and Clemson also.

 

[Faegan]

CU Buffs. After that I just like good match ups and upsets

 

[ottodaorange]

1. Syracuse because I was born and raised on the North Side, a life long fan, and did my graduate work on the hill, and therefore an alum
2. SUNY Brockport, because I played my college ball there
3. ocassionally cheer for Florida since I am retired and live in Florida and have friends in Gatorville
4. recently become interested in Colorado because my surgeon used to be the team doc for the football team

 

[BlackKnight76]

South Carolina, Navy, Stanford, Oregon, Vandy

 

[Louie&Bouie]

Michigan. Someone has to keep that buffoon Woody Hayes in check.

Voting for Gerald Ford come November, too.

 

[OrangeHeel]

GO HEELS!! If God's not a Tarheel, then why is the sky Carolina Blue? (One of my degrees. To go there is to understand why people love it to the point of delusion. & yes, recent events are embarrassing & unacceptable.).

On dear old Army team. Great place to see a game & you have to love what the school stands for. (Homer Rice after a particularly bad defeat to UCLA "I'm not sure this is what we want our future military leaders exposed to.")

ND -- it's a Catholic school kid thing although BK makes me want to vomit in my shoe. Kill any other students lately?

USC pre- Carroll/Kiffin. Loved John McKay. (Famous answer by McKay -- Coach, what do you think of your team's execution? I'm in favor of it.)

Otherwise, line upsets & good stories.


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[44cuse]

Army (top game day experience)
Oregon

44cuse

 

[SWC75]

#1 is Michigan State. The entire SU football staff under Biggie Munn moved there in 1947 to build up that program and SU grad Duffy Daughterty took over for Munn and they had some great years there in the 50's and 60's as a perennial national power. In my mind I've always had a "best ball" scenario between us and them: what if you combined the schools success year by year over the decades since. it would be quite a program. The Spartans also fit a couple of other profiles to gain my sympathies. They were good when we were good in the 50's and 60's, then faded and have been ntrying to come back to that level, with occassional but not consistent success ever since. They have also been sort of the junior partner in a rivalry wiht Michigan, (although they've done well the last few years), the way we became the junior partner in the Penn State rivalry.

Other "junior partners" I tend to root for: Georgia Tech vs. Gerogia, Auburn vs. Alabama, Arkansas, (where I have kinfolk), vs. Texas from the old SWC days, Nebraska vs. Oklahoma, (Nebraska only won when they were clealry better), UCLA vs. USC.

In the "they were good when we were good" category would be Georgia Tech, Mississippi, the western half of the Big Ten, the private schools from old SWC and the northern schools of Pac 8/10/12.

I also tend to pull for Mountain area teams, which traditionally have been under-rated and left out of things. I liked Arizona State when they were in the WAC, Wyoming, Utah, now Boise State. I never warmed to BYU for some reason.

Uniforms: I always liked UCLA and LSU, (when we copied them it looked OK but just wasn't us). I like Tennessee orange and Carolina blue. I liked it when UCLA and Tennessse would wear their colored jerseys at home and on the road because it was such a light color. I wish more teams would wear colored jerseys against each other when there is a contrast. I do want a contrast in the jersies vs. the pants and helmet. All one color is a bit much.

If I like the coach, I will root for his team. I liked Bud Wilkinson but didn't like Barry Switzer. I liked Ara Parseghian but didn't like Gary Faust or Lou Holtz. I started out like Joe Paterno but that faded badly ver the years. I started out not liking Bear Bryant but gained respect for him over the years.

And I always rooted for Eastern or Big East teams against intersectional or non-conference opposition. I rooted for Ithaca when they were playing for national titles, (when will this Mount Union-Whitewater thing end?) I'll root for Colgate on their level and would do so for Cornell if they were any good. I've always rooted for Delaware and UMASS for some reason. They were the top small college teams in the East back in the 60's when I grew up. Coach Mac later coached UMASS and my cousin was professor at Delaware for years. I also developed a fondness for North Dakota State when I read a great article about them in SI back in the 60's and have followed them through their years of great success, including last year when they won the FCS title over Sam Houston State.

But I don't bleed their colors. I bleed Orange and would always root for SU against any of them.

 

[omniorange]

As an old Eastern Indy fart, when they aren't playing against SU I root for PSU, ND, WVU, Pitt, Miami, and FSU.

Louisville is the only school that has joined that list and did so around 2002 when I first learned the BE was interested in adding them.

Cheers,
Neil

 

[gocraz4dasu]

Other than Syracuse I cheer for West Virginia. After them it is sort of all over the place and can change. I usually pick and choose according to players who are there.