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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 5221490, member: 225"]
For starters, students aren’t obligated to go to games or even care about the team for that matter.

I know lots of adults who aren’t as rabid anymore due to the portal and NIL. They watch the games, they may go to the games, but when the game is over, they don’t give it much thought. When the season is over, they no longer give it any thought at all.

These days, the major sports athletes get a free academic ride and, in addition, are paid a lot of $$$ while non-athletes rack up student loans. A lot of schools create athletic dorms and other facilities plus majors aimed at student-athletes. Toss in the fact that the players move in and out of the portal so much and it is likely hard for the average student to feel any affinity for the guys playing the games.

Do the teams represent the school and thus should be rooted for by the student body? Only to a point. As much as I bled Orange as a townie and as an SU student and SU grad, I never bought into that argument much. I rooted for them because they were my team. I never felt that they were representing me nor the education I received at all.

And that is a healthy thing.

When you go to college, watching the sports teams is merely one more thing to take advantage of if you so choose. It’s hardly a requirement however, nor should it be. I honestly pass no judgement whatsoever on SU students that choose to do something else with their time on Saturdays.
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