Texas

[sybarite]

How long have you been exposed to and lived next to Texan. I would think you would have grasped their concept that all things are bigger and better in Texas. Reality ends when you cross the Red River going south. The only thing positive about whorns is their numbers.

Their football fans consider their program for the last sixty years to be the par with the Sooner program. They like to refer to us a trailer trash when Texas has about .75 million mobile homes which is a hundred thousand more than California. The only reference one needs make about Texas fans is they are whorns. Not unlike OSU fans are pukes.

I don't live next to Texas. I live in Texas. Curiously, I see more about UT on OU message boards than I do in Texas life. I have the impression that OU is rated equal to or superior to UT by the average Texan, loyalties being as divided as they are. In my area of Texas, the Cowboys and Mavericks have a lot more following than UT, and college sports don't even attract a lot of fans on OU-Texas weekend. I get the impression that the average Texan would support UT vs OU, except that he doesn't really care about either. Among college sports fans, there is probably more anti-UT sentiment than anti-OU sentiment because of the relationships between UT fans and other Texas university fans. Most of my relationships with UT alums tend to be playful at OU/UT time, nothing like what you see on the message boards. I've had my office decorated in Orange, which I left up for several days after OU won.

 

[AustinTXSooner]

I don't live next to Texas. I live in Texas. Curiously, I see more about UT on OU message boards than I do in Texas life. I have the impression that OU is rated equal to or superior to UT by the average Texan, loyalties being as divided as they are. In my area of Texas, the Cowboys and Mavericks have a lot more following than UT, and college sports don't even attract a lot of fans on OU-Texas weekend. I get the impression that the average Texan would support UT vs OU, except that he doesn't really care about either. Among college sports fans, there is probably more anti-UT sentiment than anti-OU sentiment because of the relationships between UT fans and other Texas university fans. Most of my relationships with UT alums tend to be playful at OU/UT time, nothing like what you see on the message boards. I've had my office decorated in Orange, which I left up for several days after OU won.

If only it were like that where I live...

 

[SoonerSpock]

I don't live next to Texas. I live in Texas. Curiously, I see more about UT on OU message boards than I do in Texas life. I have the impression that OU is rated equal to or superior to UT by the average Texan, loyalties being as divided as they are. In my area of Texas, the Cowboys and Mavericks have a lot more following than UT, and college sports don't even attract a lot of fans on OU-Texas weekend. I get the impression that the average Texan would support UT vs OU, except that he doesn't really care about either. Among college sports fans, there is probably more anti-UT sentiment than anti-OU sentiment because of the relationships between UT fans and other Texas university fans. Most of my relationships with UT alums tend to be playful at OU/UT time, nothing like what you see on the message boards. I've had my office decorated in Orange, which I left up for several days after OU won.

In my statement I recognized you lived next to Texans, as in neighbors, as you have indicated in the past that you live in the south metroplex. My use of next to Texans was poor wording on my part. I concur that there are more college fans that are anti-whorns than whorn fans when you consider all college football fans in Texas primarily because of aTm and the absolute number of schools in Texas. It's logical that ten schools would have more fans than one school.

I too have friends that are Texas and OSU fans and playful banter is the focus of our dialog about our games. However that playful banter is motivated by our friendship and in many if most of those relationships they moderate their disdain and belittlement of the Sooners because of the friendship not because of respect for the Sooners.

I do find the whorns' dislike of the Sooners more driven by the Texas superiority mentality of because we are whorns than because we are OU. On the other hand the pukes' dislike of OU is motivated by envy and unadulterated hate. Neither of the vocal fans of either school manifest any mutual respect for for the Sooners. From my perspective that is limited to the Nebraska, Alabama, Notre Dame USC fans that I have seen at their arenas and stadiums. I will let you know more about the Tennessee fans after I get back from Knoxville on the 14th.

Personal experience tells me, more so from a football perspective, that traditional national schools with significant championship records have the best fans with regard to showing respect for comparable opponents. Might say they have been there and done that which includes knowing how to win and how to lose. Fans of the those schools, after visiting Norman, will include OU as a school that has also been there as they frequently rave about our hospitality. I do find Texas an exception to that rule when in Austin for basketball and baseball games. I think it is that Texas superiority looking down their nose belittling all things Sooner be it athletic, academic, campus, community or state.