<p>can’t you be for both? I can’t imagine going to a school and not joining in the comraderie of cheering on your team. when they play each other…well this year since it’s at FSU I wouldn’t flaunt it but next year at UF you would be just one of thousands of Gator fans in the stands.</p>
<p>Where is the ‘like’ button for these posts on this thread?</p>
<p>Transferring to FSU from UF and still rooting for the gators is sorta like getting divorced and remarrying, but still seeing the ex-spouse on the weekends. I guess it’s legal, but I don’t think it is good form. If you commit to something you should go all the way and cut any strings. Anyway, the way FSU’s got its mojo working now, it would be a good time to get off the gator bandwagon and root for the Seminoles unless you want to get scalped in a few weeks.</p>
<p>I’m not transferring from UF. >.<</p>
<p>I’m a community college students who tailgates UF on it’s weekend games. I have been cheering for UF since like FOREVER. I cheered for them in both good and bad seasons so I’m sure they will recover from this season. </p>
<p>I will probably cheer for FSU on my spare time when Im not watching UF on TV or tailgating their games.</p>
<p>Oh so you are yet another member of the “Gaytor” Nation that never attended UF. </p>
<p>Hmm… Seems to be a trend among Gator fans.
Although im proud that you may actually get a college education, unlike the other 85 percent of Gator fans that never attended UF, let alone any other college.</p>
<p>P.S: Please use the same kicker when your team is visiting Tallahassee this year</p>
<p>umm… I apologize for the immaturity and nonsensicality of certain posters here, but I swear most people aren’t actually like that here… At UF I was bashed for liking both FSU and UF, but I’ve never heard any of the stupidness I’m reading here while on campus at FSU.</p>
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<p>Were you trying to be ironic, or were you trying to suggest that you are different than most people on campus and that your posts are filled with stupidness?</p>
<p>Haha, I"m in the same boat buddy… 
I’m gonna have the same problem at UF. I’m a extremely big Nole sports fan, but i chose to go to UF, because they offered me more financial aid and have a really good pre-med program. I’m gonna have to tough it out, but honestly its more about the education that you get at your school. Can you really be a fan until you attend the school? Hmm… guess I’ll find out. Let me know how it goes ;)</p>
<p>^Too bad. I was hoping you’d be a 'Nole.</p>
<p>To the OP:</p>
<p>I think it’s OK to be a UF fan while going to FSU. As long as you don’t flaunt it or show your hatred for the Seminoles (just to be safe). The general student body will not care but there are always nuts out there who might give you trouble.</p>
<p>Maybe you will grow a connection with the Seminoles as you spend more time in Tallahassee. I spent the best few years of my life there in undergrad. It’s an awesome school!</p>
<p>“Matt, straight up… you are stupid. You KNOW you’re just saying that **** because you got turned down from UF and have had a grudge ever sense. What you’re saying makes no sense. I like both FSU and UF equally. So what the **** would you have me do in your situation? Not go to either???”</p>
<p>Thank you, Jake, for confirming what I’ve been saying all along.</p>
<p>I’ve been thinking about this a lot, reading the board for some time. The fact is, Matt is a hypocrite of the highest order. You can guarantee that he would have been flying his orange-and-blue colored flag and expounding on the awesomeness of UF had he gotten in, which is of course false. He tries to come across as some sort of strident FSU loyalist when in fact it wasn’t even his first choice to begin with (although of course the same happens in the other direction, too). The speed in which he instantly changed loyalties - solely on account of getting into one school and not the other - is one for the record books.</p>
<p>If there’s anything that annoys me, it is the usage of emotionally-charged language and demagoguery to paint UF and its supporters as evil, selfish people and FSU loyalists as perfect specimens in every regard. Of course, both extremes are blatantly off-base and self-serving to his bias. All in all, I find these tactics to be intellectually dishonest as they contribute little to no value to an objective discourse on the UF-FSU debate. As an FSU alum and supporter, I want nothing more than to see my alma mater propser, but not at the cost of compromising someone else’s future. I want people to make their choices on reliable, verifiable, readily-available information. Not the subjective, bitter demagoguery that can best be described as “Uf people = obnoxious and elitist, FSU people = perfect angels”. This does nothing to truly assist a 17-year-old kid who’s making a choice that will inevitably affect the course of his/her life for the near-to-midterm future.</p>
<p>Finally, if there’s anything more disgusting than all of this, it is the need for to pontificate on fans of other teams who just so happen to attend FSU. FSU and UF, first and foremost, are academic institutions. What team you root for on the field should in no way intersect with your scholastic intentions. I find this whole “you can’t root for UF or any other school because you attend FSU” to be extremely adolescent and short-sighted. For a guy who likes to point fingers at the other school for being haughty and obnoxious (as if it doesn’t happen at FSU or any other college for that matter) he sure likes to play both sides.</p>
<p>And this isn’t just directed at one person, it’s to anybody who utilizes the same dishonest tactics on this board at any time. I’ve seen this on multiple occasions from various posters, and it’s quite disappointing to say the least.</p>
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<p>You should really consider consulting a dictionary before attempting to use big words to discredit me. That, or you should re-read the posts I have made, as you’re clearly missing something.</p>
<p>My ONLY claim in this thread is that you should support the school you attend. I support the school I attend, therefore, I am not a hypocrite. Flying the orange-and-blue flag had I gone to UF as you put it, would be remaining true to my claim that students should support THEIR school, therefore, you lose once again. You are correct in that if I went to UF, I would have been a Gator fan. Of course, if I went to FAU, I would have been an Owl fan as well. I believe in supporting the school you attend. I don’t know why this is so hard for some of you guys to understand, but again, I’ll keep in mind that this is CC and not rivals.com.</p>
<p>The most ironic part of your post is that I have never actually said anything negative about UF in this thread, and I rarely discuss UF on this forum with the exception of some athletics related smack. Get your facts (and definitions) straight before attempting to denigrate me.</p>
<p>I’m with Matt on this. I just don’t get the concept of being a Gator fan if you attend FSU. Maybe if something like your own brother played on the Gator football team and you wanted to see him do well, that might be excusable for following the Gators some, but across the board–if one attends FSU, one should root for FSU and not some other college. If some FSU fans want to root for other colleges, fine, that’s their business. To me though folks like Seminoles for Gators are an aberation.</p>
<p>Something else to remember is that the players on the college teams are not pros, separate from the college–they are fellow student-athletes. The players on the Seminole athletic teams are fellow students who attend class like everyone else. I can not image sitting next to a student-athlete at FSU while I’m wearing Gator gear telling my fellow classmate, who is a Seminole athlete, that I root for the Gators! I think that is kinda sick. If you are an FSU student, support your fellow student-athletes at FSU.</p>
<p>Help me out and put a target on your back; just saying! Go Noles!</p>
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<p>Fantastic point that didn’t even cross my mind. Especially since I shared one class with Michael Snaer (starting shooting guard on the basketball team) last Fall and another with Jordan Demercy (used to start on the basketball team until he left). </p>
<p>Supporting a college athletics program is much more than arbitrarily rooting for a team or liking a logo. It’s actually being a part of something that’s bigger than yourself, with the emphasis on being a part of it. If you come to FSU and root for the Gators, you are rooting for something that you’re not really a part of. Why anyone would choose that, I just can’t understand.</p>