Is it okay to never start cheering for my alma mater?
 

I am not a New Mexico Lobo fan. I grew up near Washington, DC, and I graduated from the University of New Mexico. Perhaps my most memorable time watching sports on TV was that 1987 Super Bowl in which no New Mexico Lobo alumnus won the championship. I've ignored them through the Franchione years and through the Rocky Long years.

Now I'm thinking about throwing it all up, thanks to Lobo players.

I mean, seriously, how incompetent can you be? I'm getting tired of people talking about winning a game this season when we still have TCU and Colorado State to play. I'm getting tired of people being able to stomach their team no matter what, and cheering in a deafening voice at any Lobo player who dares to step onto the field, thinking it's going to help the team.

Ignoring your team doesn't mean you don't want them to win. I thought that Utah had a pretty good chance to beat us last weekend. Predictably, they did. But there were Lobo fans saying, "Oh, my head is in this brown paper bag. Bring on the sweet release of death!" I don't want to be associated with that.

Because of that, I'm thinking of continuing to drop support for my alma mater. But what do you guys think? Do you think that is wrong? Do you think I should stick with the losers no matter what, and f*** the incompetent players?

More importantly, do you think Mike Locksley or Heather Lambert will kick my ass, and then dig up Dave Bliss's phone number to cover it up until Dennis Franchione charges $1500 for people to read about it in his newsletter?

No one should EVER cheer for UNM...

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I completely get your point, Shkspr. I should be lucky.

By the way, it's Elizabeth Lambert. Not that it matters...

I never cheered for my alma mater. They stink. I was pictured in the school newspaper my senior year in an article about fan apathy. It was a picture of me and a few friends passing around a paper bag with a bottle of liquor inside at a football game with empty seats all around.

My alma mater hasn't lost a football game since the '80s.

I know this is a parody thread...but...

My alma mater only really pays attention to lacrosse. I never cared about lax at all before getting to college - nobody played it in Philly. When I got there we had a couple of lax players on our floor. These were not guys who would normally get into our school. One of them was ok enough, but the other...well, he was just downright scary. You know Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds? Yeah, that was this guy. Ogres or not lax players were revered. And of course they commanded the attention of the 5% of the females who were attractive and not completely devoted to their studies.

So yeah, I don't cheer for my alma mater.

Errr - just so I know what is an 'alma mater' ? (I'm presuming its something to do with a university - another name for university team?).

Oh heh - the actor who played Ogre "attended the University of New Mexico on a basketball scholarship, then transferred to the University of San Diego, where he played football and was a member of the varsity basketball team."

alma mater is the school you attended

It's debated whether alma mater is a school you attended or the school you graduate from.

I personally take the stricter view that it's the school you graduated from.

You were (The) Johns Hopkins again? Between the way you described it at first and the Maryland location I was thinking Salisbury State, but then you mentioned people studying and students not being accepted, so it couldn't be Salisbury.

Hopkins, correct.

It's most commonly used in reference to a university, but people in the US also use it in reference to a high school sometimes.

It also refers to the official school song of a college.

Every school has different rules on this. It usually depends on how badly they want your money. Basically, the less prestigious, the easier it is to be included in alumni stuff even if you didn't graduate from there and naturally if you go on to have prominence but dropped out, they claim you anyway.

Yeah, I could see how lacrosse kids/high D1 athletes and Hopkins culture don't quite mix well.