Rambler63 wrote:
I guess I feel some of the same. The majority of Shocker fans behind the anonymity of usernames certainly went far, far out of their way and spent quite a chunk of their days inventing ways to make the rest of the league feel crappy about themselves.
This is where I am. One thing I've really noticed is that it was always WSU vs everyone on the board the last few years but they found a way to make it WSU vs everyone vs everyone. It was always flipped with who was against who.
That attitude of just "hatred" seems to be gone. It's easier to look at other schools in this conference and go "I want the conference to do well so I need them to do well" and be okay with it. It's a better feeling.
In general I don't have much "conference homerism". Never have. I'm a guy that follows my teams and the rest of the teams can lose every game for all I care. I'm now at a point where I'm still mostly indifferent but don't mind "pulling" for another team in the OOC. We'll see what happens when it's Drake and UE's turn for me to go "COME ON, WIN THIS ONE!".
Don't get it twisted, I'm still going to poke the bear around here. I'm not a touchy feely "YAY EVERYONE" guy. I'm still going to find things to be "that guy" about. However, the "cancer" of the board is 98% gone. I think we can all agree the conference is more unified now (now the argument about public/private/football and who the 12th team should be is going to cause a divide). There's a feeling of fighting together for a greater good compared to everyone feeling like they need to fight everyone.