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Too much text so I left 'Bama and the top 3. Thoughts?
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10. South Carolina Football Fans:
9. Michigan Football Fans:
8. UCLA Basketball Fans:
7. Alabama Football Fans:
Is ‘Bama currently the best program in college football? Yes, obviously – the Tide has won three national championships in the past five years. But if you ask fans of the Crimson Tide “who is the best program of the last 25 years?” most would say Alabama. People forget that between 1997 and 2007, Alabama had eight seasons where they lost at least five games; often more than that.
Would you believe that in the past 32 seasons, Alabama has only won the SEC title five times?
Tide fans act like their team has been the greatest in college football year after year despite the numbers proving otherwise. Not to mention their fans now genuinely believe that they will win the national championship every fall. Such expectations are simply unrealistic.
6. Syracuse Basketball Fans:
5. Oregon Football Fans:
4. Indiana Basketball Fans:
3. Arkansas Football Fans:
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Razorbacks’ fans are quite vocal about their program’s prestige. They take pride in being in the SEC, the best conference in the land, and consider themselves one of the better programs in the nation…for some reason. In the last decade, they’ve only reached the postseason five times. They’ve never even won an SEC championship, much less come close to winning a national championship since joining the league. The only title the Razorbacks claim is from way back in 1964.
Since 2004, they’re averaging a marginal 6.8 wins-per-season. They also went 0-8 in the SEC last year. No respectable program should ever do that, regardless of coaching changes. How Arkansas fans can brag about anything is astonishing. The SEC is undoubtedly the best conference in the nation, but Razorbacks fans can’t really claim that their program is contributing to that fact.
2. Kentucky Basketball Fans:
The Wildcats are one of the most successful programs in college basketball history and are currently one of the top schools that high school stars want to play for in the nation. Year after year, they reload talent and put one of the best products in all of college basketball on the floor. But, their fans have quite unreasonable expectations.
Literally every year, their fans believe that the Wildcats will win it all; starting all freshmen or not. That’s just not possible, regardless of what 2012 taught us. Wildcats fans don’t want to hear that. Not only are they obsessed with winning the national championship every year, they consider Kentucky to be by far the greatest program in college basketball history. UCLA has 11 national titles – three more than UK. Wildcats fans will point out that most of those came in a different era – even though the same can be said about the majority of Kentucky’s.
There is no room for debate in the mind’s of Kentucky fans and that type of closed-minded thinking is inherently flawed.
1. Notre Dame Football Fans:
Is there a more overrated team in all of sports? Over the last 20 years, the Fighting Irish are a woeful 3-10 in the most important games of them all — bowl games. Plus, they posted an 0-4 record in BCS bowl contests, including a 42-14 whooping at the hands of Alabama in the 2012 BCS title game. They haven’t won a national title since 1988.
Despite these blatant facts, Notre Dame fans still consider the Fighting Irish to be an elite program. Need more proof? Notre Dame has only two 10-win seasons since 1994. Northwestern also has two 10-win seasons since 1994. That’s all you need to know.
The fans of the Fighting Irish are as delusional as any in all of college sports. They view their team as an elite and respected program even though they have had relatively no real success for an entire generation. Obviously Notre Dame has an extensive history, one of the grandest in all of college football, but that history is buried deep in the past. But good luck getting any Fighting Irish fans to admit that.
Too much text so I left 'Bama and the top 3. Thoughts?
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10. South Carolina Football Fans:
9. Michigan Football Fans:
8. UCLA Basketball Fans:
7. Alabama Football Fans:
Is ‘Bama currently the best program in college football? Yes, obviously – the Tide has won three national championships in the past five years. But if you ask fans of the Crimson Tide “who is the best program of the last 25 years?” most would say Alabama. People forget that between 1997 and 2007, Alabama had eight seasons where they lost at least five games; often more than that.
Would you believe that in the past 32 seasons, Alabama has only won the SEC title five times?
Tide fans act like their team has been the greatest in college football year after year despite the numbers proving otherwise. Not to mention their fans now genuinely believe that they will win the national championship every fall. Such expectations are simply unrealistic.
6. Syracuse Basketball Fans:
5. Oregon Football Fans:
4. Indiana Basketball Fans:
3. Arkansas Football Fans:
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Razorbacks’ fans are quite vocal about their program’s prestige. They take pride in being in the SEC, the best conference in the land, and consider themselves one of the better programs in the nation…for some reason. In the last decade, they’ve only reached the postseason five times. They’ve never even won an SEC championship, much less come close to winning a national championship since joining the league. The only title the Razorbacks claim is from way back in 1964.
Since 2004, they’re averaging a marginal 6.8 wins-per-season. They also went 0-8 in the SEC last year. No respectable program should ever do that, regardless of coaching changes. How Arkansas fans can brag about anything is astonishing. The SEC is undoubtedly the best conference in the nation, but Razorbacks fans can’t really claim that their program is contributing to that fact.
2. Kentucky Basketball Fans:
The Wildcats are one of the most successful programs in college basketball history and are currently one of the top schools that high school stars want to play for in the nation. Year after year, they reload talent and put one of the best products in all of college basketball on the floor. But, their fans have quite unreasonable expectations.
Literally every year, their fans believe that the Wildcats will win it all; starting all freshmen or not. That’s just not possible, regardless of what 2012 taught us. Wildcats fans don’t want to hear that. Not only are they obsessed with winning the national championship every year, they consider Kentucky to be by far the greatest program in college basketball history. UCLA has 11 national titles – three more than UK. Wildcats fans will point out that most of those came in a different era – even though the same can be said about the majority of Kentucky’s.
There is no room for debate in the mind’s of Kentucky fans and that type of closed-minded thinking is inherently flawed.
1. Notre Dame Football Fans:
Is there a more overrated team in all of sports? Over the last 20 years, the Fighting Irish are a woeful 3-10 in the most important games of them all — bowl games. Plus, they posted an 0-4 record in BCS bowl contests, including a 42-14 whooping at the hands of Alabama in the 2012 BCS title game. They haven’t won a national title since 1988.
Despite these blatant facts, Notre Dame fans still consider the Fighting Irish to be an elite program. Need more proof? Notre Dame has only two 10-win seasons since 1994. Northwestern also has two 10-win seasons since 1994. That’s all you need to know.
The fans of the Fighting Irish are as delusional as any in all of college sports. They view their team as an elite and respected program even though they have had relatively no real success for an entire generation. Obviously Notre Dame has an extensive history, one of the grandest in all of college football, but that history is buried deep in the past. But good luck getting any Fighting Irish fans to admit that.