There’s some merit to this. Growing up in Austin in the 90’s, the entire town followed Texas football. It was even more amplified when Ricky Williams had his Heisman season, and then throughout the 2000’s during the Mack Brown era. It seemed like a true college town. Today, the football program is prominent, but lacks the overwhelming support and craze of its city. To me it’s similar to what USC has become for Los Angeles - something interesting to follow when they’re good, but if they suck, you pretend you’re not into football and just like hiking, biking, and paddle boarding. Neither fit the bill of a SEC football/college town.

Sadly, money has become the great equalizer for those programs

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Posted by Lago Gato

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Posted on 8/4/23 at 8:28 pm to OrangeWhip

I like to tell the horn fans . UT fans are like Barry Manilow and LSU fans are like Led Zeppelin.

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Posted by Draconian Sanctions

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Posted on 8/4/23 at 11:04 pm to OrangeWhip

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It was even more amplified when Ricky Williams had his Heisman season, and then throughout the 2000’s during the Mack Brown era. It seemed like a true college town. Today, the football program is prominent, but lacks the overwhelming support and craze of its city.

I lived in Austin from 2012-14, you could have taken UT sports completely out of the city and you’d never know it. It’s a thing that’s there that you drive past on I-35. It’s not part of the larger Austin culture at all. A lot of people go to a game a year because it’s the only big sports thing in town. Even that is changing with Austin FC, I went to a game there when I left during Ida and it was packed.

It is nowhere near the beating heart of the community it is in most other SEC cities

This post was edited on 8/4/23 at 11:12 pm

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