calumnus said:Rushinbear said:calumnus said:PAC-10-BEAR said:calumnus said:
So now that SMU is our last game of the season every year, and we just spoiled their ACC Championship hopes, does it turn into a bit of a rivalry game? A grudge match?
But we don't hate them, maybe they hate us?
But they are worse than USC or Stanford, they are spoiled rich kids, children of Dallas oil executives. USC has become a decent academic school, but they are still just an elitist private school that relies on their "alumni network" to pass on wealth to the next generation. And they cheated so bad in football they once got the death penalty, George W. Bush of fake WMD and the Iraq War was their patron for getting into the ACC, Plus they hired Dykes as a consultant within a month of our firing him and made him head coach later that same year. The material is there.
Sure, they haven't spoiled a season for us yet, but once we are good enough to have a season to be spoiled it will be inevitable,
Maybe the fan bases just don't interact enough? Or do we still see them as scrappy upstarts from G5? Hard to hate a scrappy upstart like you hate the Empire.
Why the attitude? Have they done anything to us, as SC has, or is it the private school manner that you attribute to them? How much do you know about them? Oil man bad? Really? Yeah, they got the death penalty for Dickerson decades ago and they took their medicine. Dykes? What does he have to do with it? Sounds like you just resent the rich.
No attitude, I guess I wasn't clear. We now play SMU as our last game of the season every year. That is traditionally a rivalry game, However, we don't have a rivalry with SMU. We have no feelings for them, positive or negative. I was wondering if our upset win spoiling their season might start one. Then giving some reasons we might start to make them our new USC, who used to be a traditional rival of Cal but plays in a different conference than us.
Here is a secret: rivalry hate is made up hate. Stanford, UCLA, USC are actually good schools with a lot of good people and I have a lot of friends and family that went to all three. However, for the fun of football fandom we believe stereotypes about "them." My post was tongue in cheek. How might we start thinking of SMU as a rival since they are now our rivalry game?
In the Pac-12 we had started a miniature tradition of playing UCLA in the post-Thanksgiving game every year (a secondary rivalry game for both teams). If we keep playing SMU every year for a while a small rivalry may develop.