Re: Alumni >> Students >>>>>>> random fans

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Nov 20, 2014, 8:53 PM

I'm a 40 year old 3rd generation alum on my mom's side and 2nd on the my dad's with multiple others and even a few Clemson professors in my close family on both sides... I don't personally see anything wrong with folks without a Clemson education being Tiger sports fans but it is definitely not the same as being and alum. One cares about sports first and the other about the school and the significance of their education. I have often heard the older alums in my family point out that there's an vocal element to the football fan base that doesn't represent the university well and that they sometimes wish we didn't have to share the same logo with those folks. I've even been told that the worst thing that ever happened to Clemson University was winning a national championship in football. The logic being that before that the brand was about the education and alum and up until then you could just go to the games and enjoy supporting the school without having to worry about the expectations and complaints of the football fans who didn't care about the image or significance of a Clemson degree... As a broad generalization, I am convinced that there's a certain standard of behavior expected by the more mature alum where Clemson is concerned. While this kind of behavior is not necessarily exclusive to an alum, one would hope that demonstrating anything else would be a clear tell that someone probably is not.

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I think you might have avoided being so offensive had you used the term 'bandwagon,' instead of random.

I think years of service to Clemson may constitute some sort of a pecking order but past that no one has a frame of reference to understand another's perspective. It's like me proclaiming that 'I love sex more than you.' IMO, the alum fan who has been a fan 7 years may not indeed be a greater fan than perhaps my 26 yr old son who was born my Jr year at Clemson. He's also a Sr at Clemson this year.

I'm not sure that length of 'service,' for a Clemson fan make one more a fan than another but it surely shows experience which seem to matter in every other walk in life.

I think you should pay crump the donor's fee and revise your post. Take random out of that context. Tnet has some bandwagoners and probably some random fans too. What you've done is insult the faithful Clemson fans by eliminating them from grads and students which places them with the bandwagoners. Brother, that's not right. These non alums are just as passionate about Clemson Sports day in and day out, year in and year out and decade in and decade out as any student on campus and possibly as much as alums. I can't say, you can't say and they can't say either. We're all just guessing after three or four decades.

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Dan

Alumni >> Students >>>>>>> random fans