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I've seen a couple people state that they never went to BYU and are not LDS, but are Cougar fans.

Rare, right? Not sure why it seems so strange to me ... but seems very odd.
 
PKM said:
I've seen a couple people state that they never went to BYU and are not LDS, but are Cougar fans.

Rare, right? Not sure why it seems so strange to me ... but seems very odd.
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That's not necessarily rare for somebody growing up in Utah. It's easy enough to root for a school that's local, even if you aren't a part of the associated religion.
 
PKM said:
I've seen a couple people state that they never went to BYU and are not LDS, but are Cougar fans.

Rare, right? Not sure why it seems so strange to me ... but seems very odd.
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Why? I'm sure there are people in South Bend and even the greater Chicago area that are not Catholic but love Notre Dame.
 
Scat said:
Why? I'm sure there are people in South Bend and even the greater Chicago area that are not Catholic but love Notre Dame.
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Well, I said I'm not sure .. so, like, I'm not sure.

I guess it may be that in my 7 years of living in Utah, I see a pretty distinct line drawn between being LDS/BYU and not .. much more so than Notre Dame in the midwest.
 
Honestly, the real answer is that BYU fans get overly excited whenever a non-LDS player shows interest in BYU or when a fan shows up on their message board that's non-LDS. Ex-Mormons are more likely to be BYU fans than non-Mormons. If it were more common, there would be next to no excitement derived from attention coming from "outsiders". It's rare. Not Bigfoot rare, but rare according to the standard of rare that you were looking for probably.
 
PKM said:
I've seen a couple people state that they never went to BYU and are not LDS, but are Cougar fans.

Rare, right? Not sure why it seems so strange to me ... but seems very odd.
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I am not LDS, never went to BYU and live in Provo. BYU is not my favorite team (Oregon holds my heart) but I do generally watch their games and would cheer for them in most settings. I don't know why but I liked them as a kid and I am not one to jump ship on a team for any reason. That being said I dislike BYU as a school and a lot of what goes on there. But I some how separate sports from the school.

I dont like how I feel about this but it is what it is.
 
Broncster said:
I am not LDS, never went to BYU and live in Provo. BYU is not my favorite team (Oregon holds my heart) but I do generally watch their games and would cheer for them in most settings. I don't know why but I liked them as a kid and I am not one to jump ship on a team for any reason. That being said I dislike BYU as a school and a lot of what goes on there. But I some how separate sports from the school.I dont like how I feel about this but it is what it is.
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A lot of people are able to do that. Sports are more fun when you don't overcomplicate them by thinking about the school and the religion or in some cases what d bags some of the guys are off the court that we root for during competition.
 
PKM said:
I've seen a couple people state that they never went to BYU and are not LDS, but are Cougar fans.

Rare, right? Not sure why it seems so strange to me ... but seems very odd.
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Don't laugh, it's could happen to you. You're far too classy to become a U of U fan, so if you lived farther north you might very well start following the Cougars too. Not that they would replace Kentucky for you, of course, but as your second favorite team. :-)
 
colton said:
Don't laugh, it's could happen to you. You're far too classy to become a U of U fan, so if you lived farther north you might very well start following the Cougars too. Not that they would replace Kentucky for you, of course, but as your second favorite team. :-)
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I'm already in enough pain and agony having been sucked into Jazz fandom .. no more room in my aching heart.
 
colton said:
Don't laugh, it's could happen to you. You're far too classy to become a U of U fan, so if you lived farther north you might very well start following the Cougars too. Not that they would replace Kentucky for you, of course, but as your second favorite team. :-)
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Starting to follow byu now would be like getting really into a tv show right before you know its going to get cancelled.
 
PKM said:
I've seen a couple people state that they never went to BYU and are not LDS, but are Cougar fans.

Rare, right? Not sure why it seems so strange to me ... but seems very odd.
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Is it equally strange for people who never went to Notre Dame and are not Catholic to also be Fighting Irish fans?

I just find it strange that anyone would be a Cougar fan.
 
BYU - second tier athletes, second tier schedule, they start every year with two good BCS teams and one patsy...and their record is always 1-2...they then rip of 8-9 wins against WAC/MWC level teams for a 9-10 win season. In years a big boy or two has a slip up or when USC is on probation, they finish in the top 25...except for their quest for perfection year....in which they ended the regular season getting curb stomped by a Utah team that actually achieved perfection.

My question is: Why? If you are a fan in Utah, with no allegiances, then Utah is the obvious choice if you want to stay in state. If you don't care about staying in state and have no ties anywhere else and want to go bandwagoning, I would go with Ohio State Urban's or the USC Ponies. If you want a dark horse, UCLA is a sleeping giant (better acadmeics, better facilities, better location than USC. If they can figure their stuff out, they could be amazing).
 
Slightly veering from topic here, but I used to have a neighbor that held 2 degrees (BS and MBA, I believe...) from the University of Utah, and works at the U, yet he was one of the most hardcore BYU fans I've ever known. I always found that strange.

I've run across a couple of non-mormon BYU (football) fans, and I've always wondered why...

Edit: The BYU guy with all the U history is mormon, of course.
 
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