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There are a handful of teams I don't mind seeing lose, Notre Dame, Florida, Eastern Michigan, but I don't care that much about it.  Tech is too pitiful to be loathed, we beat them like a champ last time, albeit in 8 OTs.  Auburn is meh.  Tennessee the same.  They can all lose/win whatever.

Eastern Michigan is almost as dislikable as Wofford!

Ah, yeah. I had forgotten that he attended EMU.

Maybe he forgot it too in his love for M Go Blue.

R.I.P., Gatorama.

He attended my son's service at Arlington, which was a thing of course.  There also were about 15 students from his HS there who realized on arrival they were dressed too casually, I told them not to worry about it, they were fine.  There also was an Ohio Senator (now governor) and Congressman present.  My kid asked them if they knew each other.  They chuckled.  And there was a notable press contingent about 50 yards away, I appreciated that they were kept distant though I could hear camera shutters clicking, it wasn't an issue.  The ceremony was brief, maybe 15 minutes, which was fine.  I understand for officers they do the horse drawn caissons, if that is the proper term.

One of my CACOs had never been in DC before and wanted to get a quick tour, so the night before I drove him around some.  He was a staff sergeant at the time, called me a few years later saying he was a WO 5, which struck me as pretty impressive.  He was from Utah and was estranged from his grandfather, and apparently some words I had convinced him to go see his grandfather again.  Memories, not all terrible.

So here's signing day in February, and LSU didn't bring in a single player, and wasn't expected to.

What a weird world.

I never did prior to joining this board back in '06.  One of the Buckeyes would talk to me about high school kids Ohio State and LSU were vying for and I had no clue what she was talking about.  So I started paying attention to it and then it was fun.  For a while anyway.

I'd still follow recruiting, except for that it's pointless as regards my mode of fandom.  I liked knowing the players who would be at LSU for the next 3-5 years.  I liked knowing that they either chose to represent their state, or had good recruiting visits and we had good recruiting pitches.  That's what made it "LSU football" to me when it came time for them to take the field. 

Now the amount of roster turnover from year to year is dizzying, and I'm not spending that much time on kids who will come play and transfer out in a year.  And who even knows if they really wanted to be there, or we just gave them a better financial deal than other schools. 

It's not interesting, and I don't care about recruiting battles anymore, because win or lose, kids who don't sign with us could wind up here anyway, and kids we do sign could (and do) leave. 

I used to never like the NFL.  Now I'm forced to watch it, and I have to say, there is something a bit more honest about the game there.  I didn't like it mainly because it was paid professionals who had no real team loyalty in the end.  Now that the same thing is true in college, I find the NFL a bit refreshing, because at least its honest about what it is.  Once I settled into that, I found watching the NFL isn't so bad.  Just a shame I don't really have a team I root for, and I don't think I can manufacture the kind of fandom I used to have with LSU sports.  Somehow the Saints were completely lost on me growing up....and that's probably to the betterment of my mental health.  

But overall, yeah, totally agree with you.  My interest in college football is waning for the reasons you've cited, and others.

But I still can't say I care more for the pro game.  I just care less about all of it, in general.

That's why I'm hopeful Sarkisian can deliver one more NC to Texas, before I just completely check out.