What does rivalry mean to you? I'm a college student working with my professors to answer that question and others related to understanding fans' perspective of college football rivalries. Please take our survey (5-10 minutes) to tell us what rivalry means to Texas fans, and we'll come back to share the results once compiled. https://wcu.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0v7XhwfYyPlNW9T&mbsrc=mb0392 We collected rivalry data initially in 2013, and we're hoping for more data now and to track possible changes in rivalry over time. Thanks in advance for helping with our research!(To Mods: We apologize if this isn't acceptable use of the board. If you'd like it posted elsewhere, just please let us know and we'll remove it; however, our similar survey last time was popular for discussion in the team forums, and we hope your members will also enjoy it) Matt Hepner, Sports Business student at Northern Kentucky University Dr. Joe Cobbs, Northern Kentucky University Dr. David Tyler, Western Carolina University
This is fine. I think folks here might be interested to know how the survey data looks if you are able to report something back to us later. Warning: you may find a few instances of “ou sucks” in your dataset.
Rivalry can be started by different circumstances. History can cause it, such as Kansas vs. Missouri because of the Civil War. It can be because of location, such as nearby towns like Permian and Midland Lee. Adjoining states like Texas and Oklahoma. It can be because of the two biggest schools in a state, which both of course want to be the best like Texas and Aggy. That can end when one school decided to abandon that, for supposed greener pastures. School that are despised for being successful on and off the field can, be considered rival material for others because they basically envy them. Texas, Notre Dame, Alabama, and others come to mind. Arkansas also comes to mind in this category, they still hate Texas. Teams that are usually always good and fight it out for championships on a regular basis can make a rivalry. There are many reasons a rivalry can start or end, I'm sure the data that can be amassed on this subject is probably endless.
After reading and completing their survey, I have come to the conclusion that northern KY is so close to Columbus that the totally classless behavior of the overweight, polyester clad, band worshipping sweathawgs from across the Ohio River have infiltrated their campus. Would I take great pleasure if Owen Field sustained serious damage? Seriously? What cretin came up with this idea? That is the thinking of a seven year old, but I think virtually all Texas seven year olds have more class than that. Am I happy if their coach gets into trouble? I'm happy when some worthless piece of **** coach like Schnellenburger or Graham or Erickson or Osborne gets in trouble, but that has nothing to do with rivalry, because none of those worthless scumbags deserves to be a "rival" of anyone. Stoops has his own problems, and I always want to beat him, but I want to beat him on the surface of The Cotton Bowl, not because something bad has happened to him or Owen Field. Everyone should read this survey to confirm the differences between educrats and true fans with class and dignity, and the overwhelming cultural differences around this country. No rivalry is more heated than Alabama/Auburn, and no rivalry greater than Texas/Oklahoma, but these questions are beyond classlessly ignorant.
I had the exact same impression about some of the questions, but I thought maybe they are trying to get deep into the psychology of the "rivalry" thing, including the uglier, stupid aspects of fan behaviors.
Like I said in my opening paragraph, they are entirely too close to that cesspool in Ohio, and their head coach, who makes Art Briles more closely resemble the Pope. Ohio State, State Penn, UConn (worst of all), VT, and the neverwas wannabes that empty the crack houses, tattoo parlors, and trailer parks if the convicts ever happen to have another good season are more suited to those kinds of questions. Except for Ohio State, none of those has a single rival.