In Reply to: Dump UCLA? Then why would I care about that team? posted by blindness on January 30, 2025 at 00:09:24
Allegiance to Ucla is likely not happening. What you likely have are fond memories of yourself and those around you at that time in your life, which, more broadly, you look back on fondly also. Your allegiance isn't strictly to Ucla, it's to yourself and those you enjoy, it just happened to take place at Ucla. The school is a passive backdrop. The same feeling would arise if you'd attended somewhere else. Ucla, per se, had little to do with your experience.
But, as to your question, you shouldn't continue to frame yourself as a Bruin football fan if the state run bureaucracy is more preeminent in your mind than the team itself. Those who cleave to the state bureaucracy do so because it helps them feel better about themselves, more powerful, smarter, better than others, elite. Those who prefer the football team just like watching the team and enjoy the action on the field and surrounding the players and coaches. These are two different people.
Bruins yes, Ucla no. The school's incompetence has forced the issue and we will need to choose one or the other. I choose the Bruins, you choose Ucla. So long.