With out-of-state students making up roughly one-third of all incoming freshmen at ASU each year, I’m sure a lot of students still root for the college football team they first pledged allegiance to.
Which is fine, to a certain extent.
It’s funny how students still elect to wear other colleges’ shirts while walking around campus. It’s common to see kids once in a while donning Notre Dame, USC, Oregon and so on.
There are understandable reasons why these different schools are still represented. Maybe parents linked sports faith to their alma maters. Maybe those students couldn’t get into that university. Or maybe ASU was simply a better fit.
It’s human nature for someone to be more prideful for things that represent their background. Also, consider that lot of students didn’t even know theywere going to be Sun Devils until their senior year of high school.
For example, being from Hawaii, I still follow the Warriors (the closest thing Hawaiians will get to an NFL team) as much as I did in my childhood.
But at the end of the day, students here still belong to ASU. No matter whom the rising football team is playing, they should be on the Sun Devils’ side.
Like it or not, attending ASU makes you a Sun Devil.
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