Help me settle a friendly debate...UT Football

[Lmartin5]

One of my dearest friends and I are discussing University of Texas football.

His claim is that for every 1 million UT football fans, 999,000 did not attend the university, and that 990,000 does not have an immediate family member that attended the university.

I call BS...but Hunt Talk could help me win a friendly wager.

What say you???

 

[noharleyyet]

Interesting…sounds like a lot though.

 

[rmyoung1]

There’s somewhere around 500,000 - 600,000 living alumni and over 40,000 current undergrads. Most alumni/students are fans. Very loyal, multi-generational fan base with a lot of families/friends that go to games together.

Even if you said that 35 million Americans (1 in 10!) are Longhorn fans, by your friend’s math that would mean the school only had 35,000 living alumni. I believe your friend is suffering from TDS (Texas Derangement Syndrome).

 

[noharleyyet]

[QUOTE="rmyoung1, post: I believe your friend is suffering from TDS (Texas Derangement Syndrome).
[/QUOTE]

*Sophie Cunningham pointing meme ; )

 

[rmyoung1]

And I’m not even a fan. My kid’s goin’ to Baylor!

 

[SFC B]

Imma just leave THIS here.......IU, J.D. '97 https://news.iu.edu/live/news/47628-indiana-university-now-ranks-no-1-for-nations-largest-

 

[Forkyfinder]

Just mothers day shoppers i think.

 

[jimh406]

You are both wrong. UT is University of Tennessee, officially.

Any way, I think most fans didn’t graduate from the school they cheer for. I know my Aunt and Uncle had season tickets to UT. Neither even attended Tennessee. It’s hard to say how many didn’t attend. I’m almost the only UT fan I know that graduated from Tennessee.

 

[redhaze]

Well I will put my chip in here, I root for the Longhorns most of the time except when the play the University of Texas at Norman. The winds blow along the Red River every year in October here in north Texas.