The subopic of the When&What did you graduate with thread with got me thinking. The idea that so many posters experienced Dickey's Bowls or JJ's Conference Tourney/Big Dance fun times is really interesting.
For me a combination of NO Bowl Win my freshman year, Buckles destroying people at safety, and general Jamario awesomeness, along with along with the sport I seem to remember called basketball...served their purpose to suck me into the fold for a decade plus.
I used to schedule my life around every home roundball and oblongball sports game, with vacations scheduled around said bowl or tournament games. I haven't sniffed a roundball game since 3/4 through Benny's first season and for the first time ever found my oblong season tickets going unused 3 of the 4 final games this season.
I feel dirty every single game I miss, but eventually you just quit letting things ruin your day/week when you legitametly don't feel it does the same for those in charge of all of it.
I wonder how many else of my peer group are still hanging in or how long you can expect those that didn't get to see the fun I experienced to stick it out?