I rationally know that college sports fandom is pretty dumb. We root for the best athletes our school can attract (read: attract AND get admitted), regardless of their actual affiliation with the school (the state it’s in, the religion it represents, etc). We root for them because they’re wearing a jersey we care about. We typically don’t care much beyond that (Deep Blues notwithstanding).

I generally don’t care about this reality and love rooting for any BYU team or person in any sport. Sports I don’t typically care much about, if there’s someone in a BYU shirt I suddenly perk up and pay attention. Softball, frisbee, acapella competitions - so long as there’s some byu affiliation, I’m rooting hard.

But just now when I found out our country club brats lost to Wake Forest’s country club brats, I didn’t feel a thing. (And not just because the only way to follow the sport is apparently through 140 character messages delivered via X from Wake Forest’s athletics interns, though that doesn’t help things.) I guess my fanatic heart has a line and the competitive recreation that is golf and its byu contingent of wannabe consultants and bankers are on the wrong side of it.