Basketball - College Sports Dilemma Story of LA

College sports is all about rivalries. Aside from California-Stanford, the USC-UCLA rivalry is the biggest of the state. With UCLA in the Final Four, do the USC Trojan fans make a date with the devil and cheer for the Bruins?

When people think about storied college football teams, the Florida teams come to mind, so does Ohio State, Penn State, and Notre Dame. But USC has been the most dominant college football teams in recent years and played for the National Championship in 2006. They demolished the UCLA Bruins at the end of the college football season destroying all prayers that UCLA could play for the National Championship. As a Bruin alum, I cheered vehemently for the Trojans for the sake of the Pac-10 Conference.

Now it is the UCLA Bruins that are vying for the coveted College Basketball title and the Trojans are sitting at home watching. Whether they choose to cheer on their rivals or not is up to them but they should. Once you enter the playoffs in college sports, people start to judge conferences. People will say things like "The Pac-10 is 4-2 in bowl games this season" or "3 Pac-10 teams reached the Sweet-16". A victory by anybody in your conference simply put makes you look better.

You can be sitting down from the playoffs as a sorry 0.500 team but if your conference plays well in the postseason, at least the world will consider you to be better than the rest of the sorry 0.500 teams out there. A victory by your rivalry indirectly becomes your victory. With USC torturing UCLA during the second match this season, USC fans are advised to go out in force and cheer on their rivals so that their sorry excuse for a basketball team can get a little bit of respect.

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