Reply #18: Depends...

[Kalyke]

I live in Knoxville, TN, so the college football and basketball teams (including the women's team) are revered and followed closely - mainly because until very recently, there wasn't an in-state professional team. There is now a pro team in Nashville, but people still don't follow it as closely as they do the college team.

While I'm not a college student now, my activities fees allowed me to go to any game "free" (and, even with the $80 or so it was a semester - that's just $40 shy of what a football ticket cost in my day, so after two games, it was a savings) and I attended A LOT, so, yes, I cared about the sports programs then and now.