That's interesting. In my experience women are notorious for this -- becoming HUGE fans of a team, in the sense that they get emotionally wrapped up in its fortunes, without actually knowing much about the team. Sometimes I wonder if some people like this, men and women, really care about the team at all or if they just like the idea of having a team to care about.
And I suppose there's nothing wrong with it either way. That we follow recruiting and she doesn't ... does it mean that we are "bigger" fans than that woman? I don't think it means that we like ND football more, get more excited when ND wins or more upset when it loses. It just means that we find a different aspect of ND football interesting ... we are interested in the process in addition to the on-field final product.
Or, on the other hand, maybe it means that we ARE bigger fans, in the sense that we hunger for something to do with ND football even in the off-season, whereas she is able to put it out of her mind when the games aren't actually happening.
I wonder about this sometimes because I find some people seem kind of offended by my recruiting knowledge, as if they they are insulted by some tacit implication that I'm a bigger fan than they are. That always annoys me. Sometimes I wanna say to these people, I'm not judging you. You follow ND in your way and I'll do it in mine. It's all good.
