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Originally Posted by meh
Thanks for following - are any of the teams local to where you live / have lived?
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I'm Arkansas born and bred, and except for the two-and-a-half-years that I went to the University of Texas at Austin, I've always lived in The Natural State (in Fort Smith, Little Rock, and Fayetteville).
My first pick for a favorite ConBA team was for somewhere local. We border Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi, so those were my first choices. All four of those states are fierce collegiate athletic rivals of Arkansas; Texas was our archenemy for 40 years, and is still hated; we now annually battle Louisiana State in our football season finale; in December, Mississippi "adopted" our football coach of the past 10 years; and Tennessee is a big modern-day rival. My first tendency was to choose Louisiana, but I think I'm going to favor Mobile for now, although I think the ConBA's appeal to me is an overall thing, and not due to any team.