This was the highlight of my freshman year. My roommate gets tickets to every home game and invites me to them all but this was the only one that i HAD to go to. Clemson was my second choice school and I had always dreamed of going to a Clemson Carolina game (I didn't really care who won). Clemson was playing fairly well at the start of the game either staying ahead or keeping up with Carolina. When Carolina stayed on top and shot ahead in points I was ecstatic. Clemson has a very decent basketball team, but obviously we are better. Another thing that stood out to me at the game were the advertisements on the billboards (I know, so random). The advertisements really reached out to the student body along with the fans advertising food around campus, concession stand food, and awesome prizes that any fan could win.
This game made me realize that I belonged to the right school. As a university we are so united and have such outstanding traditions at games that I wouldn't trade those things for any other school in the country. I knew I was a Carolina girl not a "tiger" when we won that game. I always struggled with where I wanted to go to school out of the two but for some reason at that game I had just figured out that I was getting the better education and saving my parents money. It's pretty ironic that it took a basketball game for me to realize that. Also, if I didn't enjoy basketball at least I could try and win some prizes. With my luck, I might want to stick with enjoying basketball.
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I went through the same struggle. Basically my whole family went to Clemson and I've always been a Clemson fan. But just like you were with this basketball game, I knew I was a tarheel after the carolina duke game.
ReplyDeleteI was definitely pumped after the clemson game though. My brother is a senior there and I was kind of talking trash to him a week in advance plus all through the game, so I was really needing a win. At least one closer than the game at clemson last year haha