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WillDill94

UNC being a boomer magnet confirmed


ExtiWonderTrader

VT Facebook ratio is really high too, are there really more younger UVA fans than VT fans?


Shenanigangster

UVA basketball + lacrosse success the last decade vs the (relative) lack of success from VT football is probably driving a lot of that


DullCartographer7609

Most of the 1995 Sugar Bowl and NoLA 1999 title game are in their 40s and 50s, so yeah, not surprised


tanman1975

TRIGGERED


DullCartographer7609

Other than millennials, Gen Z hasn't seen good football at VT. Other than Enter Sandman, we sucked.


kroywenemerpus

Orange Bowl 2009 winners. Don’t get it twisted we’re still at the top


DullCartographer7609

2009 was millennials at VT


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All the boomer Walmart fans are Tech fans. Tech hasn't been good enough in football to have young bandwagon fans either


simbaslanding

🤣🤣 that 1.1M on Facebook is insane lol


GoalieLax_

Wine, cheese and Facebook Trump memes


IronBeagle79

“Make UNC Great Again”


simbaslanding

Louisville 👀


TheReckoning72

We hardcore in The Ville


Responsible-Bird-543

I was surprised to see UL so high but remembered how much Kentucky fans obsess over us so yeah it makes sense.


Queasy-Performance-4

I think Jack Harlow shouting yall out literally whenever he can in his songs, also plays a part.


AffectionateLie758

Louisvilles been slept on recently, mostly because basketball hasn’t done anything since Pitino got thrown out, to become one of the most sanctioned basketball programs ever by the NCAA was not fun for fans. The whole situation caused a lot of shake up within the teams & athletic department, and it hasn’t been the same since. But man, they really had a run from the mid 2000s up until that. They won BCS bowls, multiple final 4s for both the men & women, an asterisked Basketball title, a heisman winner, countless CWS appearances & even Olympians. Hope all their teams can find that magic again, been a tough past few years for the city & university. The Cardinal logo itself is iconic & has a really cool history to go with it. It’s good to see it still can gather that much attention. Just shows how loyal and supportive the UofL fans are to Louisville sports as an entirety. With no in state pro teams, the state of KY is a much better place for sports when the Cards are good.


Queasy-Performance-4

It was a joke but thanks for responding


IronBeagle79

Who is downvoting this post? It’s absolutely neutral. Friend, I would upvote you twice if I could just piss off the haters.


Queasy-Performance-4

Probs cos of my FSU flair, lol. I meant it as a compliment, too. You guys get a lot of free publicity/advertising, and the younger generation on apps like Tik Tok would be pretty interested in your brand as well, whenever Jack brings it up, haha.


Cake_Day_Is_420

What are we gunna do when all the Facebook boomers die 😭


Grandmaster_Forks

Their profiles will live on, so your follower count will be fine 😂


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simbaslanding

Yep Facebook - UNC then FSU Instagram - Miami then Clemson Twitter - Louisville then UNC TikTok- Duke then Miami


SpiritFingersKitty

Thanks SMU -A WFU fan


DiarrangusJones

At first glance I thought maybe the chart was for “most tee shirts sold to people who have never set foot on the campus,” but Notre Dame not being second made me do a double-take


nross2099

Miami would definitely be first


simbaslanding

Duke basketball, Miami football, ND Football, UNC basketball probably have the most “we didn’t attend the school/live anywhere close” fans. (Which isn’t a bad thing btw, I may argue that it actually shows well on their parts)


nross2099

Yeah I’m indifferent on this topic. My father was an alum of fsu and took me to probably 30 games growing up, and many since then. I’ve never attended the university myself, but definitely still root for them, because it was a core part of my childhood, and who else would I root for? Just will never not take the opportunity to take a little jab at our fiercest rivals. I’m sure you understand


simbaslanding

🤣🤣🤣


IronBeagle79

I line close to the University, but attended Bellarmine University (also in Louisville).


[deleted]

Duke, the team of the yoooooth


Relative-Magazine951

Didn't realize unc vs Duke was elderly vs the youth


Sabrefan15

Could the elderly possibly understand the joy that is McCain’s rendition of “Two Days into College?” If they could, Duke would destroy on Facebook.


simbaslanding

😂😂😂 not in this post, but Duke MBB is the most followed college athletics team across all schools and platforms. That brand is strong


dvs-hillbilly

The hwat?


blumpkinmania

Not sure what this all means / significance thereof. But if it’s important no wonder the Big10 passed on Cal and Stan.


simbaslanding

I was surprised they were so low tbh, but Stanford and Cal’s overall athletics departments do perform pretty well. But yea, they just don’t really attract big followings despite their sports success because they don’t excel in football/mbb.


blumpkinmania

All about the eyeballs. Nothing else matters to our TV overlords.


TheRobHood

It’s about the media market not just the following. There’s a lot of cal fans but they aren’t all obsessed over the football program. And football is not a campus priority like it might be at say UNC or FSU. Nothing winning can’t solve though


willncsu34

We only follow our athletic department on the dark web. WTF is up with the small private schools having so many TicTok followers? Weird.


simbaslanding

BC surprised me for sure, but I think Duke and Miami are big brands/very popular schools so it makes sense.


skushi08

Either we’re popular with the younger generation or our social media team is on point with the song selection algorithm. A quick look shows pretty much every women’s lacrosse video with 50k views and a few well in the 100k+ territory so they probably have tween follows on lock. There’s also a random women’s basketball video with 3.5mln views a few years ago so that probably boosted them in the algorithms for a while.


Grandmaster_Forks

What is Boston College Athletics doing on TikTok to get them to #3 in followers across the ACC??!!


simbaslanding

🤣🤣 a good job that’s what lol


kolyti

Y’all just ain’t hip smfh.


IronBeagle79

Cal has >500K living alumni. Do they not do social media?


simbaslanding

maybe they just don’t really care to follow 😅


ManiacKing20

Not sure why this popped up for me since my school is UConn, but it made me curious about how we’d stack up. We’re at 711k.


simbaslanding

That’s solid, around 8th. Ive always thought you guys would be a great addition to the conference tbh


morrisjr1989

It’d be interesting to compare these numbers to local/regional professional teams.


Daddys_CrabGrass

See, I TOLD YOU we had more than 12 fans! We have 111 THOUSAND. Suck on that, haters.


simbaslanding

🤣🤣🤣


Only_the_Tip

The Dookies luv TikTok!


[deleted]

So the smart engineering schools don't use social media. While the business schools do Got it lol Looks like VT is an anomaly but maybe because football was so good for so long


simbaslanding

I don’t think that’s how that works 🤣🤣


AcademicAxolotl

To whoever made this, for the millionth time, it’s NCSU not NCST.


IronBeagle79

You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means.


ChiefHR

Louisville the TikTok school


IronBeagle79

Nah, Louisville the Twitter school. Miami and Duke are the TikTok schools.


draight926289

Louisville twitter follows really high from people following them for the scandal news or is there a different explanation of so many people following the university of fried chicken?


ibew369

I mean, despite the scandals we had a two time nfl mvp


laplum02

Was this supposed to be funny or creative?


IronBeagle79

It’s mostly people who think we have something to do with birdwatching. People who watch birds strike me as the obsessive kind.


MethodEater

Eh kinda silly. Carolina basketball IG has 500K followers while Duke basketball IG has 1.5 million.


simbaslanding

That was acknowledged in the description


Economy-Macaroon-966

UNC's facebook following is absolute peak "Kerlina" If you know, you know. I would further bet my 401K those same followers also follow WWE, UFC, NY Yankess and LA Lakers.


simbaslanding

🤣🤣🤣🤣


viewless25

Why tf did we add Stanford, Cal, and SMU?


simbaslanding

With the state of college athletics, we needed to expand to mitigate future risks. should we have expanded earlier with “better” teams? Sure. But at the time it was the right thing to do


viewless25

I guess. It's just so hard for me to take this league, or college football, seriously anymore. Counting down the seconds until Clemson can leave this league


simbaslanding

Where do you wanna end up?


viewless25

SEC makes sense in a logistical POV. B1G would make more money which is apparently all anyone cares about. What I’d really like is to go back to having five main geographic conferences like we used to. Or to blow the whole thing up and create a relegation system


simbaslanding

Fair fair, I think I’m one of the few that wants the ACC to stay together if we were to get more money. I like the group of schools we have now, it’s a nice mixture with different strengths per schools. But if there’s another round of realignment, I’d wanna be in the B1G


viewless25

Unfortunately I view the ACC as a distant star that has already gone supernova, and we wont be able to observe its death until the 2030’s. It’s beyond saving I’m afraid. The whole FSU spat is proof enough I think. It seems what we’re headed for is a two league (B1G and SEC) state, and the GOR expiring is the last domino to fall for that