<p>Our entire family lacks the rah-rah gene. We watch the Yankees and that is about it. And, actually, second son doesn’t even do that. Meanwhile, he is looking at a couple of Big 10 schools for engineering. </p>
<p>How will that be a fit I wonder?</p>
<p>I think he’s making a mistake. Younger S and I lack that gene. Younger S spent a summer in an engineering program at a Big Ten and was very turned off by that atmosphere.</p>
<p>Older S has the gene, and had a great time at a Big 10 university that he attended for a year before dropping out due in part to excessive partying over the sports celebrations.</p>
<p>I thought S lacked the rah-rah gene until he ended up at a PAC-10 university and started going to the football games. It was more of a social and bonding event.</p>
<p>yeah, i dunno – i got into williams and they’re real big on athletics (i heard), but they’re still DIII, right? so even if i don’t “rah rah” nonstop, i should be ok… i hope. b/c williams is probably the best for me otherwise. sorry i’m posting in the parents forum, but my family definitely lacks this gene.</p>
<p>what’s a rah rah gene?</p>
<p>My daughter not only lacks the rah-rah gene, I’m beginning to think she lacks even a rah gene. She’s pretty much made her college decision (but I haven’t sent the deposit yet, so it could change), and she is about as blase as I’ve ever seen her. I sat down with her last night and asked if she was sure this was her choice; her lack of excitement was making me think she was having second thoughts. She just gave me The Look and said, "Mom, this IS me showing excitement.</p>
<p>I guess I do enough bubbling for the both of us!</p>
<p>I have RAHRAH-recessive, which allowed me to attend a Big 10 university (2 actually) and attend the occasional football game but not get carried away with it all.</p>
<p>We have the rah-rah gene in abundance. Attending our first UT home game we were on our feet the entire game and singing all the songs at the top of our lungs (we live in CA). What we lack is the brainiac gene :p</p>
<p>My son at USC doesn’t have the gene. He made us leave the USC-Stanford game at halftime during Parents Weekend his first year. It’s the only game he has been to since he has been there.</p>
<p>I have been to a Wisconsin football game and three basketball games since I’ve come to UW, but I admit I only go when I get free tickets. I really like it when the bb crowd at Kohl Center sing “Varsity” at halftime. That’s really neat and spine tickling.</p>
<p>The lack of the rah-rah gene is coming into play in my daughter’s decision making process between Cal and UCSD. One of her favorite things about UCSD is that they DON’T have a football team. <em>sigh</em> I do NOT lack the rah-rah gene, and was quite upset when she was rejected by UCLA because I had already been planning on cheering them on in person and having a perfectly legitimate reason to do so!</p>
<p>We have such excessive rah rah genes that our favroite car game is trying to stump each other on college team nicknames.</p>
<p>um well- my husband watches football-
we used to have season baseball tix
my older daughter has never- even in high school attended a school that had a football team
my younger daughter has been on two soccer teams at once
but I am going to order baseball tix for next weekend right now- thanks for the reminder!</p>
<p>Weenie, We’re decidedly non-rah-rah and effectively sports-illiterate but both I and my son ended up at big sports colleges (UMich and Williams respectively). </p>
<p>At the Big 10 there is a wide range of activities to choose from so if you’re not particularly into sports you can still have a lot of social options and a critical mass of non-sports oriented friends. But even as a person who doesnt know a first down from her elbow the energy of Football Saturdays was kind of infectious.</p>
<p>cantwaittoleaveky, my son doesnt find the team sports at Williams particularly compelling though many of his friends are athletes. For sure, though, there is a culture of being active and involved in some kind of physical activity. There are, however, many other things to do on weekends, so dont worry, youll find your niche.</p>
<p>No rah-rah genes. The goal in life is to do things, not watch others do things.</p>
<p>Never had it, never will. I thought we were the only family in America who had no idea who played in league championships or playoffs.</p>
<p>We all get too bored being armchair participants, but then again, none of us like to play team sports either, so it may be beyond missng the rah rah gene, to our missing the sporty gene.</p>
<p>We are a mostly non-rah rah family. We don’t even like board games. We do enjoy half-time shows, though. But H & I still managed to attend a big University and survive. Both H and I even went to a game once.</p>
<p>S1 fittingly chose his school based on their rah rah activity - throwing toast on the football field. He had a latent recessive gene, though, and has since actually developed a love of spectator sports (and participatory Ultimate Frisbee) and can go on and on about his favorite teams, to our bemusement.</p>
<p>S2 cheers the Juilliard Penguins volleyball team. </p>
<p>Rah.</p>
<p>D picked school for its music/honors programs.Turned out to be a PAC10 rah rah place.While she didnt become rah rah she did enjoy an occasional game over the years(rah?) and wound up liking the mascot/identity type side effects of the rah rah atmosphere.Especially liked hearing the cannon go off from the stadium when a goal was scored.</p>
<p>My husband and I have the rah-rah gene recessive, but our daughter seems to lack it entirely. She has yet to go to one sporting event at her HS, while we go to two or three games a season. She is looking at a few sports-oriented places, and I’m hoping that if she goes to one, the gene emerges at least partly. It’s fun to go to games and cheer (although my main goal has typically been socializing as opposed to intently watching the game).</p>
<p>I had a lot of fun following daughter’s D3 teams this past football season. All I’ve got to say is that it’s a good thing she doesn’t have much of a rah rah gene, because she won’t have a lot to rah rah about.</p>
<p>We’re not a rah rah family at all…at least not for sports. The best we get is college basketball on TV…and sometimes the Super Bowl. DD is considering a college where 81,000 people attend their home football games. She has never even been to a football game…our HS doesn’t have football. Her comment “I could get into football, mom”.</p>