When it hurts, you know it’s real
I’ll tell you a secret. Even as the voice of MACtion in SBNation, I wasn’t always a fan. Unlike some on this site, it wasn’t my birthright. I didn’t grow up with little Ball State jerseys in my bassinette or listening to my father angrily rant about the no good dirty Toledo Rockets. No, that was an honor reserved for Louisville, as our house was a house loyal to the Big Blue Nation of Kentucky.
When I was little, I was regaled with stories of Hagan and Beard, Rupp and Issel, and why the basketball moon was hung in Lexington.