Must be nice to be able to choose. I never chose to be a Vol fan, it just happened. You know....at birth!Not a Vol, but I can answer - I always say if I hadn't chosen Georgia that I'd have chosen Alabama. I have four uncles who graduated from UA, so there was always talk of the Tide corrupting my ears. Plus, I graduated from UGA. I figure if I could gain admittance to UGA then getting in to Bama would have been a cinch.
Moved to the Atlanta area in 1995, have rooted for Ga Tech at times and yes it is often a painful experience. Though they have had some crazy upsets of UGA. My son played middle school lacrosse with a kid who went to Mercer on a lacrosse scholarship solely based on his faceoff skills.I have season tickets for football, basketball and baseball at Mercer University in the SoCon and it's actually very entertaining. Not sure I could just pick another P5 team; definitely not another SEC team. Ga Tech I guess, but man, that looks like a painful fan experience lol.