I left my old company 18 months ago. While at the previous company, I had a guy who was a Purdue grad. Each time IU and PU would play, he’d reach out. And most of the time, PU had beat our ass again. MY usual response would be “hang the banner. Congrats, you won your nat’l championship”. And that was about it. We never hung out nor even worked in the same departments, but paths would cross every once in awhile due to large cross functional team meetings. And this, stayed connected in that way.
About a month ago or 17 months after leaving the company and my association with him, he finds me on LinkedIn to take a jab following the IU loss to Nebraska. We are not even connected, he sent me an invite to connect and attached a note to it about “Not believing IU cannot recruit shooters”. The obsession with IU is real. I do believe it’s an inferiority complex. Whatever it is, it falls into the weird / borderline creepy category. They have issues.