Do different teams like each other?

Teams have to compete for resources in athletic departments and because of this there is inevitably some competition between teams.

Athletic Departments and their cultures vary from school to school but I think many programs within an athletic department, especially within the same sport, have their fair share of below the surface jealousy, envy and sometimes dislike.

Sometimes I wonder if they root against each other. No program would admit to rooting against another program at their school, but below the surface I think it happens.

When you compete to use the same fields, meeting rooms and budget money, clashes will happen. When one team starts to do really well then the whole department will divert attention and resources to the team that's doing well. All of a sudden decisions might not cut your way.

"With their recent success we think they should get the first choice for practice time."

Another reason for issues could stem in a way from the fact that programs get similar resources for the same sport played by different sexes. When teams get the same resources, it's only natural to hope that their isn't a large gap in output (winning). A large difference in output with the same resources means there is something wrong with the process, or the people or both that take the resources and make them into outputs.

I doubt coaches realize it, but to some degree, while they root for their school and their athletes, I think they also are a little relieved when other teams aren't doing significantly better then they are.