<p>I probably should have said ‘feeling overshadowed’ since I don’t think NC St is a bad school at all. I know several very smart/very nice people who got a wonderful education there, but invariably the conversation with the majority of the Alums will end up with them badmouthing every other university program – how much more money the school gets, how nobody respects NCSt, how arrogant every UNC grad is, how over-rated UNC/Duke is, how every referee call in XXX sport goes against the Wolfpack b/c …</p>
<p>And I come from the perspective of growing up and participating in the Alabama/Auburn battles, but most of the worst/hateful badmouthing I heard far more often came from people who never attended either University. Most of the students and alumni seem to have fun with it rather than malice and I actually have more friends now who attended the other school.</p>