<p>^ You also know that UNC is seriously going to have their asses handed to them by 50-60 points in both games this year. Common knowledge facts:</p>
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<li>at least 50% (probably much more) of UNC basketball fans didn’t/don’t even attend the school or know anything about it (as an academic institution) at all. See “drinking the Kool-Aid” and/or “jumping on the bandwagon.”</li>
<li>the only reason UNC sometimes has better “raw talent” on their team is that Roy Williams doesn’t recruit student-athletes. He recruits…athletes. That’s it. The vast majority of them skip to the NBA after 1 (MAYBE 2 years) because a college degree is worthless to them anyway. They also probably wouldn’t graduate. Well, I take that back. It is UNC ;)</li>
<li>UNC just lost the vast majority of the “talent” on its roster. They are currently an empty, inexperienced excuse for a basketball team.</li>
<li>Duke returns its best, most versatile player, Kyle Singler, along with several other veterans.</li>
<li>Duke also just officially became the new home of Andre Dawkins, arguably the best guard in the 2010 recruiting class, because he’s graduating a year early to play for us. He can stroke 3s all day and practically dunk from the free-throw line.</li>
<li>Duke will probably have one of the top 5 recruiting classes in both 2010 and 2011. Look up our verbal commitments.</li>
<li>Coach K won gold with USA, and was asked to coach again in 2012, for a reason. Roy Williams wishes he had an iota of the coaching prowess that Krzyzewski has.</li>
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<p>Q.E.D. </p>
<p>Just as a sidenote, my absolute FAVORITE insult that Tarholes hurl at Duke is that we’re a “white, rich, pretentious” school…My reaction every time: AHAHAHA ■■■■■. Compare the student bodies of UNC and Duke. Please, I dare you. Which student population receives more financial aid? Which is more homogeneous (read: white, preppy, Greek)?</p>
<p>P.S. Can you tell that Blue Devils have “school spirit?” ;)</p>
<p>Um…UNC has 6 national NCAA basketball championships. Dook has 3. UNC has swept Dook at Cameron Indoor (ie Hansbrough indoor) for 4 years in a row now. UNC>Dook, always has been, always will be. Sorry, Dook is second rate in the state of North Carolina. Stats don’t lie.</p>
<p>…What an utter lack of basketball knowledge. Other than the fact that most observers recognize that UNC would be a top 5 team next year, whereas Duke might not even be in top 10… let me break this down sentence by sentence.</p>
<p>How many people do you think know Duke mainly because of their basketball team? A lot. Many more than UNC.</p>
<p>The vast majority of our basketball players stay at least 3 years.</p>
<p>We lost the “vast majority” of our talent… but still playing is Ed Davis, who is probably better than the 4 who went to the NBA this past year. We’ll see how empty your team is without Gerald Henderson.</p>
<p>Kyle Singler was not the best player at Duke. Jon Scheyer is a pathetic excuse for a basketball player.</p>
<p>Andre Dawkins is not the best guard in the Class of 2010. UNC already recruited a better one (according to rivals.com, not me), Reggie Bullock.</p>
<p>Duke will have a great recruiting class… just not as great as UNC.</p>
<p>Is Coach K’s great coaching prowess the reason why Duke lost at its home court… and gave up 100 points to Roy Williams’s team?</p>
<p>The University of Chicago has a glorious athletic tradition and indefatigable school spirit.</p>
<p>Once a Big Ten school with the winningest coach in collegiate history and the first-ever Hesissman Trophy winner, Chicago abolished varsity football in the 1940s. It was revived as a varsity sport in the 1970s. In 1974 the team lost every game, eliciting an offer from People magazine to fly them to the Rose Bowl to play CalTech (whose players claimed their average IQ exceeded their average weight.)</p>
<p>Jeff Rasley captured the spirit of those times in an article for the October 2006 issue of the alumni magazine:
<p>^ im with you. unfortunately my school doesnt have ncaa hockey, and its my favorite sport as im a new york islanders diehard fan and season ticket holder. I have to say that as far as NCAA hockey goes, i like the BU Terriers</p>
<p>Wow. Let me put this bluntly. You are clueless about basketball.</p>
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<li> You can’t prove what you just said about bandwagon fans, unless you have data to back it up. Anything?</li>
<li> From the recruting classes of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, only ONE player has played less than three years then jumped to the NBA (Brendan Wright). All the players that left this year’s team for the NBA (Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington, Tyler Hansbrough, and Danny Green) were juniors and seniors. Both Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington have already stated their intentions to return during summer sessions to complete their degrees. Hell, Marvin Williams (jumped to the NBA after we won the 2005 national championship his freshman season) is still taking summer session classes to complete his degree.</li>
<li>We lost a lot of talent from our roster this year, sure. However, I believe that the single most talented player on last year’s team will be returning (Ed Davis, who is currently projected to be a top 3 pick in next year’s draft). We also have the #2 recruiting class coming in this year.</li>
<li>Andre Dawkins is an excellent player, but he’s NOT the best guard in the 2010 recruiting class. And he’s not exactly what you guys need. In order to be competing for final fours and national championships again, you guys will need a true point guard. Someone that plays point, and ONLY plays the point.</li>
<li>Let the recruiting fall as it may. Right now, UNC and Dook’s recruiting looks about even for 2010. Dook has 3 commitments from one top 25 recruit and 2 ranked lower; UNC has 2 commitments from top 25 recruits. For 2011, UNC has already locked up one top 15 recruit…I’ve gone through the top 150 on ESPN and have yet to find anybody that has committed to Dook for 2011.</li>
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<p>Kansas State, which refers to the University of Kansas as “that other school down the road,” and the University of Kansas, which refers to Kansas State as “that other school down the road.” LOL.</p>
<p>I have absolutely no stake in the Duke vs. UNC rivalry. But neither bball teams recruit “student athletes,” many of whom have sub-900 SAT scores. The avg. SAT scores of both teams fall below 1000. So the Duke students and alums should know better than to play the “academics” card, especially since the academic qualifications of the Duke and UNC bball players are virtually identical.</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting article for fans of both teams: </p>
<p>Interesting article, but I have to disagree with the columnist. Schools like Duke and UNC are so popular because of their athletic programs, not in spite of them. Most people applying to UNC and Duke expect to have a well-rounded college experience which combines an excellent academic track record with exciting and nationally-relevant athletic programs. And most people apply knowing that athletes are held to different standards in order to meet this expectation. If someone was truly troubled by the this fact, there are plenty of other excellent schools out there with DII and DIII sports programs where athletes aren’t treated so differently that they could have applied to.</p>
<p>SEC schools… espcially LSU, Florida, Georgia, Auburn, and Alabama. College football in the South East is HUGE. </p>
<p>But with that said, almost every major state flagship is going to have a lot of school spirit.
ACC: Duke, Wake Forest, Florida State, UNC, etc.
Big Ten: All of them.
PAC 10: USC, UCLA, Arizona.
Big 12: Oklahoma, Nebraksa, Kansas, Colorado.</p>
<p>“I have absolutely no stake in the Duke vs. UNC rivalry. But neither bball teams recruit “student athletes,” many of whom have sub-900 SAT scores. The avg. SAT scores of both teams fall below 1000. So the Duke students and alums should know better than to play the “academics” card, especially since the academic qualifications of the Duke and UNC bball players are virtually identical.”</p>
<p>a) Out of the schools in the ACC, Duke men’s basketball team had the most student-athletes on the ACC Honor Roll (7). Duke also won the ACC title this year. Therefore, Duke is the ACC Champion on the court AND in the classroom! SWEEEEEET!!!</p>
<p>b) Duke University led the ACC with most student-athletes (418) on the ACC Honor Roll. This is the 21st time in the past 22 years that Duke has earned this honor. These student-athletes must be pretty smart and qualified if they can earn a 3.0 gpa at a school that’s ranked among the top 10 universities in the country and among the top 15 in the world. Meanwhile, UNC only had 276 student-athletes who could muster a 3.0 gpa at a school that’s not ranked among neither the top 25 universities in the country nor the top 100 universities in the world…</p>
<p>c) Duke is ranked among the top 10 universities in the country and top 15 in the world. UNC is not ranked among neither the top 25 universities in the country nor the top 100 universities in the world. How do you figure the academic qualifications for the two schools are “virtually identical”?! If the student-athletes at UNC are as “smart” as the student-athletes at Duke, why aren’t they able to place more on the ACC Academic Honor Roll?! I don’t know when (if ever) was the last time UNC has led the ACC in selections, but I know it hasn’t been in the past 22 years!</p>
<p>You obviously have a “stake” in the Duke-UNC rivalry. I’m guessing it’s pure jealousy and bitterness, because Duke, probably your dream school, rejected you. Don’t feel bad; it happens to thousands of kids every year!</p>
<p>Duke is a great school for academics and basketball. Academically Duke is likely #1 in the ACC. Duke’s football program needs some work, however. ;)</p>