<p>Maybe not as well-rounded, from an academic standpoint, but certainly more influential.</p>
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<p>Let’s not forget Kansas.</p>
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<p>Well, the thing is, UNC has a lot of depth, therefore they don’t have to play their starters as much, which becomes detrimental to their players chances of becoming All-Americans because their stats won’t be as high as others who play more minutes. A more relevant comparison would be the number of hall-famers or perennail all-stars.</p>
<p>In 2005, Tyler Hansbrough, Danny Green, and Greg Paulus were recruited. 2 of them ended up in the NBA, while 1 is now playing football for the worst team in the Big East (the worst power conference).</p>
<p>Ancient history? Since when does 1985 qualify as “ancient”? Lets talk about recent history then-didn’t Duke get dominated at home for four years in a row by us this year? Who won the most recent national championship? Haven’t we won two since Dook one its last one?</p>
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<p>Typical Dookie attitude. Dook wasn’t good before 1985, so automatically anything before then must not matter. So conceited, so desperate, and so hilarious. If Dook is so good, why do they trail UNC by about 30 games in the head-to-head?</p>
<p>National Championships. UNC 6, Dook 3
All-time wins: UNC destroys Dook
Head to head: UNC destroys Dook</p>
<p>You can deny reality all you want, but facts don’t lie. UNC is the better program, and is the best all-time program in the country, along with Kentucky and UCLA.</p>
<p>How do you figure Duke doesn’t have an excellent athletic pogram?! In the 2000s, Duke has won 43 ACC titles! This past season alone: </p>
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<li>The men’s basketball, women’s basketball, women’s tennis, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, women’s golf, and women’s field hockey teams were all ranked in the top 10. </li>
<li>The men’s basketball, men’s lacrosse, women’s tennis, and volleyball teams won their respective ACC titles.<br></li>
<li>The women’s tennis team won the National Championship.<br></li>
<li>Fencing and women’s tennis each had an individual National Champion.</li>
<li>The men’s lacrosse team won its third consecutive ACC title, en route to their third consecutive Final Four.</li>
<li> Most importantly, Duke placed the most student-athletes on the ACC Honor Roll for the 21st time out of the last 22 years! </li>
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<p>Of course the athletic program could be better (who doesn’t want their athletic program to be even better??!!!), but overall, I’m very pleased with the athletic program.</p>
<p>As far as Greg Paulus, how many players in the country can say that they achieved the following:
a) National HS POY in football & HS All-American in football
b) Starter in the two major BCS sports (basketball & football) at two different BCS schools
c) Two-time Academic All-American at a university that’s ranked among the top 10 in the country
d) Post 1,000+ points, 450+ assists, 275+ rebounds, and 150+ steals at one of the top basketball programs in the country</p>
<p>Only one…and that’s GREG PAULUS! I’m glad he came to Duke, and he was a great representative of Duke University! </p>
<p>^Amen. I ran into him in the Bryan Center earlier this summer and he is one of the nicest and most humble student athletes I have ever met. He has not let all of that fame go to his head!:)</p>
<p>Duke has a decent athletic program-good basketball, good olympic sports, but your terrible football team brings your athletic reputation down a lot. </p>
<p>As for Paulus, I actually feel sorry for the guy. He played his heart out for Duke (and got absolutely destroyed by Danny Green in the process), and was rewarded with the bench for his senior year and not even a chance to join Duke’s football program.</p>
<p>ring<em>of</em>fire, I agree! Met him once at a women’s basketball game, and he was extremely polite. Another time I saw him at a Duke volleyball game, and a kid came up to him to take a picture. Greg was sitting with his some of his friends (regular students) and some of his teammates, who were walk-ons. Of course the kid didn’t recognize the walk-ons, but Greg introduced them to the kid and asked if they could be in the picture as well. The kid was more than happy to include them. </p>
<p>To me, that really showed the character, leadership, and what type of team player Greg Paulus is. Most athletes would have been selfish and posed for the pic; however, Greg took the time to introduce his lesser-known teammates and ask if they could be in the pic as well. </p>
<p>People are jealous of Greg because he’s a model student-athlete: talented, intelligent, polite, competitive, humble, and hardworking. Plus, he earned a free ride to one of the top universities in the world! Haters will always hate…</p>
<p>“As for Paulus, I actually feel sorry for the guy.”</p>
<p>I’m sure you’re talking about Mike Paulus - the guy who got knocked into the middle of next week by the Canes, who has dedicated his life to football, but can’t get minutes on the team, and is upstaged by his older brother, who hasn’t touched a football in about 5 calendar years, but managed to earn a starting position at a BCS school.</p>
<p>You don’t feel sorry for Danny Green, who is missing half of his right earlobe and whose father was busted for having three assault rifles, $5 million cash, 3 ounces of crack cocaine, a pound of marijuana, seven high powered handguns, being a member of a drug ring that had 462 pounds of cocaine worth $40 million, and has served time in prison?!</p>
<p>You don’t feel bad for your “university” who, again, failed to “crack” (get it?!) the Top 25 ranking for top schools in the country?!</p>
<p>You don’t feel bad for your “student”-athletes, many of whom can’t pull a paltry 3.0 gpa at a “university” that’s not ranked among the top 25 universities in the country and among the top 100 universities in the world?!</p>
<p>Trust me, neither Greg Paulus nor Duke needs your pity. Rather than being obsessed with Duke (as all of you Wal-Mart UNC fans are), you need to spend that time and energy getting your academic house in order…</p>
<p>He got knocked to the middle of next week by the 'canes, but we won that game, in thrilling fashion. Some people are convinced that he’s a closet Dookie though. Anyways, Dookies have no room to say anything about football. </p>
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<p>Feel bad for being ranked #28 in a useless magazine? If anyone is feeling sorry for themselves (or fired up about themselves) over their school’s spot in the USNWR rankings, they need to get a life. I tend to like the Forbes and Kiplinger’s rankings better, however, but in reality none of them really matter. Dook isn’t worth the extra money.</p>
<p>And no, I don’t see how crack is relevant in all of this. </p>
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<p>…and as a Syracuse fan, I hope he does well. </p>
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<p>Yeah, I actually do feel bad for him. We can’t choose our parents.</p>
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<p>Nope, unlike Duke, our student athletes are actually good at the sports they play, making our athletic programs successful. I could care less about a basketball or football player’s GPA (I could care less about anyone’s GPA other than my own). </p>
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<p>Academic house in order? Last I checked, in your beloved USNWR rankings UNC moved up while Dook continued its downward slide. But, like I said, I’m not obsessed with rankings like you are. All you have to rely on is a useless magazine ranking-I’ll take the school that combines top-tier academics, a beautiful campus, an excellent college town, winning sports programs, and hot girls. You can stay with Dook and its ranking, along with its ghetto location, students who are the laughing stock of the state, and subpar athletic tradition. UNC has it all; Dook has a ranking.</p>
<p>Of course, there are many schools that bleed their school colors. I’m a Univ. of Georgia grad. School spirit in Athens can rival any University, but of course, there are many in the same league, and they are usually very large schools with a tradition of sports excellence in one or more sports. Florida Gator fans are crazy with school spirit, even if I don’t like them. Others include Auburn, Alabama, USC, UCLA, Penn State, Ohio State, Texas, Texas A&M, LSU, OKlahoma, Notre Dame, Clemson, North Carolina. Also Duke, Kentucky, and Indiana for basketball. Some schools are generally strong in only one sport, but some, like Florida, UCLA, Notre Dame, Alabama and yes, Georgia, have national contenders year in and year out, in many sports, and that definitely helps keep school spirit strong.</p>