I agree with most of your comments. I even agree that I don't understand the crowd pulling against Duke. I'm a Carolina fan first, an ACC fan second. Tough as it is sometimes you want to see your conference do well. Pull for the ACC, then if your team is good enough you'll get a chance to root against the Dukes and States and Wakes. (Ok, ok, you have to wait another year to root against the Deacs).
But for the record, the Duke fans were pulling against the Heels too so maybe it was a bit of payback?
If they were, Ron, I didn't hear them as clearly during the Carolina game. Perhaps that had more to do with the score differential in the UNC game.
But if any Duke fans were pulling against UNC, shame on them too!
I agree with Birkel. I always pull for the ACC team against a non-ACC team, even when the ACC team is Carolina. Some people on both sides take this rivalry thing to its illogical conclusion.
Too true, Mike Petrik.
Too true!
If Duke had any students to speak of from North Carolina, maybe North Carolinians would root for them. Duke goes out of its way to exclude students from North Carolina in favor of students from New Jersey and Rhode Island, so why should North Carolinians root for them?
Duke should play in MSG if it wants support. As my Connecticut-born and Duke-grad cousin once told me "Duke is in Durham, but it's not part of Durham." Virtually no one in North Carolina likes Duke. Duke has almost no fans whatsoever there, whereas UNC, Wake and NC State have significant fan bases among people who never even went to college. Because of the Duke-bias at this blog, you will probably dispute this point, but you will be wrong. I could take you to any shopping mall in Raleigh, Charlotte or Asheville and find ten times the number of Tar Heel fans compared to Duke fans.
Very, very true. It always amazed me growing up in NC, how the only people that I knew that liked Duke moved to NC from out of state.
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