A Perfect Illustration of Why Everyone Hates Duke

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Interesting that it would be perfectly synposized by a DBR piece “explaining” why everybody hates poor, noble, righteous Duke. You have to hand it to them, they sure know who to whine – every bit as much as their coaches and players. Strawmen abound – enjoy taking apart you favorite ones in the comments below.

Hat tip to Deadspin for calling this to our attention. Don’t miss the delightfully named Nation of Islam Sportsblog’s response (wow, did DBR ever miss the joke – no surprise given their past history with SFN). In the interest of balance, we also link to a nice explanation of UNC hatred.

Also, don’t miss Dave Sez’s comments on the topic.

We know how sensitive and humorless Duke fans can be, so we will clarify again for the record that we totally don’t think you are as bad as Nazi Germany, or that Coach K was responsible for the Holocaust. Promise.

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55 Responses to A Perfect Illustration of Why Everyone Hates Duke

  1. lush 04/04/2007 at 11:35 AM #

    redfred
    by the way coach g is definately hot, hatchell however is disgusting

  2. skywalkerdt 04/04/2007 at 11:37 AM #

    As to your comments in the media- look at the degrees on their walls, how many are UNC alumni?

  3. KChill 04/04/2007 at 11:51 AM #

    There are some people out there who actually don’t realize that NOI sportsblog is a gag site. Hopefully they are not State graduates.

  4. redfred2 04/04/2007 at 11:54 AM #

    lush

    Man, calm down, I was just joking about Hatchell.

  5. lush 04/04/2007 at 11:58 AM #

    was that harsh?

    in the words of walter solbchziek:

    “im perfectly calm dude. calmer than you are. im calmer than you are”

  6. dpos21 04/04/2007 at 12:10 PM #

    The Nation of Islam Sportsblog might be satire but it certainly wasn’t funny. I hate Duke as much as the next State fan but their article was racist regardless. SFN, you post something racist “in the name of satire” and see the fall out. Its a double-standard.

  7. McPete 04/04/2007 at 12:11 PM #

    Coach G is kinda hot, but i bet she has a liquor license.

    I can’t continue hating Duke like I used to in the Wojo and Battier days. I mean, to suck that bad this year with SIX McD’s AAs should be pittied if anything.

  8. statealum03 04/04/2007 at 12:18 PM #

    SFN: Get lost. Your input is not wanted here.

  9. westwolf 04/04/2007 at 12:20 PM #

    Two observations:

    1) During the days leading up to the Final Four, what team appeared in EVERY game on ESPN Classic? That’s right, Duke. Ye the media hates them. Whatever.

    2) I think Duke and DBR are a bit sensitive due to their udnerachievement relative to talent. Imagine you are at DBR, and every recruiting season for the past ten years you’ve sat high in your perch laughing at all the poor fans of scrub teams talk about their recruits that really don’t matter, while you get to compare which of the several All-Americans you have coming in to those going to Unc or maybe UCLA. How nice and superior…but then, year after year, you fail to make the Final Four, losing to teams like this year that are full of what????That’s right, those scrub recruits that you laughed at for years.

    Priceless.

  10. redfred2 04/04/2007 at 12:20 PM #

    Lush

    are not, are not, are not, are not, are not…

  11. Dan 04/04/2007 at 12:40 PM #

    I sense a squatter in our midst. One that still doesnt understand a joke or how ridiculous Duke has become and will stop at nothing in order to make us love him.

  12. beowolf 04/04/2007 at 1:07 PM #

    Just as I said about UNC fans not long ago, Duke fans — if this is self-pitying tome is a fair indication — would “fall into conniptions like that guy in A Clockwork Orange if they had to face half the stuff we faced.”

  13. PapaJohn 04/04/2007 at 1:19 PM #

    I look forward to the day that Sid’s got the Pack winning so regularly that we’re on the tube constantly and collecting banners annually – then these same idiots can hate us for no real reason too.

  14. SaccoV 04/04/2007 at 1:26 PM #

    Remember, this is Duke. Where JJ redick is so “tired from breaking records” that he couldn’t lead his team into the Sweet 16 a few years back. I heard this quote from Duke Vitale and Bob Harris, who is the biggest Kool-Aid drinker ever. They can’t take the joke, but they can call our guys criminals. What a bunch of pansies!!

  15. whitefang 04/04/2007 at 2:07 PM #

    Put me on the “I don’t hate Duke” team with Beo,BG, etc. Besides the fact of K’s friendship with V (which is important), I hate UNC with a freaking passion. Every SOB on this side of the state (west) who couldn’t find Chapel Hill on a map has a Carolina T-shirt or hat on all the time – sometimes both. Remember the saying, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
    Unfortunately we haven’t been able to take the Tar Holes down a notch in their arrogance in a while (although that is changing I hope), and I had to pull for Duke because they have been carrying that load (until this year). What drives me crazy is the Carolina fans think their players, many of whom are thugs, are some sort of golden boys loaded with character and academic integrity. Yeah Duke thinks the same thing too, but it is a hell of a lot more nearly true there.
    I was at State when the rivalry was State-Carolina. Duke is like Wake to me. Want to beat them badly, but not an obsession.

  16. Pack92 04/04/2007 at 3:33 PM #

    ^Ditto whitefang’s first paragragh. They got those t-shirts off the discount rack at Wal-Mart. And Target, Dick’s, fill in the blank where a sucker can get a shirt.

  17. BJD95 04/04/2007 at 4:04 PM #

    What do you think the ratio of Duke fans to alumni (or with some non-bandwagon) connection to the university is?

  18. redfred2 04/04/2007 at 4:06 PM #

    whitefang, exactly!

    Duke is a serious conference rivalry, a little more intense than the rest of the field, but they by no means do they even hold an unlit candle to our rivalry with the powder blue.

    “What drives me crazy is the Carolina fans think their players, many of whom are thugs, are some sort of golden boys loaded with character and academic integrity.”

    It’s not too hard to figure out, especially when everything that’s done by the coaches athletes from other programs that can be, is spun in a negative light. Then it’s boldly put right out in front the unc T-shirt wearing, unc bumper sticker pasting, every other car in the Walmart parking lot, crowd for them to soak up from every media source available, 24 hours a freaking day. But never, EVER, a negative word about anything carolina.

  19. MadWolf92 04/04/2007 at 4:54 PM #

    BJD95,

    in North Carolina the ratio of the ratio of Duke fans (DF) to Duke alumni (DA) to the ratio of Carolina fans (CF) to Carolina alumni (CA) [ in other words (DF/DA)/(CF/CA) ] is much less than 1. In other parts of the country I’d say it’s greater than 1. But since I live in North Carolina, and not other parts of the country, I’ll say that Carolina is the more bandwagoneering.

  20. burnbarn 04/04/2007 at 6:12 PM #

    bob harris makes the koolaide!!

    go to hell Carolina!!

    I think a team w/ 6 McDs that does not get to the sweet sixteen deserves the criticism. IF we had 6 McDs……… we would be in total meltdown.

    Can’t take the heat……

  21. EverettBeez 04/04/2007 at 8:19 PM #

    Carolina’s always been more fun to hate because you grew up with folks, especially in Raleigh, whose folks went to Carolina. I never knew anyone in Raleigh, or at App, who had family go to the State University of New Jersey at Durham. I knew more Wake alumni! All these kids come down to SUNJ-D from metro NYC, and then they go back home. They treat the town like summner camp, party for four years, leaving their beer cans and make-up cases for the locals to pick up. No wonder ESPN, based as is it is in Conn., thinks SUNJ-D is the greatest b-ball school in NC, they are surrounded by alumni who sing its praises! (I also like to call it South Jersey State. I use both when I explain to my students both here in Alabama and when I taught at the U of Arizona that the Dook-Carolina rivalry is a media creation, and good folks of NC all know its State-Carolina that counts. Lets win some more games and let the nation see it!)

  22. BillyTheKid 04/05/2007 at 7:56 AM #

    EverettBeez, I live in Durham and I do know a few Duke people (about half of my Sunday School Class). They came to school here, liked the area and stayed. To be honest most of them are from the South though, Texas, Tenn. and the like, most are Docs and Lawyers and such. They are good people and they do a lot to give back to Durham. The church I go to is pretty liberal so it draws thoses types of people, I was the ONE hippie at NC State back in the 90’s;>)

  23. EverettBeez 04/05/2007 at 8:54 AM #

    No doubt the region has changed a lot since I went off to grad school in ’90. Heck, when I moved to Raleigh, there were less then 50,000 folks in Cary and downtown Durham actually had functioning cigarette plants! I also know Dook has gone out of its way the last 10-15 yrs to recruit more nationally – part of being a “national” university, and to break out of the metro NY rut they were in. Still, folks act on perception more often the reality, and they will always be SUNJ-D to me. Tulane is like this, it is something like 80% metro NY, esp. Long Island.

  24. CedarGroveWolf 04/05/2007 at 10:32 AM #

    “Coach K was a friend to Jimmy V and NC State when no one else wanted to be. I honestly dont know how anyone that claims to be a State fan can dislike Coach K. ”

    agreed

  25. EverettBeez 04/05/2007 at 10:35 AM #

    ^ respect the man as a person, dislike his teams and school.

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