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Your rambling diatribe forgot to mention a very important or large section of the Duke fan base. Native North Carolinians who grew up loving Duke but who didn’t go to school there. We make up the largest section of the fan base not the student body or alumni that number in the 10,000′s.

Dominance on tobacco road goes in cycles, UNC is up now and has been since 2007. But Duke was dominant from 1999-2004 and had the only undefeated ACC regular season in history. Duke is on the up swing again and we’ll see who wins this year between Duke and UNC.

If Duke gets Barnes Duke will be on top for as long as he is there because with KI, Curry, Plumlee brothers, kelly and Dawkins Duke will put on the floor a team that is superior to UNC as it stands right now. UNC would have to get some more highly rated recruits to hang with that line-up

Nope, not sensitive, passionate. Just enjoy talkin about how much I love UNC and how funny I think dookies are. I could write MUCH longer columns about those 2 things. If I were a dook fan, I doubt I could put more than 2 or 3 sentences together worth saying over what’s good about dook basketball. YOu dookies have been saying “your time is about up” for years. Are you aware of this Michael? When all of our starters left after the ’05 championship, all you dookies flooded message boards and stated how badly dook was gonna destroy UNC, that “our time was up.” I even remember some people stating how ‘scared’ UNC was of dook since all our starters had left. I guess you’d have lost all your “smart money” betting on another UNC championship so soon, huh? You’d have probably lost it on the ’05 championship as well.
Lets look at Duke’s recruiting record for the last several years:
- In 2002, JJ Redick was the #11 recruit
- 2003 they had the #2 recruit, Luol Deng
- 2004, #2 (Shaun Livingston) and #17 (Demarcus Nelson)
- 2005, #2 (Josh McRoberts) and #11 (Greg Paulus)
- 2006, #11 (Gerald Henderson) and #24 (Brian Zoubek)
- 2007, #5 (Kyle Singler)
- 2008, #16 (Elliot Williams)
- 2009, #20 (Ryan Kelley)
Look at that, all 5 star top-25 recruits. But OHHHH the ‘recruiting woes’ of dook is all I hear about.
For the record, I have never said “We’re an NC team every year.” In fact, it’s the average dook fan feels they are ‘entitled’ simply because they’re dook. It is the average dook fan who will tell you that dook has won more than 3 NCs. They are convinced that they HAD to have won more than 3, “at least 5, I believe” was what one girl said. Believe me, I’ve heard it more than once. ANd I’ve just laughed myself silly. AS I said, dookies are an endless source of amusement.
HEre is the funniest thing that Tarheel fans get a kick out of about dookies (pay attention, this is priveledged info): dookies think they are the best, that they are entitled, just because they’re dookies. They live on daddy’s credit card and don’t have a care in the world. They think they’re better than anyone because they’re rich. And they fancy themselves SO much more intellegent than any ‘tarhole’. I bet you resemble this description, Michael. In their minds they have nowhere to go but down. Tarheels are regular people who work to pay their way thru school, do not feel entitled simply because they know they aren’t rich and have no illusions about who they are in relation to others, and have pride enough never to beg a recruit to come to their school. They figure if the guy is smart enough to realize what the school can do for him, he is the right one. dookies don’t want recruits for what dook can do for them (though that’s what they blather on and on about). They desperately want a recruit who can make them relevant again. And I do mean DESPERATELY!
UNC can take an ass-whipping and hold their heads high the next day. When dook loses, if you can even find a dookie the next day, all you get from them is the many excuses for why they lost. dookies cannot rationalize losing because in their minds they are above losing.
Ok, I went off on a tangent. THIS is what really cracks me up about dookies: The incongruity between a dookie’s perception of reality and reality itself. In a dookie’s mind, they are better in every way than a tarheel. I mean, they are richer, their daddies pay more for their education, so they just HAVE to be, right? It is this simple fact that let’s UNC fans have so much fun at a dookie’s expense. Because you can almost see a dookie’s head about to explode trying to cope with their belief that “JJ Reddick is gonna be our savior” while watching a UNC freshman ruin his senior night and any chance of a NC for dook. With their belief that dook is a better bball school while the cold hard facts say otherwise. With their belief that a dook athlete is waaayy too intelligent to go to CHapel Hill and get drunk while looking at internet pics of Reggie Love’s face covered with UNC “family members” shall we say. With their belief that the Cameron Crazy coalition is the most clever college fanbase around, certainly too smart to be infiltrated by a stupid tarhole, while chating lines from their prepared cheer sheets planted by a UNC alum that have them unwittingly insulting one of their own players. With the belief that dook is a place of enlightenment and acceptance, not like the backwards ignorant throwbacks at UNC, while watching 3 of their own student body get thrown under the bus by the faculty and President of the college for rape charges all on the word of a stripper and without the slightet bit of proof. In their (the faculty’s) minds: tried, convicted, execued. With the belief that they are the be-all, end-all in college education, period, and absolutely better than any old UNC schooling, while the facts clearly support that not only is an education at UNC a far better value than one from dook, that UNC basketball players have a higher graduation rate than dook.
The other thing that cracks UNC fans up the most about dookies is linked to the first: it is the hilarious excuses you come up with when faced with the truth (apparently to KEEP your heads from exploding!)about yourselves, your school, and your place in the world. So, without further delay, let the excuses commence…