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Message: [QUOTE="FanInNC, post: 4878986, member: 13050"] I still cant believe that. That’s the sort of thing that is slowly chipping away at the very fabric of college sports and what makes them so fun. So now, the school 100% of State fans despise more than any other we won’t play twice a year in order to squeeze in games against BC, Syracuse, Pitt, Stanford, Cal and SMU? Absurd! The whole deal with college athletics is regional rivalries. In the state of NC, North Carolina State and North Carolina at Chapel Hill are the 2 largest schools and the majority of their alums stay in state. So the 2 biggest public universities are no longer playing home and homes is wild to me. nearly half of my family are Chapel Hill alums and the other half went to State. (You’ll be happy to know there are 2 oddball Dukies). But my point is that closeness and interwoven-ness of the schools, the alums and the fans is what makes it fun. I know absolutely 0 Boston College fans. 0 SMU, Cal, Stanford, Pitt, Louisville or Syracuse fans. Sure I want the Pack to win those games, but a loss to those teams doesn’t sting the same. A win doesn’t bring the same joy. I won’t have to face a single person who wants to gloat about their school beating mine. There is no overlap there - it’s just some school I have no affinity, dislike or emotion about. Sorry for the rant but that’s just wild to me. I can remember sitting at lunch room tables in the cafeteria with kids my age back in elementary and middle school and when sports came up it was always “State or Carolina?” No one mentioned wake or Duke or anyone else. I’m not trying to bang on Duke/UNCCH as a rivalry at all-but I do think locally State is every bit of if not more of a rivalry simply because of the alumni bases of both schools. Duke is a much smaller school and most kids come from out of state. It’s a totally different dynamic. [/QUOTE]

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