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Message: [QUOTE="BlueJayFan, post: 4574727, member: 11490"] Be happy to. Creighton is mostly Omaha-centric. Nebraska (the university) is statewide, but specifically as if pertains to basketball, the support is Lincoln-centric; the lack of any sort of success makes most NU football fans from out-state only support the hoops program in a casual and perfunctory sort of way. So really it’s an Omaha vs Lincoln sort of setup, with the Lincoln faction absolutely hating the fact that there’s a decent chunk of our fans that root for them in football while hating them in basketball ( but that’s easily a minority of CU fans and I am not one of them). KU and Iowa are both over 200 miles from Omaha. If you support one of those programs it’s because you have a connection of some sort to that state or school. Iowa State is probably as big or bigger in these parts but still small potatoes. Creighton for the longest time hated NU and NU didn’t give a crap about how we felt because we weren’t worth considering in their estimation. Then they started to get aggravated after we put it on them for about 15 years, but they always came back with the fact that in the Valley we will always be the little school, and it’s inevitable that they will eclipse us again. Then we got into the BE, it became clear to them that we were going to be really damn hard to dislodge, and open warfare started. I mean, look at Nebraskan18 on here, he’d rather drink molten lava than say a single good thing about us. That’s where the two of us are. So there’s a few paragraphs about the state of hoops here. Most of the city is behind CU (the school isn’t big enough to attract 18k just on alums, the enrollment won’t support it), Lincoln supports their laughingstock, and we go from there. [/QUOTE]

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