How you know we’ve arrived

[boog204]

I read 100 replies and everyone I saw was thanking the players, coaches and the team for a great season. If one got by the mods, I guess that's on them. But as a whole, their fan base was exactly what a fan base should be - supportive of their team, even after a loss.

UConn hadn't lost at halftime, but the number of people who were trashing players and the team and the coach was pretty disgusting in the chat room.

Apples to apples, their fan base and the website Duke Basketball Report is so much better than what I see here from UConn fans when the team loses.

Granted, they're likely all doctors self-medicating after the loss, but they were pretty classy, all things considered.

I agree with this. I was expecting to see them destroying Scheyer and instead they were backing up their team. There are some who were upset with the officiating, but it was mild compared to the all out Moon landing conspiracy some have here.

 

[JB75]

He barely watches any sports and he won't watch anything past 7 pm.

Tony Kornheiser is an old man who’s in bed by 7 o’clock and brags about it. How are you a sports talk show host and go to bed before any of the games start on a given night? Weird

 

[HooperScooper]

That’s because a Yankee hat is a “New York” hat. It’s bigger than the Yankees.

I saw them all over Europe and a large percentage of the people wearing them had no to very little idea what the Yankees are. It seems to be a symbol of American fashion as opposed to anything showing their allegiance to the Yankees.

 

[White Dwarf]

When coach K retired, NCAA basketball needed a villian. That new villian is Dan Hurley and I love everything about it.

 

[shizzle787]

Enjoyed looking at some random fan threads and message boards and things for reactions to the Elite Eight finish from impartial sources. Other than North Carolina, it is amazing how many fan bases were genuinely torn. Used to be hatred for Duke unified the country - but not any more. The Kansases and Kentuckys and Indianas hate us, hate our fan base, hate Hurley, wanted both teams to lose and don’t want to see us win No. 7 (or 3 in 4).

In 1999, we were the darlings of the nation by taking down the evil empire. Now we’re also an evil empire.

Brings a tear to my eye.

99% of Kentucky fans were rooting for us. It is the Kansas fans that were torn.

 

[uh-no]

I haven't seen any of that on the Duke basketball report. That's a very well run site. You know where you see people whining about refs? The Boneyard. It's embarrassing.

DBR complains about the refs plenty. One of the hotter takes there is that "working the refs" should be banned, and it's excusable that Scheyer doesn't do it because "that's just who he is".

IMO scheyer's biggest problem is his utter lack of fire on the bench...and that goes with coaching his team as much as working the refs. Not a chance in heck Dan Hurley lets refs get away with only calling 1 foul on an opponent for an entire half, as Scheyer did with UNC, for instance.

Look, I don't think working the refs should have that level of impact either...but it does, and not adapting to that is 100% on Jon.

 

[Hoophound]

I've seen Mets hats less frequently used that way as well, and also Dodgers hats for Los Angeles.

And Boston.

 

[BFieldHusky]

My favorite was a Providence fan who said something to the effect of "UConn pretends that Duke is a rival."

 

[Bazz4A]

My favorite was a Providence fan who said something to the effect of "UConn pretends that Duke is a rival."

Saw this post as well - laughable haha