Is Villanova a rival?

[VAHuskyFan]

Villanova is a gentleman’s rival. Think: “I dare say, chap, you gave it a spirited effort but I’m afraid I’ve gotten the better of you this time. Here’s to success for us both the rest of the way. I do admire the suit.”

Cuse is more of an alley rival: “How you like me now, #*%$?! Shove a regular-season-champs t-shirt up your nose, run back upstate, and take your weak-@$$ zone defense with you. I hope Boeheim coaches for 20 more years and the Carrier Dome implodes and falls into the center of the earth.”

Both are rivals with their own special character.

 

[upstater]

I can easily see Nova becoming more hated over time because of their fans alone. Zissou is good, but I'm just referring to real live Nova fans. From many BE tournaments. Weirdly, that Syracusefan board is full of the worst Cuse fans imaginable. In person, at the garden, they had a much much better fanbase than many of the BE rivals. Nova's fans were much worse.

I don't know why there's such a split online.

Heck, the last time we beat Nova, there were a bunch of Syracuse fans doing our Senor T. dance on the sidelines right behind our players.

 

[nomar]

Villanova is a gentleman’s rival. Think: “I dare say, chap, you gave it a spirited effort but I’m afraid I’ve gotten the better of you this time. Here’s to success for us both the rest of the way. I do admire the suit.”

Cuse is more of an alley rival: “How you like me now, #*%$?! Shove a regular-season-champs t-shirt up your nose, run back upstate, and take your weak-@$$ zone defense with you. I hope Boeheim coaches for 20 more years and the Carrier Dome implodes and falls into the center of the earth.”

Both are rivals with their own special character.

Spot on, old sport. I rather like the cut of your jib!

 

[Husky25]

Didn't Eddie call The Beav, "Theodore," in front of Mrs. Cleaver?

 

[CL82]

Man, I never realized that Eddie Haskell had such heavily plucked eyebrows. Seriously, what’s up with that?

 

[F101Voodoo]

We are p

I think the entire conference hates us. We're the new kids on the block, and we immediately stole a lot of limelight

We are prodigal sons.

 

[Jbirdp5]

I honestly think the lack of hate lately was because they were too good for us. I hating losing to seton hall and providence much more because I felt like we were better than them and was pissed we couldn’t prove it. Losing to nova wasn’t as painful because they were just plain better than us. I hope that changes now.

 

[Blue Huskie]

I have a hard time thinking of them that way right now as we hadn't beaten them in ages. To me a rivalry needs more recent games where both teams have won multiple times. But if other fans want to view it that way that's fine by me.

 

[HuskyHawk]

They are a rival and that rivalry will grow after last night.

Syracuse had advantages. They were more consistently good than Villanova in the old days. We both claimed NYC as our territory (as does St. Johns). ESPN was packed full of Syracuse mooks. Despite Jim B and Jim C being good friends, we had no trouble hating Boeheim. The zone, the constant annoying zone. So many annoying players that were easy to dislike (except Pearl). McNamara, Devendorf, etc. Syracuse is a huge school and so you always run into some snotty Cuse fan everywhere in New England

In contrast Nova came of age by beating a Georgetown team we didn't like in an epic upset, with players everybody liked. Rollie was like your Italian uncle or neighbor. Then Jay came in and remains a class act. Who hated Kerry Kittles? Pinkney? Foye? Pressley? Nobody. I kinda hated Scottie Reynolds. I don't run into Villanova alums or fans and when I do they don't act like idiots.

 

[J187Money]

Villanova is a gentleman’s rival. Think: “I dare say, chap, you gave it a spirited effort but I’m afraid I’ve gotten the better of you this time. Here’s to success for us both the rest of the way. I do admire the suit.”

Cuse is more of an alley rival: “How you like me now, #*%$?! Shove a regular-season-champs t-shirt up your nose, run back upstate, and take your weak-@$$ zone defense with you. I hope Boeheim coaches for 20 more years and the Carrier Dome implodes and falls into the center of the earth.”

Both are rivals with their own special character.

That's perfect.