Which basketball program do you hate the most?

[AnotherVolFan]

Mine would be UCONN.............because of the fans.

 

[HoopsFan21]

Mine would be UCONN...because of the fans.

Why because of the fans?

 

[HardHatGuy#2]

Do you like this image better?

Makes me think about the play where Voskuhl went after a loose ball in the 1999 NC game and, seeing that he was a tad late, went all Hulk Hogan on the Duke player and got the ball. I need to find that video. I like to imagine that CL was on the short end of Jake's Hammer, even though I know that was YEARS after he had graduated.

 

[HardHatGuy#2]

Mine would be UCONN...because of the fans.

Funny, I don't have much bad to say about Vol fans. I've never met a nasty one. Frankly, I can say the same for ND fans, with one notable exception (you know who you are, "Mary").

Of course, it's been the Olympic Downhill for you guys since the series with UConn was cancelled. I'm surprised that you haven't brought the alumni together and demanded that the series be reinstated, in hopes that it would drive competition and recruitment to something that reflects your glorious past.

Good luck. Hopefully no UConn "fans" are trolling YOUR boards like this.

 

[trb123]

I do not hate any basketball program.
Certainly not TENN if it continues to perform at below Final Four level.
I am not even jealous of other other basketball programs.

The Lady Vol fans are another matter.
You can learn a lot from the VolNation - language, spelling, grammar, history, geography, southern chivalry.
I learned that TENN is recruiting Cheridene Green who plays center on the English Olympic team.
My knowledge will continue to increase should TENN pursue the Scotland Olympic team center as well.

 

[stwainfan]

I also don't like Vanderbilt.

 

[AnotherVolFan]

Why because of the fans?

Unfortunately most UCONN fans I've came across are still bitter and stuck in the past. With the younger generation, we remember the MM situation however I think we're more apt to just move on. It's been YEARS and fans on both sides still spit hate from each side and sometimes it becomes personal.

I don't know what went on during that recruitment nor do I pretend to, so I can't really form an opinion on the matter. The way a lot of fans moan and groan, you would think they were involved in the whole fiasco. People handle situations differently though, so I can't blame people for how they STILL feel about the situation. I just wish people would handle the rhetoric between fan bases with a little bit more class than what I've witnessed throughout the years.

 

[CTyankee]

My knowledge will continue to increase should TENN pursue the Scotland Olympic team center as well.

Uhhh... I don't think Scotland fields an Olympic team... It's a combined UK team. In FIFA's soccer the teams are separate.

 

[HoopsFan21]

Unfortunately most UCONN fans I've came across are still bitter and stuck in the past. With the younger generation, we remember the MM situation however I think we're more apt to just move on. It's been YEARS and fans on both sides still spit hate from each side and sometimes it becomes personal.

I don't know what went on during that recruitment nor do I pretend to, so I can't really form an opinion on the matter. The way a lot of fans moan and groan, you would think they were involved in the whole fiasco. People handle situations differently though, so I can't blame people for how they STILL feel about the situation. I just wish people would handle the rhetoric between fan bases with a little bit more class than what I've witnessed throughout the years.

To be fair I think some people on this board were dragged into the fiasco. I'm sure someone on here will correct me if I'm wrong about that, but if true you can understand why it's a little personal to some of the fans. Even more importantly to those of us not directly involved, Tennessee attempted to bring down UConn WCBB and make Geno and UConn look dirty. Tennessee attacked the integrity of our program. You think we should just get over your program's attempt to destroy ours? If Geno is a cheat, as Tennessee fans put it, what does that make Pat Summitt and the Vols program? I've never gotten an answer from Tennessee fans as to why Geno is a cheat other than "he just is" which is the kind of response you'd expect from a five year old.

 

[ed4ourgirls]

I voted for Tennessee, not because I hate any of the players, but for the response of the
previous administration to not landing Maya Moore, and most of all because of that
obnoxious subset of Tennessee fans that Nan refers to a "the tinfoil hat brigade".

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

From the Big East to the ACC, Boston College has done its best to marginalize UCONN.

 

[pacific 44]

I have less likey for Tinn-ow-freakin'-see than any other team in any sport on planet earth.Is that ok?

 

[Magy Cannon]

I don't hate any women's basketball teams, players, or coaches. I dislike people who disrespect the women's game.

 

[triaddukefan]

Do you like this image better?

If I said what i wanna say, i might get a mini-vacation......

 

[JordyG]

Mine would be UCONN...because of the fans.

I get it. Some of can be a little rabid, smug and over expectant. Although you stand aside from most LadyVol fans who hate The UConn because of Geno who they see as arrogant, dismissive, and now because of Parker, dishonorable.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

I voted for Baylor (I hope ETT doesn't see that), mainly because I really dislike Kim Mulkey. I've disliked her ever since I first saw her play in person in 1981. (I have a long memory)

 

[UConnNick]

Duke is vaguely annoying but their trials and tribulations are entertaining.

They've become so irrelevant on the women's side there's no point in wasting any energy hating them anymore. I long for the days when Geno indicated just as many of their graduates were waiting tables. They were fun to hate back then.

 

[UConnNick]

One seriously offensive image. Another person in whose failures I reveled.

Hating Laettner became the new national pastime in the 1990's. I truly believe he is the Antichrist.

 

[BigBird]

Nah. I don't want for any harm, physical or mental, to come to any team. No real hate. Perhaps an amplified rivalry reaction sometimes. There is one program (I won't name) that every time they lose, I yell a particularly offensive oath at the TV. Blank you, blank blank.

Ashamed to admit it though. Well, almost ashamed. I mean, it IS blank blank.

 

[UConnNick]

Nah. I don't want for any harm, physical or mental, to come to any team. No real hate. Perhaps an amplified rivalry reaction sometimes. There is one program (I won't name) that every time they lose, I yell a particularly offensive oath at the TV. Blank you, blank blank.

Ashamed to admit it though. Well, almost ashamed. I mean, it IS blank blank.

Let's see, it's a school with a two word name. There are only two on the list, unless it's in the "other" category. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's Notre Lame. You don't have to confirm or deny. They're my No. 1 team to hate in the entire universe.

I have the exact same reaction at the end of games my favorite teams to hate lose. There are several of them. I consider it a totally theraputic release of hostile aggression. Otherwise I might do something wrong, like kicking my cat.

 

[meyers7]

The folks at ESPN made a movie about this guy and the "lack of affection" for him:

One of my favorite college players of all time.

 

[meyers7]

See - this is why women's sports and WCBB and the WNBA in particular struggle so much - we are all such wishy-washy fans, no deep emotional commitments!

Ask a Boston fan to express their feelings about the Yankees and 'hatred' would be the gentlest expression they might use. A Rangers fan about the Fliers, and any fan of another team about the Pistons of Lambeer vintage, SF about LA, you name it. People get in bar brawls as a gentle expression of their love for their own team and repudiation for any other fan's team. But in women's sports we have to be so circumspect. We mildly disapprove of the golden domers inability to maintain their footing, or tut tut about TN, or express our feelings about Kim as an unhappiness with her wardrobe choices or sideline demeanor.

We need to grow a pair! Be obnoxious, Revel in the hatred of our rivals and return it 10 fold. Stomp on the pretenders and wannabes. Gnash our teeth when we lose and swear blood feuds on those who dare to challenge us! If not for ourselves, for the health of our sport!

To the ramparts!

1000 likes if possible. And even more.

I hate more teams in sports than I like. It makes being a fan so much more enjoyable. So even if your team is not winning, at least you can relish in teams you hate, dismal efforts. And not just teams, but individual players also. I'm not sure how one can be counted as much of a sports fan without some hatred.

 

[HoopsFan21]

I get it. Some of can be a little rabid, smug and over expectant. Although you stand aside from most LadyVol fans who hate The UConn because of Geno who they see as arrogant, dismissive, and now because of Parker, dishonorable.

They hate Geno because he crashed and then threw them out of their own party.

 

[mdakota]

I voted for Tenn... But I dislike ND equally.

One thing is for sure... I love to root for their opponents. Unless they play each other... Then I get confused.... Because someone has to win..... But I'd rather have both lose

 

[bags27]

I think the word "hate" taken out of its sports context has different meanings for different people. To some, it means something close to wishing physical harm or wishing they never existed; to others, it means loathe ("I hate spinach"). I doubt that anyone applies the first meaning to sports. The second meaning when applied to sports means something like wanting the other team to lose so badly they are humiliated forever and acknowledge our eternal superiority. (That's how we New Englanders feel about all New York teams, for example.)

So "which program do you hate the most" is just a reflection of how intensely you not only want your guys to win, but the other guys to lose. Part of the game for some of us all of the time, and for some of us at least some of the time.

I didn't vote, because I don't even dislike any team that much. I have pretty strong feelings against UTenn and Baylor and would love to see Notre Dame crushed (mostly because I do deeply respect them), but I also think that these teams help to define UConn; where would UConn be without that competition?

I really regret that there can't be a reconciliation between UTenn and UConn. Universities are places that try to teach reconciliation and understanding (if not taught there, where or when?). I'm sorry that two university sports programs can't model this same behavior. It no longer matters "who's right" and "who's wrong". The history is so blurred and subjective that both sides can sling mud forever. Who loses? we all do.... Let's play each other, and express our "hate" (in the second sense) on the court, rather than off it.

 

[CCinCT]

Tennessee - Tennessee - Tennessee.

 

[triaddukefan]

One of my favorite college players of all time.

Along with Grant Hill, one of my all time co-favorites among college players. I'm know that their are plenty of putzes still around that harbor ill-will towards him. (#32, not #33)

 

[UcMiami]

1000 likes if possible. And even more.

I hate more teams in sports than I like. It makes being a fan so much more enjoyable. So even if your team is not winning, at least you can relish in teams you hate, dismal efforts. And not just teams, but individual players also. I'm not sure how one can be counted as much of a sports fan without some hatred.

Thats the other aspect of it. I love watching Uconn games, and I watch other games for the joy of seeing one of our rivals lose - TN had a very satisfying year this year for me! If I didn't hate other teams, I would have watched fewer games during the year at times Uconn wasn't playing - and that drives numbers as well. Watch an SEC game ... no thanks, boring slug-fest, but notice that TN is losing to some doormat and I am searching all over for a live stream. And it is just like Yankees or Jets ... I don't want to watch them when they are clobbering someone, but let Cleveland be up big in either sport and the TV is on!

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

There are several programs that I dislike intensely: (In no real order)

TN: Fans for their jealousy, pettiness, lies, arrogance, a large majority act like the punch line to a bad southern joke!
ND: Fans, Coaches, Players, for their self-righteousness, self-conceit, self-centered! The whole ND atmosphere where they deserve or are entitled to everything because THEY ARE NOTRE DAME! Join the Big East but NOT in FB, independent with an NBC TV contract! Loved the ACC making FB join the league!
The Muffet crying she gets no respect, when you have to EARN respect, not demand it! Shut up and win Championships!
MD: Brenda Frese is slimey, I hold onto my wallet when she's on the screen so she can't pick my pocket! Jealousy flows from her pores like sweat! Her pre and 1/2 time talks are so icky as her players sit there trying not to laugh at how stupid their coach sounds! When hired at MN she said this was her DREAM JOB, a year later she went to MD and said at the presser this was her DREAM JOB! She's an 8 year old in an adults body!
Any school that thinks they're as good or better than UCONN WBB!

 

[shinobimono]

There are several programs that I dislike intensely: (In no real order)

TN: Fans for their jealousy, pettiness, lies, arrogance, a large majority act like the punch line to a bad southern joke!
ND: Fans, Coaches, Players, for their self-righteousness, self-conceit, self-centered! The whole ND atmosphere where they deserve or are entitled to everything because THEY ARE NOTRE DAME! Join the Big East but NOT in FB, independent with an NBC TV contract! Loved the ACC making FB join the league!
The Muffet crying she gets no respect, when you have to EARN respect, not demand it! Shut up and win Championships!
MD: Brenda Frese is slimey, I hold onto my wallet when she's on the screen so she can't pick my pocket! Jealousy flows from her pores like sweat! Her pre and 1/2 time talks are so icky as her players sit there trying not to laugh at how stupid their coach sounds! When hired at MN she said this was her DREAM JOB, a year later she went to MD and said at the presser this was her DREAM JOB! She's an 8 year old in an adults body!
Any school that thinks they're as good or better than UCONN WBB!

I gave you a like for "attitude." That is the way a die-hard fan talks. If this were a dunk contest, I would have scored you a perfect 10. I'm with you on ND and you landed some good punches on Brenda, but I like what she has accomplished at MD. Keep the faith, baby!