Duke Hatred Tsunami - 2008-09 collector thread

[jwillfan]

He was on NPR this AM and "lamented" the demise of the ACC, calling it a "one-team conference in basketball". Listen and be enraged:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=96805504

Why's he gotta be a hater?

[killerleft]

I wouldn't be too surprised at anything Negative Nancy Feinstein has to say about Duke. Remember, he was right up there with Nancy Grace and Wahneema Lubiano in crucifying Duke lacrosse players.

[billybreen]

I wouldn't be too surprised at anything Negative Nancy Feinstein has to say about Duke. Remember, he was right up there with Nancy Grace and Wahneema Lubiano in crucifying Duke lacrosse players.

Word to that. He has similar emotional baggage to Doyel, IIRC.

[JasonEvans]

I am surprised he is this lame. Calling the ACC a one-team conference in basketball is just plain silly when everyone has Duke in the top ten and most folks think Miami and Wake are serious Sweet 16 contenders too. C'mon, John. You can do better than this.

--Jason "the Sagarin and other rankings will again have the ACC as easily the top rated conference this year... just like every year" Evans

[juise]

Well, if by "one team conference," he means that there is a heavy favorite, then he is probably correct. UNC is the first team to be unanimously voted #1 in the pre-season coaches' poll. I guess that we could then call the NCAA Division 1, a "one team division."

[COYS]

Well, if by "one team conference," he means that there is a heavy favorite, then he is probably correct. UNC is the first team to be unanimously voted #1 in the pre-season coaches' poll. I guess that we could then call the NCAA Division 1, a "one team division."

Yeah, call off the rest of the games. Men's NCAA basketball is a one-team sport.

[arnie]

I didn't find his statements off that much - he was focusing on tournament success since 2005 and let's face it - we haven't had much success since then.

Of course, I just finished listening to Bomani Jones on local radio refer to Duke as "a sorry school". So in comparison, John is not much of a hater.

[SmartDevil]

JF is irrated at Duke, with or without reason.

One or two diplomatic loyal Duke fans need to take him out for a long lunch at a very nice restaurant and let him get it ALL off his chest, satisfy his ego, and reel him back in.

Probably a good idea if someone from the Administration or the AD did that as well.

[dukegirlinsc]

Why am I not shocked?

[killerleft]

JF is irrated at Duke, with or without reason.

One or two diplomatic loyal Duke fans need to take him out for a long lunch at a very nice restaurant and let him get it ALL off his chest, satisfy his ego, and reel him back in.

Probably a good idea if someone from the Administration or the AD did that as well.

So you think he's worth that much trouble?

Why not just watch him become the King of Pomposity? He certainly has the cred to be one of the all-time greats.

[weezie]

Poor John-boy. Always had to work so hard, typing away at his little stories and books. Never could crack the big TV money, now could he?

[miramar]

To think this guy used to be interesting to hear and read.

[sagegrouse]

John Feinstein was attacking the ACC and the decision to expand to 12 teams by pointing out that the ACC was no longer the best conference. To do that, he mentioned that only UNC had been to the final 8 in the NCAA-T since 2005, when the conference expanded.

Seems like a non sequitur to me. Why does the expansion of the conference immediately drag down the performance of teams like Duke and MD?

Oh well. One can reasonably expect the author of Season on the Brink to throw a Molotov cocktail at anything that displeases him.

When he goes after Duke, it has invariably been the choice of football coach and the performance of the AD. Since Joe Speedboat is gone and Coach Cut is doing great, I expect he will now pick on the men's basketball program. This NPR reference to Duke was pretty subtle (for John), and I doubt that his heart was in it.

sagegrouse

[RelativeWays]

People who are ready to crown the 08/08 UNC team as NCAA super champions needs to look up 1991 UNLV and (as much as I hate to say it) 1999 Duke. Each expected to stomp the competition into a sticky paste-like substance in the tournament and each went home championship-less.

[roywhite]

Any wonder that JF is known by some as "Fredo"?

As in:
"Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend"

[greybeard]

Any wonder that JF is known by some as "Fredo"?

As in:
"Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend"

This is good, and I didn't even go to Duke.

[MulletMan]

Search function people!

[billybreen]

People who are ready to crown the 08/08 UNC team as NCAA super champions needs to look up 1991 UNLV and (as much as I hate to say it) 1999 Duke. Each expected to stomp the competition into a sticky paste-like substance in the tournament and each went home championship-less.

Or the 2002 Duke team. Ugh, now I need a drink.

[studdlee10]

I didn't find his statements off that much - he was focusing on tournament success since 2005 and let's face it - we haven't had much success since then.

Of course, I just finished listening to Bomani Jones on local radio refer to Duke as "a sorry school". So in comparison, John is not much of a hater.

How does Bomani Jones still have a job? Nothing he writes is even remotely original. He just spews the typical racist reverse BS and doesn't even remotely try to be objective. He is a talentless hack. I am all for freedom of speech and differing viewpoints, but he just plain sucks. What did he say about Duke now? The pure hate spewing from him is ridiculous.

[devilirium]

Feinstein was on 850 the Buzz this morning and termed Duke Football as equivalent to the McCain/Palin campaign---started off well, and then went south---never saw the logic in that analogy. I never sensed that the GOP getting a serious bump with that combination.

Something that I learned tonite is that Feinstein is going through a divorce as we write and it's likely that he'll be taken to the cleaners. This may or may not explain his ultra edginess toward Duke lately. I'm not sure. I don't sense that K's had much contact with him or anyone from Duke. He seems to refer to K in a more distant way now. I'm thinking that K didn't appreciate John's attitude about the lacrosse team, and maybe K felt that John went too far with his Alleva bashing (those are more guesses than anything).