Are you kidding? Never in a million years!
Sometimes, but I REALLY have to hate the other team.
Most of the time, but I reserve the right not to.
Always. It's good for the ACC.
Oh please.
Next question.
Against Uconn, yes. Against anyone else, no. At best, I can feign indifference.
You're either on the bus, or your off the bus.
There's really no choice. And if you ever waver, just talk to a carolina fan for 2 minutes.
i would pull for the taliban against UNC...
Bless me father for I have sinned . . .
I must admit that I have – infrequently – rooted for UNC “in conference” when they play Maryland, only because I despise the “Fear the Classroom” crowd so deeply.
Easiest question ever.
Hell, no!
Personally, I root for them in early-season OOC games because I want them to be as self-deluded as possible going into the ACC season. Never root for them in the tournament.
I cheer for ACC schools through the tournament (because it makes the conference look better), but I would never cheer for UNC. Personally I want them to get a dozen McDonalds all Americans and then get blown out every game by fifty for the rest of eternity. So it shows how crappy of a coach Williams is. OK they may have been over the top, but the answer is never!!!
The only scenario where I would hesitate for a millisecond regarding rooting against UNC would be if they were playing UK under the helm of Coach Cal. But even in that scenario, I would still have to root against UNC.
It's in the blood.
Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!
Go To Hell carolina, Go To Hell!
9F 9F 9F
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The only time I could consider it is if they were one game away from playing us in the tourney (a la '91). There's a chance that my inner basketball fan could persuade my inner Duke fan that the epicness would be worth the delayed gratification of beating them personally. Maybe. He'd have to make one hell of a good argument.
I would have to buy a pressure washer to get rid of the stench afterward though.
James and I were classmates at Duke. I accompanied him on a couple of ACC road trips. And I know he takes credit for the airball chant, but I wasn't sitting near enough to him to know if it's really true (it's certainly true that the entire stadium chanted it that day, every time Chick Yonakor touched the ball after his ill-fated first half shot attempt). At the time (and maybe now; for all I know it's true) James also claimed to be a direct descendant of George Washington. FWIW.
It's taken this old, now-revived, thread to get me to fully understand the degrees of hatred of UNC. It's possible that those of us who do not now live, and have not much in the past lived, among UNC [or Md] fans, can't fully understand how obnoxious those fanbases are.
Now maybe the intensity of the "What a dumb question" responses has little to do with proximity to Heeldom [or Terpdom]. But a fair number of responses have at least noted this factor as significant, maybe determinative.
Never having had to deal with UNC/Md/UK fanatics in numbers, at work, wherever, my own 9F 9F 9F is, maybe, tempered by this "innocence," this naivete. Knowing what a great university is UNCCH, admiring its academic excellence, and remembering Dean Smith as a superb [albeit irritating] coach, yet, as I now see, not knowing the everyday awfulness of the idiotic fanbase, I appreciate the fierceness of so many of the posts in this thread.
I sort of understood this phenomenon by virtue of my intermittent visits to I[diot]C. But this thread spills and spells out some powerful stuff.
I employ a ranking system of teams I dislike the most, with UNC being at the top. Based upon those rankings, I would not exactly cheer, but at least pull for those teams with "lower seed."
In other words, I never ever root/pull for UNC because no other team is higher on the dislike scale. If UK were to play UConn, I would sorta pull for UConn to win ugly cause I dislike UK more.
Or I just watch something else on TV.
Never. Ever. EVER. If they are playing an exceptionally despicable team I root for a meteor strike.
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