Thanks for the sarcasm, denigration, and misconstruing of my statements. And to think I got you nothing for the holiday season.
I see how you ignored my point about UNC representation in national (and, of course, local) media. It must be that point was too insignificant to argue with. More winning argumentation for you, I guess.
Good point. I agree that it doesn't. IN AND OF ITSELF.
But throw in a personal lifetime of such anecdotes, the ridiculous ref hate conspiracy thing Duke dealt with for years, a string of hate articles in the national press (not just local), and it sure smells like a pattern. Don't believe me,
believe google. Feel free to to change the search terms to other universities and see if you get as prominent a series of national press playing to the Duke hate.
No, go ahead and google it. We'll wait.
The part where the national media talked for years about Duke getting all the calls is, AFAIK, unique. I've never seen the national media treat a program like that.
The hate thing seems to have died down a bit over the years. It's still there, but it isn't as bad as it once was-- in fact, it's downright tolerable these days. Doesn't mean it's gone away entirely.