Advantage of a small student body?

[DevilAlumna]

Davidson is picking up the tab for students who want to attend the game on Friday! Wow, and I thought free laundry service was a nice perk.

[weezie]

Well, Duke has free bus service!

And, they don't charge a tent fee for Krzyzewskiville...yet

[BCGroup]

I think this is awesome! According to the report, a donor picked up the tab. What a once in a lifetime opportunity for the students.

[happydays1949]

I just read about that in the paper. Isn't that wonderful for those kids. Talk about a 6th man. Davidson get it.

They are my new 2nd favorite team!

[Edouble]

I just read about that in the paper. Isn't that wonderful for those kids. Talk about a 6th man. Davidson get it.

They are my new 2nd favorite team!

Difficult for me to get on this Davidson bandwagon. A guy I knew in grad school told me that every kid at Davidson hates Duke. This guy was from Connecticut, went to Davidson, pulled for UConn, and said the most mean-spirited, offensive things, not just about Duke basketball, but also the school itself. I was told by him that Duke-hating was standard practice on the Davidson campus. Maybe he was embellishing, and it was just his group of friends that were so anti-Duke. Thinking backs to my days in section 19, however, the Davidson visiting section always was pretty obnoxious.

[Devilsfan]

Just more in state envy. Not everyone can get into Duke. It comes with the territory.

[weezie]

Yep; plenty of people I knew at Duke had also been accepted at Davidson, including myself.
But, I don't resent Davidson enjoying their trip to the Sweets. Let them have some fun. That way it will be tastier when we beat them in pre-season next year.

[Lavabe]

Umm, Davidson beat Emory earlier this season.

Seriously.

I am waiting for the football teams to meet.

I am, however, glad that they are doing this for their students.
Cheers,
Lavabe

[doctorhook]

Ddouble,

Most of the Duke hating at Davidson comes from the UNC fans, Charlotte connection, etc. I do not think it is more prevalent at Davidson than anywhere else. As for the academic side, from someone who graduated from both institutions, I can assure you there is not any Duke envy. Doc

[du_bb1]

to insinuate that Davidson is an inferior school is just wrong. I am sure there are some there who do not enjoy the royal blue--probably really not that many--but as mentioned tha Charloote connection is rampant

[doctorhook]

du bb1,

Exactly, and then guys like dukefan wonder why people dislike Duke. Doc

[JStuart]

Difficult for me to get on this Davidson bandwagon. A guy I knew in grad school told me that every kid at Davidson hates Duke. This guy was from Connecticut, went to Davidson, pulled for UConn, and said the most mean-spirited, offensive things, not just about Duke basketball, but also the school itself. I was told by him that Duke-hating was standard practice on the Davidson campus. Maybe he was embellishing, and it was just his group of friends that were so anti-Duke. Thinking backs to my days in section 19, however, the Davidson visiting section always was pretty obnoxious.

Talk about first-hand knowledge!
Davidson grads populate the Duke and UNC grad achools on a roughly equal basis (or at least they apply to both!) and all of my classmates who went on to graduate from the light blue place have remained polite and decent UNC fans, unlike many I run into in Durham on a daily basis. Believe me, they woulda loved a win over UNC last December (only lost by 4) as much as over Duke.
JStuart, Davidson '72, and Duke Med, '76, HS '81

[Highlander]

reminds me of WFU in the Orange Bowl. A Wake alumnist told me that something like 70% of all their living alumni were at the game.

And Davidson's smaller than Wake.

Granted you can get a ton more people into a football game than to a regional semifinal.

[weezie]

Welcome aboard Dr Hook and dubbby1! We love hearing that we aren't considered the sum of all evil over here and that no one really cares about us!

Good luck this weekend!

[blazindw]

reminds me of WFU in the Orange Bowl. A Wake alumnist told me that something like 70% of all their living alumni were at the game.

And Davidson's smaller than Wake.

Granted you can get a ton more people into a football game than to a regional semifinal.

Normally, this is true...however Davidson's playing in the Midwest Regional, which is at Ford Field in Detroit. Unlike other football stadiums used for basketball regionals, they do not set the court in one endzone and put grandstands along that baseline to restrict attendance...the court is set in the middle of the field along the 50 yard line and grandstands placed all around it covering the field until it reaches the real seats. This is the site where the largest crowd to watch a basketball game gathered (78,129 watched Michigan Snake and Kentucky in December 2003).

The announced capacity for this year's regional games is about 73,000. And, as of Monday, there were about 15,000 tickets still available, and MSU fans who had purchased tickets thinking that they would be able to watch their team there are now having trouble reselling the tickets for that very reason.

[merry]

Most of the Duke hating at Davidson comes from the UNC fans...

I was going to speculate the same thing. I have a friend from Maryland whose son went to Elon a few years back and he (the son) said a lot of his classmates were UNC fans and some were Duke fans so there was a microcosm of the whole UNC-Duke thing going on there.

Just about every time we've played Davidson at home (every other year for a while now) I see people with t-shirts they've made that are half Davidson half Duke. One time I talked to some of these folks and they said they were Davidson students but grew up rooting for Duke. Wish I had one of those shirts today!

[Black Mambo]

Sorry, not for you, unless you go to Davidson

Think Duke would ever do something like this...yeah right...not even 25 yrs ago...http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...=si_topstories

Mambo

[DukeDevil]

hmm...perhaps that's the "advantage of a small student body."

[Indoor66]

hmm...perhaps that's the "advantage of a small student body."

Yeah - 1700 students - total. From the Davidson web site:

"Davidson College is a liberal arts institution founded in 1837 by ministers of the Concord Presbytery. Its 1,700 students come from almost every state in the nation and many foreign countries. A highly selective admission process brings students who are proven scholars and leaders to a close campus community in the small town of Davidson, North Carolina."

[ClosetHurleyFan]

Just more in state envy. Not everyone can get into Duke. It comes with the territory.

Hmm...I have heard many speculate that you get a far superior undergrad education at Davidson than any other school in the state of NC. IN fact, when in law school at UNC with both Duke, Carolina and Davidson grads, very common for the Davidson grads to be the best legal writers of the bunch. I doubt its really a case of envy. Its a fantastic school.

If you look at admission standards, they are extremely selective, although they really compete with other similarly sized liberal arts schools, Amherst, etc...

I once heard that Davidson's grads hold more CEO positions of NC companies than any other school in the state. Very interesting....