Which is more true to your honest feelings

[SoCalDukeFan]

a) Duke beat UNC and Duke fans are very happy.

b) UNC lost to Duke and UNC fans are really unhappy.


I think for me it should be a but I think is is really b.

SoCal

[OldPhiKap]

For me, the down from losing is stronger than the high from winning. At least regular season.

That may not speak well about me, but that’s the honest answer.

[CameronDuke]

A.

Glass half full kinda person.

It makes me extremely happy when we beat them and I focus on our win and how proud we should be rather than those toxic lunatics down the road.

[wilko]

A.

Glass half full kinda person.
It makes me extremely happy when we beat them and I focus on our win and how proud we should be rather than those toxic lunatics down the road.

I kinda get the Glass half full comparison generally.
My POV is, the glass doesn't matter so much, if you are thirsty open another bottle.

But as it relates to the topic -
Any Duke win is happiness.
Any UNC loss is happiness -1.
A Duke win over UNC is a full glass.

I wont lie, I enjoy having UNC fans being envious of the full glass. They are so thirsty.
Take a sip, spill a little just for spite.

[du_bb1]

"I wont lie, I enjoy having UNC fans being envious of the full glass. They are so thirsty.
Take a sip, spill a little just for spite."

Love it, well done !

[91devil]

I kinda get the Glass half full comparison generally.
My POV is, the glass doesn't matter so much, if you are thirsty open another bottle.

But as it relates to the topic -
Any Duke win is happiness.
Any UNC loss is happiness -1.
A Duke win over UNC is a full glass.

I wont lie, I enjoy having UNC fans being envious of the full glass. They are so thirsty.
Take a sip, spill a little just for spite.

Is that College Basketball Haiku?

[Bluedog]

For me, the down from losing is stronger than the high from winning. At least regular season.

That may not speak well about me, but that’s the honest answer.

Loss aversion bias. It's pretty common.

[flyingdutchdevil]

For me, the down from losing is stronger than the high from winning. At least regular season.

That may not speak well about me, but that’s the honest answer.

Yup. Same.

I’m happy now. Very happy last night.

If we lost, I’d be pissed last night, and pissed off today.

After the FF, I was upset for a week…

[Phredd3]

For me, the down from losing is stronger than the high from winning. At least regular season.

That may not speak well about me, but that’s the honest answer.

This wasn't the question, though. This question was asking whether, after a result like last night, do you first think, a) "Yay, Duke won! We get to be happy!!", or b) "Yay, those cheating SOBs lost! I'm so glad their fans are in agony!"

For me, it's a), and it is not close. I almost never take pleasure in someone else's pain, even if that person is a lying, cheating, low-down waste of humanity. Honestly, after most Duke wins, I don't even think about the fans down in Chapel Hell at all, unless the television crew chooses to film their slack-jawed disbelief.

[OldPhiKap]

This wasn't the question, though. This question was asking whether, after a result like last night, do you first think, a) "Yay, Duke won! We get to be happy!!", or b) "Yay, those cheating SOBs lost! I'm so glad their fans are in agony!"

For me, it's a), and it is not close. I almost never take pleasure in someone else's pain, even if that person is a lying, cheating, low-down waste of humanity. Honestly, after most Duke wins, I don't even think about the fans down in Chapel Hell at all, unless the television crew chooses to film their slack-jawed disbelief.

I feel them both at the same time. It’s not a binary jolt of euphoria for me. Just a lovely gumbo of ecstasy.

(btw, I’m naming my next band “Gumbo of Ecstasy” if not already taken).

[PackMan97]

I feel them both at the same time. It’s not a binary jolt of euphoria for me. Just a lovely gumbo of ecstasy.

(btw, I’m naming my next band “Gumbo of Ecstasy” if not already taken).

I believe that name is trademarked by an adult film company in Louisiana. Don't ask, I won't tell.

[Tooold]

While for me it is mostly “A”, I felt a little bit of “B” last night leaving Cameron when I passed that security guard who, before the game, was asking everyone who walked by to yell “go Tar Heels”.

[CameronBlue]

a) Duke beat UNC and Duke fans are very happy.

b) UNC lost to Duke and UNC fans are really unhappy.


I think for me it should be a but I think is is really b.

SoCal

A) strikes me as being more aspirational: a well-earned victory, but hopefully a stepping stone on the way to greater achievements.
B) B is fear-driven, for long-time fans particularly, a dying and irrational fear that lingers from a time when UNC's hegemony was rarely challenged, a vestige of "Dean Psychosis" if you will. No one gets under our skin the way UNC fans do, to no rational explanation aside from the fact that they are insufferable bowel portals.

When K came into the league he reset standards of achievement which helped put the UNC game into a better perspective. March became his primary obsession, not beating UNC. 7 Final Fours in 9 years is a strong indication that for K and his teams "UNC was just another game." While that never really became accepted orthodoxy, beating UNC still ranks as a highlight of the season, any season, you don't often get far in any pursuit if you are driven solely by a fear of failure. I would so much like A to be true, but yeah B is usually operative in my brain a good measure of the time. Even in the context of sports rivalries, I'm this concerned about what UNC fans feel? Really?

[Reddevil]

Always A. I never care how they feel.

[BLPOG]

Usually A for me. There are a couple noteworthy exceptions. Last night was A 100%.

[weezie]

Always A. I never care how they feel.

Yeah, let's not get too oogly about it. Roach winking at Love at the end of game said it all for me. Last year was a new low but this game helped heal a bit of the heartbreak. A bit.

[du_bb1]

That's a tough question.
I think mostly A now, I am retired, so no longer have the daily contact with the ugly blue peoples. Five yeas ago, while working and
that daily contact it would have been am B+

[gep]

Always A. I never care how they feel.

Same for me... "A". GTHC... feel what they want... I don't care.

[DevilYouKnow]

Way happier that we won.

As a native North Carolinian, I’d like to take some small satisfaction in my home state’s flagship public university’s sports successes. But Tar Heel fans are so obnoxious and I’m surrounded by them, so there’s at least some satisfaction in having them STFU, although their incessant caterwauling when they lose is almost worse than their gloating wins.

[jv001]

Way happier that we won.

As a native North Carolinian, I’d like to take some small satisfaction in my home state’s flagship public university’s sports successes. But Tar Heel fans are so obnoxious and I’m surrounded by them, so there’s at least some satisfaction in having them STFU, although their incessant caterwauling when they lose is almost worse than their gloating wins.

I'm very happy whenever the Cheats lose because of the fans and the way the so-called university needed to cheat to even be in the game against good teams. I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure they've aways cheated.


GoDuke!