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Shoe, Domers, Johnnies, Sarah, Pukon, Bergen Catholic North etc. But watching the B1G tourney and now March Madness, it dawned on me. Who do I hate in bball in our conference? The answer? None yet. Football is easy and obvious. But bball?
How do other people feel?
Not like back in the day. Cuse- Louie and Bouie,Nova - Alex ? Kelvin Troy's nemesis, St. John's - Mullin and the center Bailey used to battle ( McCoy?) The Hall - from Ramsey, The Flaherty brothers, and the North Bergen dude who was lights out.Shoe, Domers, Johnnies, Sarah, Pukon, Bergen Catholic North etc. But watching the B1G tourney and now March Madness, it dawned on me. Who do I hate in bball in our conference? The answer? None yet. Football is easy and obvious. But bball?
How do other people feel?
Not like back in the day. Cuse- Louie and Bouie,Nova - Alex ? Kelvin Troy's nemesis, St. John's - Mullin and the center Bailey used to battle ( McCoy?) The Hall - from Ramsey, The Flaherty brothers, and the North Bergen dude who was lights out.
Hated them all and we used to win more than our fair share.
Yes, thank you!Alex Bradley I believe is the Nova player you are referring to.
That is SOOOO shocking.They had a segment on Mike and Mike the other day how Northwestern fans are becoming arrogant like Duke fans without the years of success.
...There was a thread on the main board about least favorite fan base and surprisingly Maryland was one of the most frequent ones listed, especially by their old ACC partners.
Hate Penn State in all sports. Women's soccer, Lax they are already rivalries. Bball hard not to see the rivalry developing there too.
I agree with above I despise Michigan FB and Harbo but have been rooting for them (and Wisconsin, Purdue) in basketball OOC and NCAA games.
I officially hate Northwestern and Maryland as well - NW it seems whenever we play them in a sport the refs are ridiculously favoring them and I don't get it because they have as much a winning tradition as us.. ever since the first women's Bball tourney in Chicago where they injured two of our players (and the only time I ever saw Cviv get a technical) all the way through this past men's tourney...plus their obnoxious preppy fans ... hate them.
UMD is easy to hate if you've ever attended a Rutgers Olympic sport against them. Their soccer fans are the worst. Absolute least favorite specific sport fan base of mine. Bball too. Hate them in football. Gymnastics, everything they always travel and wave a million of those stupid ugly flags and are in love with that flag and think they are just the best at everything and it's just very annoying. There was a thread on the main board about least favorite fan base and surprisingly Maryland was one of the most frequent ones listed, especially by their old ACC partners.
MD has the best student section in the county for soccer, and it's not really close.
As for other fan bases disliking it, we all kind of love it. We're brash and we're loud and we're annoying, but we own it and we're passionate about it. I don't think anyone would apologize either.
They had a segment on Mike and Mike the other day how Northwestern fans are becoming arrogant like Duke fans without the years of success.
The discussion wasn't about being fired up. By all means you should celebrate the bball team's success this year. It was about a level of arrogance not justified by previous success.Really? Sorry I missed it. Interesting that for many years Northwestern fans have been scorned for their apathy and now all of a sudden because we finally get fired up about our team we're arrogant.
The discussion wasn't about being fired up. By all means you should celebrate the bball team's success this year. It was about a level of arrogance not justified by previous success.
It's never as much about the team as it is about the fanbase. Just can't stand Michigan fans. Smug aholes- all of them.This Michigan basketball team is pretty easy to root for, based on the style they play and the way they carry themselves. I watched some of Baylor-USC, for example, and I would've easily rooted for USC even without the Baylor scandals just from how the Baylor guys act.
I tend to root against Maryland and PSU in hoops because they could be recruiting competition. I like how Wisconsin and MSU play, easy to root for again. I don't really think much of the rest one way or the other.
You are correct, truly successful people generally don't show arrogance or see the need to.I wasn't aware that any level of success justified arrogance, which is a very unattractive trait, but as a Northwestern fan of many years I find it very amusing that we're suddenly an arrogant fan base after 50-some years of being trashed by the Ohio States and Michigans of the world. Just another topic to fill the Interweb world.