pick6pedro {l Wrote}:MilitantEagle {l Wrote}:I don't mind Duke. The fans that come to Conte are reasonable people. I would much rather see Duke be successful than UNC, Maryland, NCSU, or VT. Many of the fans from those school suck.
I think you landed on an important distinction because the other schools you mentioned don't have legions of no-reason bandwagoneers (with the exception of UNC). The douches from those schools are their real fan base, which I am more or less OK with. The nothing-to-do-with or all-of-a-sudden Duke fans (similar to ND, Cowboys, or more recently Sawx fans) tend to be even worse than the actual Duke grads or similarly linked actual fans. This is far more intolerable than a mouthbreather with a stronger reason to pound their beer belly about their alma mater.
Building on Turd's excellent point, I found out several years ago that in a shitty little town in northern Connecticut named Danbury, the kids grow up as either Duke or North Carolina fans. I guess they just choose between the two when they're growing up because they're a bunch of front-running douchenozzles. This discovery was part of my discovery of the Douchiest Sports Fan on Earth. His favorite teams were: Dallas Cowboys, LA Lakers, NY Yankees, Duke Blue Devils, Colorado Avalanche (this was the early aught's), Brazil soccer.
A couple years after I stopped working with this guy, I was watching the BC-Duke ACCT Championship Game and got a text about "Dem Dookies" about 30 seconds after BC lost. This lobotomized twatmuffin had no discernable connection to the Dookies but felt the need to act superior for choosing them as a fan. That is the essence of Duke fandom and half the reason they're so despised. The other half is the fact that they play annoying basketball with a team full of awkward mongoloid white guys.