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mrmpa

(4,033 posts) Thu Mar 15, 2012, 05:44 PM Mar 2012

Does anyone else root or not for an NCAA team because of the politics of where the team is from or..

it's history. Right now I'm rooting for Harvard over Vanderbilt. The Florida Virginia game I will be booing both teams. Let me know if I'm alone or not.

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Does anyone else root or not for an NCAA team because of the politics of where the team is from or.. (Original Post) mrmpa Mar 2012 OP

What do you do with UNC? taterguy Mar 2012 #1

I've got 2 brothers born in NC, I lived there when I was a kid for 3 years..so NC mrmpa Mar 2012 #3

Duke has much to answer for gratuitous Mar 2012 #2

And most people don't even know they're named for a tobacco company taterguy Mar 2012 #4

Many people don't know that it was 'The American Tobacco Company'. Ptah Mar 2012 #6

Coach K is one of the best coaches hifiguy Mar 2012 #7

I won't root for Penn State because of the whole Sandusky thing. Initech Mar 2012 #5

taterguy

(29,582 posts)

1. What do you do with UNC?

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 05:48 PM

Mar 2012

Mostly red state but the school in general and Dean Smith in particular are bastions of the Left, except for the whole Nike U thing.

mrmpa

(4,033 posts)

3. I've got 2 brothers born in NC, I lived there when I was a kid for 3 years..so NC

Reply to taterguy (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 05:56 PM

Mar 2012

has me to be proud of. lol

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. Duke has much to answer for

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 05:55 PM

Mar 2012

But their perceived success on the hardwood seems to cover a multitude of sins.

taterguy

(29,582 posts)

4. And most people don't even know they're named for a tobacco company

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 06:19 PM

Mar 2012

Ptah

(33,024 posts)

6. Many people don't know that it was 'The American Tobacco Company'.

Reply to taterguy (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 06:32 PM

Mar 2012

Easy to see how they got Duke from that.

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

7. Coach K is one of the best coaches

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 06:33 PM

Mar 2012

in any sport that I have ever seen. He has my total respect, and I am not a huge college sports fan.

Initech

(100,063 posts)

5. I won't root for Penn State because of the whole Sandusky thing.

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 06:27 PM

Mar 2012

I know it's just mainly football and if it were an isolated incident I could see letting it slide but it goes back fucking decades! And everyone from the judge to the governor had a hand in Second Mile - the corruption behind the scandal is just as crazy as the scandal itself!

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