Duke Vs North Carolina
Yeah file this as over-hyped. No matter how much ESPN tries to sell Duke vs North Carolina as the greatest rivalry in sports I’m not buying it. This rivalry is as over-rated as taking a stripper home.
Can you honestly tell me that people on the West Coast that didn’t go to either college actually give a damn about two college basketball teams on the other side of the freaking continent? Do you think that sports fans in other countries give a damn about this game? Hell, I’m a couple of hundred miles away and I could give a damn about either school or their so-called rivalry.
The truth is it’s just like all other rivalry games; it’s important to the player’s, coaches, and those team’s fans just like every other rivalry game is. It is important in the context of it’s conference; that’s all. The only difference is that Dick Vitale gets to scream at me about how great these two teams are, and about how great the match-up always is; please. It’ll be a pretty good game, but in the end, college basketball really doesn’t matter until the tourney, and these rivalry games don’t mean that much in the grand scheme of things. And don’t tell me about the history, about the tradition, about the blahblahblah STOP! That’s my point, I don’t care! And neither do alot of us.