The End Of Coach K
Last season I went into detail about my journey into becoming a secondary Vikings fan. I described the circumstances of picking the Vikings being related to tangible rewards in my math class at the time. The winner got free homework/test passes, a worthy prize. What I neglected to go into was that my math teacher also had a very similar project for the spring semester based around March Madness. The project was a bit different in that we got paired up with a classmate for the work, but both of us got to choose a team. If either team won, both of us reaped the reward.
My friend drew #1 out of the hat. He picked Duke. They won. I asked him why he picked Duke, and he said “I dunno, I hear they win every year”. We both got the grand prize even though my pick fell in the sweet 16 (Cincinnati). So instead of a story about how Duke screwed me over my first exposure to college basketball and Duke was actually positive. It was only in the immediately following years that I realized we won by picking The Patriots of college ball and that Duke was a detestable rich boy college that deserves nothing but contempt. It is our patriotic duty to hate Duke. Duke is the Lakers. Duke is the Yankees. Duke is the Patriots. Duke is Bama. Duke is the…I dunno, Penguins? Who is the hockey team the rest of the league hates with a passion? I hope Duke is never relevant again.
I don’t really care about Coach K or college basketball, I just wanted to revel in watching Duke lose and his ass get sent out to pasture. My college didn’t have a team worthy of the tournament, so I guess…go Terps? My uncle went there and that’s the closest connection I got to anything.
As a NC State alum, we would never be in that spirit bomb, partly because fuck both UNC and Duke go team Meteor and partly because we’re so bad at basketball these days that we’d only be able to provide negative energy
As a Charlotte fan, same.
whats a spirit bomb
Comes from what’s likely to be the most popular anime from the 90’s.
Can you do a Frank Gore retirement comic?
Maybe the Bruins instead of the Penguins?
The Canadiens are like Yankees of Hockey in that they’ve won the Stanley Cup way more than anyone else (24 times to the Yankee’s 27 World Series) although they haven’t been as successful in recent years.
Also why is Boston always associated with the top title teams in like every sport. They’re either tied for the most championships in a sport (Pats), heated rivals with the team that is (Bruins, Red Sox), or both for good measure (Celtics). No wonder nobody likes these teams.
Because the Tabs haven’t been legit cup contenders for like a decade. They haven’t won a cup since the mid 90s. Hockey has a ton of fluctuation, but the one team that is consistently frustratingly good is Boston. Also brad Marchand is a sack of dicks.
But the closest thing I can think of to answer this question would be the Red Wings during their 25 year playoff run. They were very much the patriots of the sport.
I’d also vote for the Bruins as the hated hockey team. Not so much for sustained success though. They’re just a rival of everyone.
For example, they’re rivals of the Maple Leafs and the Canadiens, which covers a lot of ground in Canada. They also defeated the Canucks in Vancouver’s last trip to the finals. Plus the whole Boston / New York rivalry.
They’ve been to the finals 20 times and faced 8 different teams, although their record in the finals isn’t very good (6-14).
It should be the Blackhawks for being the sex-abuse-concealing-so-they-can-win-a-Stanley-Cup pieces of shit.
It is interesting the number of college basketball “blue bloods” who wear blue, including every one of this year’s final four. Not very interesting, just enough to warrant using the word.
An all blue blood Final 4 was kind of a drag. I always like at least one small school, even if it is the Zags. I always hope for absolute chaos in NCAAB. Actually, in every sport. It makes it seem more fun. I mean, every body loves a good underdog story. The thing is, UNC is an 8 seed and was viewed by quite a few as an underdog team. At least we still have the Browns…….right? >.>
I don’t want to talk about it…
There is an old joke that Duke has a larger fanbase in New Jersey than in North Carolina
Wow 2 Basketball comics in a row! We’re going from DrawPlay to Pick&Roll
North Carolina have a unique 42-year history with Coach K. They gave him…
• His Duke head-to-head with the Tar Heels is dead level, 50-50…
• But his first ever loss as Duke HC was to UNC (a 2-point squeaker in December 1980)…
• As was his final home loss…
• And they ended his career…
• …in the first and only time they’ve met in March Madness.
That is as starcrossed as it gets. And I like the Blue Devils, we’ve done well out of them.
As a Kentucky fan, Thank you for this.
Duke sucks. I still hate Laettner, and this was the worst tournament ever.
There weren’t many upsets, but the biggest one was Kentucky.
It then ended up being a boring battle of bluebloods, and the biggest blueblood and my team wasn’t there.
I love the chaos of March Madness.
Just sucks it landed on Lexington, Kentucky this year.
Thank FSM Duke lost, and then UNC lost.
Bill Self and Kansas are not detestable.
Every final four team except Villanova was “the Patriots of college basketball”, as you put it. If Kentucky had been in Villanova’s region and made it instead, we would have had the final four of teams nobody outside of those fanbases can stand rooting for. All of them are “muh blueblood” types, 2 (Kansas and Kentucky) have some of the slimiest coaches the sport has ever seen, UNC threw their entire academic institution under the bus by admitting they offered joke classes to all of their students so they wouldn’t have their 2005 basketball championship (among other things) vacated for letting their athletes get through school without actually going to school even more blatantly than the usual for NCAA. Duke is unlikeable but hardly anybody who follows college basketball was doing a spirit bomb for UNC, it was a groan-worthy masturbation fest of HNNNGH THE GREATEST RIVALRY IN THE GAME IN THE FINAL FOUR. Once Nova lost to Kansas there were zero good guys left.