Quote (Mangina @ Mar 16 2013 12:48pm)
From Duke Basketball Report, "As Maryland moves closer to departure – they’ll be gone after next season – the less we play them the better. It’s not that we mind playing Maryland; we truly don’t. When you look at them, the players, generally, are admirable. They play hard and they honor the game. And the games are usually taut and exciting.
What we won’t miss are the idiot fans. It would’ve been nice if Wake could have sent them home early so the rest of the conference didn’t have to put up with their crudeness. The good thing is that in the Tournament, no matter where it is played, there are only so many of them and many more of the rest of us. Bottle throwing, heated pennies, opposing fans hiding beneath their seats, riots – that’s all out.
Well not the riots. But if they like to live in their own filth, that’s their problem.
When we look back and think of the great teams and players over the years, certainly we’ll miss that: Albert King, playing like a vengeful wraith; Buck Williams outdueling Ralph Sampson simply because his heart was bigger; John Lucas, so brilliant, so confident, such an Icarus figure; Len Bias, whose talent was to propel the Celtics a decade into the future before he died by his own actions; Walt Williams strapping his team on his back; Juan Dixon, Steve Blake, Grievis Vasquez.
We didn’t even mention Len Elmore, Tom McMillen, Brad Davis, Mo Howard, Greg Manning or the glorious failure that was Brian Magid.
We’ll miss all that. But the fans? Not even slightly. Most Duke fans, we expect, would assume that seeing them as rivals would also put us the same bolgia, watching the vermin fight it out. Next time let them burn their whole campus down and then both conferences can be rid of them."
rofl
obviously mad