Monday, April 04, 2005

UN (can't) C (me)

Since the day I set foot on North Carolina's clay soil in the summer of 1988, I have hated the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The first fight I got into at Seawell Elementary was with a boy who loved UNC so much he would crap his pants on a daily basis. Ironically, the second fight was with a State fan, who went all Benidect Arnold and went to UVA (aka UNC-Charlotesville). I was a Duke fan. It is tough to be a Duke fan growing up in Chapel Hill. You had to have a tough skin because UNC was beating up on Duke with frightening regularity. It really must've hurt Duke's ego as they rolled from Final Four to Final Four. UNC fans love making stuff up, mostly becuase their jobs are really unfufilling and they have plenty of time on their hands. During the season when Coach K was out with a bumb hip, UNC fan said he had fone crazy and was in Dorthea Dix Mental Hospital. However, though Duke lost an assload of games that year it was still damn near impossible to get tickets for any games that year. UNC went 8-20 three years ago. I was given UNC-Duke tickets. In fact I had to start turning down ticket because I was being offered so many of them. UNC fan is abandwagoneer. NC State had its first non-bowl season in the past five years. Yet, no one in Raleigh is calling for the firing of Chuck "The Chest" Amato. However, UNC made its first bowl in that time frame. People after the first game, a stumbling effort against William & Mary (Div. I-AA), wanted John Bunting's head on a pike. But, once he pulled a win out of his sizeable ass against one my old favorites, the Miami Hurricanes, people thought he was the greatest thing since sliced bread (which is only served in two places in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area). Oh, and Dick Baddour, UNC Athletic Director, gave him a massive contract extension. Hey, one outta four is good, if you are minor league catcher. UNC fan wanted Dick fired until he tossed enough money at Ol' Roy to get him to tell Kansas to go fuck themselves. UNC fan will say Roy came back to UNC because of school pride. Roy had so much school pride he stuck around the afore mentioned UNC-Miami football game right to the third quarter. Roy Williams is not a awesome coach. He is a fine coach. His leagcy at Kansas ain't exactly freakish. He took the helm of the Kansas ship, from Larry Brown, a year after they won a national championship. (Please note biting sarcasm) It must have been hard`to rebuild that program. (End sarcasm) Now, he is getting credit for this team. He recruited Reyshawn Terry, a liabilaty in the UNC roster, and Marvin Williams, who is so good I hope the Spurs can get him in the draft this year. But, people talk about how that team is based around the Big 3, May McCants, and Felton. That class was brought in my a now unemployed Matt Dougherty. Would he have gotten them this far? Sweet Baby Jesus only knows.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That leaves me feeling quite relaxed. I can go into tonights game knowing the world knows the truth.
Thank you RB, Thank you.