# Who's Still Standing or Fuck You Duke Haters **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644 "2004-03-22T01:18:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/21 "2004-03-22T06:15:04Z")
No one can EVER take away the fact that Kentucky beat Duke for its title way back in 1978. Ancient history, yes, but COOL ancient history! ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/22 "2004-03-22T07:07:57Z")
If I do decide to pay the subscription fee which I haven’t decided on yet, it’ll probably be because of this thread. Nothing like being sworn at by drunk Kentucky fans to make a guy feel welcome. Now who’s in for a group hug? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/23 "2004-03-22T08:52:46Z")
Hey, I swore at Duke in general and gave props to Coach K in the same post. I think that says something, even if that something is, “Man, were _you_ ever drunk.” I think the reason I always admired Coach K is that he seems to be coaching a college basketball team, rather than an NBA farm team. Maybe he is full of the same bullshit that permeates the worst of the NCAA and I just haven’t paid enough attention, I don’t know. Somehow, though, I’ve managed to maintain a tremendous respect for Duke basketball, even through my deep-seeded, highly immature hatred of them. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/24 "2004-03-22T09:10:27Z")
I took, in my bracket, Duke v. St. Joe’s for the final with St. Joe’s winning 89-84. Alas, I’m down to 1 of 4 Elight Eight games (totally eliminated from the other 3 no matter what happens) I suck at picking brackets. I’m taking the Gopher’s next year just to guarantee a first round loss. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/25 "2004-03-22T09:12:10Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > Elight Eight spell that however the hell you want to 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Sarang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jack\_Sarang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Sarang)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/26 "2004-03-22T10:59:10Z")
Duke Sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/27 "2004-03-22T12:02:25Z")
> [@Kid\_A](#): > > Just wanted to mention my final four is still intact. Pitt, Georgia Tech, Duke and UConn. What a perfect weekend. 😃 You suck. I knew I should have gone with Duke. I make it a rule to only go with one number one seed in the Final Four (maybe two sometimes) and I couldn’t decide between Duke and Kentucky so I flipped a coin. Dammit. I knew Kentucky was going to screw my bracket, they always do. Punks. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/28 "2004-03-22T12:29:52Z")
Let’s let someone else that’s been patiently waiting for a championship win it this year. Illinois, Georgia Tech or OK State are all deserving. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Obvious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Mr.Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Obvious)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/29 "2004-03-22T13:38:25Z")
> [@Jimmy Chitwood](#): > > My point isn’t that Duke is especially dirty. It’s that they certainly aren’t especially classy. Fuck them. Fuck Coach K, fuck Vitale, Mike Patrick, Jay Bilas, Seth Davis, the fucking refs, that little gremlin bastard Wojo, that alien head Battier, and the rest of the El Busto ranks. They get every possible advantage from the world around them, before, during, and after games, and they’ll still piss it away. And this world will keep on spinning. Jimmy…You. Are. The. Fucking. Man. Fuck Duke, fuck their coach, fuck their underachieving candy ass, we haven’t fouled anybody in 10 years mentality and fuck their bandwagoning fans (who 99% of them just…oh, happen to root for the Yankees, too). Oh, yea…and fuck Kentucky as well. Crooked, choking bastards with their googly-eyed dumbfuck coach. And fuck the Pac-10 and West Coast basketball. What a bunch of pussies. Gonzaga, out. Arizona, out. Stanford, out. Washington, out. I don’t want to hear ANYMORE about this East Coast bias shit when it comes to basketball. The West Coast showed up and then folded like a cheap suit. And who’s the dumb shit that picked Stanford to win it all? Me! What a dumb stupid jackass! What the hell was I thinking? Soft fucking pussies…PAC-10 sucks! Cincy…choked again…Bob Huggins…might be the dirtiest coach in the world and the asshole can’t get out of the 2nd round AGAIN! And BTW…this has been a great tournament…tons of close games! ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/30 "2004-03-22T14:45:10Z")
I will hate Duke till the day I die, and Christian Laettner can suck it. Yes, I am referring to “THE GAME.” ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/31 "2004-03-22T14:50:16Z")
> [@Kid\_A](#): > > Now who’s in for a group hug? Fuck your mother with a rusty crowbar. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/32 "2004-03-22T14:51:53Z")
Ah, screw the lot of ya! Let’s hear it for my Longhorns _and_ Lady Longhorns!! Oh yea!!! 😛😛😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/33 "2004-03-22T15:00:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t want to hear ANYMORE about this East Coast bias shit when it comes to basketball. The West Coast showed up and then folded like a cheap suit. The Pac 10 went 28-16 in the NCAA tournament the last 3 years, with at least 5 regional finalists and Arizona in the title game, in which they outplayed the other team but got robbed. That’s better than pretty much any other conference in the last 3 years. Yeah, they were horrible this year. We knew that even before the NCAA tournament. I didn’t see anyone saying that anyone else from the Pac 10 should have gone this year. It was questionable whether even Washington deserved to go. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/34 "2004-03-22T15:04:02Z")
It’s obvious why the Duke haters hate Duke. Duke wins. They win consistently, they rarely play below their ability and they don’t get ousted from the NCAA tournament in the second round. I’m a Louisville fan and I’ve been grinding my teeth since, oh, late January. I wish I could be a Duke fan, it would be so much easier. Those bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/35 "2004-03-23T00:33:40Z")
As one poster has noted I could care less about Duke, but Dicky V needs to shut the fuck up. If Texas doesn’t beat you, UConn or Syracuse (hopefully the latter) will. Hell, I hope the Illini hand your ass to you and Vitale chokes on his own tongue. Go Orange! Would Carmello help? Yes. Do we need him. No. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/36 "2004-03-23T02:07:01Z")
> [@DaddyTimesTwo](#): > > I wish I could be a Duke fan, it would be so much easier. Those bastards. You are correct, **DX2** , it is easier being a fan. I have been on this particular bandwagon for the last 26 years (yes, even in 1995). My sister was a freshman at Duke in 1978 (in the Coach Foster days), and I met Gene Banks (“Tinkerbell”) at the campus busstop. He talked to me, a skinny, pimply-faced seventh grader, about his previous summer playing in Europe as he waited for his bus. I was a fan through Junior High, High School, through my four years at Duke (Engineering, '88), and every day since then. My wife has converted to the Cameron Faithful, and she should get to see her first live game this Friday at the Georgia Dome. Yeah, it IS easier. And Dickie V should burn in the deepest depths of Hell. ---
**Author:** ![HumanStromboli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HumanStromboli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumanStromboli)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/37 "2004-03-23T03:02:08Z")
> [@Kid\_A](#): > > If I do decide to pay the subscription fee which I haven’t decided on yet, it’ll probably be because of this thread. Me too. And this > [@](#): > > Fuck them. Fuck Coach K, fuck Vitale, Mike Patrick, Jay Bilas, Seth Davis, the fucking refs, that little gremlin bastard Wojo, that alien head Battier, is absolute gold! \ ---
**Author:** ![HumanStromboli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HumanStromboli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HumanStromboli)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/38 "2004-03-23T03:04:33Z")
Er, _bastard_. ---
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/39 "2004-03-23T04:17:29Z")
First of all, I am not a Duke fan. That said, lighten the fuck up people! Coach K hasn’t developed NBA talent? Grant Hill was on a hall of fame track before his foot problems started; I notice that Cory Maggete and Elton Brand’s names are omitted. How many NBA players (other than Isiah) has Bobby Knight developed? How about Eddie Sutton? Duke is hardly the only team that stocks its roster with h.s. all-americans (Kentucky, Kansas, Carolina, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, UConn) and the only top flight program that has similar academic standards is Stanford (where have you gone Georgetown?). The fact that Duke has received so many high seeds in the tournament over the years is a direct reult of succeeding in the toughest conference year after year. If there is any reason at all to hate them, it would be because of the smugness of their fans. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644/40 "2004-03-23T06:43:40Z")
Oh, my word! My Alma Mater is in the Sweet 16? Whut? Go, Vandy? I’m not even sure if I’m saying it right… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-still-standing-or-fuck-you-duke-haters/235644.md?page=3)