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Can we be friends, again? [emoji6]
Yeah, we're cool.
My mother and grandmother are UNC grads and one of my nephews is headed there in the fall, my grandfather was hardcore Duke (he was both student and faculty), I have another nephew at NC State, I went to UNCC before transferring and my brother went to USC (not the good one). The family loyalties are all over the place. Probably part of the reason I was so totally ABC (Anybody But Carolina, for the uninitiated) was because so many people were fans. Not graduates or students, just loud, overbearing, irritating fans. I've always been kind of a contrarian ass, so naturally, I had to align myself with Carolina's most hated rival. It helped that I thought Johnny Dawkins ruled, too.
These days, I've lost interest in basketball in general, so I can't say I'm really a fan of any particular team, but the old visceral hatred of UNC never fades away. My wife likes to point out the rare Tarheel stickers on cars, just to get a Pavlovian "F-ing Carolina!" from me.
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it's amazing how college sports is such a big thing in the US. most places around the world don't give two shits about students playing sports. must seem like a lucrative thing in the US considering how those players get scholarships and such…
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College athletics in the US are quite a big money maker for universities.
I've got season tickets to the University of Texas football games and it's amazing how much money that school makes on football tickets and donations alone.
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The NCAA tournament is the best of the best playing their hearts out, winner take all. It is something special, that's why people love it. Normally it takes a Herculean effort to win it all, with many teams who are good enough on a given night to beat any other. Except for KY this year - they are running over everyone - usually there is more parity and you just don't know what will happen.
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it's amazing how college sports is such a big thing in the US. most places around the world don't give two shits about students playing sports. must seem like a lucrative thing in the US considering how those players get scholarships and such…
There's the rub, they aren't really students, they're unpaid professionals in a development league. The moral bankruptcy of our system is undeniable. These athletes need to be paid.
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More importantly, the whole March madness is giving junkies, bookies their annual rush of dopamine and adrenaline ::).
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it's amazing how college sports is such a big thing in the US. most places around the world don't give two shits about students playing sports. must seem like a lucrative thing in the US considering how those players get scholarships and such…
Yeah, I find it fascinating how they're even able to talk about it. I couldn't even name all the colleges in NSW, let alone anything they do. Love that about US Culture as an observer on the outside
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I am a UofL man, but I suspect they is gonna lose tonight, even though they are GIVING 2.5 points… and no one is going to beat KY.
Well, I happily stand corrected
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Yeah, I find it fascinating how they're even able to talk about it. I couldn't even name all the colleges in NSW, let alone anything they do. Love that about US Culture as an observer on the outside
yeah. you're right. same for me here in WA or even back in Singapore. though i'd have to admit as an athlete myself, i'm in envy of the amount of dollars put into it and how big the whole college sports industry, if you'd call it that, is. it presents much opportunity to the athletes given the popular nature of it, given that in other countries, there is a lack of them.
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Is it bad Eli??
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Something weird happened at the Regent Street Apple Store in London today…
