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spoondave

NCAA smack talk

Mar 16, 2008 18:21

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grover173 March 17 2008, 17:16:19 UTC

The 5-12 "upset special" seeding makes me really nervous, but you DID see us lay the smackdown on Duke, right? I think Villanova should be very, very afraid.

julen March 17 2008, 22:06:30 UTC

What do Duke and a slowly leaking balloon have in common? Everything.

spoondave March 18 2008, 16:02:25 UTC

Clemson is a legitimate favorite. I just couldn't resist the jibe when I saw the bracket. :)

grover173 March 18 2008, 16:12:43 UTC

naturally. :)

Apparently there's some pretty nasty Nova trash talk on some of their boards...sadly it's degenerated into southern stereotypes in most instances. I haven't looked at a lot of it.

spoondave March 18 2008, 16:27:38 UTC

That's disappointing, but I'm afraid it's not terribly surprising.

grover173 March 18 2008, 16:41:35 UTC

Clemson fans are dishing it out pretty heavily on this side too with the "damn yankee" stereotype, which is similarly disappointing. It got so far on one Nova board that one Nova fan put up a photo of a lynching. Yikes.

spoondave March 18 2008, 16:49:40 UTC

That's pretty rich, since the basketball team constitutes about 25% of the black students at the school. They don't call it Vanilla-Nova for nothing.

spoondave March 18 2008, 16:58:00 UTC

Here are some actual numbers, though I'm not sure of their source or date: 10,367 students, 390 of whom are "black non-Hispanic." Suffice it to say that a `Nova supporter using segregation imagery to trumpet his school's culture of integration doesn't have much of a leg to stand on.

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