With Vitale praising their "spirit" as a model of what a college basketball fan should be, it is any wonder that other fans are now trying to outdo such nonsense?
We have to get back to the days of fans cheering on their own team instead of trying to humiliate the opposition. That Duke University fans are held up as a model says all you need to know about what is wrong with sports today.
Truthaboutduke.com is around because Duke is an easy target. Just browse this site - this stuff is hilarious!
Of course Duke has a great basketball program. They're an important part of college basketball - and a lot folks seem to dislike them.. not just because they are successful.
We'll see if there's an audience out there (if no one visits this site, I'll stop running it!)
Update Mar. 31st 2004 : Site is getting a ton of traffic, it is here to stay!!!
And oh yes - the webguy is a Maryland fan.. but this site isn't geared specifically towards Maryland fans and is in no way meant to be a Maryland vs. Duke thing.
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Coach K and the Fist -
This ranks up with angelic eyes as K's sappiest crap. What kind of person takes this phoniness seriously?
Anyway I do not want to submit myself to the pain of having to read one of K's books, but I found this on an Amazon review:
Leading With the Heart suggests that many of these qualities are essential to being successful. Coach K states that "communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring, and pride" are five values that "make every team great." These represent what Coach K calls the "fist"-where the fingers also represent the members of the team. The characteristics and members form the team's identity and "any one fist can break any one finger" so all of the fingers or team players must work together.
I also like Bandwagon Boy's explanation of the fist in this Q&A session:
"Dear Bandwagon Boy you are a expert in College Basketball so maybe you could tell me why Duke fans always hold up they fist and yell FIST! Is it some sort of secret code? What does it mean?"
"Well Dufe I am the biggest and loyalist DUKE fan of them all so you aks the right man! Many people wonder this and it is because they are all just jealous because my team is awesome and they favorite teams all stink! The answer is that the FIST is the Duke symbol of how the players needed the Duke fans to lead them to victory last year! Coach Kay had a big meeting with the most importent Duke fans like me and told us that the players equal one finger and Coach Kay equals one finger and another finger is something else, I don't know, the refs or something, and then the rest of the hand equals us Duke fans and when we work together like a fist we can smack all our enemies in the mouth and there is nothing they can do about it! That was from the meeting with Coach Kay last year that was private to us best Duke fans because he knows that we are the secret wepon of Duke and we are the real reason why the Duke players play so good because of the Power of the Duke fans which is reprazent by the FIST!! When we all come together as a FIST there is nowhere we can't go! So when we use our FIST together it is our secret Code that we are all Duke fans together working together as One to lead the players and Duke College to the championship! Which we did! Did you lead you team to the title no so you are JEALOUS! FIST!!!!!!
