They're mad about the way ESPN treated the lacrosse case.

A bunch of pussies and dotheads.

Does not compute.

Ha, Dook fans just get weirder and stupider.

Totally doesn't compute. I hope Wisconsin kicks their tail, then we'll have no idea if their glum faces are in protest or not.

It's late in our minds but when else could they have done it? The charges weren't dropped until April of this year. That's after the basketball season. Was ESPN going to show up on their campus for their football team?

Right. Tell everyone you're going to pull a stunt on ESPN. That'll destroy their ratings.

LOL NOTHING will happen. NO WAY they could organize it off some random thing called Duke Basketball Report.

Great response from thebiglead:

Duke complaining about ESPN coverage is like the Republican Party complaining about Fox News coverage

this is stupid on so many levels:

(1) they covered the rape charge because in unleashed an amazing amount of under the rug racism and classism, it was newsworthy to be sure. they gave the drop of the charges as much attention as the origination of the story, so i don't know what was wrong with them telling the nation about the issues.

(2) you are the most covered basketball team in the nation, you have been for years.

(3) explain how 'not' cheering is denying us the 'money shot', who is going to get home from work tonight and go "i was going to watch the Wiscy-Duke game, but i heard they 'crazies' are going to cross their arms when they are on camera so i think i'll walk the dog tonight instead"

(4) what is a crazy? seriously, is that what you came up with?

Duke fans like the Blue Devils because "they play basketball the way it's supposed to be played." Code for: slow and white. I just find it funny how a lot of Duke fans come from the Northeast, and yet Southerners are the "real" racists. I'm not saying there isn't racism in the South; I'm just saying that some people delude themselves.

The Big Lead updated their post with the column that set everything off. Looks like Duke has a point. The timeline looks something like this:

-- America loves Duke
-- ESPN promotes Duke
-- Backlash starts
-- ESPN over-promotes Duke
-- Backlash builds
-- Dick Vitale over-promotes Duke
-- Backlash builds some more
-- Lacrosse scandal
-- Backlash builds even more
-- Dick Vitale gets obscene with Duke
-- Backlash reaches critical mass
-- ESPN realizes that Duke Backlash is better for ratings than Duke Fellatio, flips script.
-- Dukies feel used, resent ESPN for exploiting the university's reputation (lacrosse scandal notwithstanding) for ratings.

ESPN & Duke deserve each other. Bitches.

Even though the charges were dropped in April if they felt so violated as an institution nothing was stopping them from an outward protest vs ESPN last season.

Yes, Steve, but then it wouldn't be about them (I mean, the Crazies)

I wonder how many of the Cameron Crazies went to Duke because they fell in love with the basketball team because...wait for it...they were on ESPN all the time!

The DBR forums are where the "cheer sheets" for the games (yeah... I know. I know.) get cooked up, so I'd expect this idea to get distributed pretty widely prior to gametime tonight. Whether it goes down or not is another story.

They were talking about Budweiser not weed. Admit you were wrong.

Seriously, on a completely unrelated note:

Why is ESPN only interviewing Cowboys about Sean Taylor's death?

Are they really going to make this story about the Cowboys too?

I fucking hate ESPN.

ESPN simply figured out there was a market for Duke hatred the same as there is for Yankee hatred. As a result they are playing both sides with Duke with Dick Vitale's verbal diarrhea in favor of Duke and some instances of Duke hatred.

DBR is not known for being the most level headed fan forum...then again who is really.

SOOOOOO -- did the Dukies do anything? OR did you just fall into the hype probably created by ESPN?
i don't watch them so i didn't see anything or really care for that matter.

this is not about duke lacrosse. if you click the 'our call' link on the "time to push back" story it brings up other posts. on 11/26, there is a post titled "enough is enough", that post talks about some espn bias towards duke:

"And in the last year or two, some of the announcers have said some astonishingly biased things."

"We’re referring to an article by Jon Pessah in ESPN the Magazine. The article starts off inside of Mickie Krzyzewski’s thoughts (who let him in?) and gets worse from there."

dbr probably should have referenced the 11/26 post in their 11/27 post. it would have made things much clearer.

-dan

So Duke students are upset with their own PR firm? In many ways ESPN made Duke what it is. Are all college students this self absorbed?