Re: OT: AAC Fans Beyond Delusional
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 6:46 am
NJRedman wrote:Okay, so my new gig has a LOT of downtime. I have found myself snooping around some of the various message boards. It has come as no shock that the AAC fans are crazy, but what really got me was just HOW crazy they are. It's another level of nuttiness, especially the ECU fans! You would think we slept with their wives, shot their dogs and stole their pick ups and on the way out the door pissed on their Dale Earnhardt commemorative plates. They DESPISE us with every fiber of their being and want us to fail so badly.
Then you have all the folks who are riding UConn's national title like their horrible athletic program won something.
They basically think we are a joke, overrated, on the decline and wish nothing but the worst for us. Oh and they think they are the actual continuation of the Big East and we are the pretenders. Just blew my mind the amount of hatred and ill will they have towards us. Really really unhealthy and scary. hahaha Thank god we left those other boards! It seems to go unpunished most places too.
ECU? That's the school I always used to play against in video games because I always knew I'd beat up on them for fun. The only Carolinas that matter are UNC and NC State. Oh and South Carolina. ECU isn't even the 3rd best Carolina school. People discuss whether or not the Big East is major anymore (usually outside fans), but we can defend it and show how many tournament berths each program has, the amount of Final Four's, Elite 8's, Sweet 16's, etc. We have the evidence. They don't. We stack up St. John's, Xavier, Villanova, Georgetown, Marquette, Creighton, Seton Hall, PC, etc. with teams like Tulane, Tulsa, Houston, ECU, SMU, etc. Any true basketball fan would laugh at the comparison.
What they seem to forget is that Louisville is gone. UConn deserves credit they shut up their critics, but we still have yet to see what Ollie can do by himself. He's still got Calhoun's team. Can he get the same kinds of players? Time will tell. Memphis is good and so is Cincy. Temple was terrible.
They also forget that Larry Brown is at the age where it's not shocking when men die from old age. How long can he keep this going at SMU? Obviously not long.
We have the name brands. We are Tommy Hilfiger...people know us. They are knockoffs at the local flea market with a brand you never heard of. I was talking to a friend recently and he didn't even know what the AAC was. We have the tradition not them. We are like that quaint old house on the block. They are the new neighbors who haven't even settled yet.