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[QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 1995408, member: 1023"]
Well stated.

But a big part of rivalry is geography.
That's why the old BE was so great.
It was always a northeast neighborhood war (And for purposes of bolstering my position I include DC as the southern boundary of the modern northeast).

I LOOOOAAAATHE G-town.
Despise them with a passion.
Now led by the son of that big overstuffed phony of a coach.
If we beat them now and lose every other game it would still be a good season.
Those of you who weren't around can't imagine what an intense real rivalry it still is for many of us who were.

UConn?  A lot of their fans are awful. Disliked Calhoun.  Didn't care for his team. Big rival because of their success. But not nearly the same hatred.

Duke and UNC are great programs.
But we'll never have real rivalries with them beyond the way strong programs in the same conference are rivals.
They are each others arch-rivals.
Geography. ..now combined with history.

I find it a little embarrassing the way some people view Duke as a rival.
They're everyone's rival.
Everyone wants to beat them.
We're not really special...and you can't have a one-way rivalry.
And that's notwithstanding the fact that the first 2 ACC SU-Duke games were classics.

But SU-G-town?
THAT was special.

As the years move on...the G-town and UConn rivalries will fade.
Soon there won't be any actual SU students who experienced the expanded BE.
All they'll know will be the ACC.
History won't mean much - if anything.

Orange fans and college basketball will have lost a lot.
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