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Message: [QUOTE="ACCBballFan, post: 35523, member: 1278"] Sure, jardoo. Enjoy your posts, BTW. I follow all the ACC, but rely mostly on the UNC Rivals board a/k/a Tar Hell Radar (THR) and the three Duke boards Scout, Rivals and Duke Basketball Report (DBR) to keep up with all of other ACC teams. The other UNC board Inside Carolina is too juvenile and macho for my 63 year old blood. Not enough time even after retirement to peruse all 12, now 14, ACC boards and these two do a good job of highlights of others in ACC at least. I tend to play devil's advocate when the homers over do it, so the UNC fans think I am too pro Duke and the Duke fans think I am too pro UNC. I am the enigma that likes them both and all of ACC as opposed to love one and hate the other like most state of NC people are. I just recently started posting on the Rivals national board, an accident really when the local rivals board was not working and I tripped on the national board. I had seen some posters refer to it, but never ventured over. When [B]AlbanyCuse[/B] invited us on one of those boards, to visit your site, I thought I would give it a look. I enjoy your Jokes thread, though some are pretty raunchy, but my virgin ears have been pierced before, not literally since I am an old fart not very tolerant of earrings on men. I am an analytic analystic, formerly an actuary which explains why I worked in Hartford for 17 years, insurance city and all that. So I am getting more interested in conference realignment than I normally am in college football. As my handle suggests I am mostly interested in college Bball and ACC as opposed to UNCFan or DukeFan or TerpsFan etc. though those names are likely already taken anyway. I was pretty naive when I first started perusing the boards. I actually thought the poster named RayFelton (not RayRayFelton who was a clown) was the player himself and commended him for taking time from his studies to give us insights, not someone who admired him. He (now known as ChapelHillMatt does not post much any more on free boards) could not tell whether I was yanking his chain as a troll or not, but I was not. I used to live in CT from 1983 to 2000. My son who now lives in San Jose is a big UCONN fan. I actually perefer Geno Auriemma over Jim Calhoun when I lived there, partially because he was speaker at my daughter's Hartford Courant Scholar Athlete awards dinner, and made a good impression even before he started winning with Rebecca Lobo, Kara Wolters, Jennifer Rizzotti et al and the many dynasty teams thereafter. I lived in Boston from 1975 to 1983 and Philadelpha from 1971 - 1975 before that, grew up in STL in Show-Me state. So good hockey used to follow me around first with STL Blues being one of the more successful expansion teams in late 60's, then Broad street bullies in Philly, then Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito Boston Bruins, then Hartford Whalers were decent a few years before they migrated to NC. No one in sunny Flordia follows hockey so can't really tell you who our NHL team is or how they are doing. In fact it's all college football here, but I still follow Bball vicariously on message boards, and ESPN, SunSports channel, ESPN3, etc. I live about an hour and a half due north of Tampa in middle of nowhere but still go to USF every year to see UCONN where each year it alternates betwen Men's (Dec 28th this year) and Women's UCONN Bball. For that game there are more UCONN fans there than USF Bulls fans, the only time they fill the seats. Tallahassee is 3 hours way and Miami even farther. I think I have been to FSU 3 times (one football game and two Bball games) since I moved here in 2000 just in time for presidential election jokes, the vote counting process, not the candidates. I'll have to peruse the schedule, may try and get down to USF for men's games with Cuse or Pitt now that we are kinfolk. Not that much of a women's BBall fan except for UCONN, though I must admit the women's game is more pure basketball than the men's game has become with so many one on ones and dunks. I only watch the NBA when it is Olympics or Team USA. I do not subscribe to any premium boards as news comes out a few days later anyway and is usually a couple years before they arrive on campus which is soon enough for me. When the old THR board was voluntary contributions and all so-called premium info was available free to all, I did make contributions to Clint Jackson who lives in VA, but since they got acquired and went back to the premium route, I did not follow, just the free boards. I liked the old model a lot since you did not have to apply any judgment to decipher who knew what they were talking about versus who was blowing smoke. [/QUOTE]

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