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FearlessF

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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2020, 11:16:15 PM »
least disliked is nearly a double negative
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2020, 12:21:14 AM »
Quote from: ELA on April 29, 2020, 09:18:44 PM
Not P5, and private.  No clue, but I assume they use manufactured academic requirements as an excuse
Oh, missed your P5 distinction, and don't agree that private should be one, that seems weird and arbitrary.

Anyway, I'm not sure there's a real answer here.  Every school is hated by someone.  Even Wofford.
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2020, 12:41:15 AM »
Someone said it already, but Rutgers.

New to the conference. Not much history in the last conference. 

Illinois seems pretty tepid, but that's only because they have an in-state rivalry that seems more tame than most. 
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2020, 06:50:19 AM »
Now that I think about it Rutgers seems the obvious choice. Even Wazzu and Oregon St have in state rivals that don’t like them. RU doesn’t even have that.  No success in basketball or football to breed jealousy. I think the answer is Rutgers.
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #18 on: April 30, 2020, 07:35:56 AM »
In the ACC, Boston College, eh?

Wake Forest is probably not disliked much either.  Outside your conference, who do you most like to root against when they play?  You'll watch hoping they lose, if they are not ranked ahead of your team ...

Eastern Michigan is the obvious choice ...
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #19 on: April 30, 2020, 08:58:16 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 30, 2020, 12:21:14 AM
Oh, missed your P5 distinction, and don't agree that private should be one, that seems weird and arbitrary.

Anyway, I'm not sure there's a real answer here.  Every school is hated by someone.  Even Wofford.
I think any of the private schools create a certain amount of dislike, based on the type of students they attract, and the "academics" fall back.

If that isn't a thing for you, I think that's fair, but I think there are enough people with those feelings to eliminate them as a possibility
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2020, 08:59:13 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on April 30, 2020, 07:35:56 AM
In the ACC, Boston College, eh?

Wake Forest is probably not disliked much either.  Outside your conference, who do you most like to root against when they play?  You'll watch hoping they lose, if they are not ranked ahead of your team ...

Eastern Michigan is the obvious choice ...
BC is a good one.

I thought about Wake, but they have 3 conference rivals within their state.
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2020, 09:05:09 AM »
Quote from: ELA on April 30, 2020, 08:58:16 AM
I think any of the private schools create a certain amount of dislike, based on the type of students they attract, and the "academics" fall back.

If that isn't a thing for you, I think that's fair, but I think there are enough people with those feelings to eliminate them as a possibility
I'm just saying, nobody down here in Texico hates Rice.  Most people like them quite a bit.  Lots of folks would love to have gone there, if they could have gotten in, or could have afforded it. 

Sure they're not P5 now, but they were in a major conference for the first 100 years of football or so. 

So I say, to heck with your rules.  For me, Rice is the clear answer here.

Rutgers is out, because every Texas fan that went up to see the Horns play against Rutgers in the early 2000s, was treated like crap by their "townie"-type fans.  So no, eff Rutgers, I disallow them.
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #22 on: April 30, 2020, 09:07:53 AM »
Quote from: ELA on April 30, 2020, 08:59:13 AM
BC is a good one.

I thought about Wake, but they have 3 conference rivals within their state.
Isn't Boston College private?  Not that *I* care about that distinction of course... :)
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2020, 10:04:08 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 30, 2020, 09:07:53 AM
Isn't Boston College private?  Not that *I* care about that distinction of course... :)
Yeah, as is Wake Forest.  I meant more the stuffy, elitist ones with the academic aspect.  Your Duke, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, Stanford, etc..., that invoke equal parts envy and eye rolling.

I painted with too broad of a brush
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #24 on: April 30, 2020, 10:09:05 AM »
The problem with Wake Forest is their name.
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #25 on: April 30, 2020, 11:10:50 AM »
Quote from: ELA on April 29, 2020, 09:11:02 PM
 Then private schools, and their fake academic standards are out.  
Quote from: FearlessF on April 29, 2020, 09:40:53 PM

Northwestern from the Big Ten.  Stand up coach and academics?
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2020, 11:48:20 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on April 30, 2020, 09:05:09 AM
I'm just saying, nobody down here in Texico hates Rice.  Most people like them quite a bit.  Lots of folks would love to have gone there, if they could have gotten in, or could have afforded it.

Sure they're not P5 now, but they were in a major conference for the first 100 years of football or so.

So I say, to heck with your rules.  For me, Rice is the clear answer here.

Rutgers is out, because every Texas fan that went up to see the Horns play against Rutgers in the early 2000s, was treated like crap by their "townie"-type fans.  So no, eff Rutgers, I disallow them.
I don't like Rice.
I don't like smart-ass bands that make their money ridiculing the visiting team and its fans.
I don't like the way Rice treated one of my former students--class valedictorian, Academic All-State, son of Mexican immigrants, first in his family to graduate from high school--when he went there for an interview.  He got accepted but chose to go elsewhere.
But as far as football goes, Rice is too insignificant to hate.
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Re: Least disliked team
« Reply #27 on: April 30, 2020, 11:49:34 AM »
Eastern Michigan isn't.
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