ACC Tourney, a young writer, impressions of sports media

At first, I was going to say I didn't really get the undying love for this kid's writing. I thought it was OK ... or "good for a college kid" ... but not "incredible." His blog post didn't change my life.

But if it turns out he's only 15, well, he knows a lot of big words for a 15 year old.

 

I think it's fairly obvious that the "15 years" was a typo, considering the fact the "1" is next to the "2".

 

Maybe it's a "parody" of his "previous pattern."

 

You know how if you're a pretty moderate person, politically speaking, and then someone in your party goes all fucking Tea Party on something and wants to deport Obama and flies the Republican flag and you're really just embarrassed to be associated in a larger sense with someone like that?

That's how the rest of Duke feels right now.

 

Fifteen-year-olds too.

 

I figured it was a typo because the "5" is next to the "4."

 

Princeton's a pretty quirky town, but the kids who go to school at Old Nassau are far-better grounded than the typical Dukie who does four years on a campus lifted straight out of Central Jersey.

 

I must admit, that unless it's a well-known colloquial expression, I kind of liked the pine needles/porcupine line.

 

By the way DShane, because you're still reading, even your "farewell" was misguided. Not a single person said you were the embodiment of all evil. You just got yourself into a situation and failed to use your head and made it worse -- something shared by about 99 percent of the people on this board at that stage of their careers.

 

I've got family who are heavily into the UNC-Duke hatred gig, and it gets pretty amusing at times ... but at other times it's borderline pathetic. Reading about the radio hack grilling the kid over his college choice definitely seems closer to the latter than the former.

I was shooting the breeze with a former electric company bigwig years ago -- neither he nor I attended either school, FWIW -- and we were chuckling about the pretension that seems to be part and parcel of either school's package. He said once he was at a board meeting in Durham, and Duke's homecoming parade came by. Whoever was chairing the meeting suggested a pause in honor of "the most religious people" ever. When the attendees looked at him quizzically, the response was, "Oh yeah (pause) ... they worship one another." Could be told on either group, IMO.

 

SF, maybe the "embodiment of evil" line was a parody of shawn-o-meter's second (or third?) farewell: "And if you guys think I'm the scum of the earth, then I guess that's the label I deserve for what has transpired."

 

You're probably right, I'm now officially confused about A) who this kid is; B) what he really thinks and C) whether he's the spawn of the devil.