[QUOTE=TheNinerAlchemist;243633]I’ll do it for you.
"Some perspective on the subject … not telling anyone else how to feel … but I think my Tarheel experience is much deeper and more significant than most others here … and please read all the way to the end.
So I grew up in Chapel Hill literally a 5 minute walk from campus. Both my parents were on faculty and I spent lots of time as a kid just hanging on campus. Through a friend’s father I was pretty attached to the basketball team, even eating a couple meals with them and getting to play some hoops with them. Amazing experience was after the Olympics and Walter Davis letting me wear his gold medal to lunch at Granville Towers. These things we do not forget. I never, and I mean never, missed a home game. We painted our street before the big games and stormed Franklin Street more than once. Then I went to undergrad there and am proud of my degree and even have a piece of the original Charmichael Auditorium floor (yes I spent extra to get one of the blue corner pieces). I could go on and on with stories (you have a lot when you usually sit not in the front row, but in front of that in fold out chairs literally on the edge of the court).
Great – there is the background.
Then there is now. I am at Charlotte and that’s all the matters. Do I hope that UNC-Chapel Hill still wins against some random team? Well yes I would rather they win than Duke or Wake, etc. But really more importantly I just don’t care in the end unless I am asked to choose, just mainly disinterested in their success. All I care about today is that Charlotte wins. That’s all that matters. THIS is the special place. THIS is who we root for day in and day out.
My tarheel gear was given away when I came to Charlotte and I have no interest in wearing it or seeing it any longer. Yes my diploma hangs in my home office, so yes I am proud of the past, but it is not today and I think that is the point people are making on here. You are HERE – try it out – I know you will love it! Wear green to games (don’t get me started on the number of people I have said something to because they are wearing another team’s gear at our games) and truly invest yourself in CHARLOTTE being your favorite. Enjoy the memories of elsewhere, but BLEED GREEN!
This is a special place … my favorite ever. If someone is here and is still rooting elsewhere it is him/her that is truly missing out! Sure rip on him some for it … most mostly, feel sorry for him :)"
It never gets old.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the post. My favorite college basketball momemt was back in 1985 at Cole Field house in Maryland. I remember being in the front row sitting in our neighbors seats. I remember Len Bias coming down the floor on a fast break, leaping to the rim with a powerful dunk with a defender basically body slamming him to the floor. He got up, pumping his fist and then came over right at my seat and gave me a high five saying “nobody else on this court could do that, could they”. I remember, saying “NOBODY” and then he smiled. I was 8.
I will never for it. People can disagree with me all they want, but Len Bias was one of the greatest college basketball talents to step on a court.
His passing was a sad day in the state of Maryland.