i sense the terp coming out of you when you gave props to colemans hot wife

What has always bugged me about Coach K is that despite his untold millions, Chevy ads, a f*@$ing seminar for corporate rodents to learn "how the lessons of basketball apply to business" and every other sort of smug success imaginable -- he still feels the need to dye his hair.

I can't trust a man who dyes his hair.

Some schools do it the right way, they excel in all areas. Academics, professional schools, men's sports and women's sports. Stanford dominates the director's cup for all around sports excellence. UNC is not far behind, and Duke is representative. Supporters of lesser programs end up shouting, "ABC!" Its just jealousy. However, between Duke and Carolina, there is a special feeling. So I say this with all respect, "Rah Rah Carolina, Go to h..., Duke!"

I loathe dook so much I've switched insurance providers away from State Farm becuase they're featuring K in a recent TV ad. I also cancelled my American Express card for the same reason after he became their March poster-boy a couple of years ago. Blame it on the moronic Dook Vitale for perpetuating the dook myth.

I don't know if Ben's wife has always been stunningly hot, but I can attest that she was last night.

Thanks, Ben.

Oh, by the way, afterwards she said it felt wonderful to finally be pounded by a big bat.

The U. of Maryland's so-called fans have been paragons of bad behavior for a long time. Forty years ago, the University of South Carolina left the ACC rather than be required to continue playing the Terrapins.

Bags of white powder? I remember knives being thrown at USC basketball players!

(By the way, "USC" stands for University of South Carolina -- since we were founded 75 years before those upstarts on the west coast, we figure we have dibs on the initials.)

I spent three days in a hotel last spring with Mike and Mickey in Buffalo during the tournament. And the entire Duke team. I was there because I am a Terp. The NCAA put both teams in the same hotel. I had many chances to meet both the K's, Scheyer, Paulus, Mcwalksalot, Nelson, Henderson etc.... I will state for the record that not one, and I mean not one Terp player, fan, alumni, player family or coach had anything but respect for the Dookies the night they lost to VCU. We (Terps) had won that day over Davidson and Duke lost to VCU. We all (Duke and Terp folks) were back at the hotel bar drinking 16 oz Molson Red til 4 am. DMark Nelson, his family and Henderson, Paulus and their respective families were in one corner of the hotel bar, obviously glum about their defeat in the Dance earlier that night. I witnessed dozens of Terp families (players coaches and fans)line up to speak to the fallen Devils. EVERYone of them, including me had nothing but respect and nice things to say about the Dookies. It is simply bad karma to wish bad things about our ACC bretheren DURING the Tourney. Coach K went out of his way to be gracious to me and my Terp clad friends during our ironic stay together. Remember:
we hate them because of the MEDIA inspired horseshix about "leader of men, they do it right, floor slapping, on and on and on".

Coach K is a great coach of mens basketball, nothing more and nothing less. Duke has a good team and plays in the ACC. If it was Florida state winning natty's and going to Final 4's every year, we'd give them the business during the games too. But once the horn sounds, it's over.

That sounds like an absolute nightmare!! I'd have switched hotels...

If the silver-spoon fed All-American's that go to Duke don't realize that they are gonna get booed and hated by Maryland fans then they deserve to get booed for not knowing Duke's reputation.

See they moved you to the blog page - sure does make that page look better.

Yes every one hates duke because they win so much and yet...

Duke hasn't made it past the Sweet Sixteen six out of the last seven years.

They haven't even made it to the Sweet Sixteen the last two years!

If you listened to ESPN and dookie V you would swear that they were in the final four every year.

Hey Ben Coleman:

Q. How many NCAA Men's Basketball Championships has Va Tech won?

A. Big fat 0.

I'm sorry, I forgot Va Tech is a football school, not a basketball school. Let me rephrase the question.

Q. How many NCAA Football Championships has Va Tech won?

A. Big fat 0.

Maryland has won both the Men's Basketball Championship and Football Championship, and we can also throw in the Women's Basketball Championship for good measure.

I'm going home now to F@CK, my wife. She just happens to be a high powered Washington attorney, and I'm a high powered Washington doctor.

Yes, my red-neck friend, you have lost said argument.

Hey Ben Coleman:

Q. How many NCAA Men's Basketball Championships has Va Tech won?

A. Big fat 0.

I'm sorry, I forgot Va Tech is a football school, not a basketball school. Let me rephrase the question.

Q. How many NCAA Football Championships has Va Tech won?

A. Big fat 0.

Maryland has won both the Men's Basketball Championship and Football Championship, and we can also throw in the Women's Basketball Championship for good measure.

I'm going home now to F@CK my wife. She just happens to be a high powered Washington attorney, and I'm a high powered Washington doctor.

Yes, my red-neck friend, you have lost said argument.

David, that was very classy, though I have to say, I don't really think the media perpetuate any Duke stereotypes.

Keith, that was just classic Duke hater. See what I mean? They'll flip anything around. It's brilliant.

I must have arrived late, because I'm not getting the saga of Ben Coleman's Family Reunion, but I can probably assure that anyone who uses the phrase "I am a high-powered" is not the ______ that comes next, unless that blank is filled with asshat.

I wouldn't want a doctor who got worked into a frothing rage over trivial sports history.

Of course there's Duke haters out there. At the same time Duke is clearly the most popular team in the country, at least to the TV audience, otherwise their games would be on ESPN2 or ESPNU, rather than always being on ESPN. Believe me, if someone else outdrew Duke, ESPN would drop them to the secondary channels instantly.

One aspect that columnists don't seem to want to touch is the enormously anti-gay emphasis of many of the Duke haters in the arenas. This goes back to at least the early 90s with Laettner and seemed to peak with Reddick. If these things were said in the student union, the offender would be arrested and probably expelled from school, but it's perfectly all right at the Comcast Center.

Speak to Ben Coleman

How many final 4's has greenberg been to?

How many championships does he have?

0 and thats how many it will always be.

The football program is nice but you can't even compare the VT basketball program to MD. It is decades behind.

Hey J Connors - kind of a reach on the anti-Gay thing. Plenty of bad stuff is yelled and thrown on the floor of Cameron, all the time. I think most of us Terps would have hated JJ for burying jumpers on us all night regardless of who or what he sleeps with.

Lindsay A : thanks! I will disagree with your sentiment about the media. Two quick examples:

1. This year DURING the game of MD @ Duke, we were blessed with a 3 minute mini drama about the Coach K Hospital/Charity something or other. Very nice, except TV coverage missed 3 possessions in a row, including free throws while Mike Patrick slobbered all over himself.

2. My wife and I have counted 6 games this year where Dickie V was blabbering on and on about how Duke does it right, K really cares, itsa family of men routine, and DUKE WAS NOT PLAYING THE GAME. 4 of the games it wasn't even an ACC game. And that was on Vitale's limited schedule. Who needs to recruit when ESPN does it for you every night, even during Mich St v Indiana??!!?

Speak to Ben Coleman

Guarantee ur wife isn't hot and if she is I bet she divorces you within the next year b/c you are obviosuly a complete douche bag and a blind homer if you think VT is even close to MD level

I love how everyone acts like MD fans hate duke b/c they domainate us.

We have the more recent championship and before this season in the last 16 we are 8-8 against the. MD fans hate duke b/c of the better than everyone else attitude they put out.

Totally agree with David about the media, I've noticed the same thing and it makes me want to throw the remote, kick the dog, claw out my eyes and puncture both eardrums. Of course, it's really just a handful of shills like Patrick and Vitale. The national dislike of dook is a direct result of these morons' offensive drivel, repeated over and over and over. They're horrible and I blame ESPN 100% for allowing them to perpetuate the dook myths...that K is a saint, it's sqeaky-clean program, and the kids are great competitors and sportsmen...not the foul-mouthed, double-standard, flopping, floor-slappers they collectively are. Coack K is the root of the evil, Wojo is his prime minion, and the players should never have crossed to the Dark Side by signing that LOI. It's not their fault, but it was their choice.

p.s. VT has a long way to go to reach UMD, but I loved it when Deron Washington leaped over Paulus' head last year and tea-bagged him on the way to the rack. Classic!

One of the commenters stated that Duke fans threw bags of white powder onto the floor to mock Juan Dixon's parents who were heroin addicts.

I was at all the games Dixon played at Cameron and I never saw this, nor heard about anything like it afterwards.

The Post had a reporter at each of these games, can this allegation be confirmed?

J Connors-

I cant say I saw white bags of powder on the floor of Cameron, but I saw 5000 condoms when Herman Veal was introduced 24 years ago. I saw pizza boxes when an NC State player who robbed a pizza guy was intro'd. Let alone the cheer sheets. I personally have been assaulted at UVA three times(ice thrown and spit on) during games at the UHall. I have witnessed UVA students cheering "crack head parents" when Dixon warmed up.

Point is simple: I have seen and heard profane stuff at every arena and football stadium I have ever been in. Your comment about Post reporters needed to verify bags of powder thrown in Cameron is either incredibly naive or completely disengenious.

People don't hate bad teams...they hate the good ones. Methinks that the Terp fans on this board are jealous. If they weren't, they wouldn't have to bad-mouth Duke to make themselves feel better. And if you want to boo, boo ESPN, who is to blame for Duke's overexposure.

Oh yeah, let all the Terps fans bow down and admire the vaunted Virginia Tech basketball program! Let's review its history:

0 National Championships
0 Final Fours
1 Elite Eight
1 Sweet 16
1 win in the round of 32 (6 trips)
0 ACC Tourney Championships
0 ACC Regular season championships

All Gary has is 1 national championship, 2 final fours, and 7 sweet 16s, personally in his career. (The 1967 Elite Eight run by VT was under Greenberg, after all, right?)

I'll bet Gary's CRUSHED!

I'm going to leave vitirol and emotional attacks out of this while explaining the many reasons to hate dook.

1. The fact that the media (especially ESPN) absolutely loves Dook and their basketball team, constantly overrating them and showering them with praise only to express shock that they choke (once again) in the early rounds of the tournament. How many elite eights has dook been to in the past 5 years? But make no mistake, they will be ranked in the top 10 for just about every preseason poll next year.

2. The fact that the media portrays the players as some sort of victim on the court. Have any of them ever been harmed? Has anything escalated past a few mean signs in the stands or fans cursing at them? If that's all it takes to get an hour long special on ESPN then I should have gotten mine back in the 7th grade.

3. The audacity of anyone associated with Dook basketball complaining about rude fans when they play in front of the Cameron Crazies is sickening. This is the student body that threw condoms at Rashad Mccants when a tabloid (falsely) reported that he missed a game due to an STD, the same student section that will pelt overweight centers with twinkies, the same student section that hands out cheer sheets at every game with a list of derogatory, mean, and often classless cheers specifically for the opposing team. If you want to make that your student section then that's fine, but don't dare ask for sympathy later.

I really don't understand the beef some Maryland fans have with the programs at Virginia Tech. It's amazing to me that Maryland's "hatred" for Duke can be interrupted for Virginia Tech. I guess that goes along with Duke fans who question "what rivalry?" Maryland and Tech are much more similar right now than many want to acknowledge. I'm not here to argue. I didn't on the Bog and this post is obviously just to gain hits by rehashing a weak argument on another blog. The only reason I commented is because I was surprised to see one of my comments in the post. Best of wishes to the Terps and Hokies in all they do. The ACC and the DMV are lucky to have those schools representing Maryland and the Commonwealth.

You all hate SO MUCH, why not try puttin a good team out year in and year out like we do! Ya we deff swept Maryland! Think about that befor you open your fu*&in mouth! Duke is elite, and will forever be one of the most succesful basketball programs in History. FINALLY we have the coach who has the ALL TIME WIN RECORD in the NCAA Tourney. WHen Gary Williams can win a quarter of the games Coach K has call me that will be what 50 years??? yaaa so screw MD,UNC!! Duke Basketball-"Simply The Best"

Brian, you have no idea what the F*&^ you are talkin about...I bet you are a Maryland fan? U HAVE TO BE callin us overated year in and year out...you have NO ARGUMENT. How about Maryland get in the position to "choke" AND talkin about choke... you remember 2001??!!! "The Miracle Minute" UP 10 w/ 52 seconds left and losin the lead...what the F&^% do u call that??You are just a jelaous HATER simple as that! MD has the WORST fans who are pieces of SHI$ NO JOKE, I was there in 2004 when the student body was chanting "F U JJ" ya he dropped 36 that night, shut them up. The media tells it how it is, we are at the top year in and year out...how about you all strive for JUST making the NCAA Tournament 27 years in row like we have...that will NEVER happen its called a "choke" when Duke fails to make it past the sweet 16 or elite 8? What is Duke some super power? They are HUMAN, they can get upset just like anyone else. I laughed at what you said what a WASTE of time, just plain jelaousy....thats all it is so yaa try makin the NCAA Tournament befor you talk shit about Duke...OR contince to lose in the Not In Tournament, which Maryland is FAR to familar with doing