Harvard to Davidson?

[BME to MD]

Frank Ben-Eze has committed to Davidson:

http://www.charlotte.com/sports/story/604278.html

[MarquetteDano]

If this is true, God bless this kid.  I was already rooting for Davidson, now I will really root for them.

Great to see top prospects spurning the big, deep pocket, state schools.  Great stuff.

I always have to laugh when I hear people not liking the private schools because they are elitist.  What a joke... guys like Boone Pickens throwing money like crazy towards their state schools, the seeded tax payer money, the automatic state school media coverage.

It's like saying I hate the Kansas City Royals because they are so elitist.  Ohh... but those Yankees, now there is a team for the common man.   

By the way, no disrespect to the Yankees in my argument... but I tihnk we can all agree they are no cinderellas.

[jficke13]

The only reason I dislike state schools is because of Madison.

[jce]

The only reason I dislike state schools is because of Madison.

Why would you hate Madison?

[Chili]

Why would you hate Madison?

Why not?

[muwarrior87]

Why would you hate Madison?

terrible graduation rates, regularly have athletes have run-ins with the law, big state school that thinks they're all that and a bag of potato chips when they are in fact a good research school but are not so good when it comes to actually giving their students an education, hippy liberal douches prancing around campus, shall i go on?? 

[jficke13]

Madison folk, students, residents, etc., are all convinced of UW-Madison's greatness. There is not one thing that it does that another institution cannot do better. Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Cal-Tech, just a few of the universities that wallop their academic programs. UCLA, Duke, Michigan, Ohio St., just a few that wallop their athletic programs.

Madison lovers speak of it like it's God's gift to mankind and its far from it.

[jce]

Madison folk, students, residents, etc., are all convinced of UW-Madison's greatness. There is not one thing that it does that another institution cannot do better. Harvard, MIT, UCLA, Cal-Tech, just a few of the universities that wallop their academic programs. UCLA, Duke, Michigan, Ohio St., just a few that wallop their athletic programs.

Madison lovers speak of it like it's God's gift to mankind and its far from it.

Of course it isn't that.  It's a big, public reaserch University.  And that's what it is.

I just think it's silly that MU fans talk about hating Madison so much, when I doubt you'll find any MU hatred on the Badger board.  It just sounds pathetic to me.

[jficke13]

All of my HS friends desperately wanted to go to Madison and spoke of it like they would be ascending the Holy Mountain. They are delusional.

[Daniel]

I don't get into hating Madison or UW.  It's a great university, very solid.  But when we recruit basketball players, or when we play them - I want to kick their a$$es all the way to the Mississippi.

Now ND, that's another story. . .

[Chili]

Of course it isn't that.  It's a big, public reaserch University.  And that's what it is.

I just think it's silly that MU fans talk about hating Madison so much, when I doubt you'll find any MU hatred on the Badger board.  It just sounds pathetic to me.

Have you been to either of their boards? I doubting you have by the naivety of your statement.

[jce]

Have you been to either of their boards? I doubting you have by the naivety of your statement.

Yep.  I am there quite a bit, but almost always during football season.

[Chili]

Yep.  I am there quite a bit, but almost always during football season.

Check out the basketball boards. There is no lovefest for MU - usually just cuts. 

[Ready2Fly]

Yep.  I am there quite a bit, but almost always during football season.

Uh oh.  Looks like we've got a half-badger on our hands. 

"But I'm only a fan of the football team!!!"

[🏀]

Uh oh.  Looks like we've got a half-badger on our hands. 

"But I'm only a fan of the football team!!!"

[jce]

Uh oh.  Looks like we've got a half-badger on our hands. 

"But I'm only a fan of the football team!!!"

Well, if it must be known...  My dad did his graduate work at MU and was a huge Marquette basketball fan, but he also was a Badger football and hockey fan too.  I am the same.  I grew up in Madison and went to Marquette for undergrad.  I have no affinity at all for UW-Madison outside of their football and hockey teams.  I get to about one football game and maybe two hockey games a year, and about a dozen MU games.

If that makes me less of a fan in anyone else's eyes, than that's their problem....not mine.