EvilVodka Wrote:Memphis has the overall better program, and I imagine Louisville and Cincinnati would support Memphis over ECU...Like I said before, ECU is 5th in their own state...no one has been able to dispute this point
I don't understand your point?
5th is North Carolina? In what?
I think you are suggesting (and a poor suggestion it is) that East Carolina is behind UNC, NCSU, Duke, and Wake in some poll that, interestingly enough, does not exist.
Some examples of why are argument is poor:
Wake Forest is private and has 3,000 students. ECU never has to compete with this school. The University of Richmond, Vanderbilt, Duke, Tulane, Davidson, William and Mary, Emory, etc...compete with each other for its students.
Duke is a private school, too. Where are we competing with Duke for students and athletes? Duke is going after the same student that is considering an Ivy league school or Stanford, Northwestern, Chicago, Military academies, etc....'
As for UNC and NCSU, ECU is part of the same university system. We are also part of the same system as UNC-Charlotte. Are you suggesting that these schools can't exist and be successful?
5th? For fans?
I don't see Cal-Berekley complaining that UCLA is stealing all the thunder in California.
I think you are mixing academic missions, athletics, fans, and trying to make an argument.
Muddy arguments are just that....MUD!