jayball wrote:bigdawg,
I'm not sure if UNI/CU will take off or not. I know many UNI fans are pretty upset with McD, but I don't think CU fans have any issue with UNI as a "rival". I know Mac and Jake are really good friends, so I don't see them doing anything to stoke a fire between the two schools. I think it will take a few years of big time court battles to even begin to fuel anything, but even with that it will be a strech without some other provocations.
With SIU we had several years of big games that kept ratcheting up the rivalry. But another part of the fun with SIU was the physical thug style of basketball they played and the fact that they made up tshirts about h8ing cr8ton in St Louis. SIU students chanting "korver swallows" and going after his parents in Carbondale were other highlights. Also as a CU fan it was easy to dislike Weber b/c he was so animated on the sideline and seemed to react very emotionally to every little thing. Add some things like that to close games and you can develop a decent rivalry. I don't see Jake and Mac doing that sort of stuff.
Plus half of our university is from UNI....I'm beginning to think that there is something in athletic contracts about wearing purple underneath the blue.
Are you kidding me? The "friends" angle is one of the #1 reasons why it has a chance to become a good rivalry.
Just because the coaches may not be swearing at each other doesn't necessarily make the rivalry any less intense for the players and fans.
With theJake/McD and theMcD/UNI angles, added to the fact that both programs have been very successful lately, this has a chance to really take off.