hilarious - most of the time state fans wouldn't even care about playing ECU and call it a non-rivalry. now there is talk of pep rallies? funny how tides change when one team is doing well and the other poorly.

i love both teams - ecu is my hometown school and NCSU pays the bills. i think both teams need the win and i'll be cheering for anyone who shows effort.

9/16/2008 7:23:53 AM

Most of the time ECU isn't ranked. It's an in state game against a ranked opponent. That's as good a game as NCSU is getting this year, but that doesn't make for a rivalry.

If I can pull for a team when we aren't playing against them I don't consider them a rival. Maybe I'm the only one.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 7:29 AM. Reason : -]

9/16/2008 7:27:45 AM

^^ The pep rallies are something that will become customary for every game, so it's not being held just b/c ECU is good this year. Did you not read the articles? Notre Dame holds a pep rally the night before every game. Ohio State has their skull sessions a few hours before a game. I'm glad that they are trying to do something to build school spirit and I wish they would have had these when I was in school. Plus I'm sure there will be free food.

9/16/2008 7:33:36 AM

except for the game next week, which is against an even better team.

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"That's as good a game as NCSU is getting this year, but that doesn't make for a rivalry"

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 9:26 AM. Reason : .]

9/16/2008 9:25:51 AM

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"That's as good a game as NCSU is getting this year, but that doesn't make for a rivalry."

ECU has always been one of our rivals in football

9/16/2008 9:43:23 AM

i'm so sick of calling everything a 'rivalry game'. get real guys.

9/16/2008 10:16:20 AM

says who???

broadcasters????

9/16/2008 10:16:39 AM

ncstate : ecu :: unc : ncstate

9/16/2008 10:17:33 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3589056

9/16/2008 10:19:45 AM

^^ different origins, but yeah, basically.

really, we play zero "rivalry games" anymore. what're you gonna do.

9/16/2008 10:22:25 AM

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"hilarious - most of the time state fans wouldn't even care about playing ECU and call it a non-rivalry. now there is talk of pep rallies? funny how tides change when one team is doing well and the other poorly."

Its not a rivalry. We only care b/c A) we always want to win and B) don't want deal with annoying ECU fans that talk shit.

9/16/2008 10:35:12 AM

i'd say its more of rivalry recently than UNC.

and who gives a shit if its a "rivalry" or not?

to me, when you play a team thats just down the road from you in the same state, in the same NCAA division, there's automatically a sense of rivalry and pride associated with that.


while NCState fans are busy saying "ECU is not our rival", VT and West Virginia are saying..."damn...ECU is becoming our rival because they are good"


give ECU some credit. for the longest time they have scheduled good big time teams and have played anyone...

some ncstate fans need to get off this ego trip

9/16/2008 10:44:30 AM

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"says who??? broadcasters????"

um, history maybe. We have been rivals since the 1970's when the football game series began.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 11:28 AM. Reason : sdf]

9/16/2008 11:24:54 AM

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"The Pirates might be able to get through this weekend's game against a team that hasn't scored an offensive touchdown against a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent since the next-to-last game of the 2007 season, a span of 13 straight quarters"

ouch.

9/16/2008 11:41:32 AM

So if we play UNC-Charlotte in basketball is that a rivalry game? They are Div-I and they are only a couple hours away from Raleigh

Unless you were at NCSU/ECU in the 80s, nobody from NCSU cares about ECU. Nowadays we just don't want to hear your shit. I swear ECU fans treat beating NCSU like winning the national championship, no matter how bad we are. Expect a facebook group to start on Saturday afternoon saying something like "I was there when we beat NCSU in football"

9/16/2008 12:11:40 PM

we should continue this whole rivalry discussion

9/16/2008 12:21:40 PM

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"So if we play UNC-Charlotte in basketball is that a rivalry game?"

now thats logic!

if team A and team B play a 40 year old series of games on almost a yearly basis then i would say thats a rivalry series.

9/16/2008 12:25:29 PM

I would say our main rival in UNC, but we have a rivalry with Duke, Wake, and ECU.

To me, a rivalry is formed when two sides really don't like each other and they should play year in and year out. Also have some connection i.e. borders (Kansas-Missouri) similar importance in something (State-Clemson ->Textile Bowl) While playing a team in-state is important, for it to be a rivalry you need to play every year (State-ECU baseball)

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 12:30 PM. Reason : info]

9/16/2008 12:26:04 PM

They've also beat us 5 out of the last 8, 7 of the last 12, but overall it's 15-10 NCSU. I'd definitely call them a rival, they're in-state, both teams have won a good amount of wins, and I'm pretty sure most State fans don't really like them. Sounds good enough for me.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 12:39 PM. Reason : 8]

9/16/2008 12:38:29 PM

I guess when they played WVU you were all rooting for WVU then, because ECU is our rival?

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 12:43 PM. Reason : -]

9/16/2008 12:42:01 PM

I was just watching First Take.

That dumb brunette cunt said ECU was playing Saturday at North Carolina.

9/16/2008 12:45:47 PM

^^ I was cheering for WVU

9/16/2008 12:48:42 PM

^^^I pull for ECU most of the time when not playing us...I would NEVER pull for UNC or Duke.

That is the difference.

9/16/2008 1:01:47 PM

god ya'll are killing our strength of schedule

see if ya'll can win a game or two this year

I fully expect state to play us really well.

but after our game, try not to fall asleep

9/16/2008 1:20:09 PM

^I can see your inner struggle in this post

9/16/2008 1:20:57 PM

IN TOM WE TRUST

9/16/2008 1:30:08 PM

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"god ya'll are killing our strength of schedule"

lol, I'm sure it's us and not all of the shitty CUSA teams yall play thats killing your SOS

9/16/2008 1:34:34 PM

no, it's you

9/16/2008 1:39:29 PM

don't worry about it, only BCS bowl teams really need to worry about strength of schedule.

9/16/2008 1:55:16 PM

signed, Utah, Boise St and Hawaii

9/16/2008 2:01:25 PM

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"I guess when they played WVU you were all rooting for WVU then"

yup...its one thing if Duke or UNC is better than us in basketball or Wake in football (not that I'm ever cheering for UNC or Duke bball)...but we should be able to be better than the Apps and ECUs just because we're a bigger school in a bigger conference

9/16/2008 2:06:23 PM

So this wanting to be better than App and ECU really revolves around them losing than us winning.

9/16/2008 2:09:53 PM

little over your head i think.

9/16/2008 2:14:29 PM

says the guy who doesn't understand SOS

9/16/2008 2:17:37 PM

dude, you obviously don't understand it...Hawaii had a terrible SOS last year and still made it to a BCS bowl, as long as ECU goes undefeated it doesn't fucking matter what their SOS is. Oh, and I'm sure that Virginia, Marshall, UCF, Memphis and UAB aren't pulling their SOS down more than us

9/16/2008 2:38:29 PM

^^ it was more a crack at ECU dude. I was saying that you wouldn't go undefeated and wouldn't have to worry about a BCS bowl.

bad joke.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 3:21 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2008 2:52:43 PM

set em up.

9/16/2008 2:57:13 PM

Every year it's the same arguement about STD's, rednecks, "not our rivals" bla bla bla

It's easy to see who the knowledgable wolfpack fans are on this board & contrast that to the ignorant ones who know little about their program or in-state foes.

9/16/2008 2:58:41 PM

dont forget the trolls

9/16/2008 2:59:27 PM

you realize these ecu fans are bandwagon right everyone...

ive never heard from them before.. but of course (3-0) and now look

9/16/2008 4:26:55 PM

^ Art thou retarded? Of whom dost thou speaketh?

9/16/2008 4:38:42 PM

A rivalry is the fact that I want to play UNC every year, maybe twice, just to try and beat them. On the other hand, I would be happy if we never played ECU again...that doesn't constitute a rivalry, just disgust. I'm from around greenville, and a large percentage of ECU football fans never went to college or barely got out of a comm college somewhere. I hate that place.

9/16/2008 4:46:56 PM

I hate ECU because they're a bunch of big dummyhead's!

9/16/2008 4:57:41 PM

^agree

9/16/2008 4:58:41 PM

^^^I've never understood this kind of hate

My best friend's father owns a tire store just outside Raleigh and you'll find more ncstate fans in garner, smithfield, clayton & johnston county (w/ no ties to the school whatsoever) than tiny greenville. It doesn't make them any less of a fan to me than a current student. Not everybody can attend college but what's wrong with a community rallying behind it? Some of them actually attend the games & pump money into the program's gas tank.

You find this at any big school around the country

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 4:58 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2008 4:58:45 PM

If I call someone a redneck then it's true, whether they are an ECU, UNC, or even a State fan. I am the farthest thing from a redneck and I think I have enough experience with them to recognize them. I hate that people call State fans rednecks when in reality only a small portion of our fans are rednecks. In reality there are probably more redneck UNC fans when you factor in the Wal-Mart Nation (just take a drive around Gastonia ). I'm glad I don't live in the eastern part of the state though. I don't know why but nearly every person that I've met that is from east of Raleigh that doesn't live at the beach is pretty country.


I don't take fault with someone that isn't an alum, but is from the area and actually goes to games quite often.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 5:08 PM. Reason : ]

9/16/2008 5:06:55 PM

ECU has to be our rival. There's a spot dedicated to them on the floor of Amedeo's.

9/16/2008 5:25:56 PM

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"If I call someone a redneck then it's true"

I love this board

9/16/2008 5:30:13 PM

And Brass Monkey endowed the people with redneckery and it was so. He saw that it was good and on the next day, he rested.

9/16/2008 5:51:17 PM

Now I haven't called ECU fans rednecks in this thread. Go back and look at my posts. I know some ECU people and only one is a redneck (and he's the only one that's originally from the eastern part of the state). I'm just stating that if I call someone a redneck then they are most definitely a redneck. If they look, sound, and act like a redneck, then they are most likely a redneck. The fact that some State fans on here have called some ECU fans rednecks doesn't require you to say something to the effect of "that's funny coming from a State fan". Perhaps the only ECU fans they know are rednecks and that is why they have the perception that the Pirate fanbase is full of rednecks.

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 5:52 PM. Reason : I hate rednecks fwiw.]

9/16/2008 5:51:35 PM