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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m convinced the negativity is one person. I was quite enjoying the little history lesson, but had to get another in. Take a deep breath, we get it, you don’t like UNC and that’s okay. [/quote]

The Duke alum was very positive towards UNC - probably one of the most positive posts here. No one was really hating on UNC. Then the UNC fan got nasty.[/quote]

UNC seems to have an inferiority complex to Duke. [/quote]

Many UNC alums do, but not all. Even more UNC "fans" with no affiliation to the university do. There are definitely some obnoxious jerk Duke alums but they are the exception, not the rule.[/quote]

I am an identical twin. I went to Duke and my brother to UNC.  Both out of state - we were poor kids from the Midwest on our own since age 18 and needed the athletic scholarships we were offered. I was a little irked when a national sports publication made a big deal over it. I was naive.

I thought highly of UNC and still do.  I hesitate to say one school is better than the other for serious students. My brother was a 4.0 Phi Beta Kappa in math and he was well prepared for the econ PhD program he attended on a NSF grant. He became a giant in institutional finance.  Likewise I did well at Duke and later was at the very top of a top law school and a law review editor. Duke was a better fit for me and my academic interests, although as an athlete in a very difficult honors program I struggled more than my brother.  But it turned out well. The culture at Duke was a very good fit for a competitive law school where intellectual sharp elbows were useful.

I was recruited to UNC and was immature and was frightened of the large early classes as I thought I wouldn't engage. I had some regrets as UNC's athletic department was a great place to be an athlete. No regrets about Duke though. The students were wealthy and I wrote off a social life as a result. The education was a privilege for a poor kid like me so I didn't care. Both of us married Duke grads.

I got a good feel for UNC's curriculum. Twice my brother was competing in Europe in August  and given I looked like him I went over to Chapel Hill with his ID to do drop add with  his ridiculous instructions. As a scholarship athlete he had auto preference over everyone (as I found out) and drop add was easy, even for an inauthentic character like me. The hard part was getting the PE requirement to graduate. My brother didn't want anything strenuous and absolutely insisted on bowling. I was there for four hours to get him bowling. The things you do for a brother. Bowling is one of my worst athletic endeavors and I would tease my brother that at least UNC taught him how to bowl!

Interesting story, but varsity athletes don’t typically need a PE class to graduate. 
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Yes. Some of these "facts" seem a bit off. I believe it is correct that UNC used to require PE but I highly doubt an athlete would have to jump through so many hoops to get the one he wanted/needed. For what sport would his brother be competing in Europe in August? Duke doesn't have honors programs that require extra work (though I might be forgetting something)? I have been following Duke and UNC sports closely for many years and I feel like I would remember this story of identical twins playing for the two different schools.[/quote]

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