A North Carolina fan has blogged about his experience after attending the North Carolina vs. Kentucky alumni game on Sunday.
Obviously, he didn’t seem to think too highly of Lexington, Rupp Arena and pretty much everything else about the weekend.
Here is an excerpt of his thoughts:
I should’ve known this was going to be a bad experience as we arrived at the stadium and my friend had to check his bag because he brought a camera he knew he couldn’t bring, but wanted to take a chance anyways. That made us late for the game and I missed the tip-off and the play up to the first timeout.
After finally getting seated, I took a look around at what has been described by many as the Mecca of college basketball… it isn’t. I hate to judge the atmosphere too much since the place wasn’t packed and the game didn’t mean a thing, but I’ve easily been to better places. Also Chapel Hill has nothing to worry about as far as college towns go — Lexington has nothing on the beautiful campus at the Hill.
Anyways, what came next was probably the biggest shock of all. I had been looking all week for any kind of resemblance of who might be there and minus a few confirms here and there, like Harrison Barnes and DeMarcus Cousins, had found next to nothing. The whole way up I was hoping to see Psycho T, Rasheed, Kendall Marshall, Ty Lawson, and maybe even catch good ole Roy coaching on the sideline.
Instead I got the bottom of the barrel Tar Heel “stars”. While Kentucky was putting out their starting five from a team last year that went 38-1, Carolina was putting out guys who I remember in high school. At one point the five on the floor for the Heels included an AAU coach (Stackhouse), a High School Coach (Bobby Frasor), a College Assistant (Shammond Williams), a college Coach (Wes Miller) and a D-Leaguer (Dexter Strickland).
