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Arizona basketball fans vs. Nebraska football fans?

Are the Zona fans our new Fuskers?

  • Yes

    Votes: 24 29.6%

  • No

    Votes: 23 28.4%

  • Jury's still out

    Votes: 34 42.0%
  • Total voters
    81
Buffnik

Buffnik

Real name isn't Nik
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L Buff brought up some good points. I'll add to that.

* Belief that the sport was invented around the time a coach made them relevant
* Denigrate all other programs they see as "Johnny Come Latelies"
* Exist in an insular environment where there isn't competing media pressure
* Fans are a mix of the very old and the very redneck
* Not an academic mecca
* Not in a town with much going on - indoors or out
* Grads move out of state (or at least out of town) - don't realize it undermines their arguments about how great it is there
* Hard to find a sense of humor among the fans (at least one that elevates above Larry the Cable Guy)
* Think other fanbases are classless or disrespectful
* Wear a lot of red

Is this fair? Can they be our new Fuskers?
 
The insecurity is the same, as is the relationship to CU. Tucson is admittedly at nice town I would want to live in, unlike Lincoln.
 
All I know is we just had some low-level BigXII quality trolling. Highly disappointing and worrying sign.
 
BuffTE41 said:
The insecurity is the same, as is the relationship to CU. Tucson is admittedly at nice town I would want to live in, unlike Lincoln.
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El Charro alone makes Tuscon 1000x the town Lincoln is. You've got to give 'em that.
 
I voted yes, but I take exception to the the idea that Tucson is a backwater like Lincoln. I lived in Tucson for a year when I was 21, and I really liked it there.

EDIT: Damn, four pro-Tucson posts in the time it took me to write that. (See:
Friday Beer Thread)
 
Buffnik said:
L Buff brought up some good points. I'll add to that.

* Belief that the sport was invented around the time a coach made them relevant
* Denigrate all other programs they see as "Johnny Come Latelies"
* Exist in an insular environment where there isn't competing media pressure
* Fans are a mix of the very old and the very redneck
* Not an academic mecca
* Not in a town with much going on - indoors or out
* Grads move out of state (or at least out of town) - don't realize it undermines their arguments about how great it is there
* Hard to find a sense of humor among the fans (at least one that elevates above Larry the Cable Guy)
* Think other fanbases are classless or disrespectful
* Wear a lot of red

Is this fair? Can they be our new Fuskers?
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Jury is still out. Although Ari fans do possess a number of fuskerish tendencies, at this point I'm not convinced they excel at anything, including insularity, short-sightedness, self-absorption or bestiality, to the extent that our bucolic neighbors to the east do.

Right now, if I had to guess, I would say they probably emerge as a sort of fusker lite group. Annoying and arrogant to be sure, but enveloped in a much softer aura of sadness and benign neglect.
 
Junction said:
Jury is still out. Although Ari fans do possess a number of fuskerish tendencies, at this point I'm not convinced they excel at anything, including insularity, short-sightedness, self-absorption or bestiality, to the extent that our bucolic neighbors to the east do.

Right now, if I had to guess, I would say they probably emerge as a sort of fusker lite group. Annoying and arrogant to be sure, but enveloped in a much softer aura of sadness and benign neglect.
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"Softer aura of sadness and benign neglect."

After all these years, you have still got it. :thumbsup:
 
NWD Buff said:
"Softer aura of sadness and benign neglect."

After all these years, you have still got it. :thumbsup:
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Nah. He's just got enough of a post count to be able to recycle a few from 10 years ago and no one notices. :wink2:
 
I suspect that the Wildcat fans trolling over here come from fusker bloodlines.

There is no way that Arizona's dislike for CU is organic.
 
I've always hated Zona and their fans. It's probably too small to see, but my avatar that I have had since I joined this board alludes to that hatred.
 
Buffnik said:
L Buff brought up some good points. I'll add to that.

* Belief that the sport was invented around the time a coach made them relevant
* Denigrate all other programs they see as "Johnny Come Latelies"
* Exist in an insular environment where there isn't competing media pressure
* Fans are a mix of the very old and the very redneck
* Not an academic mecca
* Not in a town with much going on - indoors or out
* Grads move out of state (or at least out of town) - don't realize it undermines their arguments about how great it is there
* Hard to find a sense of humor among the fans (at least one that elevates above Larry the Cable Guy)
* Think other fanbases are classless or disrespectful
* Wear a lot of red

Is this fair? Can they be our new Fuskers?
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As someone who is more acquainted with Tucson and U of A than I'd probably like to be, I would concede that U of A is actually a pretty decent school academically -- particularly at the graduate level in certain fields -- and while Tucson doesn't hold a candle to Boulder, there actually is a decent level of outdoor activity available there and the town isn't awful (as long as you stay out of the bad neighborhoods). Definitely though the grads leave either for Phoenix, back to California, or just elsewhere in general: there really isn't much in the way of professional jobs in Tucson except for those in defense or in some narrow fields of engineering. What is undeniably the case though is that U of A basketball is absolutely the only game in town from a sports perspective and there are actually about 700k - 1 million residents, so there is a captive audience for sure. Lots of olds, though...
 
A couple of trolls does not make them fuskers, yet. With emphasis on the yet. This group is working hard to get the honor but I have not found all UofA fans to be this douschey or trolly. We will see as we rack up more wins and frustrate them more over time if they migrate to the same level as fuskers. At least they do not claim to be the classiest fans in bball. That would push the fusker comparison real quickly.
 
you must have a high-res version somewhere -- let's see it
Daaah said:
I've always hated Zona and their fans. It's probably too small to see, but my avatar that I have had since I joined this board alludes to that hatred.
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Until they start calling themselves the classiest fans in Basketball, they are no match for the 'holers.
 
buffs04 said:
As someone who is more acquainted with Tucson and U of A than I'd probably like to be, I would concede that U of A is actually a pretty decent school academically -- particularly at the graduate level in certain fields -- and while Tucson doesn't hold a candle to Boulder, there actually is a decent level of outdoor activity available there and the town isn't awful (as long as you stay out of the bad neighborhoods). Definitely though the grads leave either for Phoenix, back to California, or just elsewhere in general: there really isn't much in the way of professional jobs in Tucson except for those in defense or in some narrow fields of engineering. What is undeniably the case though is that U of A basketball is absolutely the only game in town from a sports perspective and there are actually about 700k - 1 million residents, so there is a captive audience for sure. Lots of olds, though...
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Fibers? We're talking about their fibers program, right?
 
My how soon we forget. Jeezus, people. We STILL get dooshes like Surveyor here three years after the last game we played against those retards. It's not even close.
 
The behavior of Arizona fans are a reflection of the personality of coach. Angry and clingy to tradition.
 
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