Why we can't stand Duke

I have heard the question asked this week why everyone was rooting for Butler during Monday's NCAA Championship Basketball game. Part of the reason was obvious as American's we love the underdog-and Butler was without a doubt that. But part of the reason is that many of us can't stand Duke ( I am not sure the feeling would have been different for Kansas, Kentucky,Syracuse or many of the other major programs), The problem is the exposure-nearly every one of Duke's games was on ESPN or ESPN2 or ABC or CBS and Dick Vitale spends a good portion of his time gushing about how wonderful Duke (or is it Dook?) is. Then there is the feeling that the selection committee made it as easy as possible for Duke to make the Final Four. Look at the teams they had to beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff (who won the play-in game-I still don't understand how the play-in game does not play the highest seed-in this case Kansas), California, Purdue (who had lost there best player a couple of weeks ago), Baylor and West Virginia. In a certain sense they remind me of Notre Dame football-they spend all there time beating there chest and saying look we win and we do it the right way-If you really do it right you don't spend all your time telling people about it.