Are you seriously trying to compare the dislike that some people may have for OU football vs a program like Notre Dame that has been an afterthought for 20 years before this past season ? Again answer me why the hatred is so strong for both Duke basketball and Notre Dame football across the whole country when there are plenty of other programs who have as much tradition and have won as much or more then those programs.
Not sure what point you are trying to make. There are schools hated just as much as Duke bball and ND football. Stop trying to push an opinion on me as fact. Just b/c YOU hate those two more than anybody else, doesn't mean the entire country feels that way.
The dislike for ND football is easy.....they are on national television every single week. Much easier to dislike a team you see every week, than one you might see half the time. That is also the reason they have fans stretched coast to coast, many of which have no connection to the school at all. Duke bball is kind of the same way. They are on television a lot. They've also played in some of the biggest NCAA games over the last 20 years or so. The Laettner shot against UK. The games against the Fab Five. High profile games like that tend to create a lot of fans that either love those teams, or hate them.
Same with professional sports. Most non-Yankee fans cannot stand the Yankees. Most people that aren't fans of the Lakers, Bulls or Celtics, hate them. A lot of folks hate the Patriots. Hated the Steelers.
That doesn't mean EVERY team that wins on that level is hated. I'd say more are, than aren't, but there are some that for whatever reason don't seem to generate the hate. NC basketball is probably one, though I've always disliked them way more than Duke. I haven't seen as much hate for the Dallas Cowboys of old, but then again, I live around a lot of fans, so that may be one that I'm simply oblivious too.
People get sick and tired of seeing the same teams dominate. So if you take any team that has dominated over a long period of time, I'm guessing there are a lot of people out there that really dislike that team. After years and years of losing, that dies down some. You didn't hear a ton about ND football, but this year, a lot of that hate game back. Same with OU football. Outside of this area, there probably wasn't much hate during the 90's because we had turned into a laughing stock. Currently though, OU football is not liked very much outside the Big 12 area. That has died down a little with us not being in the NC hunt recently, and the SEC has probably picked up on some of that hate. That conference is hated by everybody right now. Why? Because they are dominating the college football landscape.
