Who gives a tweet?

The University of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (I wonder why their coach refers to his players as "kids"?) played Duke University's team last night, at Duke. (Their coach refers to them as "kids" also.) For a whole month, apparently, Duke students had been living in tents outside the box office (in "Krzyzewskiville," after their team's coach) to purchase tickets to the event. I know, hard to believe that anyone, let alone college students (even graduate school students), would do that in order to get a ticket to an athletic event. But apparently it's true.
    North Carolina's chancellor, Holden Thorp, seems to have (or for a brief hour or two have had) the same attitude. The Raleigh News & Observer reported that he

spiced the build-up to Wednesday night's North Carolina-Duke basketball game with a trash-talking tweet..."Our students are talking about the future and asking smart questions instead of wasting time sitting in a tent."

    Then he was made to think "better" of it:

[A]t The News & Observer's behest, [Duke president Richard Brodhead, formerly provost at Yale, who isn't on Twitter] offered up this good-spirited response: "Hey Holden, someone hacked your Twitter account to talk trash. May the best team win. From the land of TRUE Blue, Dick.

The reference to "TRUE Blue," if you're not into college colors, seems to have been a suggestion that Duke's dark blue is superior to "Carolina blue" (in these parts that's a familiar name for a sort of baby blue).

By midafternoon, UNC was apparently doing damage control. Thorp's initial tweet disappeared from his feed, and a new, apologetic tweet appeared.
    "Sorry about the tent/Kville tweet," Thorp wrote. "Both U's have great students. I shouldn't have gotten carried away by our rivalry in basketball."

    Yeah, why not get carried away? Almost everyone else around here does.