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How Can Anyone Hate Coach K?
There’s every reason for conservatives to love and admire Duke hoops.
On the day after Thanksgiving, 1983, I sat in the second row behind the bench of the college basketball team of a struggling program that had won just 38 of 85 games in the coach’s first three years at the program’s helm. It was the team’s opening game of the season, a season the experts did not expect to be special. Because of the holiday, the arena wasn’t entirely packed. And I was just a visitor — the sports editor of the Georgetown HOYA newspaper, at the beginning of a season where my Hoyas would win the national championship, visiting a friend who played on this other college’s golf team. With my standards high because of the talent of my Patrick Ewing-led Hoyas, and fully prepared to be underwhelmed by the team in front of me that evening, I settled into my seat expecting to see nothing more than a ho-hum game played by two merely fair-to-middling teams.
Instead, what I saw was the start of a dynasty. This young coach with a West Point background, an undistinguished record, and the unpronounceable name of Krzyzewski had a young team that played with hustle and muscle, uncommon grit, fierce discipline, and a blue-collar work ethic. A forward named Danny Meagher was a bruising junior, while a freshman point guard named Tommy Amaker dished the ball to a hard-working Jay Bilas, a smooth Mark Alarie, swingman David Henderson off the bench, and especially a dazzling fellow guard named Johnny Dawkins whom my golfing friend told me played a strong game of Stratego. The arena, the now-famed Cameron Indoor, was intimate and delightfully raucous. During the timeouts, I could hear Coach K-whathisname’s raspy voice, full of intensity, exhorting his team to hustle, pass, and think. The game was a barn-burning nail-biter (sorry for the clichés), with Dawkins scoring from all over the court en route to (if I remember correctly) 28 points. And Duke’s Blue Devils finally burned opponent Vanderbilt in overtime, 78-74. The game would start an eight-game win streak (and 14 out of 15) to open a season that would see Krzyzewski make it to the NCAA tourney for the first time in his life as either a player or coach.
And I came away a fan for life of Duke basketball (behind of course my Hoyas and my hometown Tulane Green Wave), impressed by their technical soundness, their work ethic, and their coach who had served as an Army officer and who, I would learn, insisted (as did the Hoyas’ John Thompson) that his players actually go to class and earn degrees.
Two seasons years later, that same group of players (with Danny Ferry replacing the graduated Meagher) led the Blue Devils to an epic championship game battle with (and gut-wrenching loss to) the Louisville Cardinals of “Never Nervous” Pervis Ellison, in Coach K’s first Final Four. I was actually on Duke’s campus again for my only other visit, on spring break, at a campus event featuring Otis Day and the Knights (of Animal House fame) singing “Shout” just as midnight ushered in my birthday, when Alarie and a couple of the other players entered the concert hall to a heroes’ welcome after having just returned to campus from their successful game earlier in the day to reach the Sweet Sixteen. But the way I remember it, Alarie and company didn’t act like typical BMOCs who thought the adulation was their birthright, but instead sort of waved sheepishly to the applause as they walked in before trying (unsuccessfully) to disappear into the crowd.
Good guys, those. Amaker, Dawkins, and Henderson, among others, went on to college head coaching careers (as did later point guard Quin Snyder, whose first name alone clearly is a mark of distinction!) Bilas is a classy and astute presence on ESPN hoops broadcasts. A number of later players (Christian Laettner notwithstanding), especially Grant Hill, were the epitome of sportsmanship. And Duke did the world the favor of upending the heavily favored, utterly renegade UNLV squad of Jerry Tarkanian in the Final Four en route to Coach K’s first-ever national championship in 1991.
All of which leads me to wonder: Why is Duke basketball so widely hated? What is there not to like? They beat bad guys like UNLV. Their players really are students. Their program isn’t corrupt. They play ball the right way, with sound fundamentals. They work, they are disciplined, they hustle. They earn their stripes. They stress excellence. Most of their graduates become solid citizens. (Take Bilas, for example. In addition to broadcasting, he is a practicing lawyer of the right sort; he leads several major charitable endeavors, and he had the gumption early on to buck the Duke administration by offering strong, unambiguous support for the falsely accused Duke lacrosse players.)
Their coach does all sorts of good works. He is an Army man. He’s a patriot. He credits his opponents. He has a wonderful family. And he almost always votes Republican.
Now he has won the fourth national title of his tenure, along with four runner-up finishes and three other Final Four appearances. Sure, his team did it by beating a admirable group of overachieving underdogs, a Butler squad that plays the most technically sound and effective defense I have ever seen (and that includes all the great Hoya defenses under the elder John Thompson). Sure (as Wilt Chamberlain said), it’s easy to hate Goliath, and Duke has become a Goliath of sorts of college basketball. But none of that should detract from the sheer impressiveness not just of the Duke/Coach K record, nor from the integrity with which they have achieved it.
These are conservative cultural values, these values of successful hard work, that Duke epitomizes. We should admire Butler, certainly, but we should celebrate Duke’s program and its victory. Coach K did not inherit a great program; he built it from scratch. He started as the comparatively poor-boy made good, up by his bootstraps, beating a Vanderbilt. It’s the American way. And it’s very, very much a way to admire and to like.
About the Author
Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Darin| 4.8.10 @ 7:01AM
When you watch Coach K, one term comes to mind - professional. On and off the court, he is a professional. He demands it of himself and his players. I'd put him in a category with Coach John Wooden (UCLA) as fine examples of professionalism.
Richard Baker| 4.8.10 @ 7:31AM
If you're a Tarheel fan then there are many reasons to hate Duke, or as spelled in Chapel Hill, DOOK. Coach K is all the positives mentioned above but still, Beat Duke!
around the track| 4.8.10 @ 7:40AM
You're correct---Coach K and his program are admirable. But, you know how the left likes to say it supports the troops but not the war, well, that's appropriate here. I love Coach K and his program but hate the school they represent: a school overflowing with liberal hatred that ruined the lives of young men, led by cowardly administrators and left-wing fascist faculty.
RustyG| 4.8.10 @ 8:01AM
Why does Duke win so many games....because they have a bench full of All-Americans. Why is their bench full of AllAmericans.....because they win so many games. Don"t hate em....just don't cheer for them.
MB| 4.8.10 @ 8:20AM
Thank you for the wonderful response to my lingering question "Why does everyone hate Duke?". As a Duke alumni and the parent of a Duke alumni I have followed Duke basketball and enjoyed Coach K's dynasty. I must; however, make a correction to the statement that Coach K built the team from scratch. From 1974 to 1978, Duke played under coach Bill Foster who let the team to a Championship game appearance with stars like Jim Spinarkel, Tate Armstrong(graduated 1977) and Mike Giminski. This team embraced many of the same principles embraced by coach K who arrived in 1980.
Ryan| 4.8.10 @ 8:49AM
I like Duke for one simple reason. They won me $100 in the office bracket pool.
Eric Damon| 4.8.10 @ 8:54AM
For a Tar Heel like me, hating Coach K is easy because he's at Dook (or DuIke). That's reason enough for me. he has a great program, built largely by his own efforts, but he is not some sainted figure.
Coach K bullies the refs, screams obscenities on the sidelines, and famously hung Pete Gaudet out to dry the season after his back problems forced him out for the season. He has also had his share of problems with players and the NCAA rules; remember the situation with Corey Maggette and the AAU coach, or Greg Newton remaining on the team after he got caught cheating on an exam? Probably not, because the Duke-loving media glossed over those stories.
And one more thing, I liked Quin Snyder as a player but he got sent packing from Mizzou for cheating in his program, which is why he was last seen coaching a team in the NBDL. I hope he makes back into to the college ranks someday, but the fact is he got caught breaking the rules.
But to be totally honest, even as a Carolina fan I can't totally hate Duke or Coach K. Their presence just 8 miles away from Chapel Hill makes UNC have to raise its level of play, just as success in Chapel Hill drives Duke to excel. As much of a rivalry as there exists between the two programs, there is something good about having them around.
Kevin| 4.8.10 @ 8:49PM
"Coach K bullies the refs, screams obscenities on the sidelines"
Unlike Roy "I don't give a s**t about Carolina, or Dean Smith, or John Calipari, or any of the other over 300 coaches in Division I. No, only K screams obscenities and bullies the refs, lol.
"and famously hung Pete Gaudet out to dry the season after his back problems forced him out for the season. "
Uh, no he didn't. That would be the NCAA that hung Gaudet and every other coach filling a similar position out to dry. That's why Gaudet sued the NCAA....and won.
As for Maggette, it happened before he was even tied to Duke in any way, and came out after he was gone...what was K supposed to do, kick him off the team two years after the fact? And Newton was...what, 20 years ago? Got anything in this century?
Tarholes are like Democrats....there's a lot of revisionist history created between them. And by the way, where will ol' Roy be doing his suit shopping this year?
Joe Hamilton| 4.9.10 @ 4:28AM
Duke is hated for absolutely one reason. They are a predominantly white team which this season were the champion team, in a sport which PC states only black domination is acceptable PC .
Howard| 4.8.10 @ 9:03AM
I guess that I wouldn't dislike Duke if the rules were evenly applied. It always seems that Duke gets the easiest bracket. Or it always seems the calls go their way. They remind me of the Pittsburgh Steelers in that manner. Plus being a UCONN alum, I relished the couple of times we stopped Duke in their tracks.
Joe Hamilton| 4.9.10 @ 4:35AM
Howard; Why don't you think for yourself. This BS about the easiest bracket according to Ken Pomeroy, Duke face, on average the highest rated teams of any team in the final four. Also what isn't stated because of Duke's unbearable whiteness , is they had to play 2 crucial "road" games in a tournament which requires neutral sites. They beat a extremely talented Baylor team playing in front of 30,000 Baylor Fans. In the Championship game, they faced Butler whose campus was 6 miles from Lucas Oil Stadium in front of 70,000 fans, of whom 90+% were rooting for Butler
Eric Damon| 4.8.10 @ 9:06AM
One other bone to pick here is the decision to call UNLV "bad guys". What was bad about them? They talked a bit too much trash to the other teams? They beat teams by 20 just about every night? What was it?
The thing that a lot of people don't think about with the guys from UNLV is that they were just kids, and they have all been solid citizens since their days at Vegas. Larry Johnson has been deeply involved in charity work in Charlotte, New York, and his hometown of Dallas. Greg Anthony started a business while at Vegas, joined the GOP while there, had a good NBA career, and has done excellent work as an analyst for both ESPN and CBS. Anderson Hunt played professionally overseas and is now working with youth as a basketball coach. Stacey Augmon had a decent NBA career and is now working in the league as an assistant coach. And Danny Tarkanian is one of the frontrunners to unseat Harry Reid in the upcoming Nevada Senate race. And those were the "bad guys"?
UNLV was no dirtier than any other big time college program, they just had a coach that the NCAA enforcement staff had a grudge against. It started in the 1970s when he was at Long Beach State and called the NCAA out for slapping small schools like Centenary with major sanctions, while looking the other way while Kentucky and UCLA were cheating their way to basketball glory. After the NCAA sent a letter to LBSU asking if Tarkanian considered his school a cash cow to be investigated, they followed him to every college job he took. Hell within days of his being hired at UNLV, the NCAA reopened an investigation of the program for violations that occurred before Tark even got there!
And after years of court fights with the NCAA, one of which ended up at the Supreme Court, the NCAA ended up paying Tark a couple of million dollars in damages. Now who's the 'renegade', the coach who won in court or the organization that harassed him for decades?
Norm Lewis| 4.8.10 @ 9:25AM
This post illustrates something that frustrates me about writers on AmSpec. The need to politicize every aspect of life. Duke basketball is neither conservative nor liberal. They are a very good basketball program. Ditto for the Yankees. I'm a conservative, and yes, I hate Duke basketball. And, the Yankees. So there.
ncatty| 4.8.10 @ 9:25AM
I get tired of watching Mike snarling at and entreating the referees. For once I would like to see a coach, any coach, yell at a ref for missing a foul by one of his OWN players.
fiftyhz| 4.9.10 @ 1:20PM
Right ncatty. When you make a mistake on your tax forms in your favor, are you going to contact the IRS??
Northern Rebel| 4.8.10 @ 9:56AM
Speaking strictly as a sports fan, I am sick of coach K, and Tiger Woods, (golf sucks anyway), The Yankees, North Carolina, and especially, the Los Angeles self lovers, with their hero, KoMeMe Bryant.
The easiest way to get rid of Coach K, is to give him an NBA job. Let him coach the Nets, and we'll see what a genius he is.
Brad Browning| 4.8.10 @ 10:12AM
I'm with the Northern Rebel. All of those people annoy me greatly. And, yes, golf does suck.
Kevin| 4.8.10 @ 8:53PM
He's enough of a genius to know better than to take the NJ Nets job.
Northern Rebel| 4.8.10 @ 9:59AM
P.S.:
Darin:
John wooden is in a category of his own, with second place far behind, and out of sight. That's coming from a UCONN fan.
rob| 4.8.10 @ 10:52AM
"These are conservative cultural values, these values of successful hard work." Come on, democrats value hard work, too! It's pretty ridiculous to try to ascribe a political value to discipline.
Irish Spectre| 4.8.10 @ 12:47PM
I agree 100% with rob's assertion that Democrats also value hard work; but just to clarify, it's the hard work of OTHERS that they value. After all, SOMEone needs to give 'em their handouts!!
don| 4.8.10 @ 11:26AM
Many would say they ooze confidence. I say they are smug, a subtle but important distinction. And, I'm a Terp fan. So it is in my genes to be a Duke hater.
Kevin| 4.8.10 @ 8:57PM
Shouldn't you be turning over cars, or starting a fire somewhere, or maybe chanting the f word while throwing batteries at player's parents?
I'll take smug over thug any day.
Bob Miller| 4.8.10 @ 11:29AM
In fact, Democrats in office carry their party discipline to unimaginable/unconstitutional extremes. They certainly do work hard to pick our pockets professionally.
Interested Conservative| 4.8.10 @ 11:52AM
Two items:
1 - He needs to smile; and,
2 - He didn't inherit an empty program - Mike Gminski, Jim Spanarkel and Gene Banks would disagree. It's the Awfully Conceited Conference for a reason.
Eric Damon| 4.8.10 @ 1:16PM
With all due respect, your facts are wrong. The only one of those players there when Coach K took over in 1980-81 was Gene Banks. Banks and Dennard were the two best players on the team that year, a team that ended up at 17-13. Coach K did have to rebuild the talent base there, and the program he has is basically his creation.
And we in the ACC can be the Awfully Conceited Conference, so long as we keep bring titles back home. That would make two consecutive men's basketball titles in a row, so we have a reason to be conceited down here. Besides, none of the smack we talk about our hoops is bragging...'cause we can back it up!
Interested Conservative| 4.8.10 @ 2:36PM
My point was that while it's surely, now, his creation, it was certainly not built from scratch or nothing. It had been to a championship game just before he arrived, and had been in the ACC for years.
And, he still needs to smile more.
As for the swearing and ref baiting, nothing new there - I've heard stories of Coach Wooden that make him seem pacific by comparison.
Interesting how close a game it was between two teams full of upperclassmen. Duke seems to differ from the rest of the conference in that sense, as Quin points out. Coach K has gotten away from losing players to early NBA entrance.
Ron Garner| 4.8.10 @ 3:16PM
That's five National Championships in ten years for the ACC. Your Awfully Conceited Conference.
Interested Conservative| 4.8.10 @ 3:55PM
Absolutely correct! Still, awfully conceited..
Dean| 4.9.10 @ 12:02AM
That's called "hard work", not "conceited. Ask Butler. Ask George Mason. And ask Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas.
Fred Smith| 4.8.10 @ 1:10PM
Would the author please please please take a grammar course? Look at this friggin one-paragraph sentence! I'm no nazi. Readers like me just need all the help we can get. Reading this stuff is a complete workout.
"And I came away a fan for life of Duke basketball (behind of course my Hoyas and my hometown Tulane Green Wave), impressed by their technical soundness, their work ethic, and their coach who had served as an Army officer and who, I would learn, insisted (as did the Hoyas' John Thompson) that his players actually go to class and earn degrees."
Dean| 4.8.10 @ 2:01PM
If one wants to consider fine coaches, consider Tom Izzo at Michigan State. He has taken the Spartans to six Final Fours in the past twelve years, and this year was his finest hour. The team was battered by injuries and inconsistent play during the regular season, yet he inspired the team to play beyond itself and come within three points of appearing in the championship game for the second consecutive year. A small-town lad from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, he is a splendid example of the American spirit.
Johnny| 4.8.10 @ 2:14PM
In 1983 your Hoyas did not win the national championship. My NC State Wolfpack won it in one of the greatest cinderella stories in NCAA history.
Quin| 4.8.10 @ 5:23PM
You misread me, Johnny. I said this was at the BEGINNING of the 1983-84 season in which GU did indeed win the national title.
Joseph| 4.8.10 @ 2:18PM
I have read so many articles in the past week talking about why people hate Duke. Most of them point out 3 to 4 common reasons, all of which are silly. The first is usually it's players, or to be more accurate, how they act on the court. My response to this is "Really?" I think it would be very easy to look at each team and point out a kid or two that I didn't like because of the way he acted on the court. The problem is that nobody does that to any other team except Duke. The second reason why people hate Duke, and it's probably #1 on most people's list is the way K. acts towards the officials. Again, I just don't get it. Maybe you don't agree, but is that really a reason to hate a team. He has his coaching style and it's brought Duke 4 National Championships along with 4 other Championship appearances. Why would he change if it's obviously working? Why not just come out and admit why you hate Duke? You hate them because they beat your team or because they are better than your team and because they have won more than any other team over the past two decades. Americans hate seeing someone else have success, and Duke has had plenty of it. This is why I don't mind the hate. If people stopped hating Duke and Coach K, then it would mean that they had stopped winning.
J.P. Travis | 4.8.10 @ 2:19PM
I admire Coach K and Duke basketball for all of the reasons cited, but I no longer root for them because of the radical liberal campus shenanigans I keep reading about, including the faculty's response to the lacrosse team's situation and their lack of response to the gay professor's abuse of his adopted children. You can read my reasons for ending my fan support at http://www.jpattitude.com/100401.php
Tom Geer| 4.8.10 @ 2:22PM
Replay the final game and watch Singler on defense. Pushing an opposing player with your forearm is a foul. Had these been called on Singler he would have fouled out in the first half, as he more or less continuously rides the player he is guarding. Fundamentally, Duke's basketball success has become a cheat.
Interested Conservative| 4.8.10 @ 2:39PM
Oh boy - ever watch a Big Ten game? Singler's defense would be unnoticed and mild.
Mike| 4.8.10 @ 5:52PM
Please replay the game and watch Butler. They grabbed/held Singler through out the game as he was moving on offense. That is called a foul. The game has changed through the ages, but only Duke gets called out for so-called "no calls."
Peter McGrath (Hates Duke)| 4.8.10 @ 3:53PM
Why hate Coach K? As a Wake Forest alum, I can only answer, "Let me count the ways ... ."
Probably wouldn't be as big a deal if the stinking Dukies didn't singe my team's keester often and with regularity, if Coach Krapinsky didn't need to whittle down his Blue Devil horns each morning, and if the lousy refs wouldn't worship the little shrew as The Deity.
Here's some other reasons to gnash one's teeth: J.J Redick, Bobby Hurley, and (ugh) Christian Laettner (geez, I'm getting woozy ... I think I'm gonna puke).
OK, how's that for starters?
Francis Beckwith | 4.8.10 @ 5:20PM
Me and Coach K each featured in St. Anthony's messenger. Hell has frozen over.
Mike Krzyzewski:
http://www.americancatholic.or.....ature2.asp
Beckwith:
http://www.americancatholic.or.....ature2.asp
Le Cracquere| 4.8.10 @ 6:00PM
This Krzyzewski fellow sounds like a decent enough sort ... but what, for pity's sake, is he doing on the national news scene? I abominate leftist academics, but Stanley-freaking-Fish and the false accusers of the lacrosse team have more to do with Duke's chartered purposes than do a parasitic gaggle of illiterate & subliterate athletes (spare me the "student-" prefix) and their faculty minders. If Krzyzewski's such a brick, one trusts he can make an honest living in the NBA.
journeyman| 4.8.10 @ 7:31PM
LOL , I read the thread and have to laugh, the haters from the right and haters of "K" and Duke are here in force. Hate is the unhealthiest emotion you can have , so you guys are cultivating it. Feeding off each others hate, good work. Your moms must be so proud of how you turned out.
gordon| 4.8.10 @ 8:52PM
I live in Raleigh and since Duke's remarkable victory over UNLV and the reading of Coach K's books, have become a huge fan. UNC fans (and there are myriads of them) hate Coach K for one single awful word--parity. In the UNC worldview, UNC is the greatest college basketball team of all time, which makes them, as fans, superior to all others. It is a type of sports snobbery. But then came K. Each year he stands in the way of their glory, frustrating their grand designs. He routinely beats them, his program equal to theirs. This is unforgivable. UNC has a great image in sports and their journalism school sends graduates far and wide. They use the power of the pen to spread their venom in print and in the electronic media. All because of the sin of parity.
Golden| 4.8.10 @ 9:24PM
Maybe you don't agree, but is that really a reason to hate a team. He has his coaching style and it's brought Duke 4 National Championships along with 4 other Championship appearances. Why would he change if it's obviously working? reebok easytone reebok easytone
Richard Baker| 4.8.10 @ 9:58PM
It's ironic that when Coach K had those heart troubles in the '90s, if memory serves, that Dean Smith was the only ACC basketball coach who didn't send a Get-Well card. Go Heels!
Kevin Walsh| 4.8.10 @ 10:43PM
What about Loyola of New Orleans?
BigTuna87 | 4.9.10 @ 9:23AM
The Duke haters have only one reason, Duke is on top consistently. People always want to tear down the most successful...especially after they helped build them up. Society is fickle at best.
Duke05| 4.9.10 @ 12:07PM
Great article until the "almost alwasy votes republican" comment. That should neither be here nor there. I love DUKE Basketball probably like no one else and am a fierce supporter of Coach K. However, I can't say in good conscious that I would agree with him were he to back say Sarah Palin. Let's leave the politics to the crooks and let Coach K just be a really tremendous leader of young men.
Bill Collins| 4.9.10 @ 1:28PM
Ha! How can anybody hate Coach K? He is not the issue. Duke is the issue.
When Vic Bubas, a Gary, Indiana native and former assistant coach at North Carolina State University, first built the Duke basketball dynasty at Duke starting in 1959, a lot of people grumbled about him, too. But, again, Bubas was not really the issue any more than Coach K is today.
Athletics is a world of rivalries, sometimes intense rivalries. Think of Manchester United vs. Arsenal, USC versus UCLA. the Red Sox vs. the Yankees, Ohio State vs. Michigan. The reality is that many Red Sox fans hate the Yankees, in a sports sense, as do many of those other groups of fans "hate" their rivals. So, in college basketball, as it used to be in college football when Duke was good in football, many people hate Duke. No surprise. That's the way sports are.
Bill Collins| 4.9.10 @ 2:00PM
Joe Hamilton wrote:
"Duke is hated for absolutely one reason. They are a predominantly white team which this season were the champion team, in a sport which PC states only black domination is acceptable PC ."
To respond: first of all, I am not a political conservative. by any stretch of the imagination. I found this discussion thread via a link from facebook.
Mr. Hamilton's comments don't tell the full truth. They tell a piece of the truth. Yes, in some limited circles, Duke is hated because their men's basketball teams have a lot of white players. But, when Mr. Hamilton says that there is "only one reason" why Duke is hated, he misses many other layers of sports culture and male culture in the USA that cause so many of us not to like Duke.
As for me, I was taught to hate Duke as a child, back in the day when most NCAA college sports teams were all white. I, in turn, deliberately brain-washed (or should the term be fan-washed?) my five-year-old nephew back in 1984 to always recognize that Duke sports teams are always the bad guys.
As he and I sat in the stands at the Greensboro Coliseum watching Wake Forest and Duke, he -- as any five-year-old American male raised watching TV would do -- asked me, "Uncle Bill, who re the good guys and who are the bad guys?" I answered his childlike question by teaching him an important lesson in life: to wit, Duke is the bad guys. I told him, "Duke is the team wearing the blue uniforms. Remember, for the rest of your life, that Duke is always the bad guys and anybody playing Duke is always the good guys." Words and lessons to live by. Ha!
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Slowtrot| 4.9.10 @ 3:55PM
While I don't hate whatizname, I don't respect him.
He along with the rest of the faculty at Duke, and particularly the black faculty left the 3 or 4 Lacrosse players dangling in the wind until the parents got together and saved the kids. Poor.
bawesome| 4.9.10 @ 9:33PM
Coach K voted for Obama, so he's smart as well as the greatest coach in college basketball.
MikeN| 4.10.10 @ 5:28PM
Media bias in Duke's favor, starting with Dick Vitale.
Also, despite the championships, Duke is a perennial underachiever, losing to lower seeded teams almost every year. The media bas and various commercials lets MikeK restock with All-Americans every year.
MikeN| 4.10.10 @ 5:28PM
Media bias in Duke's favor, starting with Dick Vitale.
Also, despite the championships, Duke is a perennial underachiever, losing to lower seeded teams almost every year. The media bas and various commercials lets MikeK restock with All-Americans every year.
MikeN| 4.10.10 @ 5:28PM
Media bias in Duke's favor, starting with Dick Vitale.
Also, despite the championships, Duke is a perennial underachiever, losing to lower seeded teams almost every year. The media bas and various commercials lets MikeK restock with All-Americans every year.