Ostensibly Hoops

[hedge]

Only 5 out of 27 ESPN analysts picked the Heels to even get to the FF. 4 out of 5 of those that picked us to get to the FF have Villanova winning it all, the other one has MSU...

[eCat]

From an article in GQ .....

Nothing seems to get Calipari worked up quite like Duke. In 2010, the Blue Devils won a national title despite having zero players drafted that June. It was a team that captured everything that Duke at the time represented: The traditional student-athlete experience, where the recruiting pitch—“set for life”—seemed to be a subtle rejoinder to Calipari’s promise to set freshmen up for the NBA.

“It began to change because Duke did what we did. And now it’s become respectable.”

Somewhere along the way—maybe it was the risk of falling behind—Duke shifted its approach, and the school went all in on recruiting one-and-dones. (As The Ringer’s Mark Titus put it recently: “Krzyzewski is no longer taking a page from Calipari’s book when it comes to recruiting—he’s taking the whole damn book.”) In 2015, Duke won a title with three one-and-done players. This season, four of Duke’s five starters likely are one-and-dones.

And Calipari—never one to shy away from a touchy subject—suspects this is why the tone of the national conversation around one-and-dones suddenly changed.

“It began to change because Duke did what we did,” said Calipari definitively. “And now it’s become respectable.”

He continued: “I’m happy they did it, so I can go about my business and not have to hear the crap about it—you don’t hear it any more. Five years ago, that’s all it was. When Duke did it, then it’s kind of gone away.”

In January, a 17-year-old named Zion Williamson, whose viral dunks have already made him a mixtape legend, announced he was committing to Duke over several other schools, including Kentucky. (This gave Duke the top three recruits in the nation for next season, which has never happened before.) Calipari took it as a personal affront, attacking Duke and what he saw as that program’s false promises to recruits. “I don’t sell, like, ‘When you come here, the university and the state will take care of you the rest of your life,’” he said at a press conference a few weeks ago. “You may buy that, and I’ve got some great property in some swampland down in Florida to sell you, too… We’re not trying to say this university or this state will take care of you the rest of your life. There’s no socialism here.”

[crotch]

2018 Academic Tournament Bracket...... Kentucky loses in finals to Bucknell. Go figure.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/201 ... -ruled-day

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[hedge]

Duke is a private school, why would the state take care of any Duke player?

[eCat]

The Penny is in at Memphis

[crotch]

Yet another stupid March Madness type bracket thing.. This time it's from SBNation about who has the best uniforms in the tourney. Kentucky in final four again which I totally disagree. Hate those crappy checkerboard things. There's only one university that should have checkerboard designs and that's Rocky Top.


https://www.sbnation.com/college-basket ... picks-2018



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[Saint]

Mook's alma mater (and maybe Tyler's too) is one of the two teams the computer science prof at Illinois picked to claim first-round upsets

[Saint]

That's a good story on Cal in GQ. He's really riled up about dook. Meanwhile Roy has 2 FFs and a natty while they argue over McD's A-As.

[hedge]

And Roy would have, at minimum, another FF in that time if Kendall Marshall hadn't broken his wrist in the second round of the tourny that year...

[eCat]

but you guys cheat so no one gives a damn

UVa sixth man in the rotation broke his wrist and is out for the tourney. Not sure if that changes the dynamics for UK, Zona or anyone picking them to the final four.

[Saint]

You only cheat when you break the rules. UNC acted fully within the legal guidelines (except football, but that's another story). Don't be jealous of UNC's success

[Saint]

UVa is fucked anyway, because they're UVa and never win shit in March

[crashcourse]

hopefully not

[eCat]

had a chance to meet with my lawyer today, good guy and I'm going to hire him to write the contract.

I told him about the consultation fee from the other lawyer I was bitching about here last week and he told me look her up on facebook if I can, she has pictures of herself with strippers playing with her boobs. He didn't have much positive to say about her

[Jungle Rat]

LINK! NOW!

[eCat]

I think you have to be friends with her

[Jungle Rat]

Dammit!

[goldenbear]

I dont get why any one and Duke would go to Duke it as been close to 40 years of NBA busts at DUke. The only player to have more success in the NBA then he had at Duke is Irving and that is because he only played 11 games at duke and did not have Coach K coach him down.

Look even at the recent guys oakafur, Parker, Winslow, bust. Ferry Lattener, Hill,, Hurly, Williams, Brand all better at DUke then the NBA.

Only 4 players at Duke have won an NBA title that played for coach K,. Irving, Battier, Ferry, Dhanty Jones

[eCat]

Capel is the reason

and its not because he's a great guy

[hedge]

Much as I hate to admit it, JJ Reddick has carved out a nice NBA career for himself. Granted his NBA career has not been as illustrious as his career at Duke, at least in terms of personal stats and honors, but he has done pretty well for himself in the league. Since his rookie contract expired, he's been averaging about $7 mil a year. Looks like Philly is paying him $23 mil this year. Not bad. And don't forget the glorious career of Mike Dunleavy...