Posted by whitey34 on 3/28/2015 10:10:00 AM (view original):
I live in Michigan. Sister In law graduated from State, but I cheer against state. lol. Izzo is a great coach, but 2 things: if Duke plays them, Coach K owns him and remember when they overachieved and got destroyed by UNC in championship game.
Thanks for proving my point Whitey. He "overachieved" and got them where? All the way to the title game. Touche, point taken. Game over and thanks for playing.
Listen, I'm the biggest Duke fan in the state of Kentucky, bar none. Been a diehard Duke fan for over 30 years. And for what it's worth, your attempt at a defense of Corey Maggette situation, while a noble effort, was a waste of time. The kid was guilty as hell, there's no way that the Duke coaching staff didn't know that, and if Duke hadn't had (and still has) that image of the squeaky clean, do everything the right way, "Caucasian" boys succeeding against the odds image (and there's no need to try to deny it, we all know it's true), they would have vacated those wins like Umass did, like Memphis did, like Michigan did, and like any other school in that situation has had to do. Duke IS the NCAA's white (word chosen deliberately) knight in shining armor. It got swept under the rug and that was WRONG. Only a Duke fan with their head in the sand would believe otherwise.
But all that is leading to this: if I needed to win ONE college basketball game to have my life spared, out of all the active coaches, Tom Izzo is my guy. If I'm allowed to choose any college basketball coach ever, I'm choosing Bob Knight in his prime, but of all the coaches today, there is NO WAY you go with anyone but Tom Izzo. If you do, just tell us what you want on your head stone because you're through.
And after saying all that, I'm STILL the biggest Duke fan in the state of Kentucky and quite possibly the biggest Duke fan west of Murphy and if you don't know what that means, look it up.