Coach K

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Huggins? I'd like to see Krzyzewski versus Hogan! BTW - continuing off topic, Rowdy Roddy Piper now has a comedy nightclub act and regularly appears at a comedy club here in Portland, which is where he lives.

You could open for him. Padgett and Piper....................yeah!

[Judtech]

I love Duke and I love coach K. However, I would draw the line at posting stories about how Coach K affected my life. Granted, we have met several times, but affecting my life.....he is down a ways on my list.
Sure he gets a little 'rat faced' at some calls, so what? Is it his fault or the officials fault for not drawing a line of acceptable behavior. Since most people on this board feel that coaches are nothing more then little kids, you can't blame them for acting that way if no one says they can't. Do you blame the kid for being spoiled or the parents for spoiling them?
Of course, I also am a Bob Knight fan, who mentored Coach K, so at least I come by it honestly. So I will go put on my 'game face' and get ready for the abuse. Just remember, if Duke was horrible, no one would care!!!!

[just another ref]

As for all the antics routinely pulled by Coach K and countless other, I say it's like all the ignored traveling, the powers that be must want it that way, because it definitely could be reduced.

[Adam]

The problem is, like hs ball in some areas, coaches have too much say in regular season assignments; particularly coaches of Krewshewooskie's "stature."

[Berkut]

I cannot stand Duke for one simple reason (well, really two, but if we ignore my officials ire with how Coach K acts...):

They are very successful, and their fans feel that makes them special, so it is fun to not like them.

That is all there is to it - being a sports fan (or anti-fan in this case) is about having fun, and having someone to not like is fun. It isn't very fun to pain Southwest Boise State School of Agriculture as the Evil Empire though - you need someone prominent and successful for that, and Duke fits the bill perfectly.

The fact that in addition to being very successful they have this sanctinmonious, "aren't we special, isn't Coach K SUCH A GREAT MAN" cult thing going just makes it that much more fun to despise them.

They are very much the Yankees. I used to enjoy "hating" the Yankees as well, but my 10 year old decided two years ago he was a Yankees fan, so of course I had to switch from hating them to cheering for them, which if also fun. Nice ballpark they have.

I am an Arizona fan by circumstance (that is where I went to school) so I hate ASU, and I despise Duke for getting all the attention, vastly more than they deserve, of course, and for their braindead fans that think their precious Coach K walks on water. He doesn't - but Lute Olson did.

Lets just hope Jake doesn't get it into his head to start rooting for the Blue Devils...

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by fullor30

You could open for him. Padgett and Piper....................yeah!

Actually, there are a lot of kids in hospitals around here who love to be visited by Roddy and he always makes time to see these kids. He's actually a nice guy, although he works on not being one "professionally".

As to me performing at a comedy club, my stand-up routine is geared more to the middle school crowd - just ask my grandkids.

[grunewar]

From the 5 April Sports Illustrated Section as above:

Duke men's basketball Coach K and lifelong Cubs fan on establishing standards for the Blue Devils:

"Just judge people for who they are right now. We're not the Yankees. We're not, thank goodness, the Cubs."



Now, doesn't that make it all better?

[Mark Padgett]

UNC phi beta kappa.

[Nevadaref]

Updated: April 2, 2010, 9:59 PM ET
Coach K not amused by illustration

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Associated Press


INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Star newspaper has apologized to Duke University after some of Friday's editions included an illustration of coach Mike Krzyzewski with horns and a target drawn on his head.
The illustration on the front of the sports section accompanied a story titled "Despising Duke" that detailed how some fans strongly dislike the Blue Devils' program.



Jim Lefko, the Star's senior editor/sports, said the paper pulled the illustration "when we realized it didn't meet our standards."
"It was an illustration that should have come together earlier than it did," Lefko said.
He estimated the drawing appeared in fewer than 30,000 copies of the edition distributed statewide. He said he apologized Friday morning to Duke officials, who said they hadn't yet seen the illustration.
But when Krzyzewski took the podium Friday afternoon, he had, and he was not amused.
"First thing I thought, 'That can't be," Krzyzewski said. "How could a newspaper do that? That's like somebody doodled. Actually, I thought I looked better. But it was kind of juvenile. Not kind of. Just juvenile. And my seven grandkids didn't enjoy looking at it. 'It's not Poppy.'
"It is what it is. It's very juvenile," he continued. "We have great kids who go to school, who graduate. If we're going to be despised or hated by anybody because we go to school and we want to win, you know what, that's your problem. Then you have a problem, because we're going to go to school and we're going to try to win. You don't like it? Keep drawing pictures. Just keep drawing pictures. Try to do them a little bit better than that, though."

Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press

[Mark Padgett]

I dunno. To me, it looks just like him.

[Berkut]

What a martyr, taking this kind of abuse because he defends "going to school" and "trying to win". Poor guy.

Why do people hate schoolgoing win-trying people like poor Coach K?