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Comparing this Duke team to my childhood
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Comparing this Duke team to my childhood


Mar 12, 2022, 9:26 PM

It’s obvious academics is no longer a requirement to play basketball in Durham.

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Clemson doesn't care about basketball....as evidenced by Brown-L getting 14 years.


It's obvious "one and done" has ruined college basketball


Mar 12, 2022, 9:41 PM

They've taken the student out of student-athlete. Players that know they'll get drafted high only have to stay eligible for a semester to get through the spring of their freshman year before declaring for the draft. And Coach K sold his soul and bought into this. When he started in the early 80s with players like Gene Banks and Mike Gminski, he was a real coach. Now he's a John Calipari clone.

I just hope college football doesn't ever get into the "one and done" situation or it'll finish off what the NIL and the portal has started.

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Re: It's obvious "one and done" has ruined college basketball


Mar 12, 2022, 9:53 PM

K did not coach Banks and Gminski

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He coached Banks senior year


Mar 12, 2022, 10:03 PM

but you're right about Gminski who left in '80 just before Krzyzewski started in the fall. But the point was he had players like that for 3 0r 4 years and got to develop them and they got to be college students and athletes for 3 or 4 years instead of 10 months.

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Re: Comparing this Duke team to my childhood


Mar 12, 2022, 9:51 PM

In the 1 and done world of big time basketball you are correct. Do you think Banchero gives a rip about school when he will be making millions this summer?

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Re: Comparing this Duke team to my childhood


Mar 13, 2022, 11:03 AM

It never was.

I've got a masters from Duke and met some of the basketball players who could barely speak English but somehow got a Duke degree.

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Re: Comparing this Duke team to my childhood


Mar 13, 2022, 11:40 AM

What other languages did they speak though?

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DB23


Are you suggesting

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Mar 13, 2022, 11:47 AM

Zion Williamson did not excel academically during his rigorous one semester of college?

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