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10:00 AM
November 19, 2009
dtown

The name "Greg Monroe" also comes to mind. Look what a swell job he's done at GTown.

10:28 AM
November 19, 2009
realdukefan

The name "Kyrie Irving" also comes to mind...

9:44 PM
November 19, 2009
Duke White Male

Josh McRoberts cannot ever be cited as good. He can barely maintain a bench spot with the f'in PACERS! Even Shav is earning solid bench minutes with a playoff Miami Heat team!

4:13 PM
November 20, 2009
tarheel4244

Everytime there is a debate regarding which program is superior, UNC or Duke, the Duke people always bring up education. But guess what ? This is basketball !!! UNC has been better since they first tipped it off 100 years ago, Williams is a better college coach and developer of talent than Coach K. UNC has produced more and better NBA talent than Duke, and the only sport that Duke has that is better than UNC is Men's Lacrosse. We have them in pretty much everything else. Duke would do better comparing themselves to NC State than UNC. We have tradition and history at UNC. Besides education, what else do you have ? As far as education, Stanford has proven that you can have education as well as athletics. And as far as Cameron being better than the Smith Center, I beg to differ. Besides idiots that line the court and make the atmosphere unbearable for the opposing team (except for UNC during the Hansbrough era of course), the place is an outdated sweat box that no one except the locals love. And when is the last time you saw a Duke player in an AT&T commercial ? Enough said.

4:14 PM
November 20, 2009
tarheel4244

And as far as McRoberts is concerned, Hansbrough pretty much swashed the Rivals.com rating system, huh ?

4:13 PM
November 21, 2009
honda202

heel's fans saying that noone cares about cameron is a joke. It is the one college baseketball stadium that everyone in the nation would like to see and pay a heavy price to do so. The deandome is a drab piece of concrete that has more aisle space than your local grocery store. Cameron is historic - deandome is outdated and boring much like its fans

3:44 AM
November 22, 2009
johndonn

The author Alex Fararoff misstates the comparison between Coach K and Coach Williams in the recruiting of Harrison Barnes. The facts speak for themselves. Brick Oettinger with The ACC Sports Journal quotes Harrison Barnes' mother, Shirley Barnes, who said “I’d say North Carolina didn’t start at the top of our list,” “But Coach Williams was very consistent. We were probably looking in a different direction. But he kept plugging away at it. He was always a step ahead of everyone else. Always.”

“It’s safe to say that North Carolina had the best in-home,” Harrison Barnes told Scout.com. “I just enjoyed Coach Williams coming into my home. I think they had the best combination of the relaxed approach, but at the same time they got their business model across. They weren’t too laid-back, but it wasn’t strictly business.”

It looks to me like Coach Williams did a better job with the Barnes family than Coach K. The facts speak for themselves.

9:07 PM
January 13, 2010
mkclayton

The manner in which he made his announcement speaks volumes about Mr. Barnes. He made the right choice for himself. We shall see what kind of success he enjoys against Duke.

1:33 PM
February 16, 2010
dwb

wow, your analogy for recruiting, old men trying to pick up young athletic boys in a bar!?!! So they can go home and sleep with them? You have issues. And who cares if he has a twitter account. Lastly, please leave the education piece out since the whole world knows about Duke's 3 year soc degree for BB players. Really, you need to get a grip.

dwb