Duke Loses - Coach K a Real Sourpuss/Gary Williams, too

[tornado]

That is indeed the MOST pathetic job of flopping I have ever seen.

Not only did nobody touch him, nobody even came within a foot of him and he started
flopping several seconds even BEFORE the anticipated contact.

This is one the refs should have given him a "T" for acting.

This kind of joke makes you really appreciate the fine flopping the Valley has been known for in years past,
the likes of Mike Van De Garde and Chad Klein!

[Majik45]

I found a clip where Coach K is being kind of complimentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iaHU_Nuqbc

[houstontxbrave]

Well, at leat since Duke is out we don't have to hear anything else about them for the rest of the tournament. Like about them winning.

Oh I would venture to guarantee there will be more then just a mention or two about Duke throughout the rest of this tournament. Wouldnt be surprised to see K in a studio at some point.

[godukegobradley]

All of you guys are beyond rediculous. If you want to hate Duke then fine, hate Duke. But dont kid yourself with all this BS about Paulus shoving anymore than any NCAA point guard, or Coach K (the man who builds family Life centers in the community) being an evil warlord. Thats absurd.
Why dont you guys waste your time hating someone who truly deservers your animosity, like Kansas State with the most corrupt coach of all time, or Florida whose center acts like a thug, but went to the preppiest high school in New York?
You hate Duke because they are what every college basketball program aspires to be (3 national tyitles, ten final fours, 17 AP #1 rankings, every game on national tv, the mystique of Cameron, the legend of the Cameron Crazies, Laetner over Kentucky, a 92% graduation rate, the battle on Tobacco Road, saying no the Lakers, coaching Team USA, the Miracle minute at Maryland, and the list goes on). You hate DUke beacues it is the most elite program in the country, period.So please if you want to bash Duke, be honest about it. You hate DUKE becasue no one should be that good.
Ill end on this anecdote that Coach K shared with the Duke student body before senior night 2006.
Every year the coaches taker the seniors out to dinner, and Coach K asked the players what surprised them the most about their time at Duke.
JJ Redick answered, "I never thought everyone would hate us as much as they do."
Coach K replied, "JJ they dont hate you. They hate the fact that they cant be you. In the end the hate themselves."
Go Braves!

[tornado]

Don't worry, there is significant disdain for Bob Huggins, but he isn't the topic of this thread.
Anyway, I'd love to see your proof of a 92% graduation rate....that's just hogwash.

Here are the actual NCAA graduation rate statistics:

http://www2.ncaa.org/portal/academics_and_athletes/education_and_research/academic_reform/grad_rate/2006/d1_school_grad_rate_data.html

All Students: 93%
Men's Basketball: 50%
Graduation rate: 40%
Graduation Success Rate: 67%
Men's Basketball/Black Athletes Graduation Success Rate: 63%

This is just a bit lower than 100% and strangely those numbers are almost identical to Bradley University"s numbers.

[mike radigan]

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[tornado]

Wonder if anyone saw any of the interviews or reports after the Maryland loss to Butler?

Is this just a complete ACC thing?
Do they teach the ACC coaches to be a$$holes and act like they were cheated every time?

Gary Williams pulls a total Coach K and never once mentions the fine play of the team that knocked him out of the tourney.
He whines a little then hoots about how good they really are, maybe even better than the team that beat them.
He never concedes his team got beat, only that they played poorly and gave the game away.

I even did a google search looking to see if even once Williams says anything nice about Butler...he doesn't.
Just too stuck up to admit the midmajors are pretty good.

Williams even takes a slap at Butler hinting they aren't really as good as their rankings while only saying that they had a bad shooting day otherwise they would have won.
"It was just a bad shooting day," Maryland head coach Gary Williams said"

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=188657

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/03_18-72/SPO

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2007/03/18/sports/bsports.txt

[Dubl R 1]

All of you guys are beyond rediculous. If you want to hate Duke then fine, hate Duke. But dont kid yourself with all this BS about Paulus shoving anymore than any NCAA point guard, or Coach K (the man who builds family Life centers in the community) being an evil warlord. Thats absurd.
Why dont you guys waste your time hating someone who truly deservers your animosity, like Kansas State with the most corrupt coach of all time, or Florida whose center acts like a thug, but went to the preppiest high school in New York?
You hate Duke because they are what every college basketball program aspires to be (3 national tyitles, ten final fours, 17 AP #1 rankings, every game on national tv, the mystique of Cameron, the legend of the Cameron Crazies, Laetner over Kentucky, a 92% graduation rate, the battle on Tobacco Road, saying no the Lakers, coaching Team USA, the Miracle minute at Maryland, and the list goes on). You hate DUke beacues it is the most elite program in the country, period.So please if you want to bash Duke, be honest about it. You hate DUKE becasue no one should be that good.
Ill end on this anecdote that Coach K shared with the Duke student body before senior night 2006.
Every year the coaches taker the seniors out to dinner, and Coach K asked the players what surprised them the most about their time at Duke.
JJ Redick answered, "I never thought everyone would hate us as much as they do."
Coach K replied, "JJ they dont hate you. They hate the fact that they cant be you. In the end the hate themselves."
Go Braves!

Good points, I'm not gonna hate on them any.............................. no, you know what, I still Hatem', this year, next year, and the year after that. Not that Duke cares or even should care what I think, but I don't have to like them just because they have been successful. I hate, wait I shouldn't say hate. I dislike Duke because they have had players I don't like, and I dont like coack K. They could lose every game they play for the next 5 years, and I would still dislike Coach K and Paulus, and Laettner and Reddick, and the Landlord and Ferry and Wojo and Dunleavy(puke) and Hurley. Believe me, their success has nothing to do with it, how else would one explain the disdain I have for Illinois State?

Also, Great showing by the ACC so far. Somebody tell Nantz and Packer that each of the last 2 years the MVC has advanced 50 % of the teams that recieved bids to the Sweet Sixteen. This year the ACC got 14.3 % of its teams through.
Same with the Big 10, and they were lucky to get that.