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Here's a really funny one: Anyone from Duke complaining about student behavior
--Sally Jenkins
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The cool thing a person can have is the means to love himself the right way. Most people do not think the are worth the finenest things in life. i think that all people shoulkd have a high self-esteam. i mean i do and everyone loves me. i'm the man tho....so its easy for me.
--Casey Sanders
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'Coach K has never in his life reacted in the way he reacted to DeMarcus,' said DeMarcus' father Ron Nelson in a May 30 article in the Vallejo Times-Herald. 'They said he went home and told his wife he finally found someone he fell in love with on sight.'
--Ron Nelson
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Krzyzewski said Tuesday that Duke never has been under investigation by the NCAA and that if Duke did something wrong in this case, "we should be punished."
"I have no problem with that," he said.
--Coach K
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Body, mind, soul: Casey Sanders has it all
--St. Petersburg Times
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Finally, basketball fans all over the country got what they wanted - the two best teams with everything at stake - but the referees had to step in and have their say on the outcome of the game, an 82-72 Blue Devils victory.
--Bryan Rosenbaum, Arizona Daily Wildcat
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Duke, for all the hoopla, isn't immune to the various ills plaguing college athletics- from compromised academic standards in admissions to student-athletes misbehaving once they are admitted.
--Jason Zengerle, MSN Slate
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It's just a shame that, thanks to three stocky men in stripes, we never got to see the championship game we all hoped for.
--Bryan Rosenbaum, Arizona Daily Wildcat
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'Coach smiled at me,' Nelson recalled last week. 'I was aglow. I thought, 'He likes me. He can tell I'm a good person.' Then he said I had angelic eyes.'
--DeMarcus Nelson, on Coach K
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things got out of hand
--Shelden Williams
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After practice, Shavlik Randolph watches sports on TV in the den as he soaks his feet in soothing warm water and Epsom salts. His mother, Kim Randolph, serves Shavlik and his dad, Kenny, their dinner on trays; for Shav, she cuts his steak, prepares his baked potato and pours his two glass of milk.
--newsobserver.com
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Watch any Duke game on television and listen to the announcers praise the Blue Devils for their "intelligence" and "class".
--Jason Zengerle, MSN Slate article
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When he looks into your eyes, he's almost angelic
--Coach K, on Chris Duhon
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"Coach K is not very big on rubbing things in, like showboating." said Burgess. "That's something I learned from day one. Our players told us that's something that we have to have a lot of class."
--Chris Burgess
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According to the Times-Picayune's Josh Peter, in the summer of 2000 Vivian Harper, mother of Duke incoming freshman point guard Chris Duhon, moved from her home in Slidell, La., to a two-bedroom apartment in Durham, N.C. She was given a job at a firm called NCM Capital Management Company, a billion-dollar money management firm owned by a man named Maceo Sloan, among whose possessions is an autographed basketball signed by the 1991 Duke championship team, Coach K's first title squad. Workers at the firm say the job was never posted. They also allege that Harper was given a substantial raise within four months.
There's more. Peters also reports that Carlos Boozer Sr., the then-unemployed father of former Duke star Carlos Boozer, was given a job at GlaxoSmithKline, a pharmaceutical company owned by Robert Ingram, who is a close friend of Coach K's. In order to take the job, the elder Boozer relocated from Alaska.
Coach K? Say it isn't so!
--Bob Ryan, Boston Globe
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"Coach K is selfish," said Simonton, WILLIAM AVERY's mother. "He wants what's best for him. He says it's for the players. It's not."
--Terry Simonton
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Krzyzewski also took a page from his mentor, Bob Knight, throughout the night as his behavior left a lot to be desired.
--Santosh Venkataraman, Sportsticker College Basketball
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Earlier this month, the San Jose Mercury News, examining data from 1994-97 (the last four-year period the NCAA used for documentation of grades and test scores), found that freshmen entering Duke on basketball scholarships during that period had an average SAT score of 968. The average SAT score for Duke's freshman class as a whole is generally in the high 1300s.
--Jason Zengerle, MSN Slate
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In the last few seasons, several columnists in national markets have written columns explaining why they hate Duke.
--Bret Strelow
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The calls weren't consistent, and some situations made absolutely no sense
--Duke Basketball Report
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'So, is it true? Does Duke really get all the calls?' " Sweet mimics. "I'm like, 'Of course, it's true. It's Duke.' It's Mike Krzyzewski. The refs were afraid of him. He could get you calls that no one else could get. That's part of playing for Duke.
--Andre Sweet, former Duke player
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"I love Duke and I couldn't ask for anything better. It's a tough school, but if you ask for help, and you work hard and you show them the work, it's going to pay off."
--Chris Burgess
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When Vitale talks of Duke, he gushes. I want to reach through the television screen and beat him over his shiny bald head.
--Jared Thorne, The New Hampshire Online
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This is not the way this fourth generation Dukie grew up viewing his favorite team, nor is it the thing about which Dick Vitale continually boasts every chance he gets.
--Paul Doran, Duke Chronicle
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Duke is perceived as arrogant. But the reality is: Coach K doesn't let the Devils be cocky, talk trash or strut on the court. They are a throwback to the time when being humble still mattered in America.
--Mark Kiszla, Denver Post columnist
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Quin Snyder seems to attract off-the-court troubles as readily as he attracts blue-chip recruits to Missouri.
--Jefferson City News Tribune
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Shavlik and his parents are all quick to point out that girls do not figure into his life at this point. They are "out of his comfort level," Kim Randolph says
--Kim Randolph, Shavlik's mother
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The greatest thing is knowing that I loved you and you loved me back
--Steve Wojciechowski, to Coach K
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There's nothing to criticize!
--Dick Vitale (on Duke)
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To refresh, the Georgia Tech players were stretching in preparation for the game and were unaware that Duke would be coming out to take some shots.
"As you saw out there, Georgia Tech, when they were stretching, they took up the whole court, while our guys are out there shooting," Duke guard Chris Duhon said. "That's a sign of disrespect. We are not going to have that."
--Santosh Venkataraman, Sportsticker College Basketball
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'I heard Coach K tell Trajan to get the ball,' Moore said. 'I felt if he got, it he wasn't going to do anything with it. It was crunch time. It was him against me. I knew that my will to win was going to take over, and it did.' Langdon dribbled into the lane, spun around in an attempt to free himself for a shot. Moore was with him every step of the way, including the extra one that Langdon took after the spin. He was called for traveling with 5.4 seconds left.
--Bill Koch, The Cincinnati Post
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We're not Maryland, FSU, or UNC, and we should keep that distinction very clear. We're Duke.
--Duke Basketball Report
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[Dean] Smith and Krzyzewski haven't gotten along since 1984, when Krzyzewski insisted there was a ''double standard'' in the way ACC referees worked -one for North Carolina, another for the rest of the league.
--John Feinstein, in book A March to Madness
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Mike Krzyzewski told Kris Humphries that he was just a player - not a position -and that was exactly what the Minnesotan wanted to hear.
--Michael Kruse, espn.com
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They wish they went here.
--Kai Lin, Duke Student
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Thank you very much, for reminding me of the reason why I left Duke. Peolple like you cannot and willnot (sic) ever understand my situation. I'm sure daddy worked very hard to send your rich self to college. While real people struggle. I would also like to extend an invitation for you not to waste your or my time ever agin. Never being considered a part of your posh group of yuppies really hurts me to the heart. Yea Right because I don't care about you or your alumni.
--Elton Brand
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But one bone of contention that people have with Duke is that it does not acknowledge in any way, shape or form that its championship last season was tainted. That the officiating in the "Final Four" was so slanted in its favor that it caused the crowd in Minneapolis to voice their opposition by booing the officials.
There is no need to rehash the fact that Williams committed an obvious third foul in the first half against Arizona that was not called. Or the fact that numerous whistles went Duke's way in the semifinals with Maryland before the Terrapins' Terrence Morris was whistled for a questionable fourth foul early in the second half.
--Santosh Venkataraman, Sportsticker College Basketball
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They are the Duke Blue Devils and, frankly, a lot of people just can't stand them.
Duke is in town for a West Regional semifinal Thursday against Kansas at the Pond, meaning, if you missed out on heckling the Osmonds years ago, this could be your next-best chance to rail against wholesomeness.
At first- and second-round games last week in Salt Lake City, Duke was derided when it took the court against Colorado State on Thursday and hissed at when players trotted out for warm-ups against Central Michigan on Saturday.
On the weekend jeer-meter, only filmmaker Michael Moore bested the Boo Devils
--Chris Dufresne, LA Times
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(on Coach K)
"He's petty and dishonest," said Burgess, father of CHRIS BURGESS. "But he's been successful being that way
"If you aren't on his good side, he doesn't fix that," the elder Burgess added. "If you are, you can do no wrong. It's like SHANE BATTIER - he can't do anything wrong. TRAJAN (LANGDON) couldn't make a mistake. Wojo (former point guard STEVE WOJCIECHOWSKI ) was like that the year before. If he hadn't stuck with Wojo, Duke would have beaten Kentucky" in the 1998 regional finals.
"He has no sons, and he picks one of the boys to be his son, and he can do no wrong. Even the players on the team called Shane 'Shane Krzyzewski.'"
--Ken Burgess
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There's only one problem with all this Dukophilia. It's absolute bunk.
--Jason Zengerle, MSN Slate
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'I felt the whole system let me down,' Carrawell said. 'Whether it was NBA scouts, my agent, NBA (general managers), Coach K not lobbying enough for me -- never in history had an ACC Player of the Year gone so low.'
--Chris Carrawell
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The Piggie scandal even reached its dirty tentacles into the once-pristine world of Mike Krzyzewski's Duke Blue Devils. If the NCAA truly believed in equal punishment for all members, it should vacate Duke's 1999 national runner-up finish from the books for playing the ineligible Corey Maggette
--Dan Wetzel
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I really felt that the officiating crew for the Duke/Md. game simply had one of those horrible days.
--Greg Gumbel
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In his dorm room, Randolph rolls around on an office chair his roommate, Duke track and field athlete Harrison Till, reclaimed from a sidewalk.
Now free from the nagging pain in his foot, a relaxed Randolph celebrates by gaining weight.
At home, Randolph's mom, Kim, fills her son's plate and rejoices when he asks for more. Before bedtime at his dorm, Till makes two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or two protein shakes, ready to offer one to his friend.
--newsobserver.com
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An ESPN "Outside the Lines" program questioned the academics and suggested the school bends entry requirements for basketball recruits. Krzyzewski dismissed the report as "bogus" and "lies."
Blue Devils and potential Blue Devils also had several run-ins with the law, including a top recruit being dismissed from his high school team after being accused of rape. And Duke suffered public humiliation when one of its players got into a physical confrontation with an official after its NCAA tournament loss.
--Jon Siegel, The Washington Times
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'It's so Laettner. He's supposed to be like this all-America, this glamour boy, Mr. GQ. If you know Laettner, it's such a Laettner move to do something like that.'
--Cherokee Parks, on Christian Laettner's 'stomp' vs Kentucky.
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Daddy can't help you. Can't nobody help you, you're out there on your own."
--Caron Butler, on Mike Dunleavy
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Myong Akins was involved in a fight at Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium recently when she was returning to her seat behind the Tech bench, slipped and fell and all hell broke loose. She claims a Duke student grabbed her by the hair on the way down, causing Ms. Akins to come up punching.
--Doug Doughty, Roanoke.com
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Last night's national championship game between Arizona and Duke was controlled by the officials, who completely ruined an otherwise classic and tremendous game.
--Bryan Rosenbaum, Arizona Daily Wildcat
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In 1991 and 1992, when such celebrations degenerated into unruly and dangerous situations, dozens of injuries resulted from drunken assaults; students trying to run through, or being pushed into, the fire; and bottles being thrown into the crowds. More than a dozen students ended up in the emergency room of Duke Hospital with second- and third-degree burns
--Bridget Booher, Duke Alumni Magazine
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It's a different world in the NBA than in college, especially where I came from, Duke. We were isolated, oblivious to a lot of things that were happening around us.
--Jason WIlliams
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Collison scored 33 points and had 19 rebounds, but might have had 40 had Casey Sanders not been so strong on defense.
--Duke Basketball Report
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Coach K is a master psychologist, but the man is fierce
--Duke Basketball Report
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They are generally well spoken, clean-cut, polite to a fault, studious basketball practitioners, led by a Hall of Fame coach who calls voting-age players, 'my kids.'
You'd let most of them baby-sit your kids.
--Chris Dufresne, LA Times
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I don't coach for winning, I coach for relationships.
--Coach K
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The ESPN show suggested some players are taking "easy" classes and majors to get their degrees and noted that an unusually high number of players are studying sociology, which is considered a light course taken by only a small percentage of the student body.
--Jon Siegel, The Washington Times
