Freaking NOTHING. Too much time on our hands. Barnes is certainly not a Dookie, and Knight, if anything, is a Connecticut lean.

Geeeeesh.

The subtext to the K legacy will be that he orchestrated a series of late-career moves to detour attention from the lack of success against his archrival. This is all so very predictable.

YAWN.

I truly believe he would not do nearly as well in the pros as he does in college and he knows that. At dook, he’s destined to be worshiped by all in royal blue forever, so long as he keeps them in the tournament, even if it doesn’t translate to a national title. If he goes to, say, LA and doesn’t get a ring, the fans in purple and gold will turn on him quickly.

As for recruiting, as I already said, the experts can laud his 2010 recruiting class all they want, but his 2005 class was ranked second overall and all they could show for it was two sweet 16s, and two first-weekend exits. At this point, I think some of the recruits he goes after get five stars because they’re being recruited by dook, not necessarily because they’re actual five-star talent.

I know when people look back and compare the 1993 Heels with Michigan, or the 1994 team, it is perplexing. Pierce Landry was the “worst” player on the 1994 team. That team had 11 guys who would end up starting at either UNC or USC(in the case of Larry Davis). How could that team not win it all? I think that had to be the most disappointing year in UNC history in terms of missed expectations.

And before we get too excited about how great, supposedly, our front court is going to be this year, that 1994 team had Zwikker, Montross, Salvadori, and the “short”, at 6′ 10″ Rasheed Wallace as its frontline. It had Reese and Stackhouse as wingmen. It had Phelps and McInnis at point guard. It had Donald Williams and Calabria at shooting guard.

If 1997 and 1977 were Dean’s masterpieces, 1994 had to be, by far, the least productive season of his in terms of wins per talent quotient.

Is that why, the very next year, UNC was back to its tradition of having several no-names on the bench, such as Ed Geth, Charlie McNary, Clyde Lynn and Octavius Barnes?

At this point in K’s career, he may have a personality that meshes better with pro players than it does with college guys. I don’t know. I am not out there. We all know that, in general, guys are either pro coaches or college coaches. Larry Brown is proposed as the exception to this rule, with his huge assortment of NBA titles, i.e.,: one.

Calipari, Pitino, and Brown seem much more symbolic of the general lack of ability of successful college coaches to transcend the differences between the levels. If K had left in 2001, perhaps it would have been to the betterment of both his legend and to the betterment of the Duke program, which has now gone 8 years without a title and 5 years without a Final Four.

Expectations often get ratcheted upward due to previous success, but remind me to check back in 2017 to see if you guys are still entirely content with Roy if he hasn’t won another title, or in 2014, if he hasn’t made it back to the Final Four. Somehow I doubt it.

And hey, you never know with Barnes and Knight. Everyone thought that McBob and Paulus would be sure things in ’05, as evidenced by both being rated higher than a certain all-time ACC scoring leader and the class as a whole being rated second by scout.com. We all saw how that turned out.