The offseason is never boring.
- Hey, you know that women that was being investigated for attempted extortion of Lousiville coach Rick Pitino? It turns out she did have something on him such as a previous sexual encounter which may or may not have resulted in Pitino giving her three thousand dollars for an abortion. Also, the encounter took place on the table of a local restaurant after closing. Classy. I am not sure if Pitino will be forced to quit over this but I do know John Calipari just got a new recruiting pitch: “If your son comes to Kentucky, not only can we get around his 610 on the SAT but I promise not to commit adultery on a restaurant table with a crazy woman who might try to extort money from me later.”
- According to ACC Now, there is the potential for Wolfpack fans to face an undesirable choice in the NIT Tipoff semifinals. Apparently Duke and Arizona St are on the same side of the bracket and assuming each dispatch the group of assorted cupcakes being sent into their respective gyms for consumption, we could see Mike Krzyzewski vs Herb Sendek at MSG. I have talked to enough NCSU fans to know that the media will make a mountain out of a mole hill. Most Pack fans are past Sendek and may even opt to ignore the whole thing. Ken Tysiac thinks NCSU fans will side with Duke and K in this one. I am not sure I would be so quick to take that bet.
- Jeff Goodman is reporting that 2010 commit Andre Dawkins will be cleared to play by the NCAA and enroll at Duke a year early alleviating some of the pressure in the Blue Devil backcourt. I am going to leave it up to you guys to spring the theories but it is interesting how quickly the NCAA is rendering a decision on this given its history of slowness on other matters.
- Virginia Tech has a new basketball facility in which they immortalize one of the many instances Greg Paulus was dunked upon. Which reminds me….it has been a while since I have posted this:
That never gets old.
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I would have to agree with you on the NCSU fans going with Herb, over Duke. I know they love to pull for Duke versus Carolina but the good ole days versus the rat would seem to win out. Let us not forget that the rise of Duke was the death sentence for NCSU basketball compared to the previous twenty something years.
Ooooooooooooooh, Andre Dawkins. If only my knees could stop shaking…(belch). I mean, what a frightening prospect (pun intended), having to watch him for five minutes a game. A backcourt of Scheyer, Smith, AND Dawkins?!?!?!?
Whatever will we do?!
I agree with DeanForever, the Andre Dawkins story is one of the most overblown, non-stories, of this offseason. Shrugs and sighs and ho-hums, is all you’re going to get out of me…The question Dookies and the rest of their apologists in the media need to be asking themselves, is how they are going to deal with a frontline of Deon Thompson, Ed Davis and John Henson….
If nothing is at stake for the Pack fans they’ll pull for Herb Sendek.
Although any ACC fan should always root for any ACC team to win non-conference games. If Duke beats a ranked Ariz St (it’s possible they could be ranked), it pulls up Duke’s RPI, and if NCSU beats Duke (stranger things have happened) it helps NCSU’s RPI. The one thing you don’t want is conference teams losing cupcake games, because when your team plays them, their RPI is just that much lower. (And if you get beat, then you can have a “good loss”. You’d rather lose by 5 points to a Duke team that’s beat Ariz St, WF, Clemson, etc and have a “good loss” than lose to a Duke team that isn’t any good and lost to Ariz St and a few cupcakes.)
Gotta look out for #1 at all times.
chuckheel85 – that front line gives me chills. Then rotate in Zeller and the Wear twins. The hits just keep on coming!
PRGuy,
What’s funny about that is, a Carolina frontline of Zeller and the Wear Twins is still better than what Dook can throw at them. And I think the media is underestimating how significant it is that Marcus Ginyard is going to be in the backcourt next season. His presence will allow Larry Drew II some leeway and he will be able to grow into his role.. Plus, the one overlooked incoming recruit is Leslie McDonald who can flat out shoot…I think this coming season’s version of the Heels has the potential to have little dropoff from this past season and be better than the 2006 Heels coming off of a title…They definitely have more returning weapons than 2006.
chuck,
They darn well better be better than the ’06 Heels. They’re twice as talented and have more experience.