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Post by Evil Yoda on Jun 2, 2021 17:43:20 GMT -5
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 17, 2021 18:45:57 GMT -5
Michael Savarino, a Duke walk on later granted a basketball scholarship, and who is Coach Krzyzewski's grandson was charged with driving while impaired. Paolo Banchero, who is likely to be drafted early when he decides to go professional, was cited with abetting. Banchero played the game after the incident. There's so much wrong in all this it is hard to see it all. First off, clear nepotism when a walk on gets a scholarship because he's the grandson of the coach. It tells you who really runs things down there. Allowing the coach to run the school was a problem at Penn State, when we learned Paterno paid for football success with the suffering of children exploited by one of his henchmen. Maybe nothing like that is going on at Duke, but universities really ought to have revised their relationships with coaches following the Penn State debacle. At a minimum, Banchero should have been benched for a game if he got cited for a serious traffic offense (abetting a DWI isn't much less serious than committing one). That Coach K did not do this tells you his priorities are wrongly set. Duke will be better off without Coach K, even if that means it never wins a title again. www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/sport/duke-basketball-players-dwi-case-spt/index.html
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Post by cowboyz on Mar 3, 2022 7:46:20 GMT -5
This Saturday.... final game!
Hoping he's okay, he had to leave a game last week because he wasn't feeling well.
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Post by ishmael on Mar 6, 2022 6:25:39 GMT -5
Michael Savarino, a Duke walk on later granted a basketball scholarship, and who is Coach Krzyzewski's grandson was charged with driving while impaired. Paolo Banchero, who is likely to be drafted early when he decides to go professional, was cited with abetting. Banchero played the game after the incident. There's so much wrong in all this it is hard to see it all. First off, clear nepotism when a walk on gets a scholarship because he's the grandson of the coach. It tells you who really runs things down there. Allowing the coach to run the school was a problem at Penn State, when we learned Paterno paid for football success with the suffering of children exploited by one of his henchmen. Maybe nothing like that is going on at Duke, but universities really ought to have revised their relationships with coaches following the Penn State debacle. At a minimum, Banchero should have been benched for a game if he got cited for a serious traffic offense (abetting a DWI isn't much less serious than committing one). That Coach K did not do this tells you his priorities are wrongly set. Duke will be better off without Coach K, even if that means it never wins a title again. www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/sport/duke-basketball-players-dwi-case-spt/index.htmlI guess I am not as holy as thou. Duke has run an exceptionally clean program during Coach K's tenure link Coach K's coaching and consistently winning record has put a lot of fans in seats and provided a lot of TV presentation and money over the years, paying for a huge number of scholarships. That he MAY have arranged for a grandkid to attend Duke on a scholarship? Meh.
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Post by pickle20 on Mar 6, 2022 9:26:10 GMT -5
No major sports program is clean.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 6, 2022 18:02:06 GMT -5
I guess I am not as holy as thou. Duke has run an exceptionally clean program during Coach K's tenure link Coach K's coaching and consistently winning record has put a lot of fans in seats and provided a lot of TV presentation and money over the years, paying for a huge number of scholarships. That he MAY have arranged for a grandkid to attend Duke on a scholarship? Meh. You are a strong respecter of the law, as written, based on what you have written elsewhere. But simple right and wrong seem a little more situational, based on this. It's unfair to practice nepotism when it might deny someone more deserving. It's wrong to allow someone to evade consequence for significant traffic offenses that could have killed someone.
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Post by ishmael on Mar 6, 2022 19:31:41 GMT -5
I guess I am not as holy as thou. Duke has run an exceptionally clean program during Coach K's tenure link Coach K's coaching and consistently winning record has put a lot of fans in seats and provided a lot of TV presentation and money over the years, paying for a huge number of scholarships. That he MAY have arranged for a grandkid to attend Duke on a scholarship? Meh. You are a strong respecter of the law, as written, based on what you have written elsewhere. But simple right and wrong seem a little more situational, based on this. It's unfair to practice nepotism when it might deny someone more deserving. It's wrong to allow someone to evade consequence for significant traffic offenses that could have killed someone. (1) You don't know enough to say whether Coach K. did something wrong. You're condemning him based on a single point of information. He may well have funded the scholarship and the kid played for but a few minutes all season. (2) You're comparing some kid attending a school on a free ride to a serious traffic offense that could have killed someone and expect to be taken seriously. (3) Your self-proclaimed authority to determine right from wrong is typical of the arrogance I find so intolerable of liberals.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 6, 2022 22:44:20 GMT -5
(1) You don't know enough to say whether Coach K. did something wrong. You're condemning him based on a single point of information. He may well have funded the scholarship and the kid played for but a few minutes all season. You don't know that either of these things is true, and if they were I would expect the article to bring it up. This seems like torturing logic to justify your belief in the sanctity of Coach K. Nepotism is wrong, and this is nepotism. (2) You're comparing some kid attending a school on a free ride to a serious traffic offense that could have killed someone and expect to be taken seriously. Read the article. Both of those things happened: K committed nepotism, and K allowed a kid who committed a serious traffic offense to evade all program consequence. (3) Your self-proclaimed authority to determine right from wrong is typical of the arrogance I find so intolerable of liberals. Your jailhouse lawyerin' is typical of the kind of sophistry I find so intolerable in Trumpublicans.
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