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Working in the Wilson Recreation Center, between Christmas and spring break, we are privileged to witness firsthand the tradition of K-ville daily, as we walk from Card Gym parking lot to Wilson and back-at best stepping around smelly garbage, wet bedding, cans and other litter-at worst trying to avoid broken glass, vomit, blood, urine, feces-even used condoms.
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As parents and grandparents, it is scary to see kids living in such deplorable conditions for 6-8 weeks. Is this what an expensive education at an esteemed university comes down to? Is it okay to make a horrendous mess because someone else will clean it up? The employees performing the cleanup should receive premium pay, probably even hazard pay.
We appreciate that basketball is a big part of the Duke experience, and are all in favor of school spirit and team support, but in its present state, K-ville is a blight on the landscape of an otherwise beautiful campus.
--Duke University Employees
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| posted on Friday December 18, 2009 | |
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The latest player to transfer from Dook is Olek Czyz!
This article should put an asterisk next to Eliot Williams, but still has some nice insight:
Krzyzewski's resume speaks for itself, but is there trouble brewing in Durham?
Duke continually recruits the nation's best high school players and, usually, lands the cream of the crop. Only recently, however, some of those players have opted to leave Coach K and the Duke program with more frequency.
The University announced Friday that sophomore forward Olek Czyz will leave the program and is expected to transfer to another Division I school to continue his college career as a student/athlete. While every athletic program, and university for that matter, is going to have a player (or student) leave for one reason or another, Coach K's program has been losing players at an alarming rate recently.
Czyz became the fifth scholarship player to leave the Blue Devil's program since 2006. While Czyz isn't exactly a household name and hasn't been a major contributor to the team during his short time at Duke, he is just the latest to make the jump from Duke to another school. And he certainly isn't the biggest name to defect.
Elliot Williams (now at Memphis), Eric Boateng (Arizona State), and Taylor King (Villanova) all left the Duke basketball program within one year of their arrival on campus and, more shockingly, all were McDonald's All-America honorees as high school seniors.
Coach K shouldn't exactly hit the panic button, as his program remains one of the best in the country and is currently ranked in the Top-10 of both the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls, but it appears, as the old saying goes, that 'something is rotten in Denmark.'
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Permalink!
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Carlos Boozer Sr. -
A pathological liar? He made up the lie that he played basketball with John Lucas at Maryland.
He also claimed to be making a lot more money than he was:
Boozer initially said he worked as a programmer and made $125,000 per year. But when told former co-workers said he was an administrative assistant, Boozer recanted, saying he earned about $40,000 annually doing administrative work.
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