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Of all the "Sweet Christ, Billy Packer is so full of equine excrement" moments, we have to say, the "Just Going For The Ball!" foul from Gerald Henderson on Tyler Hansbrough at the end of the Duke-UNC game is definitely near the top of the list. Whatever your thoughts on the reason for Henderson's attack on Hansbrough, Packer's willful -- and aggressive; it's obviously he's not going to let Jim Nantz talk on this subject -- refusal to even imagine that a Duke player might have hammered down a cheap, brutal foul veers toward the pathological.
--Deadspin.com
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Truthaboutduke.com --> Encyclopedia!
Coach Ks back injury in 1995 -
Coach K's 1995 Duke team lost their ACC opener to a medicore Clemson team. Soon afterwards, K left the team because of 'exhaustion' and problems with back surgery.
Assistant coach Pete Gaudet took over the team and proceeded to go 2-14 in the ACC. Gaudet 'left' the team at the end of the season.
The games that Coach K didn't coach are not on his record.
This quote is awfully interesting:
...he had Vince Carter over for a January visit, nine days after he advised his players of his need to sign off for health reasons. The punch line later came from Carter himself. Shortly after that visit, Carter was quoted in an SI article on Duke, (published well before Carter chose UNC over Duke by the way). 'He was up and about,' said Carter, 'He didn't seem like a guy who has had all these back problems.'
Some speculate that K left the team for reasons beyond exhaustion or his back.
Faced the same 'problems', would he had left the excellent '91-92 team that was favored to, and eventually repeated as National Champions? Ask Pete Gaudet if you ever see him.
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Shane Battier -
Shane for president! Articles love to present Shane as Mr. Perfection. Shane shows off his intelligence on his website, where he proclaims that he is 'proficient with the Yahoo Search Engine'.
For some insight on Shane's 'relationship' with Coach K, we'll let Chris Burgess's father have a couple words. From this article:
'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...K 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.''
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