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Richard Brodhead, president of Duke, was terrified at the thought of losing basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, a key fundraiser for the university. When Coach K -- after fleecing Duke for some new stipulations to the "lifetime" contract he'd signed just three years earlier -- announced he wasn't interested in coaching the Lakers, Brodhead talked about Duke's hoops coach as if he'd starred in a real-life re-make of "The Passion of The Christ."
--Jason Whitlock, espn.com
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Exclusive Interview With Bandwagon Boy
Bandwagon Boy is a SUPER Duke fan and overall great sports journalist. Check out his site for all the sports commentary you need.
BWB was nice enough to answer some interview questions for TAD:
1. How do you feel about the Cameron Crazies? Are they the best student section in America?
Duke is a poindexter college for brainiac nurds and geekes! So all Duke people are Geniouses! That is how they are abel to make up so manny awesome cheerings like 'Boo' and 'You suck' and all the other clever things we yell to freak out the other teams and get in they Heads! And we hop up and down all the times like jumping Jacks and paint our faces up and hold up signs about how Duke Rules and ESPNN is great and We Love Dick for Dick Vital the best announcier ever! You see Duke is like a big FIST and the great Coach Kay is one finger and the players are like the pinkie and the thum and they reffs are the middle finger and the rest of the Fist is Cameron's Crazys who are the fans who rule and who make all the players good and so together we make a FIST that punches the other team right in the nads! It is so great to be a Duke fan and to make our team win it kicks ass dawg!! I did not need to go to college which is for loosers so I dident go to Duke but if I dident have my tragick injury which was a big loss for all of sports I probaly would of played for Duke for a year beffore I went Pro which shows you how much I love Duke! Everthing to do with Duke is best in America! Except for football which is a joke and a desgrace and I hate they looser foot ball team but the point is baskeball RULEZ and the Great Coach Kay RULES and Cameron's Crazys RULE and we make all the players play awesome do you think a poindexter geeke like Randolph Shaveleck or a looser who cant even shoot like Shelton Williamson would be worth a damn if not for us Camerons Crazys yelling swears at the reffs all the time no way Hosea so you see we ARE Duke baskeball and the players are so lucky to have us we RULE FIST!!!!!!!!
2. What do you think the role of the 'Head Line Monitor' at Duke is?
The Headline Moniter of Duke is probaly the guy who reads all the Headlines of the papers and when the papers dont give Duke enough hype and love and props then the Headline Moniter runs and tells Coach Kay who yells at the stupid raporters and tells them to get they ^$#% heads out of they $#@ %# beffore he %$# kicks them right in the $%#$! I think the Headline Moniter of Duke is probaly Dick Vital he is a expert and he keeps a good watch on Duke and is always telling everone to love Duke more even when Duke isent playing so oviously that is part of his job and so thats why he gets the Big Bucks Duke isent afraid to pay the Big Bucks to be the Best we are just like George Stinebrender with Yankees we both will pay anything and do whatever it takes to win no matter what and that is why we are both CHAMPIONS and AWESOME WINNERS who are the best!! Except for the last couple of years which have sucked and are the fault of the reffs and Ummps and Joe Torry and those CHOKERS from Duke last year who losted in the playoffs good riddence I hate them ALL!!!
3. Why does Coach Kay think he doesn't have to talk to the media? see this link for more info
Why should Coach Kay have to talk to anyone dont you know who he is!! He is the best Coach of all TIMES and who are you looser medias who think you have any right to talk to him you aught to have to pay him a hunderd dollers just to aks him one qestion!! He is very buszy and importent why should he waist his time talking to the like of you! If you need to know anything about the Great Coach Kay then look at my websight I interviewwed him by email last year and it was the BEST interview EVER with the awesomest qestions too bad for you that you arent tight with the Great Coach Kay like me hawhawhaw!! Beside Dick Vital will tell you all you need to know about Duke which is that we RULE and how JayJay Reddick is the best player sense Chris Mullett of the olden days! If you need to aks anything then dont bother the Great Coach Kay just aks me or DIck Vital dont aks Coach Kay he is too buszy screaming at the players and getting ready for the game and practiscing what swears to yell at the reffs it is called COACHING encase you never heard of it!!!!!
Geez these qestions are dumb why dont you aks me some about how awesome and famouse i am and about how my websight kicks ass!! I am not in the mood for these nonsince qestions I just got back from work where I spilt catchup and mayonaze all over my new LeBaron James tennyshoes and I am in a BAD mood!!!
4. Finally, I know you have a very popular website featuring a lot of great content. What do you think of Casey Sanders' website?
Who the heck is Casey Sanders is he one of those ESPNN JERKS who are so jealous of me! I bet he is some looser sportswritter who is jealous of my insider incite and info and my interview with the Great COach Kay well I dont have time for playa hatas I am a very busy and importent man!! If you need to go to a sport web sight or even one to tell you what movvies RULE and what CDs are awesomest then you go to mine dont waist all you time with LOOSER websights what is wrong with you people why is everone so damn DUMB I am in such a bad mood good thing the Super Bowel is comming up so I can FINELY watch my Patriats kick ass some more and shut up all those loud braggers from South Carolina face it Tom Braddy is on the list of best athalets of all times and so is Bill Bellycheck the coach and you dont see any South Carolina Panthers on that list do you! NO!! Face facts it is PATRIATS all the way holmes!!!! Anyways the point is DUKE RULEZ in college baskeball and that is the point!! GO DUKE GO COACH KAY WE ROCK FIST!!!!!!!1!!!!!!
Thanks to BWB! Again, check out his site for all the sports commentary you need.
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Duke Basketball Report -
There are two different ways a 'fan site' may be ran.
One is the type where the webperson(s) mostly just link to other, more reputable sites for content. There is very little original content because the site maintainers realize that they are just normal fans like the rest of us and not journalists. If there are original articles they are done in a convincing way - with opinions that are 'backed up'.
Examples of Duke sites like this are Dukeupdate.com & Duke Blue Basketball.
Another way to run a fansite is to be arrogant enough to consistently give a subjective opinion, develop 'theories' & frankly, not 'back things up'.
Is the Duke Basketball Report one of these sites? Well let's give the DBR credit - they provide up-to-date links and obviously have a large readership. But...well, the following speaks for itself:
Enjoy!
One of the little things you might not notice about Duke basketball, but which is a telling detail, is that you'll rarely hear anyone call more than one syllable. So it's Shav, Shel, Chris, and so on. It's a smart principle, and a sign of the level of organization the program thrives on: yelling Shelden is less effective and takes longer than yelling Shel. We're not saying Shel is what they call for Shelden, but you get the point. That's an important thing at Duke.
--They really understand basketball, don't they?
The Herb Haters are bound to re-emerge after Maryland's extraordinary comeback, but get real: State finished second in the ACC without a point guard or a legitimate post presence. They're a definite tourney team, and will be for the foreseeable future. That ain't chopped liver. Herb's not running around looking for someone to hug, but the program is doing well.
--I'm sure NC State fans go to the DBR for advice and gives the slightest shit what the DBR guys think. Right?
Duke played a pretty impressive game in many respects, not least of all Casey Sanders, whose last game was one of his better efforts at Duke. Never a scorer, Casey has always focused on rebounding and blocking shots, and he made a dramatic difference under the basket. Collison scored 33 points and had 19 rebounds, but might have had 40 had Sanders not been so strong on defense.
--It would be cool if they really were making a sarcastic jab at Casey, but they weren't.
McCray went to the bench and sat down. Williams came over and began to go after him, and whatever he said, McCray didn't like it. He stood up and looked for another seat on the bench, away from the harangue, but then sat back down again. Williams continued, then went to the end of the bench to see what was going to happen after a pair of Duke free throws. During his absence, an assistant - we think it was Jimmy Patsos - continued the harangue for him, sitting next to McCray, gesticulating wildly, and obviously making the kid really feel like crap.
Then, when Maryland was coming back down the court, Williams went back and both of them tore into the kid. McCray stood up again, circled around, tried to go left, then right, then gave up and sat back down again and just took it.
All we can say is: poor kid. Duke's philosophy of next play never looked better. No one really deserves to be treated that way.
After the game, McCray told the Post that "I kind of reacted a little the wrong way. It was just in the flow of the game. It was my bad, so I just got to get over it. . . . It was just Coach's decision [not to play me again]. I can't do nothing about it. I can't really cry about it."
Fair enough, and Williams is right, he should have been aware of the clock, since everyone else in the building was. But still, he didn't deserve that level of public humiliation. Williams and Patsos should issue a public apology. If it was good enough for Patton, it's good enough for these bozos. We can't imagine being parents of a recruit and catching that act and then letting our child play for Williams. What a disgusting display
-- What a bunch of wimps. What the hell do they know? Coaches get mad at players sometimes. Look at this article on ESPN.com directed to Coach K:
I remember a TV timeout in a big game a few years ago, a game your team was losing at the time. I remember being behind the Duke bench to hear your right-hand man, Johnny Dawkins, drop screaming F-bombs into players' faces and obscenely impugn the masculinity of every starter in the huddle. Your face indicated that you had no problem with it, perhaps even encouraged it.
We all should want Duke footall (sic) to be excellent, but part of that, Duke, is about how we treat our teams. We're not Maryland, FSU, or UNC, and we should keep that distinction very clear. We're Duke. We may stink at football, but we're still Duke. Let's act like it.
--The difference between pride and arrogance.
Since returning to the ACC to coach his alma mater, Maryland's Gary Williams has been quick to attribute losses to North Carolina-based ACC opponents to biased officiating. He'd often imply there was a conspiracy by the ACC to prevent Maryland from winning..
--As you can see, the DBR basically makes things up and provide nothing to backup their ridiculous accusations.
On the other hand, D.C. has many downsides, including a very high murder rate, high crime in general, a city government which has been at times an absolute disaster, and obviously Washington is a prime target for terrorism. With the planned (but thankfully disrupted) chemical attack planned for Jordan, which the Jordanians estimate would have killed 20,000, or 60,000 less than the attackers were hoping for, terrorism moves into ever more ambitious phases. We have no idea how hard it would be to get that sort of thing into Washington, but you can be assured that it is being diligently explored
--The ironic thing here is that Duke has many alums who live in DC and the surrounding area.
It is also funny when the DBR tries to excuse a Duke player every time one gets in trouble. Instead of admitting that Duke, like any other school, has some problems, their excuses are nothing short of ridiculous. It also would be fun to see the DBR explain this article about how certain parents of Duke players are given special benefits. Strange, since they seem to have an interest in how player's parents receive jobs...
Let's also not forget how the DBR used their site to help out their 'unemployment' situation. Perhaps they can find a job as mathematicians - look at this fancy graph they created to show the ref's treatment of Duke. (they seemed to forgot that when and who a foul is against is a big factor in the ref's calls).
Now, about the DBR's "fundraisers":
The Dukebasketballreport had another 'fundraiser' to keep their site 'afloat'. in 2005 they claimed to have raised $26,000. In 2004 they targeted a total of $25,000. Before that, they raised $15,000.
Look at how they beg:
Some of you had also suggested specific levels of giving, so we'd like to add those as well:
* $25.00 per year
* $50.00 per year
* $100.00 per year
* $500.00 per year
* $1,000.00 per year
Other than that, we would say let your conscience be your guide.
It is obvious that the DBR is a popular site and receives a lot of traffic. But anyone who works in IT can tell you that for that type of site, it doesn't cost $40,000 over two years to run. Infact, it shouldn't cost anywhere NEAR that. Where does this money that they are begging for go? How about the DBR provide an expense report?
Note that in their begging, the DBR says they need this money to keep the site afloat.
IT DOESN'T COST THAT MUCH MONEY TO RUN A WEBSITE!!!
In a related note, a couple of the folks behind the DBR apparently have trouble finding jobs. Hey Dookies - these are the folks who are begging for money. And apparently, you are giving.
One thing the DBR does deserve credit for is this editorial - where they call out one of their own -- "crazy towel guy".
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