Is a fairy tale that really started with what should have been a non call that fouled out Greg Anthony!
He has gotten nothing but the benefit of the doubt since then…
He has gotten nothing but the benefit of the doubt since then…
Coach K’s career
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I forgot what year Maryland choked to Duke in the championship game..or was it the other way around? Late 90’s or 2000’s..
Going out at Cameron with an L. You love to see it.
We win 2 straight NCAA titles and go down undefeated, the greatest team in college basketball history. Meanwhile Laettner says F it and foregoes his college career for the NBA followed by a disgruntled Grant Hill. Depressed Coach K turns to alcohol and hookers and ends his coaching career early in disgrace. If only Larry took the 3...
My question, is he taking the 🤡 that is "DUKIE V" with him?
Could ESPN have shoved his last game at Cameron down our throats any more? No one outside of NC cares. Hopefully a first weekend loss will send him to an earlier retirement than he had planned.
Ouch. Such harsh commentary. I was as devastated as one can be with that ‘91 FF loss. I was in Denver for the Championship and in Indy for the heartbreak. It was like a death in the family. To this day I still haven’t watched a replay of the game. Just too painful. Yes, refs did all they could to help Duke but some of our key players had their worst games of the year (Augmon, my all-time favorite Rebel) and that was due in part to a much better Duke team with the difference maker in Grant Hill. They backed it up with a back-to-back championship to show it was not a fluke (which only makes 91 more painful). Coach K definitely received John Wooden treatment his entire career by the media and the NCAA often looked the other way, but his success on the court cannot be attributed solely to that, not even 10% of it. Guy was a flat-out winner and a class act as well (remember his glowing comments of UNLV and Johnson/Augmon/Anthony after the ‘90 beat down). UNLV wins that game 9/10 times played. It happened to be that one game for Duke… with a little assist from the refs.
Agreed, huge assist. If the charge was called as a blocking foul, which it was his feet were moving when contact occurred, it would have extended the lead to 5 or 7 if not mistaken and likely Duke would not have overcome that. As Tark always said, UNLV needed a large lead so the bias wouldn’t matter. We should have two championship banners hanging in the rafters, the team would have gone down as the GOAT and the Maxson/Findeocl/Wynn cabal could not have unseated Tark. We would likely have a much much different history over the last 30 years. Who could have guessed at that moment the impact of that call (besides perhaps David Berst and Maxson). Horrible.
That all said, my only point is that Coach K more than proved out that the call wasn’t the defining moment of his career. As much as I can’t stand Duke, K was the real deal as a coach.
