NCAA Hoops 2011-2012

[Admiral Yi]

History being made!

Just watched Duke beat Michigan St., handing coach K his 903rd career victory to pass his old mentor Bobby Knight and put him at #1.

Congratulations coach K.

[Capetan Mihali]

Haven't seen any NCAA basketball on bar TVs here, but I share your goodwill even if I don't know what it means.   

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, that is very cool.  Heard the end of the game on the radio driving back from my son's practice. 

[Berkut]

Coach K is a d-bag. And Duke is the most righteously despised franchise in all major sports.

Leaving for NYC in a couple hours for Coaches vs. Cancer tournament. Taking Jake with me, it will be his first time at a college basketball game...

[crazy canuck]

Ah the sweet smell of envy.

[Berkut]

Ah the sweet smell of envy.

Oh please. People don't despise UCLA, and they have more NCs than anyone. They don't despise North Carolina, or Kansas, or Florida.

Has nothing to do with envy, and everything to do with Coach K and the overwhelming douchebaggery that is Duke.

I imagine if they were not as successful as they are, nobody would care though.

[derspiess]

Leaving for NYC in a couple hours for Coaches vs. Cancer tournament. Taking Jake with me, it will be his first time at a college basketball game...

  I'm taking Tommy to his first college hoops game in a week & a half.  I've taken him to 6 or 7 college football games, but hadn't gotten him to a basketball game yet.

[Valmy]

Going to see Arizona play St. John's?

[Berkut]

Going to see Arizona play St. John's?

Yep, and then the finals or consolation game the next day.

[crazy canuck]

Has nothing to do with envy, and everything to do with Coach K and the overwhelming douchebaggery that is Duke.

I agree. Your view does have everything to do with Coach K.  He now has the most victories.  If only Arizona had such a douche 

[grumbler]

Has nothing to do with envy, and everything to do with Coach K and the overwhelming douchebaggery that is Duke.

I agree. Your view does have everything to do with Coach K.  He now has the most victories.  If only Arizona had such a douche   

  I don't think Berkut's irritation with Coach K has to do with Coach K's victory total (I remember hearing him hate on Coach K and his douchebaggery back when he wasn't the leader in wins).  I also don't think Berkut would swap Olsen's years for Coach K's.

Personally, i don't have a problem with Krzyzewski.  To have 11 final-four appearances in 31 years is impressive.  He's no Wooden, and never will be, but he gets results and hasn't been touched by scandal.

[Berkut]

Has nothing to do with envy, and everything to do with Coach K and the overwhelming douchebaggery that is Duke.

I agree. Your view does have everything to do with Coach K.  He now has the most victories.  If only Arizona had such a douche 

That makes no sense, which I guess has become pretty normal.

Coach K was a douche even before he was the leader in wins. I imagine now Dukedom will be even worse, because we will have to listen Dookie V. spooging about that in every single broadcast as well, but I've thought Duke was contemptible long before he reached 903.

And I would not trade Arizona's legacy for Duke ever. Arizona has nowhere near that level of success, and nowhere near that level of douchebaggedness either.

Actually, Arizona football did have almost as big an asshat as Coach K - Stoops certainly acted like a great big crybaby just like K. Never had anywhere near that kind of success with it though...

[crazy canuck]

Your hatred runs deep that is certain.  But that only means the envy has been their for years.  This is just the lastest reason.

[Admiral Yi]

What makes K a douche, Throbby?

When I think of coaches who are douches I think of guys who are constantly screaming at their players, like Pitino and Whatshisface at Kentucky. 

Maybe all Italian coaches since Rollie Massimino.

[Berkut]

What makes K a douche, Throbby?

When I think of coaches who are douches I think of guys who are constantly screaming at their players, like Pitino and Whatshisface at Kentucky. 

Maybe all Italian coaches since Rollie Massimino.

He is a total prima donna. Screams at officials, demands that he gets calls, acts like an asshole in press conferences, and just the entire Duke sense of entitlement and "Oh, look at us, we are so white and such winners! Aren't we special!"

Coach K taking a season off when his team sucked doesn't help. Coach K being one of the biggest whiners towards officials there is in college basketball, and largely getting away with it, sure doesn't help either.

I hate that he is held up as this paragon of "the right way" when if you actually pay attention, he is a complete asshole. He treats people like shit, but only when he is in a position where they cannot harm him. He is a complete phony.

Some of it is because it is just plain fun to hate Duke - and they always get the most easily despised players in college basketball, just the little prima donna twerps like Reddick and Wojo and Laetner.

And finally, of course, there is the media which fawns all over Coach and the precious Dookies every year. Vitale alone accounts for at least 30% of my contempt for Duke. Why do I have to hear about Duke in games that Vitale is covering that don't even fucking involve Duke?