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ESPNs love affair with Duke
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6 years 8 months ago #21542
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It really is bad when even UNC fans complain of the same thing we did a few weeks ago. I truly don't get how this doesn't cause some sort of backlash. It's totally ridiculous. I hadn't seen this before today so if someone else posted it I'm sorry. I'm just sick of Duke getting away with everything and then still getting all the love from the media. What gives!? What am I missing!?
www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/am...-duke-200349331.html
www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/am...-duke-200349331.html
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6 years 8 months ago - 6 years 8 months ago #21544
by HawkErrant
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
Oh, I love that article, replay, thank you so much!
To your question, you’re not missing a thing (and you must excuse me, but here I hear an REO riff), it’s all about the Benjamins, the ACC Network contract with ESPN and them picking Duke as the pony to make the most moolah for them.
So until Coach K decides to retire (will 39 years and perhaps a 6th NCAA title be enough for him?) — or the NCAA actually comes calling regarding how much Zion Williamson was paid to play at Duke — we’re just going to have to ride this particular sickening storm out.
To your question, you’re not missing a thing (and you must excuse me, but here I hear an REO riff), it’s all about the Benjamins, the ACC Network contract with ESPN and them picking Duke as the pony to make the most moolah for them.
So until Coach K decides to retire (will 39 years and perhaps a 6th NCAA title be enough for him?) — or the NCAA actually comes calling regarding how much Zion Williamson was paid to play at Duke — we’re just going to have to ride this particular sickening storm out.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain "Innocents Abroad"
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6 years 8 months ago #21546
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Coach K is as complicit as any of the other coaches in this shoe business. The Nike schools will feel it when the other shoe drops. The NCAA and ESPN are ... well this is a family site so can’t post what I think about both organizations. But Puke U has a special place in Hades domain. In case I wasn’t clear, I have an utter dislike of Puke U...and given MU is no longer playing us, I would put Puke U right up there with the purple kitties as th most unfavored nations...
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