Originally Posted by
jimsumner
There actually are a lot of parallels between the two sports. In case you don't know, Duke used to be a dominant team in baseball. Coombs is Wallace Wade, Ace Parker is Bill Murray, and Butters, Slaughter, D'Armi, et. al. are analagous to Harp, McGee, Sloan et. al. Steve Traylor is the closest thing to a Spurrier, Bill Hillier is Franks and Roof, only worse. So that makes McNally the diamond Cutcliffe.
Administrative indifference, aging infrastructure, arrogance, a failure to keep up with the competition, high academic standards are just some of the reasons why Duke hasn't won a bowl game since 1961 and hasn't been to the NCAA baseball tournament since 1961.
That's a long time folks, too long, and I hope that football isn't the only sport that will benefit from increased committment from a university that talks excellence in all endeavors but allowed a proud baseball program to almost fall apart.
End of speech.