Originally Posted by
Zeke
I know I'm an just an old fart, but I'm really sorry that we don't have Duke students representing our university. We have mercenaries playing for us now. I guess all major colleges do and this is just an "arms war" in big college basketball,but it makes me sad. It didn't use to be that way, and shouldn't now. We've gone toward the dark side.
Give me a break. Mason Plumlee is an Academic All-American. He and Mike Gbinije were Academic All-ACC. Ryan Kelly was Academic All-ACC in 2011 (as was Kyle Singler, and Mason again).
What grounds do you have to say that the members of our basketball team are any less "Duke students" than the other 6,000 undergrads on campus? I would be willing to wager a not insignificant sum of money that you have absolutely no idea what our student-athletes are doing on campus outside of the 4+ hours per week you watch them on TV competing in a basketball game. Saying that the members of our team are not "Duke students," and implying that they don't represent our University well, is a statement made with absolutely no foundation, is insulting to the members of our team, and is wrong.
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You're all jealous hypocrites. - Titus on Laettner
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