welcome to the party, pal !!!!!!
Via twitter, Class of 2020 Greensboro Day School 6'7" Guard Cason Pierce announced that he will be a preferred walk on at Duke beginning this fall. Cason Pierce is right up there with Kennan Worthington for "strong Duke student name." I'm looking forward to seeing the young man on the squad.
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welcome to the party, pal !!!!!!
"One POSSIBLE future. From your point of view... I don't know tech stuff.".... Kyle Reese
Welcome to the brotherhood! And the casons go rolling along!
So THIS must be the news that we've all been waiting on after the strange Tape decommitment yesterday (I kid, I kid). Regardless, welcome Cason!
Scott Rich on the front page
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Honest question here - how many walkons can a team have? Right now I count K’s grandkid, Keenan Worthington, Buckmire, and now Pierce.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure there isn’t much of a limit. The public schools often have a ton. I know Michigan typically has at least 3 or 4...
Tommy Amaker, in his first year or two at Harvard, got some bad press when he reduced the varsity squad from 19 to 14, I believe, sending the others to the JV squad. Ergo, we have a data point on 19.
The rest of the story is that the father of one of those cut went bonkers, and it got coverage in the NY Times among other places -- as if Tommy was hurting the pro basketball prospects of a player who wasn't in the top 14 at an Ivy League program.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
What is the key difference with a “preferred walk on”? Wasn’t JRob a “recruited walk on”? Seems like we have several walk-ons who could play at lower level schools.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013