Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
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
You could go there on vacation, just like the song suggests!
In all seriousness, I lived in West Texas for quite a few years — though Lubbock might be considered to be more in the Panhandle than the western portion of this ginormous state — and the topography and solitude has its charms. The sunsets are spectacular; there can be no denying that.
I used to care a lot more about that hatred you are talking about (although I'm not sure hatred is the right word) and trying to understand it and ameliorate it. Now, not so much. If they're happy where they live and with the lives they have, and want to stay there, great. More power to em. If it makes them feel better to come up with reasons to resent city folk and their lifestyles, they can do that. Not sure where it really gets them, but whatever. Resent away. Or, they can move and try a different life. I don't really care anymore, and I'm not going to spend a whole lotta time worrying about it. To each his/her own.
human nature, tribalism, yadda yadda yadda. IMO it's going to happen one way or another. So what can you do? treat people with respect best you can and come to terms some might not be able to do you the same courtesy. That said, if they're ALSO UNC fans....all bets are off
April 1
Hard at work making beautiful things.
Based on the Golden Eagles' performance in the Dean Dome tonight, I say we offer the job to Wojo ASAP.
As someone very interested in the matter of who will follow Coach K, I decided to drop into this thread on the last page. I quickly went back a page or two. My mind is feverishly trying to make sense: Have we narrowed down where Coach's successor will come from? Are we talking about where he might retire? Are these various regions of the US metaphors for the kind of successor we are looking for?
I jest. I am happy that the mods are not being casuistic and allow us to move a conversation along as our spirits [in both senses] inspire us.
I love the city and country mouse discussion. Good mices everywhere.
“I love it. Coach, when we came here, we had a three-hour meeting about the core values. If you really represent the core values, it means diving on the floor, sacrificing your body for your teammates, no matter how much you’re up by or how much you’re down by, always playing hard.” -- Zion
Capel just had two rotation players leave the team over the last 2 days...now great for the successor stock watch.
In this day and age where you can bet on anything, one would think that somewhere there would be a market for betting on K's successor. I think that the DBR poster who would be most likely to be aware of (and participating in) such a market was recently removed...
I agree that at first glance, this doesn't reflect well on Capel, but one does not know what is happening behind the scenes - if someone is being pushed out, Coaches are hesitant to go public and badmouth them.
Thank you Lubbock, for Buddy Holly.
I hope we are 2-3 years away from K's successor.
Yeah you need to head out to Bandera if you want to go out West to “slow down”.
https://youtu.be/wg1pYtoWL6c
Jeff Eisenberg at Yahoo Sports has a new article about Coach K succession possibilities:
https://sports.yahoo.com/looking-int...173548675.html
The upshot of the article is that a) someone with Duke ties is most likely and b) none of the former players/assistants currently in head coach positions are doing all that great, so it's not clear who would have the inside track.
i mean, i don't think Eisenberg has any inside info on this, so the takeaway that someone with duke ties is most likely is not really supportable, at least from the article itself. Now, one might reasonably believe it to be true, but I don't think it the article should make one any more or less confident in that assertion, moreso than anything they read here, anyway.
It's pretty much a rehash of everything that has been said here. Heck, DBR might be his primary source
April 1
I miss the days here when Gail Goestenkors was being posited as a K successor. My God we're all so much older than we were. K longus, vita brevis.