One other tidbit. Coach K has 1083 wins at Duke.
The total Duke win count is 2176.
With 10 more wins this season, K will account for exactly half of the all time wins at Duke!
Short of some catastrophe, he will retire with over half of Duke's all time wins.
Pretty stout!
Indeed, statues outside are wide open for, um, different re-interpretations. I still remember, decades ago (early 70s), there'd been yet another news story about UFO sightings, and a student (I know who he was, not me... who went on to become a respected doctor, I believe) late that night covered the Buck Duke statue in front of the Chapel with tin foil, put rabbit ear aerials on his head, fixed two paper cups over his eyes to make bigger, googlier ones, and hung a sign over his shoulders that said, "Greetings, Earthlings." AP picked it up and the photo even made the NY Times.
So yes, keep a Coach K statue inside, and away from pigeons, too.
You mean this statue?:
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Most of the country’s great universities were named after rich and powerful men. For goodness sake, the best college of all time was named after tobacco monopolists.
Since the great university names are basically taken, the various grad/professional schools are wide open and quickly being taken. Sports stadiums would be an easy call. If Ms. Gates gave $1b to her alma mater, the school would rename the stadium after K, Melinda, or anything her kids or pr team came up with. Ideally, it wouldn’t involve a hyphen, but fortunately (or unfortunately), I don’t think she cares about seeing her name plastered on Cameron.
Optics and fairness would enter into the naming discussion, as would our preferences, but I’m skeptical that these would carry the day.
As an undergrad that fall of 1974, after a Friday night club football game, I kept my shoulder pads and helmet on and my roommate wrapped me completely in aluminum foil. I wandered around West Campus for a
couple of hours, through the Union building, Perkins Library and many dorms. Fun times!
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Since Pauley was the major donor, there may have been a written agreement that he would always have what are now called naming rights. Nevertheless, the arena is now Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom, which is a credit union and financial services company. Does that stink or what?
I hope we never get to Cameron Indoor Stadium presented by Bank of America.
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Credit David Rubenstein for the great lobby on the Wallace Wade side of Cameron! David Rubenstein has been one of the most prolific donors to Duke University besides the Duke family and Duke Endowment. Like me he was a fan of Art Heyman. Besides the scholarship offers Heyman was why he wanted to go to Duke.
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Heyman graduated from Duke three years before Rubenstein became a Duke student. Surprising that Heyman would have been a factor in his decision to attend Duke. Having known Heyman at Duke, it’s also a bit strange for me to see his name in the same sentence as “scholarship.”
I knew Dave pretty well at Duke, did not know about the Heyman connection (not that I dispute it).
I heard Rubenstein mention Art Heyman in an interview in regards to his decision to enroll at Duke. The scholarship was the student aid Rubenstein got to enroll at Duke.Perhaps it was not a scholarship, just a grant towards tuition.
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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
As per alternate ways of honoring Coach K...
I wouldn't mind seeing something like a Hollywood Walk of Fame type presentation on the 'Mall" between Cameron and Wallace Wade where a few prominent Coaches/Players get honored (has to be while they are with us) with their feet and hands solidified in a block of cement. This would give some piece of themselves left at the place where they plied their trade. Of course, Coach K's might be at the head of Krzyzewskiville
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