Originally Posted by
burnspbesq
McInnis didn’t start that fight. Jay Heaps (who was actually on scholarship that year) ran him into the table in front of the Crazies with a textbook shoulder charge.
Jay Heaps was a recruited soccer player, good enough to be college payer of the year, play ten years in MLS, and be on the US national team. Pretty sure he had a scholarship for soccer, which of course counts against the hoops program.
The play in question, led to a Dean Smith-Coach K contretemps:
McInnis, who was the victim of an intentional foul by Duke walk-on Jay Heaps in the final minute, was ejected from the game after reacting to the foul and picking up his second technical. Heaps fouled McInnis, then shoved him into press row.
``Talk about role models,' Smith said, ``the Duke students should be role models. The esteemed Duke faculty should be embarrassed. (The fans) could get a technical, too. The school has to do something. The ACC office has to do something.'
Smith said that sort of thing doesn't happen at North Carolina. He also suggested that official Steve Gordon ``followed' McInnis after the Heaps foul before calling the technical foul.
As for the obscenity, Smith said the Duke students could have been clever and said ``rectum.'
``I'm a little bit disappointed at what Dean said about our fans,' Krzyzewski said Thursday, following his team's workout at the coliseum. ``Our fans have been terrific. I take offense to that.
McInnis did something to get the technical foul -- his second -- and get tossed.
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