Two issues which are uncomfortable but need to be considered:
K2 has shot 4-24 vs Ky, Az and KU. In buy games with far lesser athletes he has shot 13-24. Given that 3 of his makes vs legit teams were against maybe not so good Az(3-4) he is 1-18 vs ranked teams with good athletes. Absolutely a small sample size, but this is a potential concern about being able to hit shots against better athletes. Still hoping that this is just random cold shooting and that all the summer praise will prove accurate, hopefully starting this week vs Auburn.
If Manny Diaz gets an offer from one of the P2 schools he would take the money and run. While Duke does not have to disclose his salary, the estimate of 4M would likely result in aguaranteed increase of at least 50% for 5-7 years. He has shown a willingness to leave quickly for greener grass (see his 17 day tenure as Temple HC), and his stock likely is on a bubble given an unsustainable record in close games this year. For only the second time in my life I will be rooting for Texas tonight so that Manny's first year will resut in more wins than Midnight Mike at A$M (to be clear I said before Elko left that the should do so, it was his failure to wait a few hours to tell the players who literally sweated and bled to get him the job that he was leaving). I hope Manny sticks around, but other schools can/will offer financial benefits both to him personally and in NIL that Duke cannot match. Consensus among talking heads is that fewer good HC jobs will open this year because of costs related to the House settlement (Mack "only" costs 2.8M so CHeats could cheaply pull the trigger).
I hope neither of the above come to pass, but just wanted to put some coal in DBR stockings early and beat the Christmas rush.
