Duke Football 2025

roywhite said:
Yeah, Greensboro Grimsley

From wiki:
The school's original colors were purple and gold (circa 1909–10). Because of increasing difficulty in finding matching shades of purple for athletic and band uniforms, the colors were changed—by vote of the student body in March 1951—to navy blue and white.

The mascot was originally the "Purple Whirlwind", adopted in 1921. Local papers, in an attempt to have variety when referring to GHS's teams (and to save space in headlines) came up with the name "Whirlies" in 1941. (Other variations of "Purple Whirlwinds" had been used back to the 1930s.) The name "Whirlies" caught on quickly and was used interchangeably with "Purple Whirlwinds" until the color change in 1951, leaving the original mascot name as "Whirlwinds". Since the late 1950s, "Whirlies" has been used almost exclusively.
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Football State Champ Whirlies
 
roywhite said:
Yeah, Greensboro Grimsley

From wiki:
The school's original colors were purple and gold (circa 1909–10). Because of increasing difficulty in finding matching shades of purple for athletic and band uniforms, the colors were changed—by vote of the student body in March 1951—to navy blue and white.

The mascot was originally the "Purple Whirlwind", adopted in 1921. Local papers, in an attempt to have variety when referring to GHS's teams (and to save space in headlines) came up with the name "Whirlies" in 1941. (Other variations of "Purple Whirlwinds" had been used back to the 1930s.) The name "Whirlies" caught on quickly and was used interchangeably with "Purple Whirlwinds" until the color change in 1951, leaving the original mascot name as "Whirlwinds". Since the late 1950s, "Whirlies" has been used almost exclusively.
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Better the Whirlies than the Swirlies.
 
budwom said:
anyone else notice the festouche eight miles down the road where the unc football GM (being Paid $1.5million/yr) uncorked a beauty of an illiterate tweet responding angrily to assertions that Billy B is having trouble filling out his staff? He insisted the report is both "erronous" and "fabracated."
This led to some nice mockage on Around the Horn last night, making them wonder if unc could not afford any spell check products.
None of the panelists, FWIW, place any credence at all in Bill's vows to stay and be happy at unc. They all said if he could be in the NFL he would be in the NFL. Excellent segment all around.
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Belichick's hiring of Lombardi was the most clear sign to me, at least, how much of a failure that whole circus is going to be. He's thin skinned, which is fine if you are as good as Belichick was. Lombardi's awful though. Insecure and bad at your job is a terrible combination.

It's also, I suspect, why Belichick isn't coaching in the NFL. Teams would take him, but not the whole job program for his kid and old buddies.
 
duke79 said:
I'm not sure what the requirements are these days but, I believe, in the past Duke required people, including recruited athletes, to have a legitimate high school diploma before they could enroll as Duke students. If I remember correctly, this issue came up when Alex Murphy decided to re-classify (and essentially skip his senior year of high school) and come to Duke a year early (At the urging of the Duke coaches and I think he was a year older than his class indicated and should have then been a senior in high school). At the time, he was a student at my high school alma mater (a private school outside Boston) and apparently that school would not let him "jump ahead" and graduate a year early without fulfilling all of the school's normal academic requirements, so Alex left that private school and enrolled in the local public high school in Rhode Island where his parents lived, and that public school then allowed him to "graduate" with a diploma at what was the end of his junior year. He then enrolled at Duke the next academic year.

I believe you're right here, Mike. The only case that I personally knew of this happening was I had a classmate in high school who was a super genius - unbelievably smart, in almost every subject. He took the SAT's in his sophomore year of high school - two 800's (with apparently no incorrect answers on either the verbal or math parts of the SAT's); five 800 scores on the Achievement tests; and five "5's" on the AP tests he took that year too. During his junior year, he had pretty much done all he could do in high school, so he applied to Harvard, and, although he had not technically graduated from high school at that point, Harvard accepted him (which in those days was very rare at Harvard, mostly because they worried about whether or not younger students would have the emotional maturity to succeed in college) and he skipped his senior year of high school. I believe Harvard essentially let him skip his freshmen year of college (based on his AP scores), so he basically jumped two years a head.
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I knew a guy who got into Rutgers graduate school math PhD program simply by going to a professor's office and using the blackboard to show him what he was working on. And no, it wasn't Matt Damon.
 
Mike Petrik said:
I suspect that like many things it is a normal requirement that can be waived in appropriate exceptional circumstances, and those circumstances probably apply only to unusual scholarly savants, not athletic savants. I knew a very gifted fellow who graduated from Harvard Law at 22. It is quite possible that his credentials were irregular.
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Harvard Law?!?! That’s a sub-par institution. If it isn’t Yale Law why even bother
 
AustinDevil said:
You never know. I'm surprised that it took him that long to ink a deal, only to land at a premier program. We'll see.
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Thomas has not seen a lot of love on the forum, but in fairness to him our run blocking was poor all season. We were not the best team for a running back.
Our OL play was interesting insomuch as our pass blocking was superior to our run blocking, and that is a bit unusual. Most OLs thrive on running games. I do think that Manny et al deserve credit with creating schemes and employing techniques that allowed a rather our OL to over-perform in pass protection for Murphy.
 
Kindly forgive my taking somewhat generous liberties with this thread topic, but it struck me as somewhat amusing that the Marietta High School Blue Devils just hired a new football coach named Cameron Duke.
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Meet The New Marietta High School Football Coach, Cameron Duke

There’s a new coach for the Marietta Blue Devils football team, and he’s no stranger to success. Cameron Duke, a seasoned coach with more than 21 years of
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SavDukeGrad said:
Surprised, but good for him I guess. Will he get off the bench?
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I'll bet he does... He's quick, has good hands and speed, and improved quite a bit throughout the season in toughness and not going down on first contact. He really needs to work on trusting his blockers and hitting the hole rather than running laterally to create an opening, but he might have done more of that in our backfield because our OLine did not excel at run blocking, so perhaps he felt he needed to work harder to manufacture yards. At Tennessee, he'll have a line that can open holes, so if he learns to trust his line and hit the hole hard, he could be a pretty solid change-of-pace back in the SEC.
 
Papa John said:
I'll bet he does... He's quick, has good hands and speed, and improved quite a bit throughout the season in toughness and not going down on first contact. He really needs to work on trusting his blockers and hitting the hole rather than running laterally to create an opening, but he might have done more of that in our backfield because our OLine did not excel at run blocking, so perhaps he felt he needed to work harder to manufacture yards. At Tennessee, he'll have a line that can open holes, so if he learns to trust his line and hit the hole hard, he could be a pretty solid change-of-pace back in the SEC.
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I agree with your assessment generally, but really doubt he sees much action. Unless he improves markedly, he just doesn't run hard enough, and the horizontal tendencies you mention really are a major minus. But yeah, our OL blocking was generally not good at all.
 
Way-Too-Early ESPN Top 25 gives Duke a way-too-early honorable mention.

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2025 Way-Too-Early Top 25: Where do Ohio State and Notre Dame rank?

The season has just ended, but that won't stop Mark Schlabach from ranking the 25 best teams for next season.
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1. Ohio State
2. Texas
3. Penn State
4. Notre Dame
5. Georgia
6. Oregon
7. Clemson
8. LSU
9. BYU
10. South Carolina
11. Iowa State
12. Alabama
13. Illinois
14. Arizona State
15. SMU
16. Kansas State
17. Indiana
18. Florida
19. Tennessee
20. Louisville
21. Michigan
22. Texas A&M
23. Miami
24. Boise State
25. Ole Miss

Teams also considered: Auburn, Texas Tech, Missouri, Georgia Tech, Baylor, Duke, Washington, Nebraska, Iowa, Army, Colorado
 
duke79 said:
I'm not sure what the requirements are these days but, I believe, in the past Duke required people, including recruited athletes, to have a legitimate high school diploma before they could enroll as Duke students. If I remember correctly, this issue came up when Alex Murphy decided to re-classify (and essentially skip his senior year of high school) and come to Duke a year early (At the urging of the Duke coaches and I think he was a year older than his class indicated and should have then been a senior in high school). At the time, he was a student at my high school alma mater (a private school outside Boston) and apparently that school would not let him "jump ahead" and graduate a year early without fulfilling all of the school's normal academic requirements, so Alex left that private school and enrolled in the local public high school in Rhode Island where his parents lived, and that public school then allowed him to "graduate" with a diploma at what was the end of his junior year. He then enrolled at Duke the next academic year.

I believe you're right here, Mike. The only case that I personally knew of this happening was I had a classmate in high school who was a super genius - unbelievably smart, in almost every subject. He took the SAT's in his sophomore year of high school - two 800's (with apparently no incorrect answers on either the verbal or math parts of the SAT's); five 800 scores on the Achievement tests; and five "5's" on the AP tests he took that year too. During his junior year, he had pretty much done all he could do in high school, so he applied to Harvard, and, although he had not technically graduated from high school at that point, Harvard accepted him (which in those days was very rare at Harvard, mostly because they worried about whether or not younger students would have the emotional maturity to succeed in college) and he skipped his senior year of high school. I believe Harvard essentially let him skip his freshmen year of college (based on his AP scores), so he basically jumped two years a head.
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I had a roommate as an undergrad who skipped a year and, the way I understood it, did not technically have a HS diploma. This was in the early 2000s.
 
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