Thank you, Captain: Jeremy Roach transfers to Baylor
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DukieInKansas
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Thank you, Jeremy. One of my favorite Duke players. Wishing you good fortune on the next part of your journey.
grateful_duke
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Same… that was tough to watch.
Was so weird seeing him in a Baylor uniform vs Duke. Rough way for him to end his college career. But his time at Duke will never be forgotten! Nothing but love for JRoach
I teared up, too, but in a good way, not a tough-to-watch way.
CBS didn't give us a good shot of it and cut away quickly, but it looked like Roach pretty much collapsed into Scheyer -- not a perfunctory or obligatory embrace, but a genuine moment in which a deeply emotional player at the end of a five-year career sought comfort and a shared moment from a coach with whom he spent four of those seasons. It was a beautiful moment. And whatever complicated feelings Roach might have about not being at Duke this year, it's clear Scheyer means something positive to him. That's none of my business and doesn't involve me, but it was nice to see.
NYBri
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CBS totally missed the story by that pointless cut-away.
AngolaDevil
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Really hate that Duke had to end Jeremy's college career. I'll echo the sentiment that it was really tough to watch. He and Scheyer clearly mean a lot to each other and I have no doubt that Jeremy will be pulling hard for Duke to win it all. None of that changes the fact that this was an awkward and difficult circumstance that is entirely emblematic of this era of CBB.
CrazyNotCrazie
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I am honored to have had Jeremy in a Duke uniform for four years and wish him all the best in life. He is a good human being and his parents seemed like good people as well.
He hit a high arc shot in the lane today and I had wonderful flashbacks - he made so many of those for Duke, often at critical times.
He hit a high arc shot in the lane today and I had wonderful flashbacks - he made so many of those for Duke, often at critical times.
Durham Blue Devil
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I was at the game and while feeling completely elated for Duke, it was tough to watch Roach so emotional and distraught at the end from the time he was taken out of the game to and through the handshake line.
I will respectfully disagree with the above poster about him sharing a moment with Scheyer - Watching it live, it looked like Roach wanted to get the handshake line over with as soon as possible, and did not necessarily reciprocate Scheyer’s embrace at all. It looked like he was distraught and not taking anything positive from that specific moment - understandably so.
Go Duke!
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Yup. He always represented Duke with honor, and always played hard. And we do not make that 2022 final four without his big game heroics.
King of Defense
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Mentioned in the other thread -- did Roach actually graduate? He wasn't in the 2024 commencement program. Did he finish over the summer?
He's surely close enough that he could finish rather quickly, in any case, especially if he transfers a few credits back from Baylor.
He's surely close enough that he could finish rather quickly, in any case, especially if he transfers a few credits back from Baylor.
Alan_Wilson
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love h that. Jeremy’s parents were fixtures at Duke games. And I remember seeing bs on unc forums about how roach wouldn’t return if proctor did and vice versa.
Furniture
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I was surprised that he was so visibly upset. Towel over the face and the way he buried his face in Jon’s shoulder. One can only think he was filled with lots of mixed emotions. He may have been regretting leaving. I mean. If he left Duke because he wasn’t going to start and then ends up in the tournament with his new team against Duke and doesn’t even start and then loses…..
Edouble
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I have nothing but love and respect for Jeremy Roach.
I’m not going to judge one way or another how he shook hands or hugged Jon or what it meant, because I can only imagine it was incredibly complicated and emotional and difficult. I just don’t think it’s up to us to interpret what it meant to Jeremy or to Jon.
Something that I heard Coach K say about Jon has stuck with me: He really wants to win.
That doesn’t for a minute mean that Jon wasn’t sad to see Roach go, or that he stopped caring about Jeremy, or that it wasn’t a complicated situation at the end of today’s game, as Roach’s career is coming to an end, with most of his memories of that career as a Duke Blue Devil, not a Baylor Bear. Given the way that the portal has changed so much now, we are unlikely to see such an emotionally charged situation such as this again anytime soon.
Jeremy was a true Blue Devil for four years. There’s love there. There’s likely also resentment, and I don’t blame him. His feelings must be incredibly complicated and interwoven and difficult to process. All these things can be true. And I’m just not going to judge Roach. Period.
I’m not going to judge one way or another how he shook hands or hugged Jon or what it meant, because I can only imagine it was incredibly complicated and emotional and difficult. I just don’t think it’s up to us to interpret what it meant to Jeremy or to Jon.
Something that I heard Coach K say about Jon has stuck with me: He really wants to win.
That doesn’t for a minute mean that Jon wasn’t sad to see Roach go, or that he stopped caring about Jeremy, or that it wasn’t a complicated situation at the end of today’s game, as Roach’s career is coming to an end, with most of his memories of that career as a Duke Blue Devil, not a Baylor Bear. Given the way that the portal has changed so much now, we are unlikely to see such an emotionally charged situation such as this again anytime soon.
Jeremy was a true Blue Devil for four years. There’s love there. There’s likely also resentment, and I don’t blame him. His feelings must be incredibly complicated and interwoven and difficult to process. All these things can be true. And I’m just not going to judge Roach. Period.