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Forbes - Coach K: The Biggest Hypocrit in Sports History

Matt Laurer

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“Duke could win the national championship this season in college basketball. Duke could go undefeated. While doing all of that, Duke could set the NCAA record for most double-digit blowouts, you know, by Christmas Eve.”

“If all of that happens (and it could with potentially the most prolific trio of freshmen ever), Mike Krzyzewski would move closer to the title of Greatest Hypocrite In Sports History.”

If all of that happens (and it could with potentially the most prolific trio of freshmen ever), Mike Krzyzewski would move closer to the title of Greatest Hypocrite In Sports History.

Isn’t this the same guy who gives you the impression during press conferences that if he weren’t coaching, he would operate at the highest levels of the Vatican or something? Yep, but as somebody who has sat behind the Duke bench on more than a few occasions during his nearly four decades with the Blue Devils, I can tell you that, in another life, Coach K would have owned the biggest potty mouth among all of the Popes.

Isn’t this the same guy who likes to talk about mom, apple pie and the Duke Way, while suggesting he couldn’t imagine berating an opposing player and then lying about it? Yep, but Krzyzewski did both of those things. Near the end of Oregon’s Dillon Brooks helping his team upset Duke during the 2016 NCAA Tournament, the player flung a half-court shot toward the basket. Brooks said Krzyzewski scolded him in the aftermath, but Coach K said it never happened. Well, until audio surfaced the next day to prove otherwise. Krzyzewski sort of apologized to Brooks before he pivoted in a hurry to sound as if he was paraphrasing that old Groucho Marx line: “Are you going to believe me, or your lying ears?’”


Anyway, here’s the Coach K contradiction that applies to what happened Tuesday night during the Champions Classic in Indianapolis, where his No. 4 team of three NBA lottery picks by the end of next June clobbered No. 2 Kentucky with its latest group of one-and-done sensations. The final score was 118-84, and in case you missed it, not only is Kentucky into one-and-done players these days, but so is Pope, I mean, Coach K.

Isn’t this the same guy who had a hissy fit in 1999 when sophomore William Avery and freshman Corey Maggette bolted Duke for the pros? Yep. Krzyzewski supported sophomore Elton Brand leaving that bunch as the future No. 1 pick in the NBA draft for the Chicago Bulls, but when it came to the others, Coach K went into his unofficial papal routine to proclaim the virtues of his kids getting the full benefit of Duke education.

That was so Johnny Dawkins, Danny Ferry, Grant Hill, Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley, Shane Battier and J.J. Redick.

Now Coach K is Kentucky coach John Calipari 2.0.

It happened quickly. Three years after the NBA added its age limit in 2006 on players entering its league to create this one-and-done mess, Kentucky hired Calipari, and he embraced it, and then he flaunted it. Elsewhere, Krzyzewski won the fourth of his five national championships in 2010 with his traditional collection of juniors and seniors. Then he got amnesia about how he once ripped one-and-done players, because he recruited a slew of them after Kyrie Irving came and went from Duke in 2011.

Austin Rivers did the same in 2012, and Jabari Parker followed the pattern a couple of years later. Then in 2015, Duke grabbed its last national championship in Indianapolis with Jahlil Okafor, Justise Winslow and Tyus Jones, all one-and done guys.

What’s up with this?

“When we recruit a kid, we don’t say, ‘You’re a one-and-done,’ but we recognize he could be,” Krzyzewski told those of us back then during a press conference before the start of that Final Four. He recalled his philosophy before the NBA’s one-and-done rule, and he said, “There were maybe eight-to-12 kids that we didn’t recruit each year because we felt they would go right to the NBA . . . Then when one-and-done became in effect, we still didn’t recruit those kids, and then we started to recruit (them) because we said, ‘Maybe some of them or one of them could fit the profile for Duke.’ . . . There’s a certain profile we look for, for whether he’s one-and-done or four years or whatever.

“So if we can find kids that fit our profile, we’ll deal with the consequences of whether they’re there for one, two, three or four years. I think to get the right kid is the most important (thing). We need to respond accordingly if we lose them earlier.”

Uh-huh.
 
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Tells me that Coach K is still the biggest name in all of basketball. I’ll be more concerned once these click bait pieces stop happening. Also the folks writing these click bait articles better use Ks name to leverage their clicks because once he is gone their careers likely are too.

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Just more proof of who the premier coach is. I think the op should take a couple tylenol and lay down for a while.
 
I'm glad the focus is off Calipari and UK. That run in 2015 was unrelenting in negative press and everyone trying to tear it down.

I feel for Duke fans this year. This is just the start.
 
Just more proof of who the premier coach is. I think the op should take a couple tylenol and lay down for a while.

You should check out the main board if you have premium. OP is infatuated with all things Duke. It’s quite comical. I’ve never seen a grown man (?) so infatuated with another individual in my life. Ever since K ripped his Clemson heart out getting Zion he’s went full potato.
 
You should check out the main board if you have premium. OP is infatuated with all things Duke. It’s quite comical. I’ve never seen a grown man (?) so infatuated with another individual in my life. Ever since K ripped his Clemson heart out getting Zion he’s went full potato.
Lol. You and @TheDude1 still don't know who @Matt Laurer is...
 
I'm glad the focus is off Calipari and UK. That run in 2015 was unrelenting in negative press and everyone trying to tear it down.

I feel for Duke fans this year. This is just the start.

I get what you’re saying but kids go to Duke and U.K. knowing they will be on the biggest two stages in all of college basketball every year. If they can’t handle these headlines now they will be doomed when they move to the NBA
 
We told you guys these reputable places were all about sensationalism. It is time for you to now take them all very seriously and believe all they put out there. Pretty smart, OP.
 
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Coach K is responsible for Coach K’s legacy. Just glad this wasn’t some UK homer writing it. Would have made it look suspicious or butthurt.
 
Coach K is responsible for Coach K’s legacy. Just glad this wasn’t some UK homer writing it. Would have made it look suspicious or butthurt.

Want to know a truth?

There are Duke fans and then there are guys who are coach K fans. The latter were kids who’s dad wasn’t around or treated them like shit. K filled their empty void.

Girls with daddy issues become strippers. Guys with daddy issues became Coach K fans.
 
Want to know a truth?

There are Duke fans and then there are guys who are coach K fans. The latter were kids who’s dad wasn’t around or treated them like shit. K filled their empty void.

Girls with daddy issues become strippers. Guys with daddy issues became Coach K fans.
Well thank god Zion had Daddy issues. What's really funny, if Zion played football, he still would of never went to Clemson.
 
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Want to know a truth?

There are Duke fans and then there are guys who are coach K fans. The latter were kids who’s dad wasn’t around or treated them like shit. K filled their empty void.

Girls with daddy issues become strippers. Guys with daddy issues became Coach K fans.

You probably know more about Duke and Krzyzewski than you do about unc and Williams. That is a typical unc fan. I couldn't imagine being so obsessed with a man I have never met, but you do you.

Are you going to bother watching Duke vs unc on Saturday?
 
You probably know more about Duke and Krzyzewski than you do about unc and Williams. That is a typical unc fan. I couldn't imagine being so obsessed with a man I have never met, but you do you.

Are you going to bother watching Duke vs unc on Saturday?
Clemson*
 
You probably know more about Duke and Krzyzewski than you do about unc and Williams. That is a typical unc fan. I couldn't imagine being so obsessed with a man I have never met, but you do you.

Are you going to bother watching Duke vs unc on Saturday?
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That's fake news. Duke has had the victory bell for two straight years. About to be three. Though, the 2015 loss was a very bad one. And your classless bunch of bitches tore up the locker rooms after that game and had to pay a shit ton of money to Duke even though they were getting torn down anyways. Haha.
 
You should check out the main board if you have premium. OP is infatuated with all things Duke. It’s quite comical. I’ve never seen a grown man (?) so infatuated with another individual in my life. Ever since K ripped his Clemson heart out getting Zion he’s went full potato.
Lol he's not a Clemson fan.
 
That's fake news. Duke has had the victory bell for two straight years. About to be three. Though, the 2015 loss was a very bad one. And your classless bunch of bitches tore up the locker rooms after that game and had to pay a shit ton of money to Duke even though they were getting torn down anyways. Haha.
A fan of Coach K calling someone classless???? That’s rich
 
You aren't very good at this. Let the big boys like Matt Lauer do the trolling for the unc fans.
Trust me, I’m not trying to troll Dook. You brought up the football game & I posted a pic of the victory bell.
I’m not a big college football fan, so a loss won’t bother me.
I found it funny that you used the classless & are a fan of Coach K.
 
That's fake news. Duke has had the victory bell for two straight years. About to be three. Though, the 2015 loss was a very bad one. And your classless bunch of bitches tore up the locker rooms after that game and had to pay a shit ton of money to Duke even though they were getting torn down anyways. Haha.
Actually, 2014 was when we, I mean they, beat you at home 45-20. Then Duke cried like a bunch of bitches and charged UNC $25k to replace some carpet and fresh paint. Then Cut and your AD wouldn’t accept an apology phone call from Fedora and Bubba. #sad

2015 was the best down at Kenan. 66-31 they sat the starters in the 4th.
 
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Trust me, I’m not trying to troll Dook. You brought up the football game & I posted a pic of the victory bell.
I’m not a big college football fan, so a loss won’t bother me.
I found it funny that you used the classless & are a fan of Coach K.
A man you have never met, yet know so much about. It would be an equal waste of time for me to argue with you about Krzyzewski's class as it is for you to pretend to know how classy he is or isn't. I will take the words of people around him outside of the game of basketball before I will the likes of an amateur online who says dook.
 
Actually, 2014 was when we, I mean they, beat you at home 45-20. Then Duke cried like a bunch of bitches and charged UNC $25k to replace some carpet and fresh paint. Then Cut and your AD wouldn’t accept an apology phone call from Fedora and Bubba. #sad

2015 was the best down at Kenan. 66-31 they sat the starters in the 4th.
I did find it funny that they went after unc for money even though they were renovating the facilities that year anyways.

It's the @jhmossy way. Can't beat them physically, dig into their wallets.

#moralvictorybell
 
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A man you have never met, yet know so much about. It would be an equal waste of time for me to argue with you about Krzyzewski's class as it is for you to pretend to know how classy he is or isn't. I will take the words of people around him outside of the game of basketball before I will the likes of an amateur online who says dook.
His public actions tell a lot about his true character.
Kind of like you describing UNC football players, that you’ve never met, that spray painted the Dook locker room as “classless bitches.”
 
His public actions tell a lot about his true character.
Kind of like you describing UNC football players, that you’ve never met, that spray painted the Dook locker room as “classless bitches.”
At least I gave an example of why those players were classless bitches. They may not be classless bitches now, but they were then.
 
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