Next Head Coach At Duke?

[AWilli6995]

No doubt that Bilas loves Duke, but on air he definitely comes off more Pro UK/Kansas/UNC. Especially UNC.

He gives props to all the blue bloods and I have to agree with comment on UNC.

 

[Wall2Boogie]

What? I was talking about him and K not getting along

Why is that? What’s the beef between the two?

 

[pisgah101]

Why is that? What’s the beef between the two?

.... I said it’s not true man catch up

 

[sdave]

nm

Crean?

 

[sdsufan10]

Will be one of these:
Kelvin Sampson
Eric Musselman
Roy Williams
Tony Bennett
Brian Shaw
Steve Brohm
Tony Bland
Bill Self
Mark Jackson
Marvin Menzies
Amakar
Hoiberg
Rick Barnes
Nolan Smith

 

[sdave]

Like you both, so I’ll put it evenly.

You guys are both UK fans, which makes you really sensitive, I think, to everything Duke.

As a Duke fan, I can tell you for a fact that for YEARS many, many Duke fans have felt that Bilas has been not just unbiased, but in fact has overdone his distance from Duke, especially compared to so many guys who have no issue being true to the school they played for, from Len Elmore to Cory Alexander to Jason Williams to Stuart Scott to Jalen Rose to Bill Walton to Kenny Smith. For years he seemed loathe to compliment but quick to call out. For YEARS. To the point where people speculated that there may have been something about him leaving his coaching job at Duke.

Jay is a great analyst, and is complimentary of the teams that are good. He has been a bit better about expressing the warmth towards Duke that we all know he has. But trying to paint him as some Duke homer is simply about being over sensitive and probably a bit biased against anything possibly Duke.

Only Duke fans feel that way. Everyone else sees him as a Duke slapping.

 

[sgrooms]

Will be one of these:
Kelvin Sampson
Eric Musselman
Roy Williams
Tony Bennett
Brian Shaw
Steve Brohm
Tony Bland
Bill Self
Mark Jackson
Marvin Menzies
Amakar
Hoiberg
Rick Barnes
Nolan Smith

I'll take the field.

 

[TheDude1]

Only Duke fans feel that way. Everyone else sees him as a Duke slapping.

Here’s the thing... I think a lot of people have a dislike of Duke and everything Duke, and that’s just how they see it because of said dislike.

I mean, just look at my examples. Nobody would say that he shills for Duke more than Stuart Scott or Brad Daugherty or Len Elmore or Bill Walton or Cory Alexander or Jalen Rose or Kenny Smith. Heck, he doesn’t shill Duke as much as Mike Gminski or JWill. Yet nobody complains about them.

It’s the same way tons of people say that refs have some conspiracy to favor Duke. No they don’t. Obviously they don’t. Obviously there isn’t some secret conspiracy to favor certain teams. That’s paranoid nonsense. But people’s dislike of Duke (and the attention they pay Duke) has literally led swaths of people to genuinely believe there is a pro Duke ref conspiracy... all while simultaneously NOT believing that any refs ever favor them even when OTHER people say they do. UNC fans never feel refs favor them (even though almost everyone else does), but they are sure refs favor Duke. UK fans never feel refs favor them (even though almost everyone else does) but they are sure refs favor Duke. And so on and so on.

Duke hate really warps a lot of people’s perceptions.

 

[Afamu]

Only Duke fans feel that way. Everyone else sees him as a Duke slapping.

Only Duke haters feel this way. Everyone else sees him as an objective analyst.