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Discussion in 'The Tiger's Den' started by FriedBoudinBall, Apr 4, 2008.

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FriedBoudinBall Founding Member

per advocate...

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/breaking/17305899.html

FriedBoudinBall, Apr 4, 2008

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TwistedTiger Founding Member

Great, just what we need, the Duke Lacrosse idiot as AD.:bncry::bncry::bncry::bncry:

TwistedTiger, Apr 4, 2008

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Bandit88 Old Enough to Know Better

Perhaps he was on sale?:huh:

Bandit88, Apr 4, 2008

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clair Rockets

I don't necessarily understand how it's this guy's fault that the North Carolina DA was a dill-weed

clair, Apr 4, 2008

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saltyone So Mote It Be

This guy is pretty much worthless. He's hated among dukies. Why would we hire him to lead our programs? :huh:

saltyone, Apr 4, 2008

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TwistedTiger Founding Member

clair said: ↑

I don't necessarily understand how it's this guy's fault that the North Carolina DA was a dill-weed
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I'm not 100% sure but I don't think that the District Attorney ran the coach off and suspended the players on the word of a prostitute, that was the AD.

TwistedTiger, Apr 4, 2008

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saltyone So Mote It Be

clair said: ↑

I don't necessarily understand how it's this guy's fault that the North Carolina DA was a dill-weed
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It goes a lot deeper than that. Nutsack had problems well before the lacrosse incident.

saltyone, Apr 4, 2008

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scrappy Founding Member

The President cancelled the season. It wasn't Alleva

scrappy, Apr 4, 2008

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Bandit88 Old Enough to Know Better

Liquidation Sale! Today Only! Act Now! Prices Slashed! Inventory Must Go Today!

see contract for details, some restrictions may apply, performance in crisis may vary, rumors of incompetence cannot be independently varified, proximity to Tarheel basketball may not indicate expertise in reviviing a basketball program..

Bandit88, Apr 4, 2008

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red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

The Washington Post pulls no punches.

Enough apologizing and enough martyrdom. It was a known fact on the Duke campus for years that the lacrosse team overdid it when it came to partying. There was a written report in 2004 that said just that and Tallman Trask, the university vice president allegedly overseeing the athletic department, and Joe Alleva, allegedly the athletic director, did absolutely nothing about it. Alleva fired Mike Pressler, the lacrosse coach, because a scapegoat was needed in the immediate aftermath of the incident and Pressler took the hit.

Here's what's wrong with all this: No one at Duke is ever wrong. Duke's last president, Nan Keohane, made a terrible choice when she selected Alleva as athletic director in 1998. Everyone at Duke knew that Alleva was a pleasant man whose next original idea would be his first, someone whose main asset when applying for the job was the fact that his racquetball partner was Mike Krzyzewski.

Five years later, Alleva had lived down to everything expected of him: taking a bad football program and making it worse, hiring a crony as baseball coach who HAD to be fired because the team was awful and former players came forward to say he had encouraged them to use steroids, and looking foolish almost everyone time he opened his mouth in public (which he rarely did, usually hiding behind press releases). Alleva did what everyone else at Duke has done for years and rode the coattails of Krzyzewski's successful basketball team. Keohane looked at this record and gave Alleva a new contract.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE . . .
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red55, Apr 4, 2008

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