The University of North Carolina.
You know what? Roy Williams just came in and stole Coach K’s lunch money. Or as Adam Gold put it more succinctly yesterday:
Let’s go back to the Texas Hold’em analogy for a second. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has been sitting at the table since they invented green felt and playing cards. Sure, Kansas’ Bill Self, Oklahoma’s Jeff Capel and Ben Howland of UCLA have had chips on the table for a while, but not nearly as big a stack as the one that sits in front of Coach K. But, about an hour ago, Roy Williams came off the golf course, wearing a powder blue golf vest emblazoned with “2005 AND 2009 National Champions,” plopped a big ol’ bag of money down, sat next to Krzyzewski, glanced at his cards briefly and daggummit if he didn’t just say, “All in”.
Roy did not really start in on Harrison Barnes in earnest until April when he dropped in to visit him two days after the Heels won the title. Over the course of a few months he stole a recruit everyone was sure was headed to Durham. Roy owns K right now.
On the court.
On the recruiting trail.
And what’s worse for Duke is that Barnes in combination with Kyrie Irving was their best shot to close the gap. Instead it just widened…again.
Crossposted at Tar Heel Fan
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This is awesome, We definitely need that dook perspective now.
Once proud…
Wow, Roy came in late a pulled of the amazing. Expect a staff shake up in Durham to get recruiting back up to speed. Quinn and Tommy was always able to help K close the deal. Wojo and Collins are not getting the work done.
J Mohn,
As I said in said in the comments of the post below… at least your purple hat is looking good.
This one has got to be tough for Duke fan.
Boom goes the dynamite. Like I said in an earlier post, Roy is a mack daddy who keeps his pimp hand strong. k just felt the sting of said pimp hand. You like apples…?
Something something basketball something something
waving the white flag now….
There is no joy in K-ville..ugh
Expect the back problems to flare up again. I keed, I keed. At least K’s still got the Olympics gig. For now.
I might be a Heel, but Dook still has a really good recruiting class for next year. I feel some sort of positive thoughts need to go out to keep them away from the cliff. I’m a little scared for my Dook friends right now.
Continuing the cards analogy and S&PP’s movie post, this is like the scene from “The Sting” when Paul Newman beats Robert Shaw at his own game.
Shaw- “Four eights….”
Newman- “Four jacks. You owe my 15 grand, pal.”
Newman has the most Carolina blue eyes…….
“I’m a little scared for my Dook friends right now.”
Wait, you actually know a Duke fan in NC? Are you really in Dirty Jerz?
Coming to you live from Roy Williams’ iPod:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniw_S8JaJM