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per Yahoo:
Down in Durham, far from the courthouse tower in Manhattan where college basketball’s soul is being stripped bare, the most powerful coach in the game decided to weigh in.
And by weigh in, Duke University head coach Mike Krzyzewski didn’t weigh much at all, preferring to tell everyone not to trust their lying eyes concerning the testimony and evidence about just how corrupt to the core his sport is.
“I think it’s minute,” Coach K said of the tales of payouts, influence peddling and bags of cash testified about in the federal fraud trial of two sneaker executives and one would-be agent. “It’s a blip. It’s not what’s happening.”
A blip? It’s not what’s happening?
This is ridiculous and absurd and, well, most of all disappointing because this is exactly what’s happening.
Krzyzewski, as college hoops’ winningest and most famous coach, either knows it or should make sure he knows it. His grip of the game is significant, five NCAA titles bolstered by the three Olympic gold medals. His influence spans the sport, from LeBron James Sr. to the LeBron James Jr.
And yet we get this?
Sorry, but this is no blip. This is reality. Maybe, somehow, someway, Krzyzewski lives in such a cocoon that he doesn’t have to deal with any of the bottom-line characters that this trial has delivered – the eager-to-be-paid father in Brian Bowen Sr., the ambitious middle-man and would-be agent in Christian Dawkins and the unapologetic bag man in T.J. Gassnola.
https://sports.yahoo.com/coach-k-sh...-thinks-hoops-corruption-trial-052601836.html
Go Gophers!!
Down in Durham, far from the courthouse tower in Manhattan where college basketball’s soul is being stripped bare, the most powerful coach in the game decided to weigh in.
And by weigh in, Duke University head coach Mike Krzyzewski didn’t weigh much at all, preferring to tell everyone not to trust their lying eyes concerning the testimony and evidence about just how corrupt to the core his sport is.
“I think it’s minute,” Coach K said of the tales of payouts, influence peddling and bags of cash testified about in the federal fraud trial of two sneaker executives and one would-be agent. “It’s a blip. It’s not what’s happening.”
A blip? It’s not what’s happening?
This is ridiculous and absurd and, well, most of all disappointing because this is exactly what’s happening.
Krzyzewski, as college hoops’ winningest and most famous coach, either knows it or should make sure he knows it. His grip of the game is significant, five NCAA titles bolstered by the three Olympic gold medals. His influence spans the sport, from LeBron James Sr. to the LeBron James Jr.
And yet we get this?
Sorry, but this is no blip. This is reality. Maybe, somehow, someway, Krzyzewski lives in such a cocoon that he doesn’t have to deal with any of the bottom-line characters that this trial has delivered – the eager-to-be-paid father in Brian Bowen Sr., the ambitious middle-man and would-be agent in Christian Dawkins and the unapologetic bag man in T.J. Gassnola.
https://sports.yahoo.com/coach-k-sh...-thinks-hoops-corruption-trial-052601836.html
Go Gophers!!