Coach K on the Big East and conference alignment

[ChicosBailBonds]

Coach K was on the Audience Network this morning on the Dan Patrick Show.  Briefly touched on realignment.  A few quotes

"I feel bad for the Big East and many of these conferences.  Most people in America next year couldn't tell you who is in the Big East and that is unfair to those schools.  It's unfair to schools in the ACC, like Maryland.  The boys and girls that played at Maryland have had tradition taken away from them."

"Aresco is a smart guy, I'm good friends with him, but he has an enormous challenge up there"

"The decisions being made are not by people acting like college presidents but acting like businessmen.  The one thing that binds intercollegiate sports is tradition and they are not considering that.  Some of the best games in the last 2 decades were Maryland and Duke in basketball.  Lacrosse with Maryland and North Carolina.  All of that is now gone.  It's all football driving this. "

[Benny B]

April 14, 2014 [Durham, NC] - On the heels of its NCAA Championship loss to Marquette University, Duke University created a media storm this morning when it announced Mike Krzyzewski's simultaneous retirement from coaching and promotion to Athletic Director.  Coming just days after former conference rival, the University of North Carolina, announced that it was leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference to join the Big Tweleventeen in 2015, Krzyzewski said during his prepared remarks, "The first thing we're going to do is to preserve our tradition, and Duke's tradition is basketball."  It was not immediately known whether Krzyzewski intended to drop another bombshell later in the press conference when he said in response to a question regarding Duke's future in the ACC "If football is driving the bus, then there is no place for Duke in the ACC... I have already notified the NCAA that in 2016 our football program will move to Division I-AA, and by unanimous vote of our board, Duke has accepted an invitation to join a conference where the tradition of basketball is revered, the Big East, prior to the 2016-17 season."  With Duke joining Big East newcomers Butler, Wichita State, and Xavier, all eight quarter-finalists in the 2014 NCAA Tournament either are or will be members of the Big East in 2016.

In other conference realignment news, James Delany, Supreme-Emperor-For-Life of the Big Tweleventeen Conference, has now been missing for 100 days.  Unconfirmed rumors are surfacing that indicate Delany may have been last seen being led from his home into a black Lincoln limousine by "several big Italian guys wearing Rutgers sweaters."  When reached for comment, Rutger's President, Robert Barchi, said "We don't know nothing about the unfortunate and tragic disappearance of the rat, er, I mean Emperor Delany, and I can assure you that he is not encased in the cement pillars of our new football stadium, which by the way, remains woefully underfunded due to the Emperor's broken promises of revenue."

[M@RQUETTEW@RRIORS]

He says this because his school may as well not have a football program.  If he were coach at a school that had a program worth taking he would feel differently.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

April 14, 2014 [Durham, NC] - On the heels of its NCAA Championship loss to Marquette University, Duke University created a media storm this morning when it announced Mike Krzyzewski's simultaneous retirement from coaching and promotion to Athletic Director.  Coming just days after former conference rival, the University of North Carolina, announced that it was leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference to join the Big Tweleventeen in 2015, Krzyzewski said during his prepared remarks, "The first thing we're going to do is to preserve our tradition, and Duke's tradition is basketball."  It was not immediately known whether Krzyzewski intended to drop another bombshell later in the press conference when he said in response to a question regarding Duke's future in the ACC "If football is driving the bus, then there is no place for Duke in the ACC... I have already notified the NCAA that in 2016 our football program will move to Division I-AA, and by unanimous vote of our board, Duke has accepted an invitation to join a conference where the tradition of basketball is revered, the Big East, prior to the 2016-17 season."  With Duke joining Big East newcomers Butler, Wichita State, and Xavier, all eight quarter-finalists in the 2014 NCAA Tournament either are or will be members of the Big East in 2016.

In other conference realignment news, James Delany, Supreme-Emperor-For-Life of the Big Tweleventeen Conference, has now been missing for 100 days.  Unconfirmed rumors are surfacing that indicate Delany may have been last seen being led from his home into a black Lincoln limousine by "several big Italian guys wearing Rutgers sweaters."  When reached for comment, Rutger's President, Robert Barchi, said "We don't know nothing about the unfortunate and tragic disappearance of the rat, er, I mean Emperor Delany, and I can assure you that he is not encased in the cement pillars of our new football stadium, which by the way, remains woefully underfunded due to the Emperor's broken promises of revenue."

Benny then throws the sock away and cleans up.   

[Benny B]

Benny then throws the sock away and cleans up.   

Meh... who needs a sock when one has Llennifer?

[GGGG]

He says this because his school may as well not have a football program.  If he were coach at a school that had a program worth taking he would feel differently.

I doubt it.  His job isn't to worry about how to pay his salary.

[Tugg Speedman]

"The decisions being made are not by people acting like college presidents but acting like businessmen.  The one thing that binds intercollegiate sports is tradition and they are not considering that.  Some of the best games in the last 2 decades were Maryland and Duke in basketball.  Lacrosse with Maryland and North Carolina.  All of that is now gone.  It's all football driving this. "

So a coach making about $4 million a year is whining that his bosses are acting like businessmen.

BTW, Coach K.  I feel bad for Butler.  They had to play against a player that should be ruled as ineligible player in the 2010 championship game.  

[klyrish]

Meh... who needs a sock when one has Llennifer?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG THAT IS AWESOME

[MattyWarrior]

I feel bad for coach K cause hes gotta look in the mirror every nite and realize what a dick he is.

[klyrish]

I feel bad for coach K cause hes gotta look in the mirror every nite and realize what a dick he is.

For some reason, I don't think he's losing any sleep over it.