So far, the ACC expansion is going as planned. The TV money has jumped. Let’s see how it looks 10 years from now though.
Yoni of College Basketball thinks I was a bit hard on Eddie Sutton. link
This is a very good article on the side effect of all this hype about kids going straight to the NBA. It just reinforces the popular belief among so many kids that they too don’t need education because they’re going to play in the NBA.
Ouch. Pete Thamel of espn.com rips Sebastian Telfair and his peeps in this article. I have a feeling that yesterday will end up as the highlight of Telfair’s career.
The guys at the DBR break down next year’s team – Next Year’s Model
Mike DeCourcy has an interesting article where he brings up the possibility that Shaun Livingston could be drafted and still go on to play at Duke. For that matter, JR Smith could do the same thing at Carolina. Very interesting.
He ain’t heavy, he’s my felon. Today, JamesOn Curry will accept a scholarship to play basketball for Eddie Sutton at Oklahoma State. It should come as no surprise that Curry ended up with Sutton. Now that Tark is out of the picture, Sutton and Bob Huggins at Cincinnati have taken on the roles of the…
He agrees with me that Duke will be hurt worse than UNC, but it’s not like they’re going to suck. Link.
On Monday, Duke recruit Shaun Livingston and North Carolina recruit J.R. Smith both announced that they are going to skip college and enter the NBA draft. Both say that they don’t plan to hire agents, leaving the possibility that they will instead decide to play in college. I think that’s extremely unlikely to happen. Livingston’s…
As I’m sure everyone saw earlier this week, Luol Deng declared himself eligible for the NBA draft. He said that he isn’t going to sign with an agent, but there’s no chance in hell that he’s coming back to Duke. None. Baring some disastrous event, he’ll be drafted in the top five. He knows it…