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Duke is based in Durham, NC but East Rutherford NJ is like a second home to them and has been for decades. I really don’t know the “why”. Maybe I knew at one point and forgot but it’s been talked about before during Kentucky games. I think it was mentioned in the 2002 season IIRC.

Edit: Correct it was the 2002 season I became aware of this. The game was a non-con game so it occurred in 2001, but was the 2002 season.

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Because it’s a Yankee school in the South
 
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Neal Orac

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I'd say he's doing more than just rolling the ball out there. Outside of winning ACC regular season and tournament titles, making a final four and an elite 8, he has also beaten the following out of conference schools:

Arizona X 2
Kansas X 2
Auburn
Alabama
Michigan
Mich St
Houston
Texas
Arkansas
Florida
Iowa

Has 124 - 25 record for 83%.
Not bad for a 4 year coach.

Whether people like it or not, I think it's highly likely he has a title or two in his future.
Nice podcast. Schyer won't be coaching up any team to a title outside of a down ACC. The fact that you feel the need to sell him speaks volumes.

Everyone knows he just rolls the ball out there.
 
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Nice podcast. Schyer won't be coaching up any team to a title outside of a down ACC. The fact that you feel the need to sell him speaks volumes.

Everyone knows he just rolls the ball out there.
Right. He was the Dallas Mavericks first choice and turned them down before they pivoted to National champion coach Dusty Maye because he just rolls the ball out there.
 

BookofMormon

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I'd say he's doing more than just rolling the ball out there. Outside of winning ACC regular season and tournament titles, making a final four and an elite 8, he has also beaten the following out of conference schools:

Arizona X 2
Kansas X 2
Auburn
Alabama
Michigan
Mich St
Houston
Texas
Arkansas
Florida
Iowa

Has 124 - 25 record for 83%.
Not bad for a 4 year coach.

Whether people like it or not, I think it's highly likely he has a title or two in his future.
He's either going to get lucky or figure it out at some point.

What I am questioning with him is if he has a recipe or simply stacks great ingredients. It may not matter if the ingredients are that good.

His weaknesses at the moment are not being able to hold down big leads against good teams, having any idea what to run when a bucket is needed late in a game against good teams. He's been rough at both.
 
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Vedder3232

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Must be tough to be a UK fan and spend so much time and effort criticizing Duke and Jon Scheyer. You’re a collection of ill advised losers. Check the scoreboard the numerous times we’ve beat your sorry *** in the past. We’ll play you anywhere at anytime and come out on top.
 

ScWildcat3

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Jon Scheyer and Mark Pope are both available to be hired tomorrow to coach a D1 basketball team.

How many schools are choosing Pope over Scheyer?

Lol, get f'n real lardass.
Would depend on the school. Anywhere other than Duke scheyer isn’t pulling this amount of talent. Not sure scheyer could take a lesser talented team and do any better than pope has.
 

ScWildcat3

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Pope took a 6-month roster and beat Scheyer with his NIL, Duke brand, and all the NBA picks on a national stage.
Exactly my point. Nobody knows what scheyer would be without all the advantages he started with. Pope is having to build something where scheyer just took over an already built machine. I personally don’t think scheyer is a great coach. He’s shown when games get tight and in the biggest ones he reverts to spread it out and hope his star makes a play. It cost him a title flaggs year for sure.
 

Neal Orac

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Exactly my point. Nobody knows what scheyer would be without all the advantages he started with. Pope is having to build something where scheyer just took over an already built machine. I personally don’t think scheyer is a great coach. He’s shown when games get tight and in the biggest ones he reverts to spread it out and hope his star makes a play. It cost him a title flaggs year for sure.
Pope literally called out what Scheyer was going to do at the end of the game with Flagg. He outcoached him that game.

 
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Pope literally called out what Scheyer was going to do at the end of the game with Flagg. He outcoached him that game.



You guys are starting to sound like Hoosier fans obsessing over the Watford shot game.

It was one game in f'n November and their 17-year-old superstar tightened up late.

I'll take the guy that has gone 35-4 and 35-3 his last two years coaching over whatever the **** you losers think Pope can magically turn out to be in year 12 as a head coach. It's clear as day who has been more successful unless you're brain dead.
 
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Must be tough to be a UK fan and spend so much time and effort criticizing Duke and Jon Scheyer. You’re a collection of ill advised losers. Check the scoreboard the numerous times we’ve beat your sorry *** in the past. We’ll play you anywhere at anytime and come out on top.

I like this guy. Great vibes. Great energy.

Post more dude. Tear up our ********.
 

Neal Orac

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You guys are starting to sound like Hoosier fans obsessing over the Watford shot game.

It was one game in f'n November and their 17-year-old superstar tightened up late.

I'll take the guy that has gone 35-4 and 35-3 his last two years coaching over whatever the **** you losers think Pope can magically turn out to be in year 12 as a head coach. It's clear as day who has been more successful unless you're brain dead.
This all started b/c of my first post, which clearly rustled a bunch of jimmies. It had nothing to do with that game, yet here you all are still trying to sell your coach to UK fans.
 
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I concede. I honestly can't disagree with anything you're saying. Look, I gotta be real: I'm just a fat loser. I don't have much going on in my life, so let me pretend that Pope is great. I like watching rasslin. I like when they put the one guy in a sleeper hold and the ref raises his arm up once and it goes down, then a second time and it goes down again, and then on the third time it looks like it's going down but then the guy holds his arm back up and he goes f'n psycho beating the other dude's ***. That pleases me. And I like Kentucky basketball. I grew up with it. Here's the part where I say something something my granddaddy. What was I saying? Oh yeah, I hate myself.

Damn dude.
 

Im The Village Idiot

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CONGRATULATIONS. However, if you do the head to head post 1978, It is 9-3 Duke.
Kentucky was elite pre-integration though, can't take that away from them.
Why would anyone draw an arbitrary line after 1978? Perhaps it is to ease the pain of that all-time head to head? lol. Your guy couldn’t even beat Mark Pope with God’s gift to basketball on the team. GTFOH LOL!
 

Johnnie Africa

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CONGRATULATIONS. However, if you do the head to head post 1978, It is 9-3 Duke.
Kentucky was elite pre-integration though, can't take that away from them.

If you do post 2024, pre-NIL when the game changed we’re 1-0! Dang you guys haven’t won a single game head to head against us since NIL started. You were good pre-NIL though, so congrats.
 

Anon794131

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Have BBN posters posted on Duke's major site? It appears that Duke posters have no trouble posting here. I have no dog in the fight. From a statistics point of view, Duke is currently winning the smack down.
 
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Duke fan posting repeatedly on a UK board. Both sad and understandable.

It's funny how these dudes are so scared to answer simple questions so they just make up ****.

Who has been more successful as a coach? Scheyer or Pope?

If both Pope and Scheyer were available for a D1 school to hire, who is getting called first?

You dopes all know it but are too scared to actually be honest.
 
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Neal Orac

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It's funny how these dudes are so scared to answer simple questions so they just make up ****.

Who has been more successful as a coach? Scheyer or Pope?

If both Pope and Scheyer were available for a D1 school to hire, who is getting called first?

You dopes all know it but are too scared to actually be honest.
Hey man, it's ok to admit your coach probably can't win it all with the best roster money can buy, or hasn't shown that he can in the past.

Who would you all hire to replace him?
 
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Neal Orac

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CONGRATULATIONS. However, if you do the head to head post 1978, It is 9-3 Duke.
Kentucky was elite pre-integration though, can't take that away from them.
Do you know which all-white team the UK beat in the 1966 Final Four?

Duke's history didn't start with Coach K. They had plenty of good all-white teams.

Speaking of which, do you think Duke will ever hire a black coach?
 

BookofMormon

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Do you know which all-white team the UK beat in the 1966 Final Four?

Duke's history didn't start with Coach K. They had plenty of good all-white teams.

Speaking of which, do you think Duke will ever hire a black coach?
I don't think Duke would hesitate to hire a black coach - guys like Amaker or Dawkins. Scheyer may be there awhile now.
 
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BookofMormon

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It's funny how these dudes are so scared to answer simple questions so they just make up ****.

Who has been more successful as a coach? Scheyer or Pope?

If both Pope and Scheyer were available for a D1 school to hire, who is getting called first?

You dopes all know it but are too scared to actually be honest.
To be fair and objective, Scheyer had a two year head start, so best to compare each in their first two years. Scheyer was round of 32 and Elite 8 first two years, so has a slight edge. He was also handed a Ferrari in advance with recruiting/player continuity since he was on K's staff already.

I think it's safe to say that Scheyer would have the edge, but I'm not sure Scheyer would be in high demand by top schools on the open market. He knows nothing but Duke and his strength at this point has been entirely recruiting, that of which anyone could have done at Duke. Jai Lucas would be in the exact same situation. Let's not pretend he's a great XO's guy or is a developer. He goes and gets the best players and throws them out there, and they're gone in a year.

I remember watching the doc on Coach K, it was fairly apparently that he didn't run much of an offense and the strategy was all about recruiting top players and stingy defense. Seems to be the same case with Scheyer.
 
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Cowtown Cat

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Exactly my point. Nobody knows what scheyer would be without all the advantages he started with. Pope is having to build something where scheyer just took over an already built machine. I personally don’t think scheyer is a great coach. He’s shown when games get tight and in the biggest ones he reverts to spread it out and hope his star makes a play. It cost him a title flaggs year for sure.
He isn’t a good coach. At all. He was literally instructing Boozer to PASS the ball up court when all he had to do was HOLD IT! LMAO!
 
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Cowtown Cat

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Why would anyone draw an arbitrary line after 1978? Perhaps it is to ease the pain of that all-time head to head? lol. Your guy couldn’t even beat Mark Pope with God’s gift to basketball on the team. GTFOH LOL!
That’s all ANY duke fan does! Every.single.last.one! I’ve never witnessed a duke fan NOT use arbitrary timelines. Ever.
 

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This video flat out shows you the culture and type of players Duke is about. When we were getting the top players every year we weren't getting those type of guys.

Y'all remember one recruits mom saying will Smith and Carleton....well Duke is Carleton. CAL got the Will Smiths. Now we don't get either. Which is ok. That's not the only way to win. But we need a identity regardless.
 
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BookofMormon

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This video flat out shows you the culture and type of players Duke is about. When we were getting the top players every year we weren't getting those type of guys.

Y'all remember one recruits mom saying will Smith and Carleton....well Duke is Carleton. CAL got the Will Smiths. Now we don't get either. Which is ok. That's not the only way to win. But we need a identity regardless.
Spot on and hysterical. Duke has a lane. It has expanded. This and last season may have been the first time in a long time that I can remember that Duke didn't have their token starting white McD AA. 2025 had Flagg and Knueppel, years before had Filipowski. Scheyer seems to be scrapping that mold, maybe he's just desperate to justify his place.
 
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