Guy thinks the top .1% of basketball recruits are basing their college decision on Campus, building, and teacher quality along with class size LOL
Has anyone been to Duke’s campus?
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All the girls down there love the YMCA song. Especially doing the first letter.
Matt Jones agrees with you 100% and Ryan Lemond agrees with Matt 150%.
He went to Duke Law School and never considered UK Law
He can tell you everything about the philosophy of law and theory of law, but if you need to get out of jail, you better hire a UK Law graduate.
Duke Law is good training for selling mattresses and chicken wings but not for actual lawyering
Um, yeah sure....
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That’s because at Duke you have to be a POC, a Minority, or Uber Rich and smart to get accepted.
I went there when I lived in Charlotte. Easy directions, Go south til you smell it and east til you step in it!!
Thing is that the average ACT and SAT score of instate students at both UNC and Duke are in the same 21-24 range that is at most public universities. The increased academic prestige is that they only accept top of the line out of state students that have 25+ scores and often in the top 10%.
So the instate kids are actually pretty on par w any other large state institution in the ACC/B10/SEC/B12/p12
These are the kinds of commitments Duke somehow seems to get too. Never have to sweat it out or be a hat on the table. Wrap it up early after the Nike money comes in and promises are made. This one will likely be over soon with no real competition. Kid should just go pro though.
I like it a lot. My old company had a twilight (walking 9 holes, but you could keep playing till dark) golf league there (was only $22). It’s an older course. It’s also where I got my hole-in-one. It’s better than UNC course. But Duke is expensive as F*** (like $150 on weekend). NC St has the best all-around course in the area.
I had Stanford University Pension Fund as a long term client and the campus, surrounding hills, and Palo Alto created an incredible combination for frequent visits
The views from Pepperdine are extraordinary but I don't particularly love the campus. That said Malibu has a nice beach if you can access it.
Not true at all. Lots of smart kids here. The #1 ranked public school in the nation is in Durham (Durham Math and Science) My girlfriend’s son went there about 10 years ago.
I don't, no, I KNOW there is nowhere in this country I would want a rabid dog suffering from worms and severe diarrhea fart directly on my forehead while I'm eating spaghetti and meatballs for dinner rather than me walk onto those grounds. Damn man, that's some unhealthy hatred you have going on there!!
Kind of an odd, of two minds post, I did walk the Duke campus one time 20 years ago when I was there to do a presentation. I gotta say, looks-wise, UK a 5 or 6 and Duke a 9 or 10. and I walked right in the open door of Cameron smack dab in the middle of campus in the middle of a practice and it was like Hoosiers Movie final champion game vibe, old and big but not modern corporate (like rupp) and the way they surround the court with real students is enviable. Having said all that, F__k Duke.
I’ve been to both Duke & UNC’s campuses. We played at UNC when I was in college. We made a trip out of it and hung around for 3 days in the area. We toured both campuses. One night we had free time and snuck off to a club in Durham. Talked a manager in to taking us back to Duke and we all pissed on the sign I think was near Chapel Drive. UNC had prettier girls and the only girls I met from Duke were either Indonesian or Asian. Not like the hot Indian or Asian girls, but the ones with too much body hair. lol Met a freshman Shavlik Randolf, who was a nice guy and stopped us in a mall to talk to guys to our team.
Gothic really. But you've got some agenda, an obvious one at that.
The tuition waiver deal is also extended to South Carolina students I believe.
Re: the OP - I visited their campus when I was in college in the 80s and we played them in rugby. Very pretty self-contained gothic campus as I recall. As far campus style, it reminds me a little of U of Richmond (VA) except UR makes more use of red brick.
Through Navy and family...I'm pretty well acquainted with a fair number of their grads. No doubt it is an ivy league/service academy level of difficulty gaining acceptance. Academically, you could argue it is the best school in the south...one of the best in the country. Decent $12B endowment (Harvard tops the list at $53B), lower number of undergrad vs grad students at 7K vs 10K. Low student to professor ratio that you would expect at a private school. Super charged connections when you hit the workforce (on par with other Gucci private schools).
IMO: Garden variety 5-star BB players won't care much either way about the school's grounds and academic reputation, but good BB players who are kids of professionals (dr's, lawyers, etc) could be brand-motivated a little when it comes college selection.
To me, Duke is really a private school anomaly when it comes to big time CBB. Counterpart private schools have a tougher time finding BB championship success (GT, Wake, Stanford, Vandy, Notre Dame, Rice, So Cal). Villanova and Baylor are exceptions. Could be Duke down checks to the normal private-school pack when the Coach K mojo is put further in the rear view. Time will tell.
GBB!
It is a really good school. But like most schools it really depends on your major. Duke is known for its Business school. Med school and Law are both good too, as is their PolSci. Engineering is not a strength, my son was better off going to NC St for engineering.
Here's the question.....would you rather date a Kentucky gal or a pUKe gal??
That’s because Duke is actually the safety school for New Jersey kids who can’t get into Princeton.
Durham is a dump. Look at the data. Lots of bad numbers. Very few southern people. Predominate northeast. No wonder so few native North Carolinians there, it is only located in North Carolina.
Lexington on the other had is a very desirable place to be. Look at the data.
Lexington on the other had is a very desirable place to be. Look at the data.
If you made your college choice among Vandy, UNC, and Duke because you didn’t like one school’s basketball arena, you are a moron.
The turn in this conversation reminds me of an old joke about blue devil coeds: “The odds are good, but the goods are odd.” 😎
GBB!
Lol more reasons from that—from Missouri and Nashville is closer to home and a cooler place to live. All 3 are very good academically. But yeah, Duke fans are annoying enough so I chose not to listen to them for 4 years
Basketball recruiting now more than ever is about the individual. Especially star NBA bound talent. Where is it that xyz baller can go and be the show, play the style that best suits him.
No top baller gives a shit about campus, history/tradition, or academics when they're only going to be there for a bout 9 months.
That's even more the case now that they can make NIL money anywhere.
This kid by all accounts is generational, he knows it, all his people and inevitable circle of handlers know it. He nor they are interested in being a puzzle piece and watching a bunch of guards and transfers dribble around even if they have talent and pro potential. He isn't going to dance around the interior and screen or clear out for anyone.
He will go to whoever clears the deck for him essentially.
No top baller gives a shit about campus, history/tradition, or academics when they're only going to be there for a bout 9 months.
That's even more the case now that they can make NIL money anywhere.
This kid by all accounts is generational, he knows it, all his people and inevitable circle of handlers know it. He nor they are interested in being a puzzle piece and watching a bunch of guards and transfers dribble around even if they have talent and pro potential. He isn't going to dance around the interior and screen or clear out for anyone.
He will go to whoever clears the deck for him essentially.
UK is huge..... typically the smaller colleges have a better small college feel. WKU I went to my freshman year and loved it. You can walk to just about anywhere.
Kinda whiny.
I imagine you like Spalding in Caddyshack.
UK’s campus is terrific, welcoming and unpretentious. That’s what bugs you. You were your own problem. Fencing program fell apart?
While Durham once was a nasty place, it is much better now. Yes there are lots of Northeasterners that have moved to Durham and the rest of “the Triangle”. That is because the region is one of the most desirable and fastest growing regions in the country. And I love Lexington too.
You clearly wouldn’t be getting accepted with grammar like that…hard to be swayed when you don’t have a shot anyway!
True.
I told my son (he is a big UK fan, growing up 30min from both UNC and Duke) that he should not base his college choice on whether he likes (UK) their sports teams or not (Duke/UNC). And yes, I joined the UK Alumni Assoc so he could get scholarship help if he went to UK. But NC St (10-15min away) was the choice for him since he knew he wanted to do Engineering, and they have a top 10 Engineering program.
You sound super weird, and I'm originally from Harlan co. as far into east KY as you can get (houston now). I graduated from UK in 04 and never had a class past soph yr with more than 20 or 25. one class only had 9 students and we all sat around one table.
