Yup I think it’s between him and AJ Dybantsa for best High School player . Both of them are studs .
cooper flag to duke :(
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My comment had nothing to do with Cal or UK. The guy said Scheyer was eating first. They finished 3rd in a watered down ACC, losing 9 games and bowing out of the NCAA tournament to an 11 loss UT team who finished 5th in the SEC. That isn't eating first.
Yeah no ACC coach ever had a decent first year and then went on to suck and lose his job within 3 years. 😂
I think you just proved my exact point about needing more than a one season sample size.Yeah no ACC coach ever had a decent first year and then went on to suck and lose his job within 3 years. 😂
No I am disproving your point that he won't possibly see the unemployment line for a while.
Well, while I don’t foresee a player mutiny of everybody threatening to leave because the coach is a psycho, never say never I suppose. DOH-NUT though was just, downright nutty. And rumblings about Doh-Nut were leaking out even before that first season in Chapel Hill concluded. Especially toward the end of it when they lost on like 4 or 5 consecutive Sundays to close the season. This included two double digit losses to Duke (playing without Boozer) a loss at Clemson and then that Penn State NCAA T loss to close it out.
Transfer portal and the NIL has changed college athletics dramatically- I also don't think getting the top Fr each year is that important anymore
UK and co will face Flagg next year.
The 2024 Champions Classic just got a bit more intriguing. With the Kentucky Wildcats and Duke Blue Devils set to battle in the high-profile event, there will be at least one superstar playing in that game, and his name is Cooper Flagg.
Flagg is expected to be the top recruit in the Class of 2024 and will likely end up being the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Duke was the overwhelming favorite to land Flagg, so this doesn’t come as a surprise he committed to the Blue Devils on Monday.
Flagg is a 6-foot-8 power forward from Florida and reclassified in August from the 2025 class to 2024. He went with Duke over UConn, a program coming off a national championship.
The Cats have two commits for 2024. Those are four-star point guard Boogie Fland and four-star center Somto Cyril. They do not have a five-star prospect yet, but Fland does rank 33rd in the nation, per 247 Sports.
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The 2024 Champions Classic just got a bit more intriguing. With the Kentucky Wildcats and Duke Blue Devils set to battle in the high-profile event, there will be at least one superstar playing in that game, and his name is Cooper Flagg.
Flagg is expected to be the top recruit in the Class of 2024 and will likely end up being the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Duke was the overwhelming favorite to land Flagg, so this doesn’t come as a surprise he committed to the Blue Devils on Monday.
Flagg is a 6-foot-8 power forward from Florida and reclassified in August from the 2025 class to 2024. He went with Duke over UConn, a program coming off a national championship.
The Cats have two commits for 2024. Those are four-star point guard Boogie Fland and four-star center Somto Cyril. They do not have a five-star prospect yet, but Fland does rank 33rd in the nation, per 247 Sports.
Cooper Flagg, top prospect in the 2024 class, commits to Duke
The Cats and Blue Devils will play in the 2024 Champions Classic.
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Notre Dame has had great success in FB by not belonging to a conference.....Gonzaga built it's rep in a second tier league......
If Hubert doesn't win at a high rate this year he will be casualty #2 at UNC IMO.
I maintain that the biggest thing Duke had going for it under K was getting to play 8 on 5. The NCAA tournament Tennessee game last year is a great case study. That game never would have been allowed to happen if K was on the sideline. Scheyer had a solid first year and the ACC is dowwwwwwwwwwwwn in basketball making it a lot easier on him to succeed. But they weren’t a national title threat last year (no matter how much hype Bilas tried to give at the end of the year) and they won’t be annually like under K as long as they have to play 5 v 5.
Watch the Duke Kansas 2018 Elite 8 game and then say with a straight face that Duke plays 8 on 5. The refs cost Duke another title. Wendell Carter Jr's feet were set.
You can’t seriously be cherry picking one iffy call you disagree with to argue against 25 years of getting the better whistle??? It was a right of passage every single year to hear Dicky V and Bilas brag about how Duke made more free throws on the year then the other team even attempted. My personal favorite was the half time a$$ chewing K gave the refs going into halftime in the 2015 title game and then Duke got all the calls in the 2nd half. They were all legit terrified of K every game.
It's spinning as we speak. FSU and Clemson looking to leave, and there are rumbling there may be more. This shouldn't be a shock, though. The ACC is bad at football and even basketball, it's pretty "meh" aside from Duke and UNC. It's only a matter of time before the ACC is turned into a mid-major program for football and basketball.. so Duke needs to figure out their next move, if there is one.
Correct. Generally in basketball, the more talented team gets to the FT line more. FT's are easy, good percentage shots.
The 2012 Kentucky team shot 23.5 FT's a game compared to 15.4 from the opponents.
It is pretty wild how the narrative around Duke has shifted from "they won't get the top recruits once K is gone" to "well, once the ACC breaks up, Duke won't get the top recruits." That might not be for another 15 years given the ACC's grant of rights. But I am so excited to hear what the next line of reasoning will be for why Duke won't eat first.
Right but the key is they haven’t left yet. If they could, they would have done so already. No team is leaving the ACC before 2036 because of the grant of rights, which makes departure both a breach of contract and prohibitively expensive.
Maybe, but the schools sure seem to be looking for the exits. And it's not in particular for Duke.. if they can find an out as well and land in a football conference, then this won't matter. It's really whoever is left in the ACC, when the time comes, that will find it hard to compete. Maybe it's Duke, maybe it's Wake Forest..
When are these little dumb high school recruits going to realize that Mike Krzyzewski ain't walking through that door. They're going to Duke to play for a coach that if 95% of the people in America walked past Jon Scheyer on the sidewalk that they wouldn't know who he was. I would rather for Duke & Scheyer to get him because Scheyer won't know what to do with him compared to UCONN & Danny Hurley who's a proven great coach.
255-160 career record and has been past the sweet 16 once or twice is a proven great coach?
Flagg is an exceptional talent, but he is definitely not any better or more dominatn than Zion. Zion had great talent with him and they still didn't win a title. Its hard o win a title even if you have the best team. These aren't best of 7 series.
I thought I read an article that the Boozer twins DID NOT want to play on same team with Flagg. That could be the only positive with him going to Duke, maybe the twins go elsewhere like UK
I thought I read an article that the Boozer twins DID NOT want to play on same team with Flagg. That could be the only positive with him going to Duke, maybe the twins go elsewhere like UK
Different class. Flagg won’t be there when the Boozers are in schoolFlagg is an exceptional talent, but he is definitely not any better or more dominatn than Zion. Zion had great talent with him and they still didn't win a title. Its hard o win a title even if you have the best team. These aren't best of 7 series.
I thought I read an article that the Boozer twins DID NOT want to play on same team with Flagg. That could be the only positive with him going to Duke, maybe the twins go elsewhere like UK
Great. Duke getting straight ballers who look like a mix between Jordan and bird while we have nothing but question marks and guys just taking years off, coming up with mysterious injuries to protect their stock etc. etc.
Yay go Cal!! He’s the greatest because John wall and Anthony Davis!!! Whoo hoo!! Is that how I’m supposed to do it? Makes me sick.
Yay go Cal!! He’s the greatest because John wall and Anthony Davis!!! Whoo hoo!! Is that how I’m supposed to do it? Makes me sick.
I dont get this.. Flagg was a Duke lock over a year ago. Why the outrage? I'd be a little more worried if Duke came from out of nowhere to steal a recruit from someone. This kid was going to Duke before Scheyer even became a coach.
Sure, I'd rather he have gone to Uconn.. but this was pretty expected, and i'm not even sure Duke did a whole lot to get him.
Sure, I'd rather he have gone to Uconn.. but this was pretty expected, and i'm not even sure Duke did a whole lot to get him.
I think you sure chose the right word when you said "dominating" in reference to Zion Williamson. Sometimes a freak of nature comes along that is so hard to try to deal with that he just negatively alters the game of the opposition. It doesn't even matter that a guy like that still has gapping flaws in his game. He is just so athletically dominating that it doesn't really matter.Flagg is an exceptional talent, but he is definitely not any better or more dominatn than Zion. Zion had great talent with him and they still didn't win a title. Its hard o win a title even if you have the best team. These aren't best of 7 series.
I thought I read an article that the Boozer twins DID NOT want to play on same team with Flagg. That could be the only positive with him going to Duke, maybe the twins go elsewhere like UK
Not necessarily outrage because Duke got him, at least for me. Only because he’s the best player I’ve seen in a long long time and you don’t even hear Kentucky mentioned with guys like that anymore.
Idk man, I was at the Georgetown game. I’ve been to a lot of games over the years. Something isn’t right. I can’t put a finger on it, but it seems to me other teams just want it more. I want guys who just want to win (I do think we have a few), but we’ve been lacking in that area in recent years imo. I’ll leave it at that.
But we DID just get like 4 guys in the top10 (despite what another poster said above, that somehow this doesn't count lol).
He's one player, who will play for them for just one season. I'm not going to pretend I didn't want him or anything, but he was theirs to lose and likely got a shit ton of legitimate (and illegitimate) money to do so.
Line,
Whenever Clemson and FSU finally decide to walk out the door, please remind them to kindly drop that $100 million exit fee check in the drop slot before they hit the parking lot.
I'm just going by what the articles are saying. Will they leave? Maybe not. But the ACC is a sitting duck right now.. and why do I get the sense these schools can/could find ways to skirt whatever these fees are?
If the SEC wants FSU, don't you think FSU will find a way to make it happen? Or will they say "sorry, we owe the ACC, can you save us a spot for 2036?"
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Boogie is 10th overall (down 3 spots after announcing for UK, obviously) in Rivals' rankings. Best PG. Why so low in 247?UK and co will face Flagg next year.
The 2024 Champions Classic just got a bit more intriguing. With the Kentucky Wildcats and Duke Blue Devils set to battle in the high-profile event, there will be at least one superstar playing in that game, and his name is Cooper Flagg.
Flagg is expected to be the top recruit in the Class of 2024 and will likely end up being the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. Duke was the overwhelming favorite to land Flagg, so this doesn’t come as a surprise he committed to the Blue Devils on Monday.
Flagg is a 6-foot-8 power forward from Florida and reclassified in August from the 2025 class to 2024. He went with Duke over UConn, a program coming off a national championship.
The Cats have two commits for 2024. Those are four-star point guard Boogie Fland and four-star center Somto Cyril. They do not have a five-star prospect yet, but Fland does rank 33rd in the nation, per 247 Sports.
Cooper Flagg, top prospect in the 2024 class, commits to Duke
The Cats and Blue Devils will play in the 2024 Champions Classic.
There’s really no telling regarding the future when it comes to that kind of thing the way everything has changed. The ACC has adopted a new "success incentive initiative" that will begin in 2024-25, when the expanded College Football Playoff begins. FSU’s AD described the merit-based distribution model as "a step in the right direction.” This was back around June which was before they added these three schools.
Supposedly the ACC will bring in an estimated $72 million of additional revenue by pursuing that expansion, which will be distributed to members both on an equal footing and also to some through the incentive structure based on football success.
UNC has hired 3 New York law firms with lawyers at $2,000+ hour to get them out of it; and the opinion back was it can’t be done absent a $65 million per year exit fee for each year through 2035. The only way a school could afford it is if each school in the accepting conference kicks in to pay the exit fee of the departing school wishing to join the new conference. No schools in the accepting conference has publicly announced an interest in doing so (and is especially unlikely in SEC or Big10 where the optics and policy of state schools spending that kind of money on another institution is awful). Like it or not, the ACC’s GOR is iron clad.
