Duke and the 2016-2017 season.

[Clive Gollings]

that's fairly rich of a fan of a team that had billy g at the helm fairly recently. duke is going to have slim pickings of the best coaches in the country. of course there will probably be a bit of a let down after a legend has gone (new regime turnover from possibly the best to ever coach the game and a short-term letdown is all but expected), but i think they will fully bounce back. duke is too big of a brand at this point not to. they are in the same mold as any blue blood, probably even more so. saying you think they aren't because they happen to still have a legend at the helm changes nothing about this fact. they will be able to field a high quality coach and pay them upper echelon money to boot.

Again, how do you root for? Don't be ashamed of your team.

 

[Dakota25]

I'm not intimidated by a team that lost four starters and failed to out recruit our team. Also I don't think they are better than UK. They are on the same level as UK but I think UK has the most talent.

 

[knockoutgame]

Again, how do you root for? Don't be ashamed of your team.

if i said i root for davidson would that change anything that i have said? i'm not really sure what that has to do with anything i have mentioned.

the only reason i even replied is because there were some UK folks on the first page who were talking about how duke wouldn't be all that superior come 16-17. i only ran into this after reading up on the recent jackson signing (hence my first post on this forum). anyway, to thinking duke won't be superior, to that i say wishful thinking. they will be freggin stacked. it's like staring down the barrel of a gun to think about. they are gonna romp. doesn't mean they will win it all, but they will clearly be the favs.

 

[hoodro]

being totally honest here. i bumped the thread by doing a search in the rivals engine. i didn't even know it was this old until after i posted. i am not a duke fan btw.

Let me get this straight. You're not a Duke fan but you used the search engine to search for Duke related threads, then when you found said three month old thread you proceeded to make a post pumping up Duke, K., and a recruit that committed to them over a week ago, that UK wasn't even recruiting?

 

[Clive Gollings]

I understand you're embarrassed to say. You signed up to play contrarian. Not to root for a team and have discussions.

BTW, I love it when a) Duke fans make a joke of their fanbase here by wanting to stay in the closet and b) bumping old threads to give Duke fans a platform on a UK board.

 

[knockoutgame]

Let me get this straight. You're not a Duke fan but you used the search engine to search for Duke related threads, then when you found said three month old thread you proceeded to make a post pumping up Duke, K., and a recruit that committed to them over a week ago, that UK wasn't even recruiting?

i was searching rivals on the jackson commit, numskull. the fact that this thread came up shows just how much some of you UK folks think of duke. anyway, does that mean i was purposely searching for UK? i think not. the fact that i ran into this thread with some UK heads in the sand is what made me post. whoever thinks duke aren't gonna be stacked to the brim come 16-17 is not very good at using their foresight.

 

[knockoutgame]

I understand you're embarrassed to say. You signed up to play contrarian. Not to root for a team and have discussions.

wait...i just told you the school i root for. that is all the info i am giving you. embarrassment has nothing to do with it.

 

[DwayneMeighan]

hence my first post on this forum

Your first post on this forum, yet you signed up over a year ago. I know exactly what you are. You are one of those that got banned, and then was reinstated with a 0 (zero) post count when the format changed.

 

[Clive Gollings]

Yeah, you're embarrassed.

 

[knockoutgame]

Your first post on this forum, yet you signed up over a year ago. I know exactly what you are. You are one of those that got banned, and then was reinstated with a 0 (zero) post count when the format changed.

dude are you that into yourself? i have been a member of rivals and posting on the national forum since i signed up. good job thinking you got stuff figured out though. carry on.

 

[knockoutgame]

Yeah, you're embarrassed.

kudos. you got me. i'm embarrassed of something (what exactly?) on an internet message forum conversation, with folks i will never meet in person , and if i do i will have no idea, nor will they, that we have ever had a conversation before. and that's assuming what i have said would be embarrassing in the first place. what i don't get is why you keep going on about this?

 

[Clive Gollings]

Dwayne isn't trolling message boards is he?

He's not embarrassed.

 

[Aike]

Yes I did. Sorry. I mainly wanted those matchups because I'm sick of the "UK would have beaten Duke in 2010 and 2015" comments that perpetuate many boards across Rivals. At least if the teams played in the tournament and Duke won, some would finally admit that Duke may have had a better team. As it stands now, 2 national title teams from Duke get disparaged ad nauseum, while 2 UK teams that didn't win it all get glorified as superior.

If it makes you feel any better, you guys were better than us in 1998.

Oops. My bad. That probably doesn't help since we beat you head to head in the biggest choke job in Duke history.

I forgot what you were saying.

 

[Clive Gollings]

kudos. you got me. i'm embarrassed of something (what exactly?) on an internet message forum conversation, with folks i will never meet in person , and if i do i will have no idea, nor will they, that we have ever had a conversation before. and that's assuming what i have said would be embarrassing in the first place. what i don't get is why you keep going on about this?

Which leads me to, why are you here? Just to seek attention? Have UK talk about Duke even though you said you're not a fan.

I'll let this go. You're a clown.

 

[hoodro]

numskull.

What an oblivious prick. I'm a "numskull"? Seriously? Well, at least I know how to spell numb, and have enough common sense to know when a thread is dead and hasn't been posted in for three months. Oh, and my daddy can kick your daddy's ass, too.

 

[Clive Gollings]

Just found the ignore feature. Knockout, Mark, TUL, Ohiobandwagon fan.

Looking forward to the new and improved UK threads.

 

[Willy4UK]

Last I checked, Duke was at the White House yesterday. Not UK.

I bet the organizers of this trip gave Duke the easiest pathway to get to the White House.

 

[knockoutgame]

What an oblivious prick. I'm a "numskull"? Seriously? Well, at least I know how to spell numb, and have enough common sense to know when a thread is dead and hasn't been posted in for three months. Oh, and my daddy can kick your daddy's ass, too.

yes, you are numb in the head. either or will suffice. my spelling is completely correct. carry on.