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ESPN - Article - Now One and Done Is OK

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Good guy beats bad guy at his own game. Give me a break...This should be about how Cal had it figured out before bone-head rat face.
Parts of this article make me want to throw up.

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"In other words, nobody fathomed that one day Krzyzewski would lord over the kind of dizzying NBA assembly line that would make John Calipari proud.

But here stands the 68-year-old Krzyzewski, living out the final act of his basketball life as a fellow master of Calipari's one-and-done universe. Before defending champ Duke faces Kentucky on Tuesday night in Chicago at the Champions Classic, Krzyzewski could meet Calipari at midcourt and ask him if he needs any help defending his recruiting philosophy to his critics. While he's at it, Krzyzewski could show Calipari his fifth championship ring and tell him all about how his three one-and-doners needed only four months to connect in Laettner-Hurley-Hill form and win it all in a season that was supposed to end with Kentucky as the sport's first 40-0 team.

Before he retires, Krzyzewski has one last titan of the game to conquer. He isn't content just out-coaching the 56-year-old Calipari; he's trying to out-recruit him, too, trying to outhustle the ultimate hustler. If today's recruiting race could be held at Churchill Downs or Pimlico or Belmont Park, Duke and Kentucky would be Secretariat and American Pharoah and the rest of college basketball's contenders would be a fading tangle of barn horses choking on their dust."
 
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