Wednesday Northwestern University announce that Duke assistant basketball coach Chris Collins will be their new basketball coach at the end of the Duke basketball season. Collins has not only been a player at Duke but on coach K's staff his entire working life. You would almost expect that Duke will probably need a new basketball coach within five years as Coach K approaches 70 years old. Collins has been the point man as many half time interviews have fallen to Collins instead of K.
If the next coach of Duke will fall to one of K's assistants the only way to prove you are a legit candidate is to become a head coach and create a track record . Northwestern which is one of the worse basketball schools in the Big Ten is a safe place to be. All Collins would have to do is make the NCAA tournament one time before K leaves and his stock as the next Duke coach would go through the roof. If they don't nobody would consider it a coaching failure.
Several former assistants of Coach K lay in waiting. Johnny Dawkins at Stanford, Mike Brey at Notre Dame, or Tommy Amaker who just this year won a NCAA game with Harvard. Chris Collins comes from a basketball family as his father Doug has been in the NBA as a coach or TV annalist his entire life. He is now the head coach of the Philadelphia 76's and was the coach of the Chicago Bulls while Chris was growing up. I don't know if you remember this or not but but Chris's father was a member of the 1972 Olympic team that the Russians stole the gold metal game from back in 1972.
Expect N C State to announce soon that Lorenzo Brown will enter the NBA draft and not return to the Pack next year. He is the only player from the Triangle that is NBA ready.
Wednesday night Mark Gottfried put at end to the rumors that he was leaving N C State to be the Next coach at UCLA. He tweeted that he is as committed to N C State today as he was two years ago when he took the head basketball job. I know a lot of WolfPack fans are disappointed that they did not win the national championship this season but Gottfried is only the third ACC coach to win 20 games in his first two years on the job. Bill Guthridge and Roy Williams are the only other two. Let me ask this question. When was the last time any other school showed any interest in an N C State coach in any sport? He must be doing something right.
Miami's quest to break the all time winning streak of 33 games in the NBA is over. The Chicago Bulls beat them Wednesday night ending their 27 game winning streak. I don't care who you pull for but winning 27 in a row is a steak all to itself. Here's something for you to look up. When was the last time that Miami lost a game and the Charlotte Bobcats won all on the same night. I doubt that it has happened to often.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
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