RE: Re: Coach K/Amex Recruiting Commercial

From: Jared Garth
Date: 01 Apr 2005 - 06:15 AM EST

Mick,

I lived on the beaches in NC and attended grad school in Durham. It is a very nice place. I consider rural to be adams county ohio and columbus county NC. Of course with chain restaurants, direct tv,high speed internet, hardly anything is rural. Except maybe appalachia --- Ironton, Green upKy etc. You know where mayo and Walker moved from. But exactly, they areok. The rural campus concept was to keeep the kids away from the big city and sin. But since the defeat of blue laws, modern transportation and money, is there any true rural schools?

Durham is nice, but maybe too cosmopolitan for me. Of course, I live in rural NJ right now ( Yes there are rural areas here and more horses than kentucky) and like my pastorial settings.

BTW the cats are coming to SHU and Rutgers . Oh boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

From: "Mick Bergman" <address@hidden>
Reply-To: address@hidden
To: <address@hidden>
Subject: RE: Re: [UC Basketball] Coach K/Amex Recruiting Commercial
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:19:59 -0500

Have you ever been there? I have, that area is very built up, and
probably the most hi-tech area in the country outside of Silicon Valley.
I go through there every year on my way to the beach in NC.

Mick

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:10 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Re: [UC Basketball] Coach K/Amex Recruiting Commercial

"Durham, NC, population 187,035 , is located in North Carolina's Durham
county, about 21.2 miles from Raleigh and 50.3 miles from Greensboro."

Not exactly a booming metropolis though, huh?

>
> From: "Jared Garth" <address@hidden>
> Date: 2005/03/31 Thu PM 09:50:29 GMT
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Re: [UC Basketball] Coach K/Amex Recruiting Commercial
>
> Durham isn't so rural. Talk about sterotypes.
>
> >From: <address@hidden>
> >Reply-To: address@hidden
> >To: <address@hidden>
> >Subject: Re: Re: [UC Basketball] Coach K/Amex Recruiting Commercial
> >Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:05:33 +0000
> >
> >I believe it came out in the last few years about the special program
that
> >most of the Duke players take, in which they're virtually all passed
> >regardless. I can't remember the name of it or any real specifics,
maybe
> >some other forum members can. I would imagine it's true that they
all
> >obtain their degrees, but it's mostly just a technicality, as most of
the
> >marquee players that attend Duke are really there to become
professional
> >basketball players. Any assertion to the contrary is absurd. Do you

> >really think Carlos Boozer achieved in the top academic percentiles
in high
> >school?
> >
> >No, these two things are definitely related, in that a white-bred
rural
> >college is portrayed as infallible in the media when it comes to
graduation
> >rates, and the coach deified, while an inner-city program like UC is
> >villified in the national media for recruiting a lot of the same
kids. A
> >thug goes to Duke and he's considered a great, stand-up kid, while a
bright
> >young man goes to Cincy and instantly becomes one of Huggs' Thugs.
It's
> >not to say that Coach K isn't a good coach and probably a good guy,
but the
> >double standard is obvious.
> > >
> > > From: "richard l. kandell" <address@hidden>
> > > Date: 2005/03/31 Thu PM 08:45:59 GMT
> > > To: <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] Coach K/Amex Recruiting Commercial
> > >
> > > And again I'll ask questions that I've postured before - with Duke

> >claiming
> > > to be one of THE outstanding (Ivy League quality) academic
institutions
> >in
> > > the country - How do they get to admit 20-25% of the McDonald AA's
every
> > > year? If the "average" student admitted to Duke is in the top 1%
of
> >his/her
> > > high school class does that mean that 20-25% of Mickey D AA's are
that
> > > bright? If the graduation rate for men's basketball players (as
now
> > > suggested by the NCAA) at Duke is close to 100% does that mean
that
> >their
> > > average basketball player has a combined SAT score of 1300+ in
order to
> >have
> > > the "smarts" to get through their classes? Or does it mean that
the
> >Duke
> > > academic reputation is really a sham?
> > >
> > > Richard K.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Rocko Truth" <address@hidden>
> > > To: <address@hidden>
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 2:37 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Coach K/Amex Recruiting Commercial
> > >
> > >
> > > > How many recruits Duke got from that Commercial? I'll answer
that for
> >you,
> > > > Zero. They had already filled their number of scholarships
available
> >for
> > > > next year, and filled them with mostly McDonalds All-Americans.
Just
> >like
> > > > they did last year and the year before that.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>

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