Duke’s Coach K to make special visit to Atlanta on Tuesday night — guess which prized recruit he is here to see??
Will Coach K invade Georgia to steal Tony Parker? (AP)
You gotta be good — well great — to get Coach K to make a special trip to Atlanta.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is scheduled to attend Miller Grove’s game at Douglass High at 7 p.m. Tuesday, according to Miller Grove coach Sharman White.
And who is Coach K here to see? None other than Tony Parker, one of the nation’s top juniors with more than 40 scholarship offers.
Parker is a 6-foot-9, 270-pound power forward who averages 19.5 points, 14 rebounds and 3 blocked shots.
“Coach K isn’t coming for a casual visit — Duke loves Tony and they want to sign him very badly,” White said. “He’s a 6-9 guy who can make things happen in the paint. They like his ability to score, and they think he’s a great kid — a ‘Duke kind of kid.’”
Parker, who has built a close relationship with Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt, says he has no favorites.
“It’s exciting that Duke will be here,” Parker said. “They obviously have a great program and I’m definitely considering them.”
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Go Coach K
December 14th, 2010
3:26 pm
Well Brad you had everything handed to you so that is why your successful.
blah blah
December 14th, 2010
3:40 pm
Who ever thinks Coach K is overrated is an idiot. Winning national championships and ACC championships is not overratted. He has had his program at the top of the college sporting universe for years. But I think that GT will be searching for a new head coach if CPH doesnt step up. He is a great recruiter and a great motivator but he is a below average Xs & os coach. If he leaves UGA will land a large and great class which they will need with all that they are losing. But once again idiots taht are allowed to write on here make these coments nearly unreadable.
Techno
December 14th, 2010
3:43 pm
How stupid are all of you. Really is just rattling your chains. Really !
BuckheadBill
December 14th, 2010
4:16 pm
I can remember a top recruit from Atlanta area several years ago having his mother moved to Durham and provided a much better job than she had in ATL. Not a peep from NCAA. Corch K is on the “untouchable” list along with Corch C at Kentucky. Corch C gets schools on probation, but he is never touched.
Get Paid Tony
December 14th, 2010
5:02 pm
Before there was Cam Newton, there was Stephon Marbury
Paul in RDU
December 14th, 2010
5:07 pm
BuckheadBill – I don’t remember a top recruit from Atlanta going to Duke after his mother got a high paying job in Durham.
I do remember Chris Duhon, from Slidell, LA going to Duke after his mother was hired by a company in Durham.
http://www.truthaboutduke.com/duhon_nola.php
AfghanHound
December 14th, 2010
5:20 pm
I’m a UNC fan, and for anyone who thinks K is overrated, you should keep your mouth shut and try like hell to disguise your utter stupidity.
GwinnettDad
December 14th, 2010
5:28 pm
@Really, I don’t think you could find your ass with both hands. Hate Duke, despise their success, but to call him overrated makes you look foolish, or worse, like a selfish, blind idiot.
SOOHSO
December 14th, 2010
5:43 pm
They don’t teach ebonics at Duke.
jackets!
December 14th, 2010
6:03 pm
Coach K over rated? Are you kidding me! He has 4 national championships and like 12 final fours….70 something NCAA tournament wins. He could have quit back in 2001 and been a lock to the college basketball hall of fame.
AfghanHound
December 14th, 2010
6:13 pm
There is nothing wrong w/a parent, who is minimally employed, following their son to wherever he chooses to play. This is often the case w/a high school coach or teacher, who can often find employment in a similar position near the school the son chooses. Ryan Brenner at UNC is a good. example. His dad found a coaching job in or near Chapel Hill. I’m sure UNC did not arrange the job for him. He was a standout coach in Northern Va. who went to a high school with a losing program.
jackets!
December 14th, 2010
6:14 pm
12 counting this year of course. I dont see anyone beating Duke come tourney time.
Kapoonka
December 14th, 2010
6:16 pm
@Brad..thank you sir for saving me the keystrokes it would take to address those morons. When someone takes a blog that has zilch to do with PRESIDENT Obama and turns it into something else, it is pure, unabashed racism rearing its ugly head where it has no business. Whatever your sorry circumstances are, he is not the blame. Maybe you should look in the mirror in your backwoods cabin. I’m sure you voted for Deal and Purdue..two upstanding citizens who are screwing Georgia without a condom. Boehner vowed to vote against everything President Obama initiated, and you are witnessing and will soon be victimized by his stupidity.
Here’s a good example..imagine a great coach getting hired after inheriting a crappy team and having all of his players do everything to undermine his efforts. Kind of hard to achieve your objective, isn’t it? Now do you get it? Flex your weak blog muscles elsewhere…this story wasn’t even about politics.
chillywilly
December 14th, 2010
6:36 pm
This kid needs to go to a college where they are serious about educating him and won’t look at him like a piece of live stock. If I was him, I would sign with Morehouse, Howard, North Carolina A&T, FAMU, Morgan State or Hampton. If he’s that good, the pro scouts will find him. Besides, he will find the best of both worlds (academics & social life) at one of the colleges above.
Don’t fall for the blind promises and hype, young man.
Lou
December 14th, 2010
6:42 pm
I can’t believe this man’s last (or first?) name is “K.” I was taught in journalism class that you identify someone on first reference and later may refer to that person by a nickname. Out of curiosity, what does the “K” stand for?
Shirley
December 14th, 2010
7:07 pm
Tony Parker may have all the skills to play basketball, but does he have the skills to graduate Duke??
He should go to UGA. They don’t care about the academics!!
FromtheBARstool
December 14th, 2010
7:12 pm
ChillyWilly
Not one of the colleges you mentioned is even on par with DUKE. Howard is good but it is no DUKE. If he wants an education and sports why would you even suggest those colleges?
chillywilly
December 14th, 2010
8:34 pm
@FromtheBARstool – I suggested Howard, FAMU, Morehouse and the rest of “those colleges” because they have a proven track record of educating black athletes. Duke & the other white colleges graduation rate for black athletes is steadily declining. Lets stop steering our kids to these athletic plantations where most of them are exploited and get absolutely nothing in return. Would you happen to know what college produces the most black college graduates in America? Hint – It ain’t Duke.
AstroFan`
December 14th, 2010
8:43 pm
Let’s GO Astros!!
JP
December 14th, 2010
8:47 pm
UGAY BB is pathetic, GT has the better program and plays in the better conference…despite Paul Hewitt.
truthbtold
December 14th, 2010
8:48 pm
Larry, Walker Texas Ranger, and Yes we can are all fine examples are all fine examplles of unabashed ignorance of the highest order. Larry – forgets that it was OK for an Actor and a Baseball team owner to be elected President. It’s idiots like these that were completely quiet during 8 years of the complete collapse of the Banking Industy, the Housing Industry, the Auto Industry, and Manufacturing. All the while the country was spending hundreds of billions of dollars to destroy Iraq and Afghanistan to turn around and rebuild them. For what? Did you get that? You ignorant puppet headed clones that constantly want to rant about the present administration. You had nothing to say about 8 years of destroying this country while you sat in your stinkin homes with your shot guns, rebel flags, whisky and your smelly dogs while the country was being led to bankruptcy! Shut your freakin yaps…….
Spoke
December 14th, 2010
9:01 pm
@Shirley: Tony Parker sounds like a kid who has all the tools to achieve both athletically and academically at Duke. See here: http://hsgeorgia.scout.com/2/972103.html
The other upside to attending Duke is that you are on national TV two or three times a week. That kind of exposure builds name recognition which tends to improve draft position.
Paul in RDU
December 14th, 2010
9:07 pm
AfghanHound – Who is Ryan Brenner? Are you sure you don’t mean Bryn Renner? He’ll be starting QB for UNC in 2011. Renner’s father was a well respected coach who was hired at E. Chapel Hill High School (starting QB in 2010 was Butch Davis’ son – quelle surprise!)
There is nothing wrong with a parent following their child to the area of a school. Philip Rivers’ father did the same thing when he went to NCSU. What makes the Duhon case unusual is that his mother managed to get a clerical job paying much higher than usual and was hired by a Duke booster
FromtheBARstool
December 14th, 2010
9:07 pm
ChillyWilly
Better to go to a Plantation College with better Professors than a HBC with little devirsity. If you just want to better educate AAs then we should go back to Segreated Schools starting in Pre-K.
FromtheBARstool
December 14th, 2010
9:15 pm
ChillyWilly
The reason the Black athletes don’t always graduate from those Plantation colleges is beacuse they go Pro. Going Pro making a LOT of Money because of the exposure those players will not get at Howard or Morehouse. If they chose to finish college after siging to go pro that is on them. You are asking some very talented athletes to throw away a greater chance at a lot of money to go to Howard or Morehouse.
Lester Miles
December 14th, 2010
9:31 pm
YES Not many WMDs found in Iraq. What wasn’t used on his countrymen ( Sadam was given plenty of time by the UN delays) were moved to and hidden in Syria. They will emerge again. On another matter, are all these bloggers rooting for Coach K (Weasel Face) living in Georgia? If not then say wahat you want ut if you were born and reside in Goergia and pull against UGA and GT then why not pack tour belongings and move to North Carolina. It is a fine state and Coach K is an oustaanding coach so just go there and don’t come back. My state would feed you to the gators. Let,s eat crayfish and play some foosball. Leave the politics to the dummies in Washington. Have a great day..
Lester Miles
December 14th, 2010
9:34 pm
say what you want to—-Georgia We don’t spell too good down here in La
wesleywhatwhat
December 14th, 2010
11:04 pm
could “lester miles” be ANY stupider?
Sean T
December 15th, 2010
9:33 am
@YesWeCan!!!!!bs
you must think that cutting taxes doesnt add to the deficit and that Sister Sarah cares about anything outside of cashing in on her faux celebrity
Sean T
December 15th, 2010
9:35 am
@Lester Miles
turn off Beck and pick up a newspaper dude.
seriously.
Shawn
December 15th, 2010
1:09 pm
REALLY, I bet you wake up with an empty bag of cheetos and an orange d**k often, huh???? You are just plum dumb..overrated is your ability to think logistics!! Can you imagine this….Austin, Kyrie (God willing), Andre, Seth, Cook, Gbinjie, Thorton, Hairston, Kelly, Mason, Miles,Marshall, AND TONY PARKER!!!! WOW im getting a stiffy thinkin about it!!! NATIONAL CHAMPS NOT QUESTION ABOUT IT!!! EVEN IF Kyrie doesnt stay…PG Austin Rivers, SG Andre Dawkins, Combo Seth Curry/Michael Gbinjie, PF TONY PARKER, and C Mason Plumlee!! Oh my god!! NOBODY could beat this team!! NOBODY we’d be bringing Kelly, Miles, Marshall, Quinn Cook, Haiston, Thorton and probably Gbinjie off the bench… are you kidding me?? PS I was in Baghdad for the beginning of the war a hole and THERE WAS WMD over there!! we found paper trails leading to Syria and Iran on several occasions with plenty of Biological weapons accounted for….dont believe what the media tells you, you moron…ever think they just dont want us to know some stuff?? Ask if all the heads of all the major media markets are part of the Billdabergs….they show us what they need to and cover up the rest….thats a whole other forum but my gawd are you niave and childish..Grow up and open your eyes…Quit hatings excellence because you arent
stephen J. Austin
December 16th, 2010
8:04 pm
Where have you been for the past 25 to 30 years? Coach K overrated? Your an idiot obviously, or just a typical hater that cant stand to see someone actually represent the college game the way it should be and to be a leader. So what if you dont like Duke or Coach K, you have to give the man props, he has achieved more than most coaches will never achieve. I have met the man himself, he is one of the most down to earth gentleman you could ever meet. Think before you add an ignorant comment. I dont like UNC but i dont go hating on Roy Williams because he is at UNC. Ive always thought that Coach K and Roy are two of the best coaches in college backetball.