As a Duke fan, I can’t stand to see UCONN succeed, and I dislike Jim Calhoun as much as any coach in college basketball.  Some of the best ammunition for making fun of the team from Storrs, has been at Calhoun’s ability to recruit pure pieces of crap.  It started with a laptop thief Marcus Williams, and now there is a new player to hold up the tradition.  Nate Miles, who apparently wasn’t a great kid when he committed to UCONN, has been arrested for violating a restraining order.  What makes me wonder, is why Calhoun recruited someone who was obviously bad news.  It is interesting how Coach K keeps a clean program and gets shit on by the majority.  However, other coaches have bad publicity following them every year, but nothing is said.  Lets just keep in mind that if this happened at Duke, it would be the major headline in every newspaper in the country.  Oh wait, remember the Duke lacrosse scandal.

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The one thing Duke fans have complained about over the past few years is the lack of consistent recruiting by Coach K and his staff.  Even though it was mostly centered around getting that inside post presence, fans were also discouraged with the so-called “casting a larger net” scenario.  Fans needed something to ease their pain.  The Class of 2010 is might just do the job.  Not only did Duke offer six quality players in this class, but three of them have already committed to play for the Blue Devils.  For a coach who’s commitment with the USA basketball team, was supposed to slow down his recruiting, it’s not to bad.  Just think if he was here the whole summer?

Since Andre Dawkins committed on his unofficial trip to Cameron a few months ago.  Blue Devil fans have been in a sort of rut.  The only thing to hold us over was football, the Olympics, and of course Kenny Boynton rumors.  All the summer boredom went away when news of Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton committing on their unofficial to Cameron came out.

Even though it will be a while till they step foot on Coach K court, it is still nice to see all this hard work on the recruiting trail pay off.  Coach K is making the media look silly with all their, “He is taking away from his team with USA basketball” talk.  Isn’t that how it should be always…..the media looking silly.

Sometimes we forget that 2009 is still a hot topic of conservation.  Kenny Boynton has been a target of Duke practically since he came on the scene.  He is still the most wanted player by the Duke fans, and probably by the coaching staff.  Time will tell what will happen with the 09 class.  But no matter what, 2010 is looking brighter and brighter as the months go by.

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