March Madness - Elite 8

aGDevil2k said:
So I know y'all hate us but in a world of NIL and transfers and greed, for Caleb Foster to do what he did tonight was special. He's my favorite player anyhow and this was just really really cool to watch. Grew up a Duke fan and fighting for his dream
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Some good Calebs playing basketball in the Triangle this year.
 
aGDevil2k said:
So I know y'all hate us but in a world of NIL and transfers and greed, for Caleb Foster to do what he did tonight was special. He's my favorite player anyhow and this was just really really cool to watch. Grew up a Duke fan and fighting for his dream
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Not sure they would have won without him.
 
JCTarheel82 said:
Foster broke his foot less than three weeks ago and is already back on the court. I swear they practice some kind of medical witchcraft in Durham.

Meanwhile, I'm just hoping our Caleb can live a normal life.
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How did this kid play in the game much less for 19 minutes and score 9 points or whatever? How is that physically possible with a fractured foot? Regardless of what Dook hospital has performed, does that sound like a sound medical decision for your son? Couldn't that go wrong long term?

Baffling on various levels.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
As someone who remembers those glory days I often cringe when thinking about how Coach Smith would have fared in this internet, social media age. I'm sure that most will say (with the benefit of hindsight) that because he won so consistently that he would have been fine, but I think that by winning so often he raised expectations among the fanbase and the fact that it took him so long to win the big one would have led to lots of vociferous criticism on UNC boards that he just couldn't win the big one and likely calls from some that maybe we needed to try someone else.

The fact that we didn't make a Final Four despite having top-ranked recruiting classes from 1983 to 1990 would almost certainly have led to calls by some on UNC message boards for him to be replaced by a younger, more "dynamic" coach. And it would have been an idiotic argument, given that in the 90s he made 4 Final Fours and won another national title. We have a spoiled fanbase and if the internet had existed back then I can't imagine what would have been said about him after having back-to-back losses in the NCAA tourney like those in 1979 and 1980. And we made two straight title games within two years of losing those games, and won a national title. Social media is a fickle mistress.
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Hell, even without the Internet plenty of media AND Carolina “fans” were saying the game had passed Coach Smith by in the late ‘80’s.
 
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