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Lohengrin
6th Man
Re: Angelic Eyes
Posted: 7/18/02 1:20:22 pm
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Deac Mom, here's the article from a Kentucky paper that was linked on the board a day or two ago.
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Posted on Sat, Jul. 13, 2002
Recruiting's new age dawns early
Coaches tapping middle-school market
By Jerry Tipton
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
TEANECK, N.J. - Highly regarded basketball prospect DeMarcus Nelson was not looking to commit to a college. He was only in his sophomore year of high school. A driver's license, the junior prom and, perhaps, a first kiss were of more immediate concern.
Then he went to college basketball's sacred ground, Tobacco Road, last spring to play in a tournament. To fit in an unofficial recruiting visit to Duke, he arrived from his Vallejo, Calif., home a day early.
The early arrival put Nelson in Mike Krzyzewski's office, a setting for the bright-eyed 15-year-old to become a poster boy for, quite literally, a new age of college basketball recruiting.
A new younger age, to be exact.
"Coach smiled at me," Nelson recalled last week. "I was aglow. I thought, 'He likes me. He can tell I'm a good person.' Then he said I had angelic eyes."
Although Arizona topped his list of schools, Nelson committed to Duke before the end of the week.
Deac Mom
Football Goddess
Re: Angelic Eyes
Posted: 7/18/02 1:11:26 pm
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I'm not exactly sure what you guys are talking about but in Coach K's book, "Five-Point Play", page 10, is the following quote:
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" Chris Duhon
Freshamn, 6'1", 186 lbs.
A reluctant superstar has the "waiting-in-line" syndrome; Grant Hill and Shane Battier had it also; not a bad trait. On defense, he's like a bird flying free; reluctant, offensively. Amazingly talented. Will work like crazy. Shows great concern for his teammates; even though he could be a star, he wants their respect, love, and friendship. When he looks into your eyes, he's almost angelic."
.... that's a really creepy and pathetic line but K keeps using it. K's catholic and especially after all the scandals with priests and abductions, etc., hopefully Duke coaches will stay away from anything that even hints at impropriety or raises so many eyebrows. There have been rumors before about Duke players and coaches.
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