Favorite THR Quotes....
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Calabrias Inferno said: ↑
"Alex Murphy sucks, honestly. If he did play for us, I'd be disappointed if he played more than Joel James-type minutes."
And the response from the wonderful Steat:
"The difference is that Joel James played 4 years for the Heels. If Joel James played for the K (LOM) he would have been forced out after his first year."
"Alex Murphy sucks, honestly. If he did play for us, I'd be disappointed if he played more than Joel James-type minutes."
And the response from the wonderful Steat:
"The difference is that Joel James played 4 years for the Heels. If Joel James played for the K (LOM) he would have been forced out after his first year."
BOOGIEMAN1914 said: ↑
and he got his mental health needs taken care of and he came back....also murphy didnt do too well at florida either, so did billy d shortchange him as well....kid just wasnt as good as his ranking..........and you said earlier he forced thornton to transfer???really??...the only pure pg and he averaged 26 minutes per game
thorntons words: “I have loved my time at Duke, but I want to pursue the opportunity to play college basketball closer to home,” said Thornton, who leaves in good academic standing and expects to sign on with another Division I program. “I want to thank my teammates and coaches for their support this year. The relationships I have with them will always be special to me.”
And the response from good old DSouthr:
"boogie boogie boogie! LOL
I live in a world where A+B = C and when that doesn't happen I question what up? With Thornton, we have a kid that skipped his senior HS year just to be part of duke basketball a year sooner. Yet as duke's ONLY PG he transfers out of the program...but when he says goodbye the words begin with " “I have loved my time at Duke, but I want to pursue the opportunity to play college basketball closer to home,”???
He LOVED his time at duke so much that he no longer wants to be a part of it? That is a funny version of love, don't ya think? I love ya so I no longer want to be a part of you? Meaning, that statement IMO can be considered to be what I am supposed to say more than what I really want to say so let my actions out weight my phony words..."
22 DSouthr, Today at 10:09 AM
and he got his mental health needs taken care of and he came back....also murphy didnt do too well at florida either, so did billy d shortchange him as well....kid just wasnt as good as his ranking..........and you said earlier he forced thornton to transfer???really??...the only pure pg and he averaged 26 minutes per game
thorntons words: “I have loved my time at Duke, but I want to pursue the opportunity to play college basketball closer to home,” said Thornton, who leaves in good academic standing and expects to sign on with another Division I program. “I want to thank my teammates and coaches for their support this year. The relationships I have with them will always be special to me.”
And the response from good old DSouthr:
"boogie boogie boogie! LOL
I live in a world where A+B = C and when that doesn't happen I question what up? With Thornton, we have a kid that skipped his senior HS year just to be part of duke basketball a year sooner. Yet as duke's ONLY PG he transfers out of the program...but when he says goodbye the words begin with " “I have loved my time at Duke, but I want to pursue the opportunity to play college basketball closer to home,”???
He LOVED his time at duke so much that he no longer wants to be a part of it? That is a funny version of love, don't ya think? I love ya so I no longer want to be a part of you? Meaning, that statement IMO can be considered to be what I am supposed to say more than what I really want to say so let my actions out weight my phony words..."
22 DSouthr, Today at 10:09 AM
Steat:
"The LOM contributed to Dawkins mental problems. It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that the death of his sister was the primary problem. K forced Dawkins to take a redshirt year."
16 Steat, Yesterday at 9:39 PM
"The LOM contributed to Dawkins mental problems. It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that the death of his sister was the primary problem. K forced Dawkins to take a redshirt year."
16 Steat, Yesterday at 9:39 PM
Steat again:
"A big issue here is the "Code". I know you remember when Sulaimon was dismissed by K (The Leader of Men) said Sulaimon "has been unable to consistently live up to the standards required to be a member of the Duke program". Sulaimon's mom is on RECORD as saying that there was a lot she wanted to say about what happened at Duke, but she and her son were "afraid" to "break the CODE". It's really funny that all you Duke fans have not commented on her statement about the CODE. Everyone knows that the K has a "CODE" that, if broken could ruin their life after leaving Duke. There is no way that Sulaimon would have been able to transfer to Maryland or any other school if he would have broken the Duke "Code". K with his contacts would have assured that Sulaimon would have been blackballed from attending other schools.
Bottomline, and there is clear history with the Leader of Men . If you cannot help K win games he will push you aside. If Dawkins was playing for the Heels, there is no way Roy would have forced him to take a redshirt year, this after convincing him to forego his last year in high school. Sometimes playing with adversity gets your mind off tragedies. K does not care about any of that. If K does NOT think you can help him win he will push you aside..period... Didn't Dawkins play an important role in a prior year in your championship run? No way Roy would have redshirted Dawkins. He will go down in history as one of the best outside shooters ever at Duke. K wants to break Wooden's record and he will retire a disgruntled man for not accomplishing it."
24 Steat, Today at 10:28 AM
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"A big issue here is the "Code". I know you remember when Sulaimon was dismissed by K (The Leader of Men) said Sulaimon "has been unable to consistently live up to the standards required to be a member of the Duke program". Sulaimon's mom is on RECORD as saying that there was a lot she wanted to say about what happened at Duke, but she and her son were "afraid" to "break the CODE". It's really funny that all you Duke fans have not commented on her statement about the CODE. Everyone knows that the K has a "CODE" that, if broken could ruin their life after leaving Duke. There is no way that Sulaimon would have been able to transfer to Maryland or any other school if he would have broken the Duke "Code". K with his contacts would have assured that Sulaimon would have been blackballed from attending other schools.
Bottomline, and there is clear history with the Leader of Men . If you cannot help K win games he will push you aside. If Dawkins was playing for the Heels, there is no way Roy would have forced him to take a redshirt year, this after convincing him to forego his last year in high school. Sometimes playing with adversity gets your mind off tragedies. K does not care about any of that. If K does NOT think you can help him win he will push you aside..period... Didn't Dawkins play an important role in a prior year in your championship run? No way Roy would have redshirted Dawkins. He will go down in history as one of the best outside shooters ever at Duke. K wants to break Wooden's record and he will retire a disgruntled man for not accomplishing it."
24 Steat, Today at 10:28 AM
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Steat on a roll over there. Love how he KNOWS what Dawkins really wanted. Lol.
tw3301 said: ↑
Even if it was what was best for Andre, by his own admission? The kid was suffering from depression, took a year off and got the help he needed then came back to the team. I would like to think that Roy Williams or any coach that cared at all about his players would do the same thing.
"Break the CODE and K will ruin your future life. Sad, but true. Dawkins did'nt want to redshirt. K told him that if he wanted to stay in the program he needed to redshirt. Bottomline, Dawkins didn't have a choice. What do you think about Suliamon's mom comments?"
27 Steat, Today at 10:57 AM
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tw3301 said: ↑
Even if it was what was best for Andre, by his own admission? The kid was suffering from depression, took a year off and got the help he needed then came back to the team. I would like to think that Roy Williams or any coach that cared at all about his players would do the same thing.
"Break the CODE and K will ruin your future life. Sad, but true. Dawkins did'nt want to redshirt. K told him that if he wanted to stay in the program he needed to redshirt. Bottomline, Dawkins didn't have a choice. What do you think about Suliamon's mom comments?"
27 Steat, Today at 10:57 AM
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Well I think most of the UNC fans on the board are bowing out of this one except Steat who keeps stating his opinions as facts with nothing to back them up. I'm being as polite as can be while refuting his points so if I get banned so be it.
I would like to know whose life K has ruined while playing hoops for him. I would also like facts and at least a shred of proof of that. If any of those guys can come up with it (and not just a+b=c crap dsouth posted. What is A, what is B?) I know they can't come up with any facts, because they have no clue. Just what they want to be true. They seem to tell themselves so often that what they want to be true about K and Duke is, so they actually have started believing dumb things. Dumb even for those types over there.
You may not for a little bit, but continue to be civil. Mikey stated on the OOTB board that any fan who comes civil will be given every chance. Test the theory.
Aw hell, dbav, I should have just done this in the first place.
https://northcarolina.forums.rivals.com/threads/alex-cant-miss-murphy.46777/
https://northcarolina.forums.rivals.com/threads/alex-cant-miss-murphy.46777/
I saw it, haha. I will say, tarheel0910 or whatever it is had a classy post at the end. Basically told Steat it is pretty arrogant to assume the condition of someone suffering with a mental health issue. I respect him for that.
Nice job Kellen. steat's on a frenzy right now and he thinks he's clever but he's still stupid. OFC
Yeah, sky, he was getting difficult to keep up with. Should have just posted the link in the first place.
Denn, I mentioned earlier and in this 94 page thread probably a dozen times- you cannot argue with stupid. Like you said, they make up things in their own mind and try and pass them off as fact. And the more and more you do that the more and more you believe it to be. I wish any poster from here well when they go over there to refute the moronic statements being made and especially the ones that are so callous in nature. I would say i think it's pretty futile though and it doesnt matter what you say.
That thread should really be checked out by you guys, if you haven't already. What a scumbag Steat is. And yes, he talks as if he was told by K and Andre Dawkins themselves what the situation was. Bunch of sad sacks over there.
After reading through part of that thread, all I've got to say is that Steat is still one of if not the biggest morons on THR.
You are very right. I posted a few times in that thread, which were my 8th and 9th posts over there in 11 years. Their arguments are bizarre and easily refuted, but they just cling to them.
Agreed. He also questioned how such a speculative discussion about a stranger's mental health is really a good topic for a messageboard, to which @heelbent responded with the following:
He played ball at dook so it's relevant. I can name a couple of Tar Heels whose mental faculties have been debated here, and I'm sure elsewhere.
Besides, I question the mental make-up of anyone who chooses to play for that rat bastage
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That's not your call. If you don't want to discuss it...don't.
Great look for them when their mods are silencing their own reasonable fans and encouraging Steat's lunacy. What a sad group of individuals for the most part over there, ESPECIALLY the goons that run the board. I seriously wonder what Rivals.com would think if they knew what kind of garbage they have in charge of one of their biggest messageboards. Talk about a black eye for the site.
They're basically proving to a T what the OOTB thread is talking about. If you are honestly that big of an asshole that you're telling someone else how they should handle the loss of a direct family member you're one of the biggest POS on the internet. How in God's name he can even think that is appropriate is beyond me. To suggest that another human being (K) would try and manipulate a 18 year old kid who just lost his sister in a tragic car accident for a few wins (as the 8th or 9th man) is so beyond sick, it is you that has the problems. What a loser.
Agreed 100%, which only makes @heelbent encouraging and condoning the behavior all the more despicable.
There is no speaking rationally with that Steat guy... man he is just wayyyy off the rails. I had to just agree to disagree, every time I would post something (even links) to prove my point he would just spew the same hate filled opinions that he called facts about K and disregard what I posted.
The hating is strong in that thread, but haters gonna hate.
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I liked that Steat was going back to "The Code". I honestly think Sulaimon's mom was referring to the idea that when you leave one lockerroom for another, you don't air the dirty laundry of the one you left. That actually just happened with Keenan Robinson of the Giants when he made comments about the Redskins lockerroom and took some heat for it. I think he is interpreting "The Code" as a manifesto or Jedi mind trick.
Steat, and a few others, are trying to say that Duke wouldn't have won the 2010 title if not for Dawkins and that is why K "talked him into" staying with the team. Then the next year K thought they would be better off without him so K told him, "redshirt or transfer!" Run off a kid that was supposedly instrumental in winning NC, huh??? Where in hell do they come up with this s**t?!!What a joke.
Any moderator on any sports board that makes comments like hellbent and irby did apparently have little pride in their duties as a mod and they show a real lack of decency and control on their board. To not have respect for a players health or mental concerns and allow others to belittle that player with such innunendo just does not sit right with me. I know and am glad that our Duke mods are on a higher ground. Another huge concern to other thr board members should be one of non acceptance of a poster like steat and a few others. I applaud the heels and fellow dukies who stand up against such hatred against Coach K and such unfound comments. I really find this kind of shenanigans unacceptable even by my low standards.
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Once again I wish for the best with mike and his health but this is what I just don't understand about the man. 1st he allows them to talk about health issue not out of concern but a knock on Coach K which he knows is not true. Secondly he says he is a Christian but allows all sorts of trashy talk and trashy other things to be poasted. e-mailed him a few years ago and questioned him why he allowed Coach K to be referred to as Satan, Hitler or even a rat on a sports board that he can control those things. He got back and said he was going to stop things like that but it has crept back in. I wonder if he his a split personality. The unc fan/thr mod and mike irby the nice Christian he claims says he is. This is the reason I wish he would post his reasoning here. I know gottagonow has a relationship with him because of what they have in common. mike to my knowledge you are allowed to poast here. The space is open. Maybe you can convince us as to why. OFC
Well let's see, I love they call him bail out...what a knock!
Also Andre played 3 years before he sat out. He came back in what was his 5th year aka sitting out his senior season. Why in the world would he ask him to transfer then?
Yep, and that piece of #$%& K made Amile take a medical redshirt as a senior too because Plumlee improved enough that Amile was not needed.
II think its pretty evident that some of them just have a hatred of K fueled by jealously which they seem to take pride with and they feed on one another.
Guys I've been saying for years that the biggest issue that unc fans have with Coach K is he had the nerve to come in and shake up the unc basketball apple cart. He started beating unc on a constant basis, he started winning ACC regular season and Tourney championships, he started sending more players to the NBA and the worst thing he could do to them he started winning NCAA national championships to the point he has won as many (5) as all the unc coaches put together which is also 5. I'm not gonna count The Helms Trophy which they didn't have to beat someone to get. It was given by some sports writer who never saw them play back in 1924. For those of you who are old Duke fans before Coach K came around and started winning regularly they did the same thing to successful ACC coaches who at times whipped their butts such as NCSU Norman Sloan, Md. Coach Lefty Driesell and even former unc Coach Frank McQuire who led them to their first NCAA championship and went to South Carolina the unc fan base despised them also. If for example say Tony Bennett at UVA starts wearing their tushes out he too will receive the wrath of unc nation. The biggest difference is Coach K has done it over a sustained period of time. They feel they are entitled to get all the calls and when they don't here comes the whining. OFC
The article from the Baltimore-Sun is clear on what "the code" actually is. The interviewer didn't include all of the words spoken by Sheed's mom, but she said enough in full context where he could explicitly interpret what she meant when she said, "the code." But when in doubt, don't do research - just make your own outlandish interpretation which will make your rival school look suspiciously nefarious. #thrlogic
“Rasheed just won’t break the code,” Angela Sulaimon said in an interview Monday with The Baltimore Sun. “Certain things he won’t say because he’s afraid of what might happen.”
Angela Sulaimon was referring to the power she believes Krzyzewski wields and the influence he has with NBA general managers and owners as coach of the U.S. Olympic team.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/...son-s-dismissal-from-duke-20151021-story.html
The hating is strong in that thread, but haters gonna hate.
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That is too awesome. Thanks, ODD!
As much as gunslingerdick trolled this board, it's kind of nice to see him lash out against the full-throttle THR stupidity. lol. This is actually an awesome, awesome post by little Richard.
Steat: FACT:... K forces Dawkins to take a redshirt year.
Gunslinger: I think this is where the debate lies. You're selling that as fact when you have not provided any proof that Dawkins was forced to take a redshirt.
mikeirbyusa: And it matters why?
Gunslinger:
Umm,...because when you debate a topic, one must present evidence of his or her case.
Was that a serious question?
This thread has devolved into a -2 star thread. It started off as a zero star thread and has gone downhill from there. It's purposeless, baseless and baiting. Oh, and ridiculously inaccurate. And stupid. Inane. Just an overall terrible thread. I wish it was never poasted and I grow more and more embarrassed by the minute that I've had anything whatsoever to do with it. Years from now, our descendants will cite this thread when discussing the worst message board threads of all time. In fact, I predict that my great, great grandson will poast a Rank 'em thread on some message board in the future asking other poasters to rank the worst message board threads of all time and this one will win hands down.
Steat: FACT:... K forces Dawkins to take a redshirt year.
Gunslinger: I think this is where the debate lies. You're selling that as fact when you have not provided any proof that Dawkins was forced to take a redshirt.
mikeirbyusa: And it matters why?
Gunslinger:
Umm,...because when you debate a topic, one must present evidence of his or her case.
Was that a serious question?
This thread has devolved into a -2 star thread. It started off as a zero star thread and has gone downhill from there. It's purposeless, baseless and baiting. Oh, and ridiculously inaccurate. And stupid. Inane. Just an overall terrible thread. I wish it was never poasted and I grow more and more embarrassed by the minute that I've had anything whatsoever to do with it. Years from now, our descendants will cite this thread when discussing the worst message board threads of all time. In fact, I predict that my great, great grandson will poast a Rank 'em thread on some message board in the future asking other poasters to rank the worst message board threads of all time and this one will win hands down.
Thanks. I just think someone's mental health is not an appropriate topic to discus on a message board. It's a serious issue and one that shouldn't be taken lightly or speculated on. His mental health has absolutely nothing to do with his skill or performance on the court.
MODERATOR Mike saying "And it matters why?" Is just disgraceful. He really does encourage this garbage. Just terrible.
I understand completely. Frankly, I was more annoyed that it was used simply as a tool to take a shot at someone else. It was sort of a "he had the problem so K must have caused it" statement which is ridiculous. Like I said, I respect your stance on it.
Kudos on your statements in that thread. Too bad your mods are incapable of such reasonable and empathetic thinking.
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